Helmer Scientific Expands Feature Set of the i.C3® Information Center
February 17, 2017
i.Series® refrigerators and freezers from Helmer Scientific feature the i.C3® Information Center, a full color touchscreen user interface that provides constant temperature monitoring, an interactive temperature graph, and download capability. The i.C3® has recently been updated with new features and enhancements, including Min-Max functionality. Noblesville, Indiana Helmer Scientific, a leading supplier of cold storage and [...]
February 17, 2017
Sartorius and EMBL join forces to offer advanced training and science education Sartorius is now a member of the group of corporate EMBL partners aiming to connect industry to academia Goettingen – Sartorius, a leading international laboratory and pharmaceutical equipment supplier, yesterday announced a partnership with EMBL, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. EMBL is one [...]
February 16, 2017
Uppsala, Sweden – Olink Proteomics today announced the launch of three new precision proteomics panels, further expanding its rapidly growing library of high quality human protein biomarker assays to almost 1000. The focus areas for these three new panels are Cardiometabolic, Cell Regulation and Development. For scientists in academic/clinical research and the pharmaceutical industry, this [...]
YMC Announces Completion of New Purification Facility at Komatsu Works
February 16, 2017
YMC is pleased to announce the completion of a new building for GMP contract purification services. This new facility enables YMC to expand current purification capabilities beyond the capacities afforded at the recently completed Chiral Technologies Center in Kyoto and the existing chiral and achiral purification capabilities at Komatsu Works. Planned services at the new [...]
New miniAV®-HT Enables Automated Viscosity Testing of Asphalts
February 16, 2017
Cannon Instrument Company introduces new addition to the miniAV® family of viscometers. State College, PA CANNON Instrument Company expanded its miniAV® viscometer family to include its new miniAV®-HT viscometer. The miniAV®-HT was developed specifically for asphalt viscosity testing at 60 °C and 135 °C with precision meeting requirements for AASHTO T201 and ASTM D2170. Developed [...]
February 16, 2017
CHELMSFORD, Mass.----Spectro Scientific, one of the world’s largest suppliers of oil, fuel, and processed water analysis instrumentation and software, has been awarded a U.S. patent for a company-developed method to measure water contamination in turbine and other industrial oils. The patent is “Method of measuring water contamination in turbine and other industrial oils”, patent no. [...]
A novel and intuitive operating concept revolutionizes Raman imaging
February 16, 2017
Advanced functionality, accelerated workflow and enhanced hardware control WITec, manufacturer of Raman and scanning-probe microscopes, presents a new operating concept with the powerful and intuitive Suite FIVE at Pittcon 2017. Sophisticated features and hands-on control transform the user experience, enabling the researcher to move from setup to results with unprecedented ease. Suite FIVE provides an [...]
Xcell Biosciences Announces $12 Million Series A Funding Round
February 16, 2017
Investors include HBM Genomics and Viking Global Investors Company to expand commercial efforts for its proprietary primary cell culture platform across cancer, stem cell, immunology, cell manufacturing, cell therapy, and regenerative medicine applications SAN FRANCISCO----Xcell Biosciences announced today the company has closed a $12 million Series A private equity financing round. The financing was led [...]
February 16, 2017
Award-winning microfluidic ZipChip technology to be sold with industry-leading HRAM mass spectrometry systems, accelerating pace and productivity of automated analysis in the biopharma industry BOSTON--908 Devices, a pioneer of ridiculously small and elegantly simple analytical devices for chemical and biomolecule analysis, today announced the signing of a Value Added Reseller (VAR) Agreement with Thermo Fisher [...]
MinION software (MinKNOW) upgraded to enable increased data yield, other benefits
February 16, 2017
An upgrade of the MinION software, MinKNOW, has been released to the nanopore community. MinKNOW 1.4.2 provides several improvements and new features: Experiment control parameters have been optimised to increase the volume of sequence data obtained from each nanopore channel. Recent internal experiments using MinKNOW 1.4 have generated as much as 17Gb from one MinION Flow [...]

