QIAGEN receives FDA approval to expand use of EGFR test in lung cancer
January 18, 2018
Extended labelling claim adds detection of three additional gene mutations to provide the most comprehensive mutation panel for GILOTRIF® Germantown, Maryland, and Hilden, Germany – QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a PMA supplement extending the indications for use of QIAGEN’s therascreen® EGFR [...]
January 18, 2018
Brings two decades of proven sales, marketing and team management expertise at Becton Dickinson, Pfizer and Sanofi to oversee the growth of WuXi NextCODE’s China business and operations 18 January 2018 – WuXi NextCODE, the emerging global standard platform for genomic data, today announced the appointment of Louis Yuan as senior vice president and China General [...]
Record Sales for Advion’s Single Quadrupole Compact Mass Spectrometer
January 18, 2018
ITHACA, N.Y. — Advion, Inc., a leading systems and consumables developer for the life sciences industry, announced that, during the year ending December 31, 2017, it had reached several major milestones: Advion sold nearly 60 (58 actual) Compact Mass Spectrometer (CMS) units per quarter The company approached 750 CMS units shipped, with the milestone 700th order having [...]
Olympus TruResolution™ Objectives Maximize Resolution in Deep Imaging for Neuroscience Research
January 17, 2018
Deliver an industry-first automatic spherical aberration compensation function Left: Olympus TruResolution Objective; Right: 3D reconstructed image of mouse in vivo brain (Thy1-YFP-H mouse sensory cortex) acquired using TruResolution objective with auto adjustment function. Image data courtesy of Dr. Hiromu Monai, Dr.Hajime Hirase and Dr. Atsushi Miyawaki, RIKEN BSI-Olympus Collaboration Center For high-res images click here. For video of mouse in vivo brain click here. [...]
CP Lab Safety Inc. Acquires major assets of Chemical Feed Safety Supply Inc.
January 17, 2018
Novato, California – Today, CP Lab Safety, a leading manufacturer and supplier of laboratory safety & environmentally friendly products, announced that the company has acquired major assets of Chemical Feed Safety Supply (CFS2). CFS2 is the manufacturer of Drum Feed Safety Clamps, designed to provide a safe solution to any chemical feed system. CFS2's Safety Clamps [...]
Vela Diagnostics signs license agreement with UCSF
January 17, 2018
Singapore – Vela Diagnostics signs a license agreement with the The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) for two technologies, known as: FLASH (Finding Low Abundance Sequences by Hybridization); and DASH (Depletion of Abundant Sequences of Hybridization) - innovative technologies for enriching rare sequences in nucleic acid libraries. This agreement provides the framework for Vela Diagnostics to use and practice the FLASH and DASH technologies [...]
January 17, 2018
Oxford Instruments Asylum Research announces the new MFP-3D Origin+ Atomic Force Microscope (AFM). It joins Asylum’s Origin AFM family, which is optimized for researchers who require the performance and sophistication of a research-grade AFM within a constrained budget. The Origin+ complements the existing Origin AFM, featuring the same core performance but supporting a much broader range of [...]
BIA Separations appoints Pete Gagnon as Chief Scientific Officer
January 17, 2018
Ajdovščina, Slovenia: BIA Separations (BIA), a leading biochromatography development and manufacturing company, today announced it has appointed Pete Gagnon as Chief Scientific Officer. In his new role, he will drive the company’s new product and applications development, with a focus on the purification of products for gene therapy, oncolytic vaccines, exosomes and similar, and specifically increasing [...]
January 17, 2018
Additional Resources Will Drive Commercialization of Novel High-Throughput Label-Free Biosensor for Streamlined Antibody Characterization. SALT LAKE CITY Carterra Inc., an innovative label-free biosensor company, has announced the closing of a $10M financing from Telegraph Hill Partners (THP). The proceeds will be used to complete development and commercialize the Company’s LSA™ instrument, a fully automated, high-throughput [...]
Datacolor establishes a Sales and Support company in Vietnam
January 17, 2018
Datacolor strengthens its global direct Sales and Support organization in the fast-growing Asian region with the opening of a new office, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. This is Datacolor’s fourteenth branch office worldwide for color management solutions. “This is a further step in the implementation of our strategy in the world's most important textile, [...]

