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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]