Company also reaffirms full-year 2017 guidance RYE BROOK, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- At its Investor Day in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, Xylem (NYSE:XYL), a leading global water technology company, today will update its 2020 financial guidance and showcase the broad portfolio of smart infrastructure technologies and solutions provided by its Sensus and Visenti businesses. Xylem acquired Sensus and Visenti in October 2016. [...]

Porvair Sciences is pleased to welcome J. G. Finneran Associates into the Porvair family following its acquisition by Porvair plc earlier today. Based in Vineland, New Jersey (USA) - J. G. Finneran designs, manufactures and distributes specialist laboratory consumables including vials, filters, microplates, closures and ancillary products. Finneran products clearly complement the biotechnology and chromatography [...]

Lucigen Corporation announces it has signed a global agreement with Illumina, Inc. for Lucigen to be the sole distributor of Epicentre Technologies' genomics kits, enzymes and ancillary reagents. Products covered by this new agreement are in addition to the select Epicentre products that were licensed and transferred to Lucigen for manufacture and distribution in December [...]

I&L Biosystems GmbH Opens the European Market for InDevR Sales and Customer Support BOULDER, Colo.–InDevR, Inc., an innovative life science company dedicated to improving biopharmaceutical and vaccine manufacturing, is pleased to announce an exclusive sales, marketing and customer support relationship with I&L Biosystems GmbH and its subsidiaries. The distribution agreement includes sales and support for [...]

Nexus Copy Number 9.0 expands support for a wider array of NGS technologies, supporting low-pass sequencing and targeted panels as well as normal coverage WES and WGS for copy number analysis while continuing to provide an extensive list of statistical analysis and visualization tools to perform large cohort studies. El Segundo, CA BioDiscovery’s Nexus Copy [...]

WASHINGTON - AACR 2017 -- Paragon Genomics, a life science company dedicated to improving the critical upfront target enrichment and library preparation workflow for Next-Generation Sequencing, is launching its CleanPlex™ target enrichment solution. It is a patented amplicon sequencing technology, debuting at AACR Annual Meeting 2017 together with its CleanPlex™ OncoZoom Panel covering the hotspots of 65 key oncogenes, panels covering the entire coding regions of specific genes [...]

SP Industries, Inc. (SP),  has announced that Robert (Rob) Darrington has joined SP Industries as Vice President of Marketing for the SP Scientific division. Ian Whitehall, Chief Marketing Officer of SP stated, “In this leadership role, Rob will be heading our product management and technical marketing teams, assuring that SP Scientific product strategies are aligned with [...]

Rigaku introduces new multipurpose X-ray diffraction system with built-in intelligent guidance to optimize hardware configuration and settings for specific application measurements TOKYO -- Rigaku Corporation is pleased to announce the release of the Rigaku SmartLab SE system, a highly versatile multipurpose X-ray diffractometer with built-in intelligent guidance. The SmartLab® SE system offers continued refinement of the ease-of-use [...]

The electron microscope, a powerful tool for science, just became even more powerful, with an improvement developed by Cornell physicists. Their electron microscope pixel array detector (EMPAD) yields not just an image, but a wealth of information about the electrons that create the image and, from that, more about the structure of the sample. “We [...]

Tokyo – Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd. ("Panasonic Healthcare HD") and Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd. ("Panasonic Healthcare") have decided to change the company names (trade names) to PHC Holdings Corporation and PHC Corporation respectively. This will become effective April 2018. In 2014, Panasonic Healthcare was carved out of the Panasonic group with external funding. Founded [...]