September 25, 2015
RHEINSTETTEN, Germany –– Bruker announced that its NMR FoodScreener™ laboratory for food authenticity and quality determination, located in Rheinstetten, Germany, has been granted ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation. The certificate has been awarded for Bruker’s validated methods for the determination of ingredients and measures of authenticity and quality of liquid foods and food extracts by NMR spectroscopy. [...]
September 25, 2015
OBERKOCHEN/Germany -- Microscopy business group presents new structure for its global footprint Consolidation in Germany leads to loss of 130 jobs and the relocation of a further 150 Structural measures focused primarily on Göttingen The ZEISS Microscopy business group is intensifying its measures to increase its competitiveness and is streamlining its global structure. The strategy [...]
New Tools to Measure S-Adenosylmethionine (SAM) and Methylation Index
September 25, 2015
AMSBIO has launched a unique series of monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies against S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) and S-adenosylhomocysteine (SAH) that allows immunoassays to be used in methylation regulation research. Methylation is involved in nearly every aspect of life. SAM is the sole methyl donor for a variety of methyl-transfer reactions in DNA, RNA, proteins, lipids, phosphilipids, hormones [...]
September 24, 2015
Coal-fired power plant personnel and coal producers requiring consistent coal blends and fuel quality can now use a next-generation online analyzer that offers a choice of two neutron-producing sources. The Thermo Scientific CQM FLEX coal analyzer can incorporate either an electrically-driven neutron generator or Californium (252Cf) as its neutron source. With the neutron generator configuration, [...]
New Magneto-Rheology Accessory from TA Instruments
September 24, 2015
New Castle, Delaware, USA – TA Instruments introduces an all new system for characterization of magneto-rheological (MR) fluids. The Magneto-Rheology Accessory for the Discovery Hybrid Rheometer enables parallel plate and cone-plate rheological measurements under the influence of a controlled field at temperatures as high as 170 °C and fields as high as 1 T. MR [...]
SCIEX Announces Exclusive Reseller Agreement with Advaita Bioinformatics
September 24, 2015
Framingham, MA — SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, today announced an exclusive reseller agreement with Advaita Bioinformatics, a leader in the development of bioinformatic solutions for multi-omic biological data, that will allow SCIEX to sell Advaita licenses of iPathwayGuide, as part of the OneOmics™ project. Under the agreement, Advaita's web-based application [...]
RainDance Technologies Names Kathy Ordonez Chairman of the Board of Directors
September 24, 2015
BILLERICA, Mass. — RainDance Technologies, Inc., a genomics tools company dedicated to simplifying the analysis of complex genetic diseases, today announced the appointment of Kathy Ordoñez as Chairman of its Board of Directors. Ms. Ordoñez brings more than 30 years of experience in the life sciences and diagnostics industries, and has served on the RainDance [...]
September 24, 2015
DARMSTADT, Germany & NEW YORK -- As part of the global strategic alliance between Merck and Pfizer to jointly develop and commercialize avelumab*, an investigational immune checkpoint inhibitor, the companies have announced today that they have a collaboration agreement in place with Dako, an Agilent Technologies company, for the development of a potential companion diagnostic [...]
Affordable large-scale DNA variation studies for every DNA researcher
September 24, 2015
GENALICE announced the global launch date of Population Calling, a new analysis module and part of their GENALICE MAP Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) Data Analysis Suite. In a LIVE webinar event scheduled in two weeks from today, on October 8, the company will reveal the unique capabilities to improve individual patient results and discover disease specific [...]
Shimadzu Announces New Electron Capture Detector With Contact-Free Technology
September 24, 2015
COLUMBIA, Md. — Shimadzu Scientific Instruments today announces the release of its new ECD-2010 Exceed electron capture detector (ECD). The detector features a newly designed capillary ECD cell that uses Shimadzu’s contact-free technology. Contact-free technology reduces the effect that a dirty sample matrix can have on the detector’s radioactive source. This makes the new ECD-2100 [...]
