February 16, 2017
CHELMSFORD, Mass.----Spectro Scientific, one of the world’s largest suppliers of oil, fuel, and processed water analysis instrumentation and software, has been awarded a U.S. patent for a company-developed method to measure water contamination in turbine and other industrial oils. The patent is “Method of measuring water contamination in turbine and other industrial oils”, patent no. [...]
A novel and intuitive operating concept revolutionizes Raman imaging
February 16, 2017
Advanced functionality, accelerated workflow and enhanced hardware control WITec, manufacturer of Raman and scanning-probe microscopes, presents a new operating concept with the powerful and intuitive Suite FIVE at Pittcon 2017. Sophisticated features and hands-on control transform the user experience, enabling the researcher to move from setup to results with unprecedented ease. Suite FIVE provides an [...]
Xcell Biosciences Announces $12 Million Series A Funding Round
February 16, 2017
Investors include HBM Genomics and Viking Global Investors Company to expand commercial efforts for its proprietary primary cell culture platform across cancer, stem cell, immunology, cell manufacturing, cell therapy, and regenerative medicine applications SAN FRANCISCO----Xcell Biosciences announced today the company has closed a $12 million Series A private equity financing round. The financing was led [...]
February 16, 2017
Award-winning microfluidic ZipChip technology to be sold with industry-leading HRAM mass spectrometry systems, accelerating pace and productivity of automated analysis in the biopharma industry BOSTON--908 Devices, a pioneer of ridiculously small and elegantly simple analytical devices for chemical and biomolecule analysis, today announced the signing of a Value Added Reseller (VAR) Agreement with Thermo Fisher [...]
MinION software (MinKNOW) upgraded to enable increased data yield, other benefits
February 16, 2017
An upgrade of the MinION software, MinKNOW, has been released to the nanopore community. MinKNOW 1.4.2 provides several improvements and new features: Experiment control parameters have been optimised to increase the volume of sequence data obtained from each nanopore channel. Recent internal experiments using MinKNOW 1.4 have generated as much as 17Gb from one MinION Flow [...]
Announcing Schrödinger Software Release 2017-1
February 16, 2017
We are pleased to announce Schrödinger software release 2017-1. This quarterly release includes usability improvements and performance enhancements across all of our software. Click here to view the list of major new features or click here to download the suites.
Hitachi High-Technologies and U.S. Promega Start Collaboration Regarding a Compact CE Sequencer
February 15, 2017
Tokyo, Japan - Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (TOKYO: 8036, Hitachi High-Tech) has been in collaboration with Promega Corporation, a leading manufacturer of reagents used for human identification by DNA*1 analysis, regarding a compact capillary electrophoresis (CE) sequencer. Genetic analysis laboratories make use of first-generation CE sequencers and next-generation sequencers that use massively parallel processing to enable [...]
SGS EXPANDS ELEMENTAL IMPURITY TESTING SERVICES AT ITS LABORATORY IN VILLENEUVE-LA-GARENNE, FRANCE
February 15, 2017
SGS, a leading bio/pharmaceutical, analytical and bioanalytical contract solutions provider, today announced that it is expanding its elemental analysis testing capabilities at its Villeneuve-la-Garenne, France laboratory. The site has invested in a new inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) system, in a move to address the updated ICH Q3D regulatory guidelines on elemental impurities. The [...]
February 15, 2017
Consortium to advance human iPSC-derived cell-based assay platform for metabolism analysis in preclinical drug discovery and development Cork, Ireland, Cologne, Germany, Ortenberg, Germany - Three European technology SME’s, together with two internationally recognised research institutions, Oxford University and Imperial College London, have been awarded €2.5m funding from the European commission under the H2020 Fast Track [...]
February 14, 2017
Results from Mount Sinai, Washington University, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories to be presented at AGBT 2017 General Meeting (ANN ARBOR, Mich.) Swift Biosciences today announced the commercial release of its Accel-NGS® XL Library Prep Kit, the fastest sequencing solution for whole genome sequencing on Pacific Biosciences (PacBio®) platforms. This library preparation kit, specially optimized for [...]

