Agilent Technologies Microarray Scanner Approved for In Vitro Diagnostics in China

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -– Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that the China Food and Drug Administration has approved the company’s SureScan Dx microarray scanner as a medical device for in vitro diagnostic use. “Bringing microarray scanning technology to clinical-quality standards is an important milestone in moving the advancement of genome-wide chromosome analysis to [...]

New England Biolabs® releases Rapid PNGase F for biotherapeutic development and production

Ipswich, MA -– New England Biolabs (NEB®) today announced the release of its new Rapid PNGase F glycosidase at the 2015 WCBP Meeting in Washington, DC. This broad-specificity glycosidase completely removes N-glycans from antibodies and fusion proteins in 10 minutes or less. This important technical advancement offers the potential to accelerate the quality control analysis [...]

Persomics Secures a First Round of Funding and Opens USA Operations

Gothenburg, Sweden -- Persomics was founded mid 2014 with a firm ambition to change the way cures are discovered. Based on great technology, Persomics empowers companies and organizations to discover cures faster. Persomics has now closed the first round of funding led by two Swedish business angels, Johan Lassing, CEO of Qamcom Technology AB and [...]

Malvern’s new OMNISEC GPC/SEC platform brings ground-breaking performance to the analysis of polymers, proteins and other macromolecules

Malvern, UK -- A completely new gel permeation/size exclusion chromatography (GPC/SEC) platform from Malvern Instruments breaks new ground in delivering the high performance, ease of use and productivity demanded in today’s analytical laboratories. Malvern’s innovative OMNISEC platform integrates highly efficient sample separation via the OMNISEC RESOLVE module and high sensitivity analysis using OMNISEC REVEAL, a [...]

Opening of a new NMR facility at the BIPM

The BIPM has opened a new laboratory as a result of a collaborative agreement with the NMIJ/AIST. The centrepiece of the new laboratory is a 400 MHz NMR* instrument donated to the BIPM by JEOL France. The NMR facility will support the BIPM's role as the coordinator of international comparisons on pure organic calibrators for [...]

Shimadzu Corporation launches Nexera UC – the world’s foremost ‘unified chromatography’ system, which for the first-time-ever also showcases complete automation and combines automatic sample pre-treatment with chromatographic separation and analysis.

Kyoto, Japan -- The fully automated supercritical fluidic chromatography-based Nexera Unified Chromatography system (Nexera UC) can sequentially analyze up to 48 samples utilizing automatic extraction and chromatographic separation combined with high-sensitivity detection of targets by mass spectrometry. The Nexera UC system is designed to fulfil the measurement requirements of a wide range of applications including, [...]

Leading scientist Dr Tom Oldfield joins Dotmatics as Principal Software Architect

Bishops Stortford, UK -- Dotmatics, a global informatics solutions provider to the pharma, biotech, chemical and academic industries announced today the addition of Tom Oldfield, PhD, to its Solutions Development team. Dr Oldfield joins Dotmatics as Principal Software Architect from EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) where he was the Head of Databases and Services in the [...]

Waters Transforms Glycan Analysis with New UPLC and UPLC-MS Analytical Workflows

Washington D.C. -– Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) today announced ground-breaking new technology for characterizing glycoproteins. The technology introduction at WCBP 2015, includes the newGlycoWorks™ RapiFluor-MS N-Glycan Kit, the Waters® ACQUITY UPLC®, the ACQUITY® UPLC FLR Detector and the ACQUITY QDa® detector, and enables scientists to analyze released N-glycans and achieve new levels of speed, sensitivity, simplicity [...]

PreAnalytiX GmbH, NuGEN Technologies and RUCDR Infinite Biologics partner to develop clinically validated RNA-Seq workflow for whole blood samples

Hombrechtikon, Switzerland, San Carlos, CA, Piscataway, NJ -— PreAnalytiX GmbH, NuGEN Technologies, Inc. and RUCDR Infinite Biologics (RUCDR), today announced a joint project to validate an end-to- end workflow for the reproducible collection and processing of whole blood for RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) in clinical studies. The multi-site validation study involves three independent laboratories processing samples [...]

Genedata Announces Strong Adoption of High Content Screening in Pharma R&D Running Genedata Screener

San Diego, Calif. -- Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced that 75% of pharmaceutical companies running Genedata Screener® have adopted Genedata Screener for HCS for their phenotypic screening and other image-based screening projects. Extending the Genedata Screener platform, Genedata Screener for HCS streamlines workflow [...]

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