New products for thermal desorption – Markes releases new catalogue
March 22, 2017
Markes International (Llantrisant, UK) has announced the release of a new edition of its "Thermal desorption tubes, accessories and spares" catalogue, containing the latest information on its product range. The 2017/2018 edition of the ever-popular catalogue contains everything needed by the TD analyst to ensure successful VOC and SVOC monitoring, from sorbent tubes and starter [...]
ERWEKA introduces the new USP 4 DFZ ll
March 22, 2017
ERWEKA introduces the new Flow-Through Cell Tester USP 4 DFZ ll. The DFZ ll offers a wide range of available cell types The new ERWEKA Flow-Through Cell Tester DFZ II can be used for various applications thanks to its wide range of available cell types, e.g. for testing poorly soluble products or low-dose formulations with [...]
Fabric Genomics Enters Strategic Partnership with Veritas Genetics
March 22, 2017
OAKLAND, Calif. & DANVERS, Mass. & PHOENIX-- Fabric Genomics, a global computational genomics company, and Veritas Genetics, the global leader in genetic sequencing and interpretation, announced today at the ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting that they have entered into a technology partnership. The goal of the collaboration is to accelerate Veritas’ myGenome product for personal [...]
Swift Biosciences Launches New Assay for Faster, More Efficient Routine Screening of the CFTR Gene
March 22, 2017
Accel-Amplicon™ CFTR Panel presented at the 2017 American College of Medical Genetics Annual Meeting (ANN ARBOR, Mich.) Swift Biosciences today announced the commercial release of its Accel-Amplicon CFTR Panel. This panel will offer research laboratories a more comprehensive, next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based approach to interrogate the coding region and select introns within the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane [...]
AkzoNobel rejects second unsolicited proposal from PPG
March 22, 2017
Proposal fails to recognise value of AkzoNobel and neglects to address significant risks and uncertainties, including extensive anti-trust concerns Akzo Nobel N.V. (AKZA.AS; AKZOY) AkzoNobel today announces it has rejected a second unsolicited, non-binding and conditional proposal of 20 March from PPG Industries Inc. for all of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares in the [...]
Novel UV-Visible Detector for In-Line Flow Chemistry
March 21, 2017
Uniqsis Ltd has introduced Flow-UV™ - an affordable in-line UV-Visible spectrophotometric detector for flow chemistry applications. Designed for use with almost any commercial flow chemistry system - the compact Flow-UV™ detector (18 x18 x 17cm) fits conveniently into even crowded fume cupboards. Using the UV-visible absorbance data from a Flow-UV™ detector allows dispersion experiments to [...]
March 21, 2017
Greiner Bio-One North America, Inc. and Nano3D Biosciences, Inc. are collaborating with University of Colorado and BioServe Space Technologies to broach a new frontier in the biotechnology industry by adapting their products to perform 3D cell culture applications in a microgravity environment. In space, cell cultures spontaneously grow in three dimensions but in microgravity, routine [...]
Omicia Rebrands as Fabric Genomics; Launches New End-to-End Computational Genomics Platform
March 21, 2017
OAKLAND, Calif. & PHOENIX Omicia today announced that it has rebranded and renamed the organization to better reflect the company’s ability to uniquely deliver clinical quality genomic data insights. Now known as Fabric Genomics TM, the company revealed its new name, logo and brand identity at this week’s ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting. The company [...]
March 21, 2017
Almelo, the Netherlands and Cambridge, UK PANalytical and the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) have agreed that users of the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) can now utilize this database in PANalytical’s HighScore software suite for the analysis of powder diffractograms without additional costs. This new feature is the result of the close collaboration between the [...]
March 21, 2017
Torrance, CA – Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the research and manufacture of advanced technologies for the separation sciences, introduces a new 5 µm particle size to its family of Kinetex F5 pentafluorophenyl propyl (PFP) core-shell columns, extending the versatility of F5 to preparative LC and purification work. Kinetex F5 is a robust PFP core-shell phase that [...]

