SYGNIS AG plans to acquire profitable proteomics player Expedeon Holdings Ltd.

Madrid, Spain and Heidelberg, Germany, – SYGNIS AG (Frankfurt: LIO1; ISIN: DE000A1RFM03; Prime Standard) resolved, with the approval of the Supervisory Board, to acquire Expedeon Holdings Ltd., a privately held UK proteomics company with sales offices in the U.S., UK and Singapore. Expedeon develops, manufactures and commercializes proteomics reagents and tools, marketed worldwide by Expedeon`s [...]

Appointment of Non-Executive Director and Chairman Designate

Oxford Instruments plc, a leading provider of high-technology tools and systems for industry and research, announced the appointment of Alan Thomson as a non-executive Director and Chairman Designate. He will join the Board with effect from 1st June 2016 and will be appointed Chairman following the retirement of Nigel Keen, Oxford Instruments’ current Chairman, who [...]

Collaborative Study of Whole Exome Sequencing Offers New Hope for Children with White Matter Disorders

SAN DIEGO - Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN), Children's National Health System and The University of Queensland (UQ) announced that a study using whole exome sequencing (WES), a method to look at all the genes in the genome at once, yielded clinical diagnoses for 42 percent of patients with white matter abnormalities that had been unresolved [...]

Illumina Registers MiSeqDx System in South Korea

SAN DIEGO - Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) announced it has received a product approval certificate for the MiSeqDx® Instrument and the MiSeqDx Universal Kit with the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) in South Korea. This successful approval of an Illumina next-generation sequencing (NGS) system is the first step in completing a comprehensive regulatory [...]

PEAK EXPANDS OPERATION IN INDIA

Peak Scientific is delighted to announce the opening of a third office in India. Supporting Peak's India HQ in New Delhi and branch office in Secunderabad is a new office in Mumbai which will allow Peak to deliver an even better and more direct service in the West of India. There to officially launch the [...]

LaVision BioTec will be demonstrating their UltraMicroscope II system during the forthcoming analytica meeting in Munich

Visitors to Munich for the 2016 biennial analytica meeting will be able to see live demonstrations of LaVision BioTec's latest UltraMicroscope II system. Light sheet microscopes are being used widely in wide applications areas: from neuroscience and immunology to cancer research and physiology. Applications specialists will be on hand at Stand #118 in Hall A2 [...]

SeraCare Launches Industry’s First Recombinant Virus Technology-based AccuPlex™ Zika Reference Material

MILFORD, Mass., - SeraCare Life Sciences, a manufacturer and leading partner to global in vitro diagnostics manufacturers, today announces the launch of AccuPlex Zika Reference Material to fast track the development and validation of PCR-based Zika virus assays. Based on SeraCare's patent-pending AccuPlex recombinant virus technology, AccuPlex Zika Reference Material provides a safe, non-replicative, and [...]

Oxford Nanoimaging announce the Nanoimager, a desktop microscope delivering super-resolution performance

Oxford, United Kingdom, - Oxford Nanoimaging Limited commence manufacturing and selling microscopes offering super-resolution and single-molecule performance to research users. The company announced the launch of its first product, the Nanoimager, a desktop, nanoscale imaging system. Developed in the Clarendon Laboratory in the Physics Department at the University of Oxford, Oxford Nanoimaging™ (ONI) announces the [...]

Biolin Scientific partner DKSH to expand tensiometer business in China

Biolin Scientific has signed an agreement with DKSH, a leading market expansion services provider with focus on Asia, to market Biolin Scientific’s state-of-the-art tensiometers in China. DKSH Business Unit Technology provides Biolin Scientific with market expansion services along the entire value chain to make sure that the tensiometer product offer gets the best possible exposure. [...]

Analytik Jena to Launch “SmartExtraction” Global Innovation at analytica 2016 in Munich

Jena, Germany, – Nucleic acid isolation and purification are among the most widespread laboratory methods worldwide. Along with the process for isolating nucleic acids using phenol/chloroform or ion exchangers, the method for the extraction of nucleic acids and binding them to the mineral solid phase has established itself everywhere. This method was first published by [...]

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