Greater Sensitivity and Accuracy for Life Science Research and Testing SANTA CLARA, Calif. Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today expanded its portfolio of scientific instruments with a new LC/MS system that provides even greater sensitivity and accuracy for applications such as peptide quantitation, food safety, environmental testing, clinical research and forensic toxicology. The new Agilent [...]

First Genomic Reference for 1,000 Traditional Medicinal Plants to Standardize Chinese Pharmacopeia Illumina and the Institute of Medicinal Plant Development (IMPLAD) have signed a deal to create the world’s first catalog of genomic references for medicinal plants used as sources in Traditional Chinese Medicines (TCM).  TCM has evolved over thousands of years to combine modern [...]

Newark, Delaware  B&W Tek, an advanced instrumentation company that delivers lab quality Raman spectroscopy solutions through user-friendly mobile platforms, is proud to announce the addition of TacticID® handheld safety and security tools onto the U.S. Communities National Cooperative Purchasing Program through Safeware, Inc., a Lanham, MD based industry-leading distributor of industrial safety, personal protective, and [...]

-Review SEM Featuring Pattern Inspection and Measurement Function through Design Data Comparison Analysis- Tokyo, Japan – Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (TSE:8036, Hitachi High-Tech) announced sales launch of a high-speed defect review SEM CR6300. This new system detects and classifies defects generated in the semiconductor manufacturing process and has newly designed electron microscope optics fitted with multiple [...]

WAKEFIELD, Mass. & CLARKSBURG, Md.--ZS Genetics, Inc. and Hitachi High Technologies America, Inc. (HTA) announced today a strategic collaboration to develop and commercialize ZS Genetics’ DNA sequencing platform. ZS Genetics’ proprietary technologies, based on high-resolution electron microscopy (EM), will allow the scientific community for the first time to sequence very high-quality long reads (50,000+ base-pairs) [...]

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Unlike other CRISPR/Cas9 vector-based systems, the transEDIT-dual vector system expresses two gRNAs from the same lentiviral vector, allowing researchers to target one gene with two different gRNAs for greater efficacy. The vectors are also designed to allow the gRNAs to be shuffled between vectors, enabling one vector to target two different genes [...]

BERWYN, Pa. -- AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE: AME) today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Thomas Amato as a new director of the Company. Mr. Amato serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of TriMas Corporation (NASDAQ: TRS), a diversified, global manufacturer of engineered products. "We are excited to have Tom join our team as a member of AMETEK's Board of Directors. He is [...]

Newest spectrometer from Ocean Optics offers Ethernet operation, speed, sensitivity and spectral buffering Dunedin, Florida, USA – The latest miniature spectrometer from Ocean Optics offers high-sensitivity CMOS detector performance, acquisition speed up to 3,000 scans per second, and onboard spectral buffering to ensure data integrity during reaction monitoring. The Ocean FX spectrometer is ideal for high-speed sorting [...]

- Amplification and validation service based on SYGNIS' proprietary DNA amplification technologies TruePrime and CovCheck - Targeting single cell and liquid biopsy NGS applications - Supporting NGS users with upstream sample preparation and validation - Unique service facilitating wider customer access to NGS Madrid, Spain, and Heidelberg, Germany - SYGNIS AG (Frankfurt: LIO1; ISIN: DE000A1RFM03; [...]

The MagCore® nucleic acid extraction and purification system is now available through Parallel Devices, a supplier of life science sample preparation products. Chicago, IL -- RBC Bioscience of Taipei, Taiwan, manufacturer of the MagCore® nucleic acid extraction and purification system and Parallel Devices, a supplier of life science sample preparation products, together announce at PITTCON [...]