AstraZeneca announces collaborations to use CRISPR technology for genome editing across its drug discovery platform

AstraZeneca today announced four research collaborations aimed at harnessing the power of CRISPR, a pioneering genome-editing technique, across its entire discovery platform in the company’s key therapeutic areas. The technology will allow AstraZeneca to identify and validate new drug targets in preclinical models that closely resemble human disease. AstraZeneca will share cell lines and compounds [...]

SIMCA 14 released

SIMCA 14 is a major upgrade of SIMCA 13, now including support for Unicode is a computing industry standard for consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world’s writing systems. This means that SIMCA now will be able to import and represent characters earlier not supported. This release also includes [...]

Sigma-Aldrich® and the Institute of Molecular Genetics, Czech Center for Phenogenomics, Establish CRISPR Core Lab Collaboration

ST. LOUIS -- Sigma-Aldrich Corporation's (NASDAQ: SIAL) Research business unit, which supports scientific research by supplying products, services and solutions, today announced it has entered into a new gene editing collaboration with the Institute of Molecular Genetics (IMG) at the Czech Center for Phenogenomics (CCP) in Prague. Under the collaboration, Sigma-Aldrich will provide the Transgenic [...]

Servomex Launches World’s Smallest Cross Stack TDL Monitor

Servomex (UK) has launched the SERVOTOUGH MiniLaser Oxy: the world’s smallest cross-stack Tunable Diode Laser (TDL) gas analyser and only TDL analyser specifically optimised for O2 measurement. Dr Stephen Firth, Photometric Product Manager at Servomex, said: “Based around Servomex’s revolutionary new MiniLaser platform and developed at our UK Technical Center, the MiniLaser Oxy is a [...]

3M Molecular Detection Assays Listeria monocytogenes and Listeria Receive First Action Official Methods of Analysis SM Designations by AOAC INTERNATIONAL

ST. PAUL –- 3M Food Safety announced today that two of its 3M? Molecular Detection Assays, Listeria monocytogenes and Listeria species, have been approved for First Action Official Method of Analysis SM distinction by AOAC INTERNATIONAL (OMA method numbers 2014.07 and 2014.06, respectively). The scope of the validations cover a variety of food matrices including [...]

ACD/Labs Announces Release of Updated Software

Toronto, Canada -- ACD/Labs, a leading cheminformatics company, today announced the release of their Version 2015 software. Version 2015 builds upon the capabilities of the ACD/Spectrus and ACD/Percepta platforms. Since their market introduction in 2012, and based on the 20 years of ACD/Labs expertise in the chemistry software market, these two platforms enable organizations to [...]

Regis Technologies Expands Chiral Column Product Line

Morton Grove, IL -- Regis Technologies introduces small particle sizes to its family of chiral columns. The new columns will meet needs of analytical scientists for fast and efficient chiral separations. Regis Technologies is a leader in chiral separations that serves both the analytical and preparative needs of chromatographers and researchers worldwide. To respond to [...]

Microscopic Force Increased at the University of Limerick Supported by NT-MDT

The University of Limerick has received one of Europe’s most powerful microscopes supported by NT-MDT, a world leading manufacturer of atomic force based microscopes (AFM). NT-MDT recently installed a unique Atomic Force Microscope with RAMAN, TERS, and SNOM capabilities (NTEGRA Spectra). This is a very rare device that combines AFM with spectroscopy analysis and confocal [...]

JPK opens new expanded offices in Berlin to meet the growing demand for products worldwide

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, has moved to a new and expanded suite of offices and laboratories with increased manufacturing space to meet growing demand worldwide. JPK Instruments has moved to new offices in Berlin. Having outgrown their headquarters’ premises of the last twelve [...]

Advanced Photonix Introduces Handheld Terahertz Product

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Advanced Photonix, Inc.® (NYSE MKT: API) announces the introduction of the T-Gauge® SPG (single-point gauge), an addition to the T-Ray® 5000 product family. This handheld accessory is targeted at measuring material thickness for quality control in the aerospace and nondestructive testing markets. The T-Gauge® SPG is designed for at-line manufacturing environments [...]

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