Sensor spectral response and calibration
November 19, 2015
The McPherson Spectral Test Station (STS) is for wavelength testing and calibration from LWIR to 200 nanometers and less. It is for sensor testing, process control, and calibration. It also works for ground-based calibration of flight sensors. Sensors, seekers, and digital cameras are pervasive. CCD, CMOS, InGaAs and further to the infrared, each exhibits unique [...]
New Maize BeadChip Will Facilitate Seed Development
November 19, 2015
Maize, or corn, is an important crop to the world economy as a source not only of food for humans, but also a component in ethanol fuel, and livestock feed. According to USDA Data in 2013 and 2014, it was the largest of any U.S.-grown crop (in terms of acres harvested). As a crop with [...]
November 19, 2015
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ: AFFX) introduces Axiom® Turkey Genotyping Array, developed in collaboration with the United States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) along with Aviagen and Hendrix Genetics. The array will help breeders better understand the genetics of turkeys in order to improve meat characteristics and health. It will [...]
HORIBA Scientific Announces New Product Line Manager for Optical Spectroscopy Division
November 19, 2015
HORIBA Scientific, global leader in spectroscopic solutions, is pleased to announce that Francis Ndi, current Export Manager, has been promoted to Product Line Manager for the Optical Spectroscopy Division (OSD). Francis began his career as an application scientist for HORIBA’s OSD division in 2008, and is thoroughly familiar with HORIBA’s optical spectroscopy product portfolio. His [...]
FireflySci Presents New Test Plate Line for Instrument Validation of Microplate Readers
November 19, 2015
BROOKLYN, N.Y.-- Any quality assurance, metrology or quality control person knows all too well, the stress that an ISO audit can bring about. Hearing about an upcoming ISO-17025 audit is enough to make one break into a cold sweat. A section 5.6 nonconformance, i.e. using a non-approved or un-accredited calibration provider is one of the [...]
Universal Controlled Laboratory Reactor Simplifies Synthesis Scale-up
November 19, 2015
The ReactoMate "Datum" is a new compact benchtop Controlled Lab Reactor (CLR) system from Asynt that offers the flexibility to accommodate reaction vessels from 100ml to 5 litres. Reaction vessels from Asynt, and its partner AG!, can be easily exchanged on the ReactoMate "Datum" allowing chemists to quickly change between reactor vessel sizes thereby enabling [...]
Qlucore invests in development and USA
November 18, 2015
Rights issue and development loan fund expansion in software team and US salesforce Qlucore, a world leader in the development of bioinformatics software enhances its financial position with a combination of a rights issue and a development loan from Swedish regional development fund ALMI. Investment from the two sources is EURO 545,000. This injection of [...]
Tecan adds the personal touch to wine microbiology
November 18, 2015
The Wine Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology Laboratory at the University of Adelaide has developed a customized solution offering fully automated sampling for yeast fermentations. Based on a Freedom EVO® 200 platform, this system frees researchers from the need to manually aliquot samples day and night for up to three weeks. Dr Tommaso Liccioli Watson, a [...]
CROWN BIOSCIENCE OFFERS UNIQUE IMMUNO-ONCOLOGY TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH PLATFORM
November 18, 2015
SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — CROWN BIOSCIENCE, A GLOBAL DRUG DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES COMPANY PROVIDING TRANSLATIONAL PLATFORMS TO ADVANCE ONCOLOGY AND METABOLIC DISEASE RESEARCH, NOW PROVIDES A COMPREHENSIVE IMMUNO-ONCOLOGY TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH PLATFORM. “Crown’s suite of in vitro and in vivo immuno-oncology assays employing translational experimental models help inform and accelerate the development of cancer immunotherapies [...]
Meridian Receives FDA Clearance for New Molecular Whooping Cough Test Claims
November 18, 2015
CINCINNATI -- Meridian Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIVO) today announced it has received clearance from theU.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for new claims for its illumigene® Pertussis molecular amplification test. The upgraded test reduces the effect of inhibitors in biologic samples and significantly expands Meridian’s customer base by including specimens collected by ESwab™ (Copan Diagnostics, [...]
