The popular lab management platform adds Rainin, Essendant and Medline to the growing list of partners helping accelerate the rate of scientific discovery PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Quartzy.com, the world's premier free online laboratory management platform, announced today the signing of three major strategic partners to support its goal of simplifying laboratory management and inventory [...]

-Overlay Measurements of Semi-conductor Device Patterns Using Electron Beam- Tokyo, Japan – Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (TSE:8036, Hitachi High-Tech) announced a sales launch of Advanced High Voltage CD-SEM*1 - CV5000 Series, which is capable of measuring High Aspect Ratio (HAR) trenches and contact holes, and to perform overlay measurements of device patterns to help customers increase [...]

Providing instant access to compound data to interpret, model and guide drug discovery decisions CAMBRIDGE, UK – Optibrium™, a developer of software for small molecule drug discovery and optimisation, today announced the commercial launch of a database Query Interface for users of the company’s StarDrop software. The new tool provides an adaptable interface between an [...]

? First to represent Cerilliant® portfolio in reference standards of endogenous protein biomarkers ? Suitable for critical diagnostic testing applications by liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry Darmstadt, Germany — Merck, a leading science and technology company, today introduced the first Certified Spiking Solution® of intact, heavy labeled Thyroglobulin in SigMatrix®, a synthetic surrogate serum. The matrix-based [...]

• Merck on track to achieve objectives for 2018 • Pharma pipeline offers new sales potential of around € 2 billion up to 2022 • Sigma-Aldrich integration will exceed synergy targets by € 20 million thanks to additional top-line synergies • Performance Materials strengthens its market position through investments and is planning the launch of [...]

Sequel Systems to Be Used for High-Quality Vertebrate Genome Assemblies MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB), today announced the Genome 10K (G10K) and Bird 10,000 Genomes (B10K) initiatives have invested in SMRT® Sequencing to be included as one of the technologies for the next phase of their vertebrate genome assembly programs. [...]

Peking Union Medical College Hospital in Beijing and Keio University in Tokyo are the newest members of Certara’s elite global pharmacometrics network PRINCETON, NJ – Certara®, the leading provider of decision support technology and consulting services for optimizing drug development and improving health outcomes, today announced that Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) Hospital in Beijing, [...]

The GeneInsight-powered platform advances molecular informatics initiatives TUSCON, Ariz. – Sunquest Information Systems Inc. today announced that Nationwide Children’s Hospital Institute for Genomic Medicine Clinical Laboratory, MedComp Sciences and the University of Minnesota Health Fairview are now members of the VariantWire® data sharing initiative. GeneInsight®, a Sunquest company, supports the VariantWire networking infrastructure and crowdsourcing [...]

Peta-base sequencing, advanced informatics and regulatory preparation; for immuno-oncology clinical trials & other applications. Menlo Park, CA – Personalis, Inc., a precision medicine company focused on genomics solutions for immuno-oncology, targeted therapy, and genetic disease, today announced steps to increase the scale of its operations in 2017. These plans include three main elements: Sequencing scale: [...]

VALENCIA, Spain BioBam announced the new version of Blast2GO, a bioinformatics solution for the functional analysis of transcriptomics datasets. Blast2GO 4 has been announced as end-to-end solution for straightforward functional analysis of non-model organisms. The presented solution allows the functional annotation, analysis and biological interpretation of de-novo sequencing datasets. Dr. Stefan Götz, CEO at BioBam, [...]