IDT Opens Molecular Biology R&D Facility in Redwood City
April 28, 2015
Redwood City, CA -- Already the world’s leader in custom nucleic acid synthesis, Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) is capitalizing on its expertise to deliver a broader range of validated molecular biology products. Research and development for these products will now be performed in a newly built facility in Redwood City, California. The 8,000 square foot [...]
Lonza Introduces CytoSMART™ System for Walk-Away Live Cell Imaging
April 28, 2015
Cologne, Germany / Basel, Switzerland -- Lonza has today released CytoSMART™ System, an easy-to-use and affordable live cell imaging system that enables researchers to take time-lapse videos and images of their cell culture without needing to manually inspect their cells. The images taken with the CytoSMART™ Device are transmitted into the cloud, enabling researchers to [...]
April 28, 2015
New Jersey, USA -- Princeton Instruments has drawn upon its decades of application expertise and close interactions with researchers around the world to create LightField® scientific imaging and spectroscopy software. Destined to become a benchmark software tool in academic and industrial R&D settings, LightField allows users to take full advantage of the unrivaled capabilities of [...]
Renishaw Raman systems used to study 2D materials at Boston University, Massachusetts, USA.
April 28, 2015
Founded in 1839, Boston University has over 33,000 students. The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering house the Optical Characterization and Nanophotonics (OCN) laboratory at Boston University. Here, research focuses on developing, and applying, advanced optical characterization techniques to the study of solid-state and biological phenomena, at the nanoscale. The group uses Renishaw Raman spectrometers [...]
Takashi Fukuyama joins Dotmatics to spearhead expansion in Japan
April 27, 2015
Bishops Stortford, UK -- Dotmatics, a leading provider of scientific informatics solutions and services, announced today the extension of operations to Tokyo, Japan. The new direct presence will be led by Takashi Fukuyama, who joins the company after more than fifteen years at MDL and then Accelrys (now BIOVIA, Dassault Systèmes). Dotmatics will also maintain [...]
Invitae appoints Robert Nussbaum, M.D., as Chief Medical Officer
April 27, 2015
SAN FRANCISCO – Invitae Corporation (NYSE: NVTA), a genetic information company, today announced the appointment of Robert L. Nussbaum, M.D., as Chief Medical Officer; such appointment will become effective August 1, 2015. As a board-certified internist and medical geneticist, Dr. Nussbaum has dedicated his career to improving the care of adults and children with hereditary [...]
FEI Partners With the George Washington University to Equip New Science & Engineering Hall
April 27, 2015
WASHINGTON -- FEI (Nasdaq:FEIC) and the George Washington University (GW) are pleased to announce that they are partnering to install several new high-performance microscopes at GW's Science and Engineering Hall. The new, $275 million, 500,000-square-foot research facility will soon be home to four microscopes from FEI: the Talos™ F200X transmission electron microscope (TEM), Helios NanoLab™ [...]
SynGen Inc. Expands its Management Team
April 27, 2015
Sacramento, CA -– SynGen Inc., a company that focuses on the development and commercialization of instrument systems that harvest stem and progenitor cells from umbilical cord blood, bone marrow, peripheral blood, and cell culture, announced today that it has added three new members to its management team as its Cell Processing and Cord Blood Business [...]
Linkage Bioscience Partners with Italian Distributor
April 27, 2015
SAN FRANCISCO, California -? Linkage Biosciences announced at the 29th European Immunogenetics and Histocompatibility Conference in Geneva, Switzerland a new distribution partnership with Voden Medical Instruments S.p.a. With a highly experienced leadership team, Voden Medical Instruments has a history of delivering the best quality and most advanced technologies to their customers. This new distribution partnership [...]
April 27, 2015
AUSTIN, Texas -- Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX) today announced that testing at the clinical trial sites for the ARIES® HSV 1&2 Assay is now complete. The next steps, including site to site reproducibility testing, followed by data analysis and assembly of the data package for submission to the FDA, are now underway. In addition, the [...]

