Rigaku Analytical Devices showcases upgraded handheld alloy analyzer for use in metal recycling, quality control and positive material identification applications at FABTECH Expo 2017  Chicago, IL – Rigaku Analytical Devices, a leading pioneer of handheld and portable spectroscopic analyzers, announces its previously released handheld laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) metal analyzer has been improved and is faster [...]

Innovative animal-free cell culture improves consistency, safety and efficiency  Berlin, Germany – InVitria, a division of Ventria Bioscience, has announced the launch of a new media formulation service at the international BIO-Europe conference in Berlin, Germany. Leveraging Ventria's proprietary ExpressTec technology, InVitria has developed and commercialized eight recombinant proteins and cell culture media supplements made in a completely animal-free system. Animal-component [...]

SAN DIEGO -- Organovo Holdings, Inc.(NASDAQ:ONVO) (“Organovo”) and Viscient Biosciences (“Viscient”) today announced a collaboration to develop a custom research platform for studying liver disease.  The partnership is expected to expand upon Organovo’s current service portfolio for compound screening in disease models, which aids the drug discovery work of the Company’s customers.  Viscient is targeting early [...]

Walkersville, MD (USA) / Basel (CH) – Today Lonza Walkersville announced its new offering of Silensomes™ Human Liver Microsomes (HLM) products – pooled human liver microsomes for in vitro cytochrome P450 (CYP) phenotyping. CYP phenotyping is a regulatory requirement for new drug candidates to understand their metabolism and to predict drug-drug interactions. Lonza Walkersville’s new Silensomes™ HLM products provide [...]

Collaboration aimed at developing novel "Nephron-on-a-Chip" device to test drug candidates in human kidney: NEPLEX ("NEPHRON-ON-A-CHIP WITH CELLULAR AND EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX COMPLEXITY") Major step forward to the next generation kidney platform Hamburg, Germany: Evotec AG (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: EVT, TecDAX, ISIN: DE0005664809) today announced a strategic collaboration on microfluidics technology including induced pluripotent stem cell [...]

We have taken three popular peripheral systems for the UH4150 spectrophotometer—the automatic variable-angle absolute reflectance measurement system, the automatic polarization measurement systems, and 5 Degrees reflectance/ transmittance measurement system with automatic X-Y stage—and converted them into standalone systems that can be purchased individually. By allowing measurements to be automated, these systems improve the reproducibility of [...]

Meet the upgraded convertible TurboVap® solvent evaporator for the analytical laboratory, with customer-driven features such as see-through tank for visible samples, drain port and touch screen interface. Product Manager Paul Roberts gives a quick tour in this video.   https://vimeo.com/240967443

As of October 2017 Micronit, Axxicon and Helvoet are collaborating in offering a market leading  development and manufacturing package to support the growing global demand for high volume polymer microfluidic products.  The strong market growth is driven by the new fast diagnostic systems being developed and entering the health care market. At the same time [...]

The Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology and Leica Microsystems marked 20 years of collaboration with a day of presentations and scientific talks highlighting the successful projects emerging from the partnership   Strasbourg, November 3rd. The longstanding alliance between one of the largest research institutes in France and the pioneering microscopy company was [...]

Applied StemCell, Inc., a global provider of gene editing and stem cell-based services, as well as a leader in molecular and cellular reference standard products for clinical diagnostics markets, is proud to receive certifications for two International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Quality Management Systems (QMS) on October 20, 2017, the ISO 9001:2015 and 13485:2016. The [...]