Hiden Analytical announce a new agreement with The University of California, Berkley Laboratory, to produce their novel dual-layer differential electrochemical flow cell for operation with the Hiden HPR-40 DSA membrane inlet mass spectrometer. The combined differential electrochemical mass spectrometry technique (DEMS) is developed for real-time characterisation of electro-catalytic performance with special relevance to fuel cell [...]

OBERKOCHEN/Germany, MOSCOW/Russia ZEISS will strengthen its activities in Russia, the Ukraine, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Georgia by acquiring a majority stake in the Optec Group, – the long-standing sales and service partner responsible for this territory. With this step, ZEISS is continuing and expanding its almost 115-year presence in the region. Optec [...]

The Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, and especially its imaging center, 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. The longstanding alliance between one of Europe's leading centres for biomedical research and the pioneering microscopy [...]

Graz, Austria & Besançon, France: Following the recent launch of the Tosca™ 400 atomic force microscope, the leading scientific equipment manufacturing company Anton Paar is today announcing the launch of Tosca™ analysis software, based on Digital Surf’s Mountains® surface analysis technology. Specially designed for industrial users, the Tosca™ 400 comes with ToscaTM Control software for operating [...]

On November 02, 2017, Annoroad announced the completion of its latest round of financing (nearly $105 million). This round of investment has been co-led by GTJA Investment Group and Ping An Ventures, other investors like SBCVC, SAIF Partners China, etc. are also involved.   Annoroad is focusing on the industrialized application of new-generation genomics technology [...]

The Qlucore NGS module has now been available for more than a month and the user feedback is very positive. As always, Qlucore is striving to provide a fast and easy to use analysis tool with instant responses to your analysis settings. In an exciting and seamless way, you can now use the Genome browser, [...]

Designed for the observation and inspection of metal components, the new Olympus GX53 inverted metallurgical microscope features an LED light source for ultra-long life and low power consumption. The GX53 microscope also incorporates the latest version of OLYMPUS Stream image analysis software (v. 2.3) for improved observation and reporting capabilities. Inverted metallurgical microscopes observe samples [...]

TwistDx’s recently launched range of liquid format Recombinase Polymerase Amplification (RPA) kits are ideal for rapid testing applications and high throughput laboratory use. This isothermal DNA/RNA amplification technology represents a versatile solution for nucleic acid detection, offering the same specificity as PCR but much faster results – typically within three to 10 minutes. The newly [...]

MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (NASDAQ:PACB) announced today that Kathy Ordoñez has been named Chief Commercial Officer and Executive Vice President. Ms. Ordoñez brings more than thirty years of experience in the life sciences and diagnostics industries, with senior roles at Hoffmann-La Roche, Celera, Quest Diagnostics and RainDance Technologies.  At Roche, Kathy was responsible for [...]

Working together to develop next-generation biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies that may reduce costs of novel antibodies to less than 15 USD/g. Shanghai — WuXi Biologics (2269.HK), a global leading open-access biologics technology platform company offering end-to-end solutions for biologicsdiscovery, development and manufacturing, and its partner Pall Corporation, the global leader of advanced filtration, separation and purification technologies, established a [...]