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 [...]

Advanced Analytical Technologies, Inc. (AATI) is excited to announce the release of myFRAG Online, your companion to the AATI family of instruments.  Sign-up for a free account and register your instrument(s) to have important resources at your fingertips, from User Manuals and Ladder Profiles, to Safety Data Sheets and PROSize® Data Analysis Software updates.  To [...]

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--Kailos Genetics, a personalized medicine company offering a leading-edge suite of tools for next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based assays, today announced it has entered into a co-marketing agreement with Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN). Under the terms of the agreement, Illumina will market and promote the Kailos TargetRich™ line of research solutions for pharmacogenetics targets through its [...]

Fabric Genomics, a global computational genomics company, and Sentieon, which develops highly optimized algorithms for bioinformatics applications, today announced a technology partnership that will enhance Fabric Genomics’ secondary analysis capabilities within Fabric EnterpriseTM, the company’s new end-to-end precision medicine platform. Fabric Genomics’ new secondary analysis offering, Fabric StandardTM, is 10 times faster than commonly adopted BWA-GATK [...]

SGS, a leading bio/pharmaceutical, analytical and bioanalytical contract solutions provider, today announced that it has invested in multiple highly sensitive and selective LC-MS/MS instruments at its Poitiers, France laboratory, for the quantification of proteins and peptide therapeutics. The two systems, which are now installed and validated, are a combination of the AB SCIEX 6500+ and [...]

Integrated products, software and services designed to increase customer innovation and productivity NEW YORK--INTERPHEX 2017 – Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced it is featuring its latest bioprocessing technologies at the International Pharmaceutical Expo (INTERPHEX) at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, March 21-23, booth 3544. The company will feature complete [...]