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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 [...]

University of Illinois announces new partnership with ZEISS labs@location program

March 29, 2017

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 [...]

BioTek Accelerates China Growth with Opening of New Guangzhou Office

March 29, 2017

WINOOSKI VT, USA — On March 19, 2017, BioTek Instruments further expanded their presence in China with the opening of their Guangzhou office. As BioTek’s third China location, this most recent addition is situated in Guangzhou’s Tianhe district, Zhujiang New Town, and will include sales, service and applications support for the rapidly expanding South China [...]

METTLER TOLEDO Launches On-line Chloride/Sulfate Analyzer

March 28, 2017

The 3000CS Analyzer is an on-line instrument offering automated ppb-level chloride and sulfate measurement for corrosion control in power plant chemistry. Billerica, MA METTLER TOLEDO Process Analytics is launching an on-line instrument for direct measurement of corrosive ions found in power plant water and steam. Chlorides and sulfates cause pitting and stress corrosion in expensive [...]

Magritek launch the Spinsolve ULTRA Benchtop NMR system for measuring sub milli-molar components of neat mixtures in under 10 minutes.

March 28, 2017

San Diego: Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, announces the launch of the Spinsolve ULTRA Benchtop NMR system. The Spinsolve ULTRA has the field homogeneity of a superconducting NMR magnet (50% 0.2 Hz) in a compact and robust benchtop unit. When combined with solvent suppression it allows users to resolve compounds [...]

GENALICE and BioDiscovery partner to empower rapid NGS data interpretation

March 28, 2017

Harderwijk, the Netherlands and El Segundo, CA, USA – March 29, 2017 – GENALICE and BioDiscovery announce a co-marketing partnership to offer their products together as a turn-key end-to-end solution for the use of next-generation sequencing (NGS) data to interpret genomes. GENALICE provides an ultra-fast and highly accurate secondary analysis suite that seamlessly connects to [...]

GE Analytical Instruments Manufacturing Facility Receives Prestigious ISO Accreditations

March 28, 2017

TREVOSE, PA.—Measuring the levels of total organic carbon (TOC) in the water is an important step for pharmaceutical companies to control processes that are critical to their operations and comply with regulations. Today, Analytical Instruments, a division of GE Water & Process Technologies, announced that its Boulder, Colorado, facility that manufacturers its Sievers* TOC Analyzers [...]

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

March 28, 2017

LA JOLLA, Calif. -- SGI-DNA Inc., a Synthetic Genomics, Inc. (SGI) company, today announced the launch of Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) Library Construction Kits for the BioXp™ 3200 System, enabling researchers to automate even more processes in the genomics research continuum. With the new kits, scientists can now prepare DNA samples for NGS applications on the BioXp 3200 [...]

Spectro Scientific Wins Patent for Coolant and Diesel Exhaust Fluid Measurement Method Used in its CoolCheck 2 Analyzer

March 28, 2017

Spectro Scientific Wins Patent for Coolant and Diesel Exhaust Fluid Measurement Method Used in its CoolCheckTM 2 Analyzer (Chelmsford, MA) Spectro Scientific, one of the world’s largest suppliers of oil, fuel, and processed water analysis instrumentation and software, has been awarded U.S. patent 9,448,112 B2 for a method to measure two key vehicle fluids. The patent [...]

Hettich Group turnover up 3.75 per cent in 2016

March 28, 2017

6200 staff turn over € 913 m world-wide The Hettich group of companies with its headquarters in Kirchlengern generated a turnover of € 913 million in 2016. This represents an increase of 3.75 percent over the year before (2015: € 880 million). As announced by the Chairman of the Management Board, managing partner Dr. Andreas [...]

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