Canon BioMedical products now available in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland
December 5, 2017
Our distributor agreement with BIOZOL expands the availability of the Novallele™ genotyping and copy number assays MELVILLE, N.Y. Canon BioMedical is pleased to announce our latest geographic expansion into the German-speaking countries of Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. We are working with a new distributor, BIOZOL Diagnostica Vertrieb GmbH, that will distribute all of the Novallele [...]
December 4, 2017
Shimadzu Corporation, Fujitsu Limited, and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. are undertaking collaborative research*1to develop technology that utilizes AI (artificial intelligence) to process the vast amounts of data used in analyzing the measurement results, which are essential to analytical processes, acquired from Shimadzu mass spectrometers. Fujitsu, an information and communication technology company, has been exploring the creation [...]
Base4 is celebrating the grant of DNA sequencing patent US 9,771,615.
December 4, 2017
Base4 is celebrating the grant of DNA sequencing patent US 9,771,615. This is our 8th granted patent family and our 25th granted patent, 22 of which have been granted over the past 3 years. Base4 is an IP rich company and our continued success underlines the degree to which our approach is novel and highly [...]
Changes in Corporate Management
December 4, 2017
Showa Denko (SDK) (TOKYO: 4004) decided at its board meeting today on changes in corporate management. Akiyoshi Morita will resign as Outside Director at the General Meeting of Shareholders in late March 2018. Kiyoshi Nishioka (Adviser, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo) will be elected Director at the same General [...]
Certara Launches Version 17 of its PBPK Simcyp Simulator
December 4, 2017
This year’s Simcyp Simulator enhancements include new oncology and preterm-birth populations, enhanced skin and gut transporter models, and additional regulatory qualification summaries PRINCETON, NJ – Certara®, the global leader in model-informed drug development and regulatory science, today announced that it has launched version 17 of its Simcyp® Population-based Simulator. “We are proud to introduce several significant advances [...]
New field emission scanning electron microscope ZEISS GeminiSEM 450 introduced
December 4, 2017
Addressing the highest demands in imaging and analytics from any sample JENA/Germany ZEISS introduces its new field emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM) ZEISS GeminiSEM 450. The instrument combines ultrahigh resolution imaging with the capability to perform advanced analytics while maintaining flexibility and ease-of-use. With ZEISS GeminiSEM 450, users benefit from high resolution, surface sensitive imaging [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Acquires Continuous Emission Monitoring Assets from EPTEK Technology
December 4, 2017
WALTHAM, Mass. -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced it has completed the acquisition of certain assets from EPTEK Technology Co. LTD and several related entities with offices in Taiwan and mainland China. The assets acquired include volatile organic compound (VOC) continuous emission monitoring systems (CEMS) used to measure and analyze air quality across [...]
BERKELEY LIGHTS FORMS STRATEGIC SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD FEATURING DISTINGUISHED EXPERTS
December 4, 2017
Emeryville, Calif. – Berkeley Lights, Inc. (BLI), a company dedicated to creating transformational platforms for biopharmaceutical processes, today announced the appointment of five leading experts from top academic, research and life sciences and engineering organizations to its Strategic Scientific Advisory Board (SSAB). The SSAB serves as a strategic resource for Berkeley Lights as it continues to [...]
DeepVariant: Highly Accurate Genomes With Deep Neural Networks
December 4, 2017
Across many scientific disciplines, but in particular in the field of genomics, major breakthroughs have often resulted from new technologies. From Sanger sequencing, which made it possible to sequence the human genome, to the microarray technologies that enabled the first large-scale genome-wide experiments, new instruments and tools have allowed us to look ever more deeply into the genome [...]
December 4, 2017
QXDx BCR-ABL %IS Kit Achieves Highest Sensitivity for Detecting Disease Remission in Patients with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia HERCULES, Calif. -- Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb) today announces the launch of the QXDx BCR-ABL %IS Kit, the first CE-IVD digital PCR test that can monitor the molecular response of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) to [...]
