Männedorf, Switzerland – Tecan’s popular Infinite® 200 PRO series of multimode microplate readers has been updated to even better serve the life sciences market, with a number of new options and configurations designed to provide flexible and user-friendly solutions for entry level research applications. The proven and trusted Infinite 200 PRO microplate reader has been engineered [...]

New PureLink Expi Endotoxin-Free Maxi Kit Dramatically Reduces Plasmid Purification Time to Accelerate Innovation  CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has expanded its line of endotoxin-free plasmid DNA isolation products with the launch of the PureLink Expi Endotoxin-Free Maxi Plasmid Purification Kit. With a simple and fast protocol for isolation, [...]

ARMONK, N.Y.: IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists have developed a “lab-on-a-chip” technology that can stretch double-stranded DNA molecules with the potential to efficiently reveal biomarkers that may indicate disease. This technology complements the IBM Research’s “lab-on-a-chip” nanoDLD technology which separates bioparticles, such as exosomes and which may also contain biomarkers for disease detection. The nanochannel technology, [...]

Precision System Science, Co., Ltd. (“PSS”) hereby announces that its Board of Directors has resolved at the meeting held on May 15, 2017 to conclude a capital and business alliance with Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (“Hitachi High-Tech”) (this alliance hereinafter referred to as the “Capital and Business Alliance”) and to issue new shares through a third-party [...]

Norwood, MA – Advanced Instruments, LLC, a leader in laboratory instrumentation, is pleased to announce the appointment of Byron Selman as Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Selman comes to Advanced Instruments from Haemonetics Corporation, where he served most recently as President of Global Markets. Prior to Haemonetics, he spent over 20 years with Pall Corporation in various [...]

Emeryville, CA–May 15, 2017 – Berkeley Lights, Inc., (BLI), a company dedicated to the development of transformational technologies for biopharmaceutical processes, announced today that Amgen has purchased additional Beacon Opto-Fluidic Platforms. The Beacon platform reduces workflow lead times and increases capacity by transforming currently fragmented microfluidic workflows into automated nanofluidic workflows. Amgen, which collaborated with BLI [...]

Chatsworth, California – Hitachi High Technologies America, Inc. (HTA), an American subsidiary of Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (TOKYO: 8036, Hitachi High-Tech), announces that it will open "Hitachi High Tech Science Park" in Chatsworth, California, on June 9, 2017, to work more closely with Hitachi High-Tech's Scientific Systems Business (including, for example, electron microscopes) and Biotechnology and [...]

Oxford Instruments, a global leader in microanalysis systems, has launched Symmetry the world’s first CMOS-based electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) detector. Symmetry represents a significant breakthrough compared to conventional CCD-based detectors: an unrivalled top acquisition speed in excess of 3000 indexed patterns per second (pps) is uniquely balanced by uncompromising sensitivity and data quality, providing up [...]

Bringing measurement technology closer to the customer Fischer launched into 2017 with an ambitious resolution: to further improve its sales and consulting services across Germany. For this reason, the New Year saw the start of a serious salesforce expansion and a restructuring of the national sales regions. At the same time, two new Application Laboratories [...]

Billerica, Massachusetts MilliporeSigma today announced the opening of a new joint Process Scale-Up Lab in Bengaluru, India to provide end-to-end solutions from process development to scale-up manufacturing for pre-clinical, clinical and commercial supply. "Both MilliporeSigma and Stelis bring technological expertise and an extensive bioprocess development and manufacturing portfolio that will help customers accelerate development of [...]