Thermo Fisher Scientific and West China Hospital Partner on Joint Research Platform for Precision Medicine

WALTHAM, Mass. - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, announced a partnership with West China Hospital of Sichuan University, one of the largest single-site hospitals in the world, to develop a joint platform to research precision medicine. The partners shared the news during the seventh round of the China-U.S. [...]

Yokogawa Develops CSU-SR Confocal Scanner Unit

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced that it has completed development of the CSU-SR confocal scanner unit and will release this new product to the market in September. The CSU-SR can be used in combination with a conventional optical microscope to observe the physiological responses of organelles and other intracellular structures with super resolution, a Yokogawa first. [...]

Bio-Rad’s New Software Makes Purifying Proteins with NGC™ Chromatography Systems Even Easier

Hercules, CA — Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb) released ChromLab™ Software Version 4.0. When used with the NGC Chromatography System, the software version continues the ChromLab legacy of enabling researchers to purify their proteins with ease. Traditionally, purifying proteins with chromatography systems has been time-consuming and laborious due to the complexity of the [...]

Precisely Controlled Heated / Stirred Experiments in Vials

Asynt's DrySyn Heating Block range now has new options enabling scientists to conduct precisely controlled heated/stirred experiments in 3 Dram vials, 20ml Scintillation vials and 2ml HPLC sample vials**. The new multi position blocks when combined with a DrySyn base unit allow up to 27 experiments to be performed in parallel. DrySyn heating blocks enable [...]

Fluidigm Announces New Customer Inspiration Center in Canada for Mass Cytometry

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., - Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM) announced the opening of a new customer inspiration center in Markham, Ontario, Canada. Providing researchers with firsthand experience on the Helios™ system, the latest mass cytometry instrument using CyTOF® technology, the customer inspiration center will be open to investigators around the world seeking to incorporate mass cytometry [...]

Magnetic Insight Signs Supply Agreement with Meito Sangyo Co., Ltd. to Enable Cell Therapy Research with Magnetic Particle Imaging

ALAMEDA, Calif., - Magnetic Insight Inc., a developer of innovative imaging technologies for quantitative angiography and non-invasive cell tracking in research and the clinic, announced that they have entered into a strategic supply agreement with Meito Sangyo, global provider of chemicals and enzymes in research, diagnostics, food processing and cosmetics. In the agreement, Magnetic Insight [...]

AATI releases new genomic DNA analysis kit

The quality assessment of genomic DNA is essential to numerous downstream applications ranging from PCR to NGS. AATI is pleased to announce the addition of the Genomic DNA 50 Kb Analysis Kit (DNF-467) that can size smears through 60Kb. The expanded sizing range is possible due to the inclusion of a 50 Kb DNA fragment [...]

Phytronix Technologies launches the fastest process in mass spectrometry with the Luxon Ion Source at ASMS2016

Phytronix Technologies, world leader in high throughput analysis, presents the fastest process ever developed for mass spectrometry: the Luxon Ion Source. Phytronix has once again answered a growing demand from the pharmaceutical, forensic toxicology, environmental and food safety markets for a novel high-throughput process. The Luxon Ion Source is presented at the 64th Annual American [...]

OGT enhances NGS results from FFPE samples

Oxford, UK – Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), The Molecular Genetics Company, has introduced its SureSeq™ FFPE DNA Repair Mix — optimised to repair a broad range of damage in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) derived DNA. The mix effectively repairs DNA damage, improving library yields, on-target rates and mean target coverage, while removing fixation and storage artefacts [...]

Genedata Expands Partnership with MorphoSys to Support New Antibody Libraries and Developability Assessment

Basel, Switzerland - Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, announced that Genedata has broadened its relationship with MorphoSys. Under the expanded collaboration, Genedata has successfully implemented new Genedata Biologics™ capabilities to further streamline MorphoSys’ antibody discovery and optimization workflows and to broaden integration with MorphoSys’ latest [...]

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