WINOOSKI VT, USA — BioTek Instruments celebrated the completion of a $4.5 million facility expansion and renovation during a company-wide event on Thursday, May 18. The 22,000 square foot expansion is already supporting the Company’s rapid growth. While many departments are benefitting from the additional space, the Company’s manufacturing area is most notably affected, growing [...]

Laughton, United Kingdom: Quorum Technologies, market and technology leaders in electron microscopy coating and cryogenic preparation products, report on how Carl Zeiss Microscopy has incorporated their Q150T coater into their ruggedized analytical solutions supplied to the mining, geosciences and oil & gas sectors. Shaun Graham is part of the applications development team at Carl Zeiss [...]

SCIENION AG today announced its first steps into direct marketing of consumer products. SCIENION, with four other partners, are developing technology for inexpensive sensing of toxic compounds in the gasphases of airfryers and other frying systems to enable healthy cooking. This project entitled COLODOR “Integrated-optical detection of volatile organic compounds using functional polymer coatings” is [...]

Innovative Instrument Supports BioAgilytix’s Characterization of Biomolecular Interactions and Monitoring and Characterization of ADAs from Preclinical to Clinical Development Durham, NC—BioAgilytix, a leading global provider of contract bioanalytical testing services with specialization in large molecule bioanalysis, is continuing to expand capacity for immunogenicity studies in Europe with the implementation of an additional Biacore™ T200 platform in its Hamburg, [...]

Teledyne Hanson offers eighteen different vertical diffusion cell options. Diffusion cells include standard choices such as cell volume sizes (4, 7, 12 mL); clear or amberized glass; standard membrane or Strat-M® membrane; and other custom designs to support special applications. Teledyne Hanson’s team of development engineers can further support any unique application by designing special [...]

KARLSRUHE, Germany, May 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Bruker announces the launch of its new S8 TIGER™ Series 2, the next-generation Wavelength Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence (WDXRF) spectrometer. The S8 TIGER Series 2 is the most versatile WDXRF tool available for advanced quantitative elemental analysis in industrial and academic materials research, as well as in industrial quality control (QC) of materials. The new S8 TIGER [...]

Technology provides a unique approach to gene editing and DNA delivery Enables Horizon to use gene editing directly as a therapeutic Immediate applications in biomanufacturing, diagnostics, cell and gene therapy Cambridge, UK: Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) ("Horizon" or “the Company”), the world leader in the application of gene editing technologies, today announces that [...]

Long Reads Reveal Important Genes and Splicing Complexity Missed by Short-Read Sequencers MENLO PARK, Calif. -- A series of recent peer-reviewed scientific publications highlights the growing use of Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT®) Sequencing to annotate plant and animal genomes. These reports from the genomics community show that PacBio sequencing consistently detects more genes, alternative splicing events, [...]

SAN DIEGO---- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) announced today that Mark Van Oene has been named Chief Commercial Officer. Van Oene was previously Illumina's Senior Vice President of the Americas region and subsequently named interim Chief Commercial Officer in late 2016. Illumina Chief Commercial Officer Mark Van Oene (Photo: Business Wire) "Mark is a great leader for [...]

Exclusive licence deals follow successful custom Affimer evaluations Avacta is pleased to announce that two leading US biotech companies have separately taken exclusive rights to Affimer reagents for research and development use, to support their respective drug development programmes. Avacta has developed the Affimer technology platform to provide proprietary, high quality reagents to Life Sciences [...]