October 6th marks the beginning of a new partnership between Leica Microsystems and ICFO- The Institute of Photonic Sciences. The new collaboration agreement, signed by the leading microscopy company and the Barcelona based research institute, aims to promote and establish ICFO as a new European Nanoscopy Imaging Reference Site for Leica. As such, ICFO's experts [...]

Novasep fully compliant with the most stringent international supply chain standards Lyon, France– Novasep, a leading supplier of services and technologies for the life sciences industry, today announces that its French sites, in Chasse-sur-Rhone and Mourenx, have been granted the Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) status by French Customs Authorities. This certification complements the one already [...]

RIJSWIJK, The Netherlands and MENLO PARK, Calif -- Bluebee, a company driving genomic data-driven medicine, and Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (NASDAQ: PACB), the leader in long-read sequencing, announced they have integrated the PacBio® de novo assembly pipeline onto the Bluebee® genomics analysis platform. The integration creates a simplified workflow and fully automated, end-to-end data analysis solution that allows assembly of any size genome, [...]

Company to showcase fully automated solution at 2nd ASM Conference on Rapid Applied Microbial Next-Generation Sequencing and Bioinformatics Pipelines ITHACA, N.Y. — Rheonix Inc., a developer of fully automated molecular testing solutions, will highlight its fully automated and integrated sample preparation solution on the Encompass Optimum™ workstation at the 2nd ASM Conference on Rapid Applied Microbial Next-Generation Sequencing and [...]

Fungiplex® Candida fast identification assay and MICRONAUT™-AM antifungal susceptibility testing (AFST) further expand Bruker´s product range in Invasive Fungal Disease (IFD) testing BELGRADE, Serbia -- At the Trends in Medical Mycology (www.timm2017.org) conference, Bruker today introduces the new, CE-IVD marked Fungiplex® Candida fast diagnostic assay, a multiplex real-time PCR test for the rapid identification of the most common pathogens associated with [...]

Männedorf, Switzerland - The Tecan Group (SIX Swiss Exchange: TECN) announced today that a succession process for the Board of Directors has been initiated. Rolf Classon, born in 1945 and member of the Board and Chairman since 2009, and Gérard Vaillant, born in 1942 and member of the Board since 2004, will not stand for re-election [...]

Rigaku Oxford Diffraction debuts new XtaLAB Synergy-DW dual wavelength chemical crystallography X-ray diffractometer   The Woodlands, TX. Rigaku Oxford Diffraction announced the release of a new dual wavelength single crystal diffractometer, the XtaLAB Synergy-DW, at the 24th Congress & General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr). The XtaLAB Synergy-DW system is a versatile high-flux diffractometer with a Hybrid [...]

Cryo-electron microscopes are used to "see the molecules inside the cell and how they interact" WALTHAM, Mass. -- The 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recognizes the pioneering work of three scientists, Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson, whose breakthrough developments in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) have helped to broaden the use of this technology within the structural biology community. The winners [...]

Revolutionary new discovery platform offers researchers unique insights into the microbiome Seattle, WA Phase Genomics, the industry leader in Hi-C-based genomic technologies, launched its ProxiMeta™ Hi-C metagenome deconvolution product, featuring the first commercially available Hi-C kit. Researchers can use the ProxiMeta Hi-C kit and accompanying cloud-based bioinformatics software to perform Hi-C metagenome deconvolution using their [...]

DNAnexus CloudSeq provides a turn-key solution for rapidly scaling cloud-enabled bioinformatics infrastructure for research and clinical sequencing applications MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. & CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--DNAnexus, the global leader in genome informatics and data management, announced today the availability of the DNAnexus CloudSeq solution, a suite of cloud-based tools and professional services specifically designed to support the informatics infrastructure [...]