RADNOR, Pa. -- VWR (NASDAQ: VWR), the leading global independent provider of product and service solutions to laboratory and production facilities, recently presented SickKids Foundation with a $35,000 donation. This contribution was made possible through the VWR Collection program.  Designed to make a difference, this program donates a percentage of the VWR Collection product sales in Canada to a charitable [...]

PositiveID’s new, wholly owned subsidiary, ExcitePCR, to provide platform for partnership and financing opportunities DELRAY BEACH, Fla. -- PositiveID Corporation (“PositiveID”) (OTC:PSIDD), a Life Sciences company focused on detection and diagnostics, announced today it has formed a new, wholly owned subsidiary, ExcitePCR Corporation, a Delaware corporation, to own and further the development of the Firefly [...]

Proteomics company now producing glass slides printed with recombinant human proteins comprising 81% of the human proteome for high throughput analytics, contract research and hybridoma development services. MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico and BALTIMORE -- CDI Laboratories, Inc. has announced that over 1,000 new recombinant proteins will be added to HuProt™ - its human proteome microarray. With 81% of [...]

Billerica, MA, USA – Pion Inc. announced today the acquisition of Sirius Analytical Instruments Ltd., headquartered in East Sussex, United Kingdom. Building off the 2016 acquisition of Vortex’s laboratory equipment services division, acquiring Sirius continues Pion’s initiative to grow their global footprint in instrumentation and services. Now with key facilities in both North America and Europe, [...]

OGT’s unique hybridisation expertise takes researchers from sample to sequencer in a single day Oxford, UK. Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), The Molecular Genetics Company, has made several advances in hybridisation-based target enrichment protocols that now enable researchers to prepare samples for sequencing in just one day. Researchers can now access the high-quality results of hybridisation-based targeted [...]

Adoption of screening method points to reliability for identifying food-borne illness sources   May 24, 2017 – Camarillo, CA – Health Canada, the country’s national health agency, has included Hygiena’s BAX® System Real-Time PCR Assay as a validated method to screen surfaces for Listeria species, a potentially harmful group of microbes that is a common cause of food-borne illness. [...]

PositiveID’s new, wholly owned subsidiary, ExcitePCR, to provide platform for partnership and financing opportunities  DELRAY BEACH, Fla. -- PositiveID Corporation (“PositiveID”) (OTC:PSIDD), a Life Sciences company focused on detection and diagnostics, announced today it has formed a new, wholly owned subsidiary, ExcitePCR Corporation, a Delaware corporation, to own and further the development of the Firefly [...]

Talks and Papers Previewed at PMWC 2017 and SFAF Conferences Advance Nabsys' Mission to Democratize Structural Information PROVIDENCE, RI - Nabsys, a genomics company pioneering high-definition mapping of genomes using high-resolution, high-speed nanodetectors, today shared performance of its new electronic HD-Mapping™ platform and its ability to identify structural variation in both microbial and human genomes. [...]

Cost-effective spectral sensing kits bring the excitement of spectroscopy to the classroom Dunedin, Florida, USA – To inspire today’s tech savvy students, Ocean Optics has released two new Education Packs, built around its STS microspectrometer and Spark spectral sensor. With the kit hardware and commonly available samples, teachers can integrate absorbance, transmission, fluorescence, emission and [...]

SAN DIEGO – Edico Genome today announced it has collaborated with Illumina to make DRAGEN™ available on BaseSpace® Sequence Hub. DRAGEN delivers extremely high accuracy at ultra-rapid speeds, enabling a whole human genome to be analyzed in under 10 minutes. BaseSpace Sequence Hub is a cloud-based platform that extends Illumina instruments for the acquisition and [...]