The Inorganic Analysis team at LGC, led by Principal Scientist and Science Fellow Heidi Goenaga-Infante, recently had the first Agilent 8900 mass spectrometry instrument in the UK installed. This state-of-the-art technology, which combines quadrupole separation with inorganic mass spectrometry (ICP-QQQ-MS), will initially support work on the characterisation and quantification of nanomaterials performed in our role [...]

Porvair Sciences has confirmed that 2016 will see record sales of its Ultravap and Minivap ranges of blowdown evaporators to laboratories worldwide. The company first began selling nitrogen blowdown evaporators for microplate sample drying in 1999. Offering unmatched ease of integration into robotic liquid handling workflows, the latest Porvair microprocessor controlled evaporators, the Ultravap Mistral [...]

Bar Harbor, ME and Berkeley, CA — Caribou Biosciences, Inc. and The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) announced an agreement today whereby Caribou has granted JAX non-exclusive worldwide rights to use its CRISPR-Cas9 intellectual property to create genetically engineered mice for research purposes. Caribou's market-leading CRISPR-Cas9 technology accurately targets and cuts DNA to produce precise and controllable [...]

LAB7 SYSTEMS SECURES $3.0M FINANCING TO FUEL PLATFORM GROWTH AND COMMERCIAL EXPANSIONBoosts scalable software platform for data-intensive life science applications AUSTIN, TX – Lab7 Systems, Inc., a leader in workflow management for data-intensive life science applications, announced today the closing of $3.0 million of its planned $5.0 million Series A financing. The company’s Enterprise Science [...]

Biologist Scott Lowe Recognized for Contributions to Next-Generation Tools SANTA CLARA, Calif. Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Dr. Scott Lowe has received an Agilent Thought Leader Award in recognition for his contributions to the identification of key genes – including those that promote or suppress cancer – and their characterization as therapeutic [...]

The Asynt MultiCell is a lightweight, high pressure parallel reactor designed for undertaking experiments including carbonylation, hydrogenation, catalysis and supercritical fluid reactions as well as air sensitive material studies. Used in conjunction with a hotplate stirrer the standard 316 stainless steel MultiCell reactor offers users the ability to undertake 10 x 30 ml reactions in [...]

Global precision engineering company Renishaw is pleased to announce that its subsidiary Renishaw (Taiwan) Inc has moved to a significantly larger facility within the Taichung City Precision Machinery Innovation Technology Park. The office was officially opened on 5 October, 2016 with a ceremony that was performed by senior Renishaw managers, Government officials and representatives from [...]

Products Optimized for Targeted Resequencing and Exome Sequencing of FFPE Cells BOLOGNA, Italy – Menarini-Silicon Biosystems Inc., a developer and manufacturer of technologies and products that help uncover the biological complexities of dis­ease at the single-cell level, and Swift Biosciences, Inc., a developer of innovative technologies for sample preparation for next-generation sequencing (NGS), today announced [...]

Calgary, Alberta CANADA and Santiago de Compostela, SPAIN - Nanalysis Corporation and MestreLab Research SL are pleased to announce they have entered into a collaborative marketing arrangement that will see Nanalysis include Mestrelab´s software with their product, the NMReadyTM. Under the terms of the arrangement Nanalysis will bundle the Mestrelab product MnovaTM NMR with each [...]

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has purchased Cobalt’s TRS100 transmission Raman instrument for use by the Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis (DPA). Transmission Raman spectroscopy (TRS) is an increasingly-used alternative to conventional chemistry-based analytical testing, such as High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC). TRS takes seconds per tablet or capsule, does not require preparative steps [...]