MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB) announced today that the U.S. International Trade Commission (the "ITC") has terminated its investigation into whether Oxford Nanopore's MinION and PromethION devices and associated consumables, reagents, and software infringe one or more claims of U.S. Patent Nos. 9,404,146 and 9,542,527, owned by Pacific Biosciences. The decision by the ITC is based on its [...]

Strand Life Sciences announced an investment by Quadria Capital, Asia’s leading healthcare focused private equity investor. India-based HealthQuad Fund and Singapore-based Heritas Venture Fund also contributed to this fund. Strand Life Sciences, formed from the business combination of Strand and Triesta, the diagnostics unit of HCG, is India’s leading specialized diagnostics company. Its expertise spans [...]

(Santa Barbara, CA)  Oxford Instruments Asylum Research announces their development of an interferometric displacement sensor (IDS) that provides a direct measure of AFM cantilever displacement. The IDS interfaces the existing optical system of the Asylum Research Cypher AFM with an external laser Doppler vibrometer. It does not replace the standard laser and detector; rather, it provides a complementary detection [...]

Funding will help develop new treatments for the commonest cause of chronic liver disease Eagle Genomics and the Stratified Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre (SMS-IC) have been awarded a £1.7M collaborative grant from Innovate UK (the UK’s innovation agency), for a ground-breaking project that could help develop new tests and treatments for patients with non-alcoholic fatty [...]

Mystaire® Inc, Creedmoor NC announces the release of the Latitude™ Series C Filtered Hoods that provide biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies with an important safety solution when handling potentially harmful chemicals in particulate and/or liquid forms.  Latitude maximizes user accessibility and incorporates redundant filtration for added safety and easy maintenance.  The Latitude Series C filtered hood [...]

REAL Space Navigator offers access to over 640 million pharma-oriented compounds Kiev, Ukraine, and Sankt Augustin, Germany. Enamine Ltd., a leading chemical research organization and producer of the world’s largest collections of novel building blocks (150,000) and screening compound libraries (2,400,000), and BioSolveIT GmbH, premium provider of medicinal chemistry software, today announced the launch of the [...]

RADNOR, Pa. -- VWR, part of Avantor, and EPL Archives, LLC celebrated the opening of a new 24-acre campus and purpose-built biorepository facility in Leesburg, VA. The first facility opening on this campus offers over 155,000 square feet of new storage capacity, designed to support the full spectrum of EPL professional biorepository services. EPL provides secure storage [...]

Facility to test urine samples from thousands of athletes SANTA CLARA, Calif. Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it will collaborate with the Doping Control Center in Seoul, South Korea, to ensure that athletes from around the world are quickly and accurately tested to determine whether any have been using banned substances to enhance their performances. [...]

Unique immune detection technology and flexible workflow for tuberculosis control efforts HILDEN, Germany & TOKYO--QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that Japan’s Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare has approved QuantiFERON®-TB Gold Plus (QFT®-Plus) as an in vitro diagnostic to detect tuberculosis (TB) infection. QFT-Plus is the fourth generation of QIAGEN’s [...]

JEOL UK are proud to announce that the Scottish Cryo-EM consortium has chosen the JEOL JEM-Z300FSC CRYO ARM™ 300 as their preferred automated Cryo Transmission Electron Microscope (Cryo-TEM) for the Scottish Centre for Macromolecular Imaging (SCMI). The SCMI consortium led by the MRC Centre for Virus Research (CVR) at The University of Glasgow, selected JEOL [...]