Darmstadt, Germany – Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, today announced an upcoming leadership change in China. Allan Gabor will succeed Alasdair Jelfs as Managing Director and Country Speaker as of February 1, 2018. He will also take over operational responsibility for the Performance Materials business in China. Additionally, Allan Gabor [...]

Aldevron and Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc. (IDT), a supplier of custom nucleic acid and genome editing products, have announced a license agreement whereby Aldevron will manufacture and distribute a S. pyogenes Cas9 variant—known as SpyFiTM Cas9 Nuclease—which is patented by IDT. The product will be manufactured for research, clinical, and commercial use. “IDT continues to be an innovator for the [...]

Effective 1 January 2018, Dr. Karl Lamprecht for the Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology segment and Dr. Jochen Peter for the Research & Quality Technology segment have been appointed to the Executive Board of the ZEISS Group Thomas Spitzenpfeil, Member of the Executive Board, to pursue new challenges outside of the ZEISS Group OBERKOCHEN/Germany The Supervisory Board of [...]

Rohnert Park, CA — IDEX Health & Science, LLC today announced the acquisition of thinXXS Microtechnology that will accelerate growth of its microfluidics consumables business. Located in Zweibrücken, Germany, thinXXS Microtechnology is a leader in the development and production of plastic microfluidic consumables serving the Life Sciences, Point of Care, and Veterinary markets. This acquisition will [...]

Integration of Mosaic SampleBank™ with Genedata Screener® creates a best-in-class, off-the-shelf solution for automating plate management and plate data analysis   Basel, Switzerland and London, United Kingdom – Genedata and Titian Software today announced their technology partnership to create an automated, off-the-shelf solution for small molecule and biological inventory management and advanced screening data analysis. Their combined solution integrates Titian Mosaic SampleBank with Genedata [...]

First ZEISS ZEN Intellesis solution enables segmentation of correlative microscopy datasets JENA/Germany Today ZEISS announces ZEISS ZEN Intellesis, a new machine learning capability that enables researchers to perform advanced analysis of their imaging samples across multiple microscopy methods. The first algorithmic solution introduced by the ZEISS ZEN Intellesis platform makes integrated, easy to use, powerful [...]

Dysbiosis success triggers further investment and development agreement for additional microbiome tests beyond GA-map™ dysbiosis Test (Oslo and Hercules, Calif.) Genetic Analysis (GA) and Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., a global provider of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, today announced that they have signed a supply and distribution agreement for Genetic Analysis’s GA-map™ clinical test for gut dysbiosis. [...]

DNAnexus launches pilot of turn-key solution for deploying computationally intensive deep learning technology focused on genomic variation analysis MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--DNAnexus, the global leader in genome informatics and data management, today announced the availability of the DeepVariant bioinformatics tool on the DNAnexus Platform. Developed by researchers at Google, DeepVariant is a deep learning technology that [...]

Integration of Mosaic SampleBank™ with Genedata Screener® creates a best-in-class, off-the-shelf solution for automating plate management and plate data analysis Basel, Switzerland and London, United Kingdom Genedata and Titian Software today announced their technology partnership to create an automated, off-the-shelf solution for small molecule and biological inventory management and advanced screening data analysis. Their combined solution [...]

The DM6 M LIBS 2-in-1 microscope comes with integrated chemical analysis The new DM6 M LIBS microscope for materials analysis from Leica Microsystems allows you to analyze the 2 main characteristics of a material in 1 work step, i.e., microstructure and composition. The microscope has an integrated laser spectroscopy (LIBS) function and delivers the chemical composition of [...]