Termination of employment agreement with European regional sales manager Mr. Dmitry Kozodaev
October 5, 2017
NT-MDT SI announces the termination of its employment agreement with Mr. Dmitry Kozodaev, our European regional sales manager, effective from April 1st 2017. We would like to thank Mr. Dmitry Kozodaev for his service over the past 10 years and wish him good luck with his recently developed company. NT-MDT SI does not take any [...]
October 5, 2017
NEW YORK, NY - Schrödinger Inc., a technology leader in atomic-scale modeling and physics-based chemical simulations, announced today that it is collaborating with Professor Jang-Joo Kim of Korea’s Seoul National University (서울대학교), to advance the development and design of organic electronic materials. Professor Kim is a member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, [...]
XIFIN Launches Next-Generation Sequencing Module; Expands Genomics-based LIS Workflow
October 5, 2017
NGS Supports Molecular Business Growth, Laboratory Sequencing Operations and Precision Medicine SAN DIEGO, Calif., -- XIFIN, Inc., the healthcare information technology company revolutionizing the business of healthcare diagnostics, today announced that it has expanded its laboratory information system, XIFIN LIS Anywhere, with the launch of a next-generation sequencing module to provide advanced workflow functionality for laboratory [...]
October 5, 2017
Shimadzu announces the release of its IRSpirit series of Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrophotometers. The two models, the IRSpirit-T and IRSpirit-L, are equipped with a dedicated IR Pilot program that simplifies analysis and, in spite of their compact size, which is smaller than an A3 size sheet of paper, provide outstanding expandability. Despite their small [...]
Lucigen to License the Complete Epicentre Portfolio of Genomics Tools
October 5, 2017
Lucigen Corporation and Illumina Inc. have entered into a License and Knowledge Transfer Agreement (effective September 13, 2017) whereby Lucigen will manufacture and sell the entire Epicentre product portfolio through its worldwide distribution network. Over the last few months Lucigen has been distributing the entire Epicentre line. This Agreement completes the manufacturing transfer to Lucigen [...]
JOINT CONSORTIA FRAMEWORK AWARDS CONTRACT TO BIO-TECHNE AS SUPPLIER OF RESEARCH ANTIBODIES
October 5, 2017
LONDON -- Bio-Techne has been selected as a supplier of research antibodies under Lot 1: Antibodies of the Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC), Antibodies and Sera Framework Agreement for the United Kingdom (UK) Higher Education Sector. The Framework serves 6 major UK-based academic consortia across England, Scotland and Wales and supports over 100 research centers. The Framework [...]
October 5, 2017
Circulomics Receives $1.7M to Develop Nanobind Methods for FFPE DNA/RNA Extraction and NGS Library Preparation New technologies will expand Circulomics' sample preparation products to further enhance NGS data quality and yield Baltimore, MD NIH has awarded Circulomics two SBIR grants totaling over $1.7M to develop new applications of its Nanobind DNA/RNA extraction technology. Nanobind is [...]
October 5, 2017
Shimadzu announces the release of its IRSpirit series of Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrophotometers. The two models, the IRSpirit-T and IRSpirit-L, are equipped with a dedicated IR Pilot program that simplifies analysis and, in spite of their compact size, which is smaller than an A3 size sheet of paper, provide outstanding expandability. Despite their small [...]
October 5, 2017
CHELMSFORD, Mass. -- Brooks Automation, Inc. (Nasdaq:BRKS) announced today that it has acquired 4titude, Ltd., a manufacturer of scientific consumables for biological sample materials used in a variety of genomic and DNA analytical applications. Based in Surrey, England, 4titude sells its products into more than 50 countries worldwide. The total purchase price of the acquisition was approximately $65 million in [...]
Illumina Introduces Nextera DNA Flex
October 5, 2017
The next era in library preparation offers significantly differentiated capabilities to customers Today, Illumina announced the availability of an innovative whole genome sequencing (WGS) library prep product, Nextera DNA Flex, which eliminates the need for sample preparation for whole blood and saliva, and removes tedious steps in the library prep workflow, such as mechanical fragmentation of [...]

