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Echo Raises $7.5 Million in Funding for Manufacturing and Product Expansion

March 30, 2017

SAN DIEGO Echo, the company who created the first-ever hybrid microscope, announced today the completion of $7.5 million in Series A funding. The capital investment, co-led by Dolby Family Ventures and Tech Coast Angels (TCA), will support Echo in scaling manufacturing, strengthening the company’s sales infrastructure, and developing future technologies. Echo, formerly Echo Laboratories, is [...]

Signaling Continued Investment in China, Bruker Open Beijing Center of Excellence

March 30, 2017

BEIJING, China – Bruker celebrated the opening of the Beijing Center of Excellence, an expansive and modern demo facility that will support China’s scientific research community. The opening of the Center represents a new milestone in Bruker’s long history in China, which began in 1975 with the sale of two FT-only NMR systems. Since then, [...]

Dotmatics Puts Powerful Enumeration and Cheminformatics Analysis into the Hands of Chemists

March 30, 2017

Graphical workflow environment lets scientists easily build and execute data processing workflows BISHOP’S STORTFORD, England - Dotmatics, a leading provider of scientific informatics solutions and services, today announced Reaction Workflows (RW), a major new application within the Dotmatics 5.1 suite that lets scientists quickly and easily define and execute common cheminformatics tasks, such as library enumeration, structure normalization and compound [...]

Agilent Technologies Showcases Cancer Research Innovations at AACR 2017

March 30, 2017

Focus on Technological Advances in Genomics and Cellular Analysis SANTA CLARA, Calif. Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it will showcase some of its most recent technological advances in the areas of cell analysis and genomics at the AACR Annual Meeting 2017, being held April 1 - 5, 2017 in Washington, D.C. Agilent will [...]

Three More U.S. Labs Now Using STRmix™

March 30, 2017

Three more US labs are now using STRmix, a sophisticated forensic software that significantly improves the ability of forensic analysts to contribute to criminal investigations in which DNA evidence was previously too complex to interpret. That brings the number of US labs using STRmix to 17, with another 55 US labs at various stages of [...]

Cytek Biosciences Poised to Accelerate Flow Cytometry Adoption

March 30, 2017

SCIEX Announces New Biotransformation Solutions for Routine and Comprehensive Metabolism and Biologic Catabolism Studies

March 29, 2017

Biotransform solutions use the first commercial software to automate protein catabolite identification and speeds identification of metabolites and catabolites. FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, announced today the latest additions to its growing line of solutions for pharmaceutical drug discovery and development. The Routine Biotransform Solution and the Advanced Biotransform Solution [...]

SGI-DNA Launches Automated Next-Generation Sequencing Library Construction Kits for the BioXp 3200 System to Expand the Capabilities of the Genomic Workstation

March 29, 2017

NanoString Launches Multiple New Products at AACR 2017 to Advance Precision Oncology Research

March 29, 2017

New Offerings Include nCounter Platform Enhancements as Well as New Panels That Expand NanoString's Footprint in Immuno-oncology and 3D Biology Research SEATTLE -- NanoString Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:NSTG), a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, is releasing multiple new products at the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Meeting. The new products build [...]

CARL R. WOESE INSTITUTE FOR GENOMIC BIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN A new agreement between the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and ZEISS has named the Core Facilities at IGB as an official ZEISS labs@location Partner. The model facility will allow researchers from around the U.S. to test-drive new instruments in the IGB’s Core Facilities Microscopy Suite. This partnership represents the first North American location of the ZEISS labs@location partner program, already in use across Europe. “With this special partnership with IGB Core Facilities, we transfer a successful labs@location program from Europe to the U.S.,” said Jim Sharp, President Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC. “labs@location is a community of our ZEISS customers and partners providing in depth knowledge and dedicated services. We are very excited that the IGB becomes our first American ZEISS labs@location.” The agreement will allow IGB and Illinois researchers access to select cutting edge technologies immediately following–or in some cases before–their broad release. New instruments, on loan from ZEISS, will cycle through the Core and be available to all users during that time. In addition, the agreement provides for training and classes taught by ZEISS personnel at the IGB that will better position Core staff and researchers to best utilize new equipment. ZEISS instrument specialists will provide instruction and instrument demos to Illinois and visiting scientists, as well as assist in training the IGB Core staff to provide similar instruction themselves. “ZEISS training is really valuable,” said Core Facilities Director Glenn Fried, “but until now, you’ve had to send your people to the ZEISS Microscopy Customer Center in New York twice a year to see that benefit. Now all of my staff, as well as graduate students, postdocs, and faculty, can come to those classes at the IGB.” Fried anticipates that one of the first new instruments under the agreement will be a ZEISS Celldiscoverer 7, a new automated microscopy platform for high throughput live cell imaging. Though the IGB has equipment for that purpose, Fried says that the ZEISS Celldiscoverer 7 offers improved clarity and visibility, allowing for sharper and more accurate images. “This is a really exciting thing for the Core, and for everyone who uses our instruments,” said Fried. “Researchers will have access to the newest technology–like ZEISS Celldiscoverer–long before they would if we had to write a grant or even just went out and bought it.” In all, the ZEISS partnership promises to establish itself as a regional center of excellence in biological imaging by attracting researchers from around the country to demo new instruments and attend trainings. “We are thrilled to partner with ZEISS in this way, because it will enhance the research capabilities of scientists studying many different types of questions, thus enabling the IGB to provide an important new benefit to the campus. Being selected by ZEISS to be the first labs@location in North America is a great honor, and a recognition of the excellence of our Core Facilities and especially the entire Core Facilities staff,” said IGB Director Gene Robinson.

March 29, 2017

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Cellecta, Inc. today announced the launch of the Driver-Map™ Human Genome-Wide Gene Expression Profiling kit, a targeted RNA expression profiling assay designed to easily provide a molecular snapshot of all known 19,000 human protein-coding genes from complex samples starting from as little as 10 pg of total RNA. The multiplex RT-PCR-based, followed [...]

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