Reacting to the growing demand in non-destructive testing applications, TOPTICA has further extended its terahertz instrumentation portfolio. This year at Photonics West, the company will be presenting a new Terahertz Imaging Extension for its successful time-domain spectroscopy platform TeraFlash. Owing to the unique spectral bandwidth of the TeraFlash (0.1 – 5 THz), researchers can exploit [...]

DARMSTADT, GERMANY Toepfer joins from Metro Group, where he served as Head of the IT service company Metro Systems Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, today announced that Dirk Toepfer will join the Group as the new Chief Information Officer (CIO) on March 1. Toepfer will report to Udit Batra, CEO [...]

The highest-quality, easiest to use and most reliable Ion Milling tools worldwide Nanoscience Instruments is proud to partner with Technoorg Linda, expanding their world-class line of sample preparation tools used for transmission and scanning electron microscopy into the United States and Canada. For more than 15 years, Nanoscience Instruments has provided advanced instruments and applications [...]

Equistone Partners Europe has completed the sale of Concept Life Sciences to London Stock Exchange-listed productivity-enhancing instrumentation and controls company Spectris (LSE: SXS) for £163m. Concept Life Sciences provides integrated drug discovery, development, analytical testing and environmental consulting services to an international customer base mainly in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, agrochemical and environmental sectors. The Manchester-headquartered [...]

Third plant inaugurated in Suzhou Only five years after the most recent expansion in China, the Endress+Hauser Group has once again increased production capacity with a third plant in Suzhou, 100 kilometers west of Shanghai. The 16,500-square-meter facility will help the Group meet disproportionately high growth in the Far East. The opening of the new [...]

Biotech startup receives funding to advance angiogenesis research SANTA CLARA, Calif., and CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) has today announced that biotech startup Angiex, Inc., has been awarded an Agilent Golden Ticket at LabCentral, providing funding of one lab bench space for a year. Three semi-finalists presented their proposals at LabCentral’s Cambridge, Massachusetts, facility on Jan. 22, [...]

MENLO PARK, California and SHENZHEN, China -- BGI, one of the world's largest genomics organizations, and Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq: PACB), the leader in long-read sequencing, today announced an agreement by BGI Genomics to purchase an additional 10 Sequel® Systems. This will significantly expand the capacity for Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT®) Sequencing for BGI's global sequencing service business, which currently operates two [...]

Cambridge, United Kingdom – Congenica, a global provider of clinical genomics interpretation software, today announced the appointment of its new Chief Executive Officer, David Atkins, Ph.D. Based at the Company’s headquarters in Cambridge, UK, Dr Atkins also joins Congenica’s Board of Directors. Dr Atkins has over 25 years’ experience as a global leader in a broad [...]

Helsinki – MediSapiens, a leading Finnish developer and provider of genomic, biomedical and healthcare data solutions, has joined The Pistoia Alliance, a global, non-profit alliance of life science companies, vendors, publishers and academic groups that work together to lower barriers to innovation.   Founded in 2009 by representatives of AstraZeneca, GSK, Novartis and Pfizer, the [...]

Dispensing systems for benchtop to full laboratory deployment in life sciences and medical diagnostics. CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Let's Go Robotics today announced Precise Drop™ micro-dispensing systems. These systems are the latest innovation by the company for life sciences and medical diagnostics applications. Precise Drop is highly configurable, making it easy to use in any environment from [...]