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 [...]

TREVOSE, PA. Analytical Instruments, a Division of GE Water & Process Technologies, Produces Sievers* Total Organic Carbon Analyzers GE’s Tatabanya, Hungary, Facility Expanded Production Capabilities to Include Certified Reference Materials Reference Materials Produced On-site Have Received Prestigious ISO Guide 34 and ISO/IEC 17025 Accreditation Analytical Instruments, a division of GE Water & Process Technologies, today [...]

SCIEX Vitamin D 200M Assay for the TopazTM System designed to measure Vitamin D with greater accuracy and simplicity for In Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) analysis in clinical diagnostic labs Framingham, MA — SCIEX Diagnostics, the in vitro diagnostics division of SCIEX, a global leader in mass spectrometry in the life sciences industry, announced today the first and only FDA-cleared [...]

OAKLAND, Calif. & BOSTON & COPENHAGEN, Denmark--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fabric Genomics, a global computational genomics company offering data analysis and clinical reporting tools, announced today that it has partnered with data management company ITTM S.A. (Information Technology for Translational Medicine) to provide secure genomic data hosting capabilities for EU customers. By combining Fabric Genomics’ leading analysis tools [...]