InSphero Adds Chief Financial Officer to Senior Management Team
October 15, 2015
Schlieren, Switzerland -- InSphero AG, the leading supplier of easy-to-use solutions for production, culture, and assessment of more organotypic 3D cell culture models, has appointed Oliver Krähenbühl to serve as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Krähenbühl joins the InSphero senior management team having previously held CFO positions at HF Global Inc. New York, Canon, and JobCloud [...]
Affymetrix and Luminex Announce Distribution Agreement for Multiplexed Assay Instrument Platform
October 15, 2015
Santa Clara, Calif. and Austin, Texas – Affymetrix Inc. (NASDAQ: AFFX) and Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX) today announced a distribution agreement under which eBioscience, a business unit of Affymetrix, will sell Luminex’s MAGPIX®, Luminex® 200™ and FLEXMAP 3D® multiplexed assay platforms in specified countries in the Americas, Asia and Europe. Affymetrix will sell the Luminex [...]
ACEA Biosciences, Inc. Awards the 2015 iCELLigence Research Grant to Christian Owusu
October 15, 2015
San Diego, CA -- ACEA Biosciences, Inc. (ACEA) has awarded Christian Owusu, a Ph.D. candidate at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge, the 2015 iCELLigence Research Grant for his proposal entitled “Host-parasite interactions during schistosomiasis infection: a study from the host and the parasite perspective”. Schistosomiasis, also known as snail fever, [...]
Gyros to Use 360-HCP Antibodies from BioGenes for Gyrolab™ Host Cell Protein Kits
October 15, 2015
Berlin, Germany, and Uppsala, Sweden – BioGenes GmbH, a global leader in host cell protein (HCP) assay development, and Gyros AB, a pioneer in miniaturizing and automating immunoassays at nanoliter-scale, announce a cooperation for use of BioGenes' 360-HCP antibodies in Gyrolab™ CHO-HCP Kits 2-5. The four Gyrolab™ CHO-HCP Kits, which have been introduced recently, quantify [...]
X-MET8000 Expert used to analyse historical artefacts at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
October 15, 2015
The X-MET8000 Expert handheld X-ray fluorescence analyser is regularly used at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford for the non-destructive elemental analysis of historical artefacts and works of art. When acquiring new items and collections or when studying existing ones, the museum’s conservation department uses a variety of techniques to analyse and characterise the artefacts [...]
Genomics England selects LabKey Software for integrated data management solution
October 15, 2015
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON -- The 100,000 Genomes Project aims to sequence 100,000 whole genomes from approximately 70,000 people. Participants are NHS patients in the UK with certain types of cancer or with rare disease, as well as their families. The initiative will bring together an unprecedented depth of clinical and genomic information to improve prediction and [...]
Briar Alpert Nominated for ALDA Vice Chair
October 15, 2015
WINOOSKI VT, USA — BioTek President & CEO, Briar Alpert, has been nominated for a two-year term as ALDA’s Vice Chair – Chair Elect, and will assume the chairmanship following this term. The Analytical, Life Science & Diagnostics Association (ALDA) is the industry trade association for companies that develop and supply life science, analytical and [...]
October 15, 2015
Ipswich, MA, USA — New England Biolabs® (NEB) today announced the release of the NEBNext Ultra II DNA Library Prep Kit for Illumina® next generation sequencing systems. The new Ultra II kit substantially improves upon its predecessor to produce libraries of both higher quality and higher yield from a variety of sample types, including challenging [...]
Kapa Biosystems Earns ISO 13485:2003 Certification
October 15, 2015
WILMINGTON, Mass. — Kapa Biosystems today announced that it has earned ISO 13485:2003 certification for the design, development, and manufacturing of molecular biology kits and reagents for in vitro diagnostic applications. This certification is recognized as the international quality standard for medical devices. The achievement affirms that Kapa’s manufacturing process is qualified to produce safe [...]
Syngenta Chooses NRGene’s DeNovoMAGICtm to Map 12 Genomes in Only Eight Months
October 15, 2015
Raleigh, North Carolina, & Ness Ziona, Israel – Syngenta Crop Protection LLC, a leading global agrochemical and seed company, and NRGene, the leading genomic big data company, announced today the successful mapping of 12 genomes of diverse crops to accelerate genetic research and breeding. NRGene’s unique genome assembler, DeNovoMAGICTM, supports trait discovery and genomic selection [...]
