Affymetrix receives grant for non-invasive genomic profiling of bladder cancer

SANTA CLARA, California - Affymetrix Inc. (NASDAQ: AFFX)announced that it has received a grant from Innovate UK (IUK) to demonstrate the health and economic value of utilizing the company’s OncoScan® FFPE Assay Kit for non-invasive genomic profiling of bladder cancer from urine samples. Bladder cancer is the seventh most common cancer in the western world, [...]

Quantify Sub-Picogram Concentrations of dsDNA With New DeNovix Ultra High Sensitivity Fluorescence Quantification Kit

WILMINGTON, DE – DeNovix Inc., a developer and manufacturer of life science instrumentation and assays launches the Ultra High Sensitivity dsDNA fluorescence quantification assay. Single cell analysis, laser capture, circulating nucleic acid and tumour heterogeneity studies are among the key life science applications that challenge the limits of detection of existing technology. With costly downstream [...]

New Easy-to-Use Microscopes Bring the Benefits of Raman Spectroscopy to More Analytical Labs

ATLANTA – Pittcon 2016 – New microscopes bring the power of Raman microscopy and high-resolution chemical imaging to more analytical laboratories and research groups who can benefit from having relevant sample information in the shortest time possible. The Thermo Scientific DXR2 Raman microscopes, which make their debut at Pittcon 2016 (booth 2239) at the Georgia [...]

Waters Unveils New Line of Calorimeters, New Solid-Core Column Chemistries and More at Pittcon 2016

ATLANTA - Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) unveiled its new line of differential scanning calorimeters reaffirming TA Instruments' position as the technology and global leader in thermal analysis at the 2016 Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy. Additionally, the company highlighted new CORTECS® column chemistries and reported that its GlycoWorks™ RapiFluor-MS™ N-Glycan Kit has already [...]

VIB collaborate with Oxford Nanopore Technologies on new DNA sequencing nanopore

Page Content Zone 1VIB is proud to announce that the lab of Han Remaut (VIB/Vrije Universiteit Brussels) has teamed up with Oxford Nanopore Technologies for the development of nanopore sensing technology. VIB pioneered work on a protein nanopore, CsgG, which was developed into a sensing nanopore by Oxford Nanopore and the latest version will soon [...]

Brooks Automation Announces Restructuring Plan to Streamline Operating Structure

CHELMSFORD, Mass.,- Brooks Automation, Inc. (Nasdaq:BRKS), a leading worldwide provider of automated and cryogenic solutions for multiple markets including semiconductor manufacturing and life sciences, announced a restructuring today intended to streamline its business operations, advance its market responsiveness, and achieve approximately $15 million of annualized cost savings. As part of the restructuring, Brooks announced that [...]

Mark Rajkowski Named Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Xylem Inc.

RYE BROOK, N.Y. - Xylem Inc. (NYSE:XYL), a leading global water technology company, announced that Mark Rajkowski has been appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective March 28, 2016. Reporting to Xylem President and Chief Executive Officer Patrick Decker, Rajkowski will lead the Company’s global finance organization. He most recently served as [...]

Octapharma selects IDBS’ E?WorkBook 10

Boston, US & London, UK – Octapharma GmbH (‘Octapharma’), a leading biopharmaceuticals organization, has chosen E?WorkBook 10 from IDBS. The web-based electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) will be rolled out in Germany early this year to replace paper-based research and development (R&D) and protect valuable IP. Users will be able to search for information in real [...]

New Instruments and Software Designed to Improve Trace Elemental Analysis

ATLANTA --Pittcon 2016 –– Laboratories performing trace elemental analyses can now benefit from new systems and software designed to increase efficiency, productivity and streamline method development. The new Thermo Scientific iCAP RQ ICP-MS spectrometer, which will be exhibited for the first time during Pittcon 2016 (booth 2239) at the Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, is [...]

Waters Unveils New Line of Calorimeters, New Solid-Core Column Chemistries and More at Pittcon 2016

Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) unveiled its new line of differential scanning calorimeters reaffirming TA Instruments' position as the technology and global leader in thermal analysis at the 2016 Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy. Additionally, the company highlighted new CORTECS® column chemistries and reported that its GlycoWorks™ RapiFluor-MS™ N-Glycan Kit has already saved biopharmaceutical [...]

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