Merck, a leading science and technology company, announced today the new startups participating in its Accelerator programs in Darmstadt, Germany and Nairobi, Kenya. The two program locations accept startups from different fields within Merck's core specialisms: Darmstadt takes startups from the fields of healthcare, life sciences and performance materials, while Nairobi works exclusively on innovations [...]

Fisher BioServices’ CryoHub℠ to co-locate with the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult manufacturing centre for seamless supply chain management and to accelerate cell and gene therapy production LONDON--To help address the challenges surrounding supply chain management for cell and gene therapy around the globe, Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced [...]

WALTHAM, Mass. Olympus’ latest addition to the Vanta™ series of handheld XRF analyzers is optimized to help ensure compliance with the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (RoHS) and local or international regulatory laws. Like every Vanta analyzer, this new model combines fast, accurate results with a durable design for maximum uptime and a lower cost [...]

New product protects against intracellular immune responses and exonuclease attack Redwood City, California – Synthego, a leading provider of genome engineering solutions, today announces the availability of chemically modified synthetic guide RNA in the CRISPRevolution product family, including modified full length 100-mer synthetic single guide RNA (sgRNA). Critical for editing challenging cell types such as primary and [...]

SCIEX industrialised proteomics solutions, using microflow SWATH® Acquisition, will accelerate cancer research Framingham, MA U.S.A. and Sydney, Australia — SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, has announced that Children's Medical Research Institute (CMRI) has opened ProCan™, the Australian Cancer Research Foundation International Centre for the Proteome of Human Cancer. The Centre has been set [...]

CarrierScan™ Assay from Thermo Fisher Scientific consolidates conventional multi-assay approach for “all-in-one” research  CARLSBAD, Calif. & PHOENIX--A new high-throughput, microarray-based assay designed to detect more than 6,000 genomic variations associated with inherited disease now provides molecular genetics laboratories with a consolidated and automated, single pan-ethnic solution for expanded carrier status research. Thermo Fisher Scientific announced [...]

Ranjit Rai is probably the longest serving and most widely travelled laboratory autoclave service engineer working out of Britain.  He joined Priorclave within months of its formation, building autoclaves before becoming the company’s only service engineer providing customer support throughout the UK. Shortly after his appointment to Service Manager, Ranjit celebrated 25 years with the company.  Throughout those early days, and as Priorclave has [...]

OBERKOCHEN/Germany, MAINZ/Germany The Supervisory Boards of SCHOTT AG and Carl Zeiss AG have once again each elected Prof. Dr. Dieter Kurz as their Chairman. Dieter Kurz has chaired the Supervisory Boards of the special glass manufacturer and the optics and optoelectronics company since 2012. Kurz is also Chairman of the Shareholder Council of the Carl [...]

New Target Enrichment Product Delivers Deep Coverage of Disease Relevant Content SANTA CLARA, Calif. Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced a new target enrichment solution for next-generation DNA sequencing. Agilent SureSelect Clinical Research Exome V2 delivers more than 1,000 additional, disease relevant targets compared to the company’s earlier version of the product. This is [...]

Jena – Analytik Jena AG (Germany) introduces an innovation in the field of combustion-based analyzers for the determination of Total Sulfur and Total Nitrogen in organic elemental analysis. The compEAct series offers compact, space-saving combustion systems for the fast and cost-effective analysis of liquids, gases and LPG samples. “compEAct is the ultimate solution when it [...]