B&W Tek Announces NanoRam® Software Updates
August 1, 2016
Newark, Delaware – B&W Tek, a mobile spectroscopy solutions company that delivers lab quality Raman, LIBS and NIR solutions through user-friendly mobile platforms, is proud to announce updates to the NanoRam® handheld Raman spectrometer with the release of new software versions for the instrument and the data management software. The NanoRam is an intuitive, state-of-the-art [...]
Bio-Techne Corporation Completed its Acquistition of Advanced Cell Diagnostics
August 1, 2016
MINNEAPOLIS –– Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) today announced it has completed its acquisition of Advanced Cell Diagnostics of Newark, CA. This represents the 9th acquisition for Bio-Techne in the last three years. With these acquisitions, Minneapolis-based Bio-Techne has grown from approximately 650 employees in 2013 to nearly 1,700 staff worldwide and has expanded its global [...]
Matrix Gemini LIMS Customer Survey Delivers Positive Results
July 29, 2016
The results of Autoscribe Informatics’ annual survey conducted to gather customer opinions about the Matrix Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) has once again produced very positive results. More than 95% of customers reported that they would recommend Matrix to others, while 73% cite “flexibility/configurability” as the most liked feature of the Matrix Gemini LIMS. The [...]
July 28, 2016
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that scientists using the company’s comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) technology have shown that cancer cell lines, which are broadly used in all aspects of biomedical research, may have vast differences in their genetic makeup, even when grown in the same batch. As a result, [...]
Rigaku announces the XtaLAB mini II benchtop chemical crystallography system
July 28, 2016
Rigaku introduces new XtaLAB mini II benchtop X-ray crystallography system for small molecule 3D molecular structure determination Tokyo, Japan. X-ray scientific, analytical and industrial instrumentation manufacturer Rigaku Corporation has announced the next generation Rigaku XtaLAB mini II benchtop chemical crystallography system. The XtaLAB mini™ II system is a research grade, compact single crystal X-ray diffractometer [...]
July 28, 2016
CARLSBAD, Calif. & NINGBO, China-- AACC 2016 – Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and HEALTH BioMed (HBM) today announces a collaboration to support HBM’s development of molecular diagnostic (MDx) kits for infectious disease and pharmacogenomics screening to serve the China market. Under the terms of a strategic agreement, HBM will submit [...]
Illumina Names Philip W. Schiller to its Board of Directors
July 28, 2016
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) announced today that Philip W. Schiller has joined the company's Board of Directors. Schiller is currently Apple's Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and is a member of Apple's executive team responsible for the company's product marketing, developer relations, business marketing, education marketing, international marketing and App Store [...]
New Cancer-Focused Biotech Forty Seven Inc. Selects Medidata to Accelerate Novel Immuno-Oncology R&
July 28, 2016
Stanford University Startup Leverages Medidata’s Cloud Technology to Tackle Cancers with Limited Treatment Options NEW YORK, N.Y.–– Medidata (NASDAQ: MDSO), the leading global provider of cloud-based solutions for clinical research in life sciences, today announced that Forty Seven Inc., a new biotechnology company specializing in cancer immunotherapy, is powering two upcoming anti-cancer studies with the [...]
July 28, 2016
Santa Cruz, Calif. - SomaGenics Inc. today announced that it has signed a licensing agreement with Rubicon Genomics, Inc. for commercialization of SomaGenics’ RealSeq®-AC library preparation technology for sequencing small RNAs, including micro-RNAs and small fragments of large RNAs. Further terms of the agreement were not disclosed. The RealSeq®-AC platform is a novel technology that [...]
BD Names R. Andrew Eckert To Board Of Directors
July 28, 2016
FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J.-- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced that R. Andrew "Andy" Eckert has been appointed to the company's Board of Directors, effective Sept. 26, bringing the total number of directors to 13. Mr. Eckert, 55, is the CEO of Valence Health, Inc., a health [...]

