ZEISS continues its strategic, global investment and growth trajectory New integrated high-tech site, which will benefit the entire region and bring together all local ZEISS units by 2023 Founding site of Jena to remain one of the top innovation hubs for ZEISS Plans to forge closer links to science, teaching and local industry The state [...]

Your all-access pass to your next breakthrough. Sunnyvale, California Molecular Devices announced today the launch of the new SpectraMax® iD5 Multi-Mode Microplate Reader, a feature-rich platform that expands the boundaries of scientific research. This five-mode microplate reader with automatic filter identification and western blot capability is the complete laboratory solution to help scientists increase their [...]

Genomics England partners with Inivata and Thermo Fisher Scientific to unlock the genomic secrets of blood plasma – and improve our understanding of cancer Genomics England has announced today a new industry collaboration with leading life sciences companies Inivata and Thermo Fisher Scientific to improve understanding of cancer. The pilot project aims to assess the quality of blood plasma [...]

Comprehensive data provide an unprecedented picture of sunflower traits Ness Ziona, Israel – NRGene, the worldwide leader in genomic assembly and analysis, has created a previously unattainable version of the sunflower genome for a cooperative of scientists from Canada, the United States, France, and Israel. The NRGene-produced genome is more comprehensive than any existing version. “The [...]

From the world’s most certified Biological Safety Cabinet manufacturer, Esco is now the only manufacturer of biocontainment solutions with vertically integrated and regional factories to provide customized Class III Biological Safety Cabinets which exceed international standards from NSF 49 to EN 12469. The latest addition to the series of Class III Biological Safety Cabinet, Containment Barrier Isolator–III [...]

Eurofins Scientific (EUFI.PA), a European leader in Forensic DNA and Toxicology testing in France, Germany and Belgium, announces that it has signed an agreement to acquire the Forensics and Security division of LGC (“LGC Forensics”), the largest player in the UK forensics market, a European pioneer in this field and a significant forensic DNA testing [...]

OnRamp BioInformatics is transforming how cancer researchers and biologists analyze data San Diego, CA OnRamp BioInformatics (https://www.onramp.bio/) has launched Rosalind™, the first-ever genomics analysis platform specifically designed for life science researchers to analyze and interpret datasets, by eliminating all bioinformatics complexity. Named in honor of pioneering researcher Rosalind Franklin, who made a major contribution to [...]

Genialis/Swift partnership delivers a complete targeted sequencing solution with intuitive analysis software (ANN ARBOR, Mich.) Swift Biosciences, a leading provider of innovative library prep solutions for next-generation sequencing (NGS), today announced the launch of its Accel-Amplicon™ Custom NGS Panels. These new panels offer a targeted DNA sequencing product that enables clinical researchers to rapidly design highly focused [...]

Researchers at ASHG 2017 cite value of QIAGEN Sample to Insight solutions in multiple disease areas Hilden, Germany, and Germantown, Maryland – QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that its Sample to Insight solutions, from next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies to bioinformatics solutions for research and clinical testing, figure prominently in independent studies [...]

Oxford Nanopore sequencing technology is now available in China. The long-read, real-time, portable MinION sequencer is now being used by researchers across China, who are working on myriad DNA sequencing applications including: pathogen research, human genetics, plant genetics, animal genetics and metagenomics. Chinese researchers are also preparing to start cDNA and direct RNA sequencing projects. The GridION X5 device, [...]