SeraCare Announces Industry’s First Comprehensive NGS Reference Material for Hematologic Malignancies

MILFORD, Mass., Nov. 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- SeraCare Life Sciences, a manufacturer and leading partner to global in vitro diagnostics manufacturers and clinical laboratories, is expanding what is already the most comprehensive suite of clinical genomics development, validation, and QC tools with the launch of the SeraseqTM Myeloid DNA and Myeloid RNA fusion reference materials: the industry's first comprehensive reference standards to [...]

Illumina Names Gary S. Guthart, Ph.D., to its Board of Directors, Adding Decades of Leadership Experience in Healthcare

SAN DIEGO--Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) announced today that Gary S. Guthart will join the company's Board of Directors on December 1, 2017. Dr. Guthart is President and Chief Executive Officer of Intuitive Surgical, a global leader in the field of robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery. Dr. Guthart joined Intuitive Surgical in April 1996 and has served as the Chief Executive Officer since January 2010. In July 2007, he [...]

BioDiscovery Launches NxClinical 4.0, A Unique System Allowing Analysis and Interpretation of CNV, SNV, and AOH from a Single NGS Assay

NxClinical 4.0 is a revolutionary system that brings together cytogenetics and molecular genetics to increase diagnostic yield while decreasing costs for clinical labs performing variant interpretation. NxClinical 4.0 derives copy number and AOH changes directly from the same NGS assay used for sequence variant analysis, allowing integration of all genomic variations into a single database [...]

StabiLux Biosciences Awarded Competitive Grant from the National Science Foundation

America’s Seed Fund Powered by NSF Provides Funding for R&D; Helps small businesses move innovations out of the lab and into the market StabiLux Biosciences has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II grant for $600,000 to commercialize innovative technology by conducting research and development (R&D) work on [...]

Endress+Hauser acquires Blue Ocean Nova

Intelligent inline spectrometers strengthen the process analytical instrumentation portfolio Endress+Hauser is further expanding its portfolio of products, solutions and services in the field of process analytical measurement. The Group has acquired Blue Ocean Nova AG, a manufacturer of innovative inline spectrometers for monitoring quality-relevant process parameters. The company’s 15 employees located in Aalen, Germany will [...]

3dbiosurfaces Technologies, LLC and STRATEC announce the commercial release of 3D NS-NC slide- the new standard of microarray substrates

Tucson, U.S. and Salzburg, Austria – 3dbiosurfaces and STRATEC Consumables GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of STRATEC, announced today the release of the first commercially available microarray substrate based on 3dbiosurfaces patented and patent-pending technologies. The 3D NS-NC slide provides enormous benefits for both DNA/RNA and protein microarrays at attractive prices. The slide offers greatly [...]

TOPTICA Photonics Inc. Acquires New US Headquarters

2017 has been a rewarding year for TOPTICA Photonics! To celebrate the success and growth we are excited to announce the grand opening of our new U.S. corporate headquarters and state of the art manufacturing facility located in Farmington NY. Complete with new clean-room facilities and laboratories, this expansion allows TOPTICA to continue exceeding its [...]

Olympus IXplore SpinSR10 Super Resolution Imaging System Reveals the Finer Details

With resolving power that surpasses the limits of conventional optical microscopes, the Olympus IXplore SpinSR10 imaging system balances speed, resolution and efficiency in a single, flexible platform. A high frame rate and 120 nm XY resolution enable researchers to observe the fine details and workings of internal cellular structures while offering the ability to switch [...]

Schrödinger and ShanghaiTech University to Establish Center of Excellence (COE) and Form Strategic Partnership

Collaboration to Focus on Computational Chemistry and Molecular Recognition in the Human Body NEW YORK, NY and SHANGHAI, CHINA (November 7, 2017) – Schrödinger, Inc., a world-leading provider of advanced molecular simulations and drug discovery software solutions, and ShanghaiTech University in China have reached an agreement to develop a strategic partnership and establish the Shanghai [...]

The high performances automated gas diluter/calibrator from LNI Swissgas

An accurate measurement of a gas concentration involves several parameters like sampling, measurement technique, analyzer, operator and calibration. In some cases, very high accuracy is required. For instance, if a manufacturer claims for a 1% accuracy on a gas analyzer, he needs to have calibration tools which support this specification statement. The Sonimix 2106 works [...]

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