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 [...]

SEOUL, South Korea -- Seegene Inc. (096530.KQ), the world's leading developer of multiplex molecular diagnostics technologies and assays, today announced that it has entered into a new strategic collaboration relationship with Thermo Fisher Scientific in which Seegene will file for U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance of its Allplex™ diagnostic assay portfolio at the same [...]

New low-throughput Sanger sequencing and fragment analysis platform offers trusted technology and workflow with all-in-one cartridge system and cloud connectivity South San Francisco, CA Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, launched today a new capillary electrophoresis (CE) system designed to offer a low-throughput, cartridge-based system for Sanger sequencing and fragment analysis. For [...]

UC Merced added a powerful new tool to the campus’s Imaging and Microscopy Facility. The newly acquired Zeiss LSM 880 is a state-of-the art laser scanning confocal microscope that represents a huge leap forward for the university’s imaging capabilities. “Within UC Merced, this is by far the most advanced, state-of-the-art light microscope,” School of Engineering Professor Anand Subramaniam said. Subramaniam [...]

HOBOKEN, NJ and COLUMBUS, OH— John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb), and CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, today announced a partnership that will accelerate the evolution of predictive synthesis by enriching Wiley’s award-winning ChemPlanner technology with the most accurate and complete chemical information from CAS. Rapid advances in the fields of [...]

CFI SR HP Plan Apochromat Lambda S 100XC Sil objective and silicone immersion medium enable superresolution imaging of thick specimens and offers correlative imaging capabilities Nikon Instruments Inc. today unveiled a new silicone immersion objective lens, CFI SR HP Plan Apochromat Lambda S 100XC Sil, for super-resolution and multi-modal imaging. The new silicone immersion objective lens [...]

Teledyne CETAC Technologies announces new Commercial Product Specialist to their team. Teledyne CETAC Technologies is pleased to announce that Jim Maximovich has joined them as a Commercial Product Specialist.   In this role, Jim will be the product champion for their ICP system automation product lines, including autodilution and sample preparation and introduction for specialist applications. [...]

Setaram (Caluire, France) SETARAM Instrumentation rewrites the sector’s traditional codes and invites researchers to reIMAGINE the concept for thermal analysis with THEMYS. The THEMYS is the NEW benchmark for modular thermogravimetric analysis. The THEMYS is available in various platforms: Standard Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA), high pressure TGA, Simultaneous Thermal Analysis (STA) TG/DSC, Differential Thermal Analysis / [...]

Seattle, USA - BGI, a leading global genomics organization, announced plans to create a West Coast Innovation Center to develop technologies and collaborative projects in life science, global health and related fields. The BGI Global Innovation Center will be co-located in Seattle, Wash. and San Jose, Calif. to build an ecosystem of innovation in the two high-technology [...]