June 21, 2016
MILFORD, Mass. - Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) announced a joint effort with the Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI), a research institute within Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), to develop new methods of finding cancer markers and elucidating glycosylation pathways that could pave the way for new therapeutic strategies. As part of the research collaboration, [...]
Joe Schwab Joins Block Engineering as VP of Marketing and Sales
June 21, 2016
Marlborough, MA - Block Engineering, a leading manufacturer of Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) based infrared analyzers, announced that Joe Schwab has joined the company as the new Vice President of Marketing and Sales. "Joe has a strong background in the process analytical instrumentation markets and decades of experience with all types of industrial analyzers and [...]
June 21, 2016
908 Devices, a pioneer of purpose-built analytical devices for chemical analysis, today announced it has made significant investments in its Life Science division, succeeding a prosperous Series C funding round last year. Recent investments include the opening of a new Life Science laboratory in North Carolina, the hiring of a new Life Science leader, and [...]
Finesse and One Hill Solutions Release SmartLab™ Platform for Lab-Scale Bioprocess Optimization
June 21, 2016
Santa Clara, California – Finesse Solutions, Inc., a manufacturer of measurement and control solutions for life sciences process applications, in partnership with One Hill Solutions, an innovative software developer in Massachusetts, announced the launch of the SmartLab platform for lab-scale bioprocess optimization. SmartLab is the first end-to-end data management system to integrate leading third-party design-of-experiment [...]
June 21, 2016
JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reported on the use of their NanoWizard® AFM and ForceRobot® systems at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in Korea. They are being applied to the field of medical diagnostics. Professor Joon Won Park is head of [...]
QIAGEN joins consortium to map microbial genomes in 54 cities
June 21, 2016
New York, N.Y., and Hilden, Germany, – QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) announced a collaboration with Weill Cornell Medicine in a global study seeking insights on the prevalence of pathogens, including antimicrobial resistance, in urban environments. Starting today, researchers will simultaneously collect DNA and RNA samples from high-traffic areas in subway systems, [...]
Diagenode secures €7.5 million in financing
June 20, 2016
Liege, Belgium - Diagenode, a high growth, innovative life sciences company that focuses in epigenetics and molecular diagnostics, announced that it has secured €7.5 million in financing. The additional capital includes an equity component provided by Epimède SA, SRIW SA, OBI SA and the Capricorn Health-tech Fund NV (CHF, Leuven, Belgium) which is managed by [...]
Introducing the FS Xtend™ filter station: The most powerful filter station in the industry.
June 20, 2016
The new FS Xtend™ has the broadest filter selection in the industry. Most popular styles of luer lock filter types can be used with the remarkably fast filter changer. In combination with the new CP pump, the FS can change more filter types faster while pushing through pore sizes as low as 0.2 um with [...]
NASA campaign KORUS-AQ: IONICON PTR-TOF to monitor VOCs above Korea
June 20, 2016
An international team coordinated by NASA has recently investigated air pollution over the Korean peninsula. Two of IONICON's PTR-TOFMS instruments were used to monitor volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in real-time aboard NASA's DC-8 Flying Laboratory. The data gathered by scientists from the University of Innsbruck and Korea's National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) will be [...]
June 20, 2016
SEATTLE -- Visualant, Inc. (OTCQB: VSUL) – an industry-leading provider of chromatic-based identification, authentication and diagnostic solutions, with its ChromaID™ technology, announced that its partner Intellicheck Mobilisa (NYSE MKT: IDN) has secured a new round of financing, a portion of which will advance the development of what are expected to be pioneering products based on [...]
