Biognosys raises new funds to bring proteomics to the broader life science research market

Today we are happy to announce that we have secured USD 5m funding from new and existing investors in an extended series C round. New funds will be used to extend Biognosys commercial operations and to accelerate the development of next generation proteomics workflows and products for high-content and high-throughput protein analysis. "The feedback that [...]

Premaitha Health extends Thermo Fisher Scientific agreement

Premaitha Health has entered into a further extension of the investment agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific, the latter providing an additional two-tranche secured loan facility of $5.0m. Thermo Fisher is the world leader in serving science, with revenues of over $18bn and more than 55,000 employees in 50 countries. Premaitha's IONA and SAGE prenatal screening [...]

HORIBA Scientific Introduces New Uvisel Plus, The Reference Ellipsometer For Thin Film Measurements

New Uvisel Plus includes the next generation of FastAcq technology with increased measurement accuracy. HORIBA Scientific, global leader in spectroscopic ellipsometry for over 25 years, is proud to announce the launch of their new UVISEL Plus, a modular ellipsometer which includes the newest acquisition technology designed to measure thin film samples faster, and more accurately [...]

Bourevestnik Inc. completed commissioning of X-ray slurry analyzer AR-35-A

In March 2017, at the Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical completed commissioning of the X-ray wavelength dispersive flowstream pulp analyzer AP-35-A manufactured by Bourevestnik Inc. The instrument installed within the frames of "Involvement of off-balance dump mines of the «Kalmakyr» deposit. A special feature of this project is a comprehensive replacement of the outdated analyzer AR-31, [...]

Emmanuel Ligner named President and CEO of GE Healthcare Life Sciences

Former GM of the Diagnostic Imaging arm of the Life Sciences business; succeeds Kieran Murphy who was recently promoted to lead GE Healthcare    CHALFONT ST. GILES, UK – Emmanuel Ligner has been named president and CEO of GE Healthcare Life Sciences, succeeding Kieran Murphy, who was recently promoted to run parent company, GE Healthcare. Ligner [...]

Princeton Instruments Introduces New Scholars Grant Program for Spectroscopy

Princeton Instruments is pleased to announce a new Scholars Grant Program that will provide financial assistance grants to researchers and educators who are seeking the latest high-performance spectroscopy tools for their labs and classrooms. The new program will also allow students to apply for travel assistance grants. A limited number of “in-kind” financial assistance grants [...]

Leading French Lab Uses Skeletal Muscle Differentiation Kit to Study Duchenne Myopathy

AMSBIO reports on an independent evaluation and use by I-Stem (Corbeil-Essonnes, France) of the Skeletal Muscle Differentiation kit - a cell culture media system to differentiate human stem cells into functional myotubes. I-Stem (https://www.istem.eu/en/) was formed in 2005 through a collaboration between Inserm, the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, and AFM-Telethon the [...]

Agena Bioscience and Intermountain Healthcare Announce Research Collaboration to Advance Precision Medicine

SAN DIEGO, CA, AND SAINT GEORGE, UTAH – Agena Bioscience and Intermountain Healthcare announced today a strategic collaboration that focuses on expanding the use of Agena’s MassARRAY® System in oncology applications. The collaboration concentrates on expansion of Agena’s technology with the goal of focused panels for liquid and tissue biopsy.  The molecular tests augment laboratory [...]

Norgen Biotek Corp Launches New Portfolio for Next Generation Sequencing, including Library Preparation Kits and Full NGS Service Offering

Thorold, ON Norgen Biotek Corp., an innovative Canadian biotechnology company focusing primarily on advancing powerful tools for nucleic acid and protein purification and stabilization, today announced the recent launch of their new portfolio of product and service solutions for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) applications. Norgen has extensive experience with NGS, and has leveraged this expertise [...]

SISCAPA Licenses Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry Assay Technology to Waters Corporation

(Washington DC) - SISCAPA Assay Technologies, Inc. (SAT), developer of precision mass spectrometry assays for protein quantitation, today announced that Waters Corporation has obtained a nonexclusive license to certain technology from SAT for the standardization of liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry assays. The patent-pending technology uses multiple stable isotope-labeled versions of an analyte molecule, each with a distinct [...]

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