Increasing Consistency of Tissue Typing
November 16, 2016
INTEGRA announces that their VIAFLO ASSIST personal pipetting assistant has been optimized for use with Linkage Biosciences LinkSeq™ tissue typing products. The VIAFLO ASSIST has been demonstrated to increase confidence in and the simplicity of a laboratory’s tissue typing workflow. Offering consistent dispensing volume, consistent immersion depth, and consistent pipetting angle, the reproducibility and accuracy of [...]
Opentrons Opens Up Biology Laboratory Automation Platform with New API
November 16, 2016
Opentron's industry-leading $3,000 Pipetting Robot now has an API to easily automate protocols and connect to a wide range of software and lab equipment. Early adopters of the Opentrons API include labs at Stanford, Harvard DFCI, and the Mayo Clinic and build towards Opentron's vision of robots running standardized protocols on every lab bench. Brooklyn, [...]
Microscope Stage for Productive Microplate Imaging
November 16, 2016
Prior Scientific announces the H139, a new motorised microscope stage designed to enable life scientists to precisely position, move and image up to two microplates or nine microscope slides. Offering precise movement (repeatability 0.7 µm) in the X and Y axis (280 x 80 mm), the H139 is the perfect tool for labs tasked with [...]
November 16, 2016
Bishops Stortford, England – Dotmatics, a leading provider of scientific informatics solutions and services, today announced Vortex for Bioinformatics, an easy-to-use program designed to allow all bioscientists to analyse and visualise their data to make better-informed decisions. Built into the long established and widely used Vortex program, Vortex for Bioinformatics can handle whole genome, antibody, protein and [...]
WITec establishes new office in China
November 15, 2016
WITec GmbH, industry leading manufacturer of scanning-probe nano-analytical microscopy systems, has opened a new office in Beijing. The facility in the cultural, scientific and administrative capital of the fastest growing large economy in the world will enable WITec’s current market presence to be expanded while better serving its growing client base. The direct local representation [...]
NT-MDT to Reorganize as NT-MDT Spectrum Instruments to Keep Its Lead in AFM and AFM – nano-Raman/IR
November 15, 2016
NT-MDT, a leading provider of Atomic Force Microscopes (AFM), announced today a reorganization of its corporate structure to become NT-MDT Spectrum Instruments Group. In the new form, NT-MDT’s businesses will continue delivering to its customers the widest range of AFM modes available on the market combining them with the most reliable and easy to use [...]
WaferGen Bio-systems Announces Stockholder Approval of Merger with Takara Bio
November 15, 2016
FREMONT, Calif. -- WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: WGBS), a publicly held genomics technology company ("WaferGen"), today announced that its stockholders have approved the adoption of the previously announced merger agreement by and among WaferGen, Takara Bio USA Holdings, Inc. ("Takara Bio") and certain other parties thereto. "We are very pleased with the outcome of today's [...]
QUT Adds Microstructural and Chemical Analysis Capabilities with TESCAN MIRA Purchase
November 15, 2016
QUT has recently purchased a TESCAN MIRA3 FEG-SEM (Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope) and Thermo Scientific UltraDry EDS (Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy) system from AXT. This high performance SEM will be installed at the Central Analytical Research Facility (CARF), a purpose-built laboratory that houses state-of-the-art instruments for analysing the physical, mechanical, chemical and biological properties [...]
SEVEN BRIDGES ANNOUNCES PLATFORM INTEGRATION WITH SOLVEBIO
November 15, 2016
Enables Researchers to Seamlessly Transition from Cloud-based Genomic Data Analysis to Clinical Interpretation of Results CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Seven Bridges, the biomedical data analysis company, and SolveBio today announced the integration of their complementary platforms for genomic data analysis. The integration of Seven Bridges’ platform for cloud-based biomedical data analysis with SolveBio enables biotech and pharmaceutical researchers [...]
November 15, 2016
New Bio Sensor Expands Company’s Solutions for Plant and Food Pathogen Detection Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore bio tech firm, PathSensors, Inc., announced that it will develop and commercialize a bio-sensor to detect Citrus Greening Disease, also known as Asiatic huanglongbing (HLB). PathSensors will work with the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service to develop and validate the performance [...]
