BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS — FORMULATRIX® announced today that the next generation CONSTELLATION® Digital PCR System will be revealed at the qPCR and Digital PCR Congress in Philadelphia on July 25th, 2017.  “Based on customer feedback, we have built on our existing digital PCR platform by developing plates with up to 36,000 partitions per sample and by [...]

Los Angeles, CA – StoneCalibre is pleased to announce that one of its affiliates has completed the acquisition of Alpha-Tec Systems, Inc., a Vancouver, WA based provider of in-vitro diagnostic products utilized by clinical laboratories in the disciplines of mycobacteriology, parasitology, bacteriology and mycology. “We are pleased to welcome Alpha-Tec to the StoneCalibre family,” said Brian [...]

LGC announced today that it has acquired LINK Technologies, a premier supplier of speciality reagents for oligonucleotide synthesis. LINK’s products are used by oligonucleotide synthesis companies, university and commercial research departments as well as contract manufacturing organisations in the biotech sector. Following the acquisition, LGC will combine its Biosearch oligonucleotide reagent group, its Prime Synthesis CPG [...]

Shimadzu's Nexis GC-2030, the company's latest high-end gas chromatograph, and the HS-20/HS-10 headspace samplers can now be controlled by OpenLAB CDS, the chromatography data system from Agilent Technologies, Inc. Shimadzu will release an upgraded GC driver in order to control the Nexis GC-2030 and the HS-20/HS-10 using OpenLAB CDS. Other instruments controlled by OpenLAB CDS [...]

Hinds develops circular dichroism instrument for high throughput screening of chiral pharmaceuticals and strikes distribution deal with Bio-Logic Science Instruments. Hillsboro, Oregon – Hinds Instruments, a leading global supplier of photoelastic modulators (PEMs) and PEM-based instrumentation, and Bio-Logic Science Instruments today announced that they have entered into an exclusive marketing and sales distribution agreement covering [...]

Precision ID GlobalFiler NGS STR Panel v2 and Converge 2.0 software enable retrieval of more data from mixed and degraded samples CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Forensic scientists who need to differentiate genetic profiles in forensic DNA mixtures, such as those commonly associated with crime scenes, now have access to a new next-generation sequencing (NGS) STR panel from [...]

Samco Clicktainer vials provide secure and reliable sample collection and transport WALTHAM, Mass. -- A new series of leakproof vials has been developed to provide sample protection and user safety by enabling correct cap application every time. The unique lid-lock design of the Thermo Scientific Samco Clicktainer vials makes them ideal for the secure transport of valuable [...]

CHELMSFORD, Mass. -- Brooks Life Science Systems announced today the expansion of its sample preparation and bioprocessing laboratory services at its BioStorage® Technologies center of excellence biorepository in Indianapolis. Brooks' expanded sample bioprocessing capabilities in Indianapolis will include a full range of sample preparation services such as volumetric and normalized aliquoting, nucleic acid extraction, blood fractionation [...]

Life-sciences ecosystem cuts storage costs by 50 percent, reduces complexity and drastically speeds data analysis of DNA sequencing and interpretation SAN MATEO, CA --- Cloudian, Inc., a global leader in enterprise object storage systems, today announced it is working with ScaleMatrix and OnRamp BioInformatics to improve efficiencies of data analysis and storage for life sciences [...]

Merck takes advantage of latest Genedata Biologics functionalities to streamline the design, production, and testing of bispecific antibodies across their therapeutic R&D programs Basel, Switzerland - Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for R&D, today announced that Merck, a leading science and technology company, has implemented Genedata Biologics™ to scale-up their bispecific antibody [...]