Oxford, UK. Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), The Molecular Genetics Company, today announced that it has signed an agreement to be acquired by Sysmex Corporation (Sysmex), a Japanese in vitro diagnostic company. Sysmex will acquire all of OGT’s shares, gaining access to OGT’s genetic analysis technologies and expertise in the cytogenetics domain. OGT will become a [...]

The 6th generation Rigaku MiniFlex X-ray diffraction system is designed for enhanced performance and flexibility Tokyo, Japan. X-ray scientific, analytical and industrial instrumentation manufacturer Rigaku Corporation has announced the new 6th generation Rigaku MiniFlex benchtop X-ray diffraction (XRD) instrument. The new MiniFlex X-ray diffractometer is a multipurpose analytical instrument that can determine: phase identification and [...]

New Solutions for Mass Spectrometry Further Enhance Lab Efficiency and Productivity SANTA CLARA, Calif. Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that it will showcase a range of new and innovative technology solutions at the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Conference being held June 3 through June 8 in Indianapolis, Indiana. New instruments, software, [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Cal-l Enterprises, one of the largest suppliers of refurbished laboratory equipment in the world, has opened its fourth refurbishing center.  All four facilities are located in the Los Angeles, California area.  This latest facility is approximately 20,000 square feet and will accommodate the refurbishment of all types of analytical, medical and optical laboratory equipment, [...]

Torrance, Calif. – Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the research and manufacture of advanced technologies for the separation sciences, announces the opening of a new manufacturing and development facility dedicated to the company’s gas chromatography (GC) columns, marketed under the Zebron™ brand name. The 15,000-square-foot facility, which was designed and extensively renovated specifically for Phenomenex, is located [...]

The unrivaled power of SWATH® Acquisition with SCIEX TripleTOF® system technology enabled industrialized proteomics and now promises similar revolution for other application areas Framingham, MA — SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, today announced that it has launched its game-changing SWATH® data independent acquisition (DIA) technology for analytical scientists working across all application areas. [...]

Industry leader brings to the forefront customer innovations for routine and advanced workflows that are changing the LC-MS landscape. Framingham, MA — SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, today announced that at ASMS 2017, it will highlight the cutting-edge innovations developed to power their most advanced LC-MS instrumentation and workflows, and is now enabling [...]

Novel IR Biotyper™ System Enables Fast, Routine and Cost-effective Strain Typing for Hospital Infection Control and Earlier Detection of Outbreaks due to Multi-Resistant Strains, MALDI Biotyper®-based KPC Microbial Subtyping to detect Klebsiella pneumoniae strains carrying the plasmid containing the carbapenemase-encoding blaKPC gene; NEW ORLEANS -- At the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Microbe 2017 meeting (www.asm.org), Bruker introduces major innovations [...]

SEATTLE, June 01, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NanoString Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:NSTG), a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 3,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $16.75 per share pursuant to its existing shelf registration statement. NanoString has [...]

Highest quality data and easiest operation (Peabody, Mass.) – JEOL USA, Inc. introduces its new premier Field Emission SEM, the JSM-7900F, a uniquely flexible platform that combines the ultimate in high resolution imaging with unparalleled nano scale microanalysis.  This tool excels in lightning fast data acquisition through simple and automated operation. Applications include imaging and analysis of [...]