Shimadzu’s New TD-30 Series of Thermal Desorption Systems for Gas Chromatographs and GCMS Systems Provides Accurate Analysis of Volatile Compounds

TD-30 (Left); TD-30R (Right) Shimadzu has released the TD-30 series of thermal desorption systems. These are pretreatment units for gas chromatographs (GC) and gas chromatograph mass spectrometers (GCMS). In addition to maintaining the excellent basic functionality of the previous model, this series offers significantly improved durability and processing ability. A proprietary approach has been adopted [...]

LexaGene Completes Prototype Assembly for Soon-To-Be First Fully Automated, Open-Access Pathogen Detection System

New Technology Will Revolutionize Pathogen Detection Across Food Safety, Veterinary and Human Clinical Diagnostics VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- LexaGene Holdings Inc. (OTCQB:LXXGF) (TSX-V:LXG) (the “Company”), a biotechnology company that develops instrumentation for pathogen detection, has completed the assembly of its prototype for what will be the world’s first fully automated, open-access and on-site pathogen detection platform. The [...]

ACEA Biosciences And Ncardia Announce Global Partnership To Provide Solutions For Cardiac Drug Discovery And Cardiac Safety Assessment

Pioneer of real-time cell analysis instrumentation will join forces with leading provider of iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes SAN DIEGO ACEA Biosciences (ACEA), a pioneer and leader in label-free real-time cell analysis instrumentation, and Ncardia, a leading expert in human cardiovascular stem cell technology, disease modelling and cell-based assay products and services, announced today that they have established [...]

BGI and Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, part of Sinai Health System, Awarded Investment from Genome Canada and Ontario Genomics

Shenzhen, China and Toronto, Canada ‒ BGI and the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, part of Sinai Health System, today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) outlining their intention to collaborate on the development a genomics-based diagnostic test for the early identification of women at risk for pre-term birth and other pregnancy complications. The non-invasive [...]

Agena Bioscience’s Liquid Biopsy Technology Awarded Horizon 2020 Grant by European Union

San Diego, CA – Agena Bioscience, a global provider of molecular genetic solutions, today announced it has been selected to participate as an innovative technology provider in the ‘Liquid biopsies and IMAging for improved cancer care’ (LIMA) project. The LIMA project has been awarded a EUR 6.3 million Horizon 2020 European Union research grant to [...]

Edico Genome Launches DRAGEN Complete Suite On AWS Marketplace, Including Enhanced Second-Generation Germline And Somatic Pipelines

LAS VEGAS -- Today at AWS re:Invent, Edico Genome revealed its DRAGEN Complete Suite (DRAGEN CS) on AWS Marketplace, a comprehensive package of pipelines that enables AWS users to access all of DRAGEN's applications for next-generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis in one click. Pieter van Rooyen, Ph.D., president and CEO at Edico Genome, and Rami Mehio, vice president of [...]

Vela Diagnostics Receives CE-IVD for Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) Kit

Vela Diagnostics Sentosa® SX Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) Kit receives CE-IVD approval Singapore – Vela Diagnostics announced today that the Sentosa® SX Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) Kit is now CE-IVD marked for in-vitro diagnostics use. The Sentosa® SX Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) Kit is intended to extract free-circulating DNA from human plasma. The kit is developed for use in Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) [...]

Aenitis Technologies Receives €4 Million in Funding from the European H2020 / SME Instrument Programme, for Its ABC-S’ Project (Acoustic Blood Cell Sorter)

PARIS Aenitis Technologies, which develops new medical equipment based on acoustic manipulation of biological particles, today announced that it has received €4 million in funding, following its application to the highly-selective SME Instrument Phase 2 European programme, in the “Healthcare Biotechnology” category. SME Instrument Phase 2 is part of Horizon 2020, a programme managed by [...]

New Promega Maxwell® RSC PureFood Pathogen Kit Offers Food Labs Quick, Consistent Automated DNA Purification

MADISON, WI USA Promega Corporation’s new Maxwell® RSC PureFood Pathogen Kit offers food safety labs an easy and consistent automated DNA purification method for PCR-based testing of food pathogens. The kit does not require enzymatic pre-treatment and, when used in combination with the Maxwell RSC Instrument, can effectively purify DNA from 1 to 16 food matrix samples [...]

RowAnalytics Cements Its North American Presence with a New Office in Boston – to Introduce a Radically Different Approach to Precision Medicine

RowAnalytics has combined artificial intelligence, semantics and science in an unprecedented manner to truly enable precision medicine. Their technology is the first with the capability of analyzing all forms of biological, genomic and clinical data (including scans and images) together at the same time. Moreover, they are the first with the capability of analyzing all [...]

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