DNASTAR Lasergene 12.1 Software Integrates Cloud Capability with Ground Computers
October 10, 2014
MADISON, Wisconsin –– DNASTAR® announced the release of Lasergene 12.1 today, representing a major advancement in integrating traditional Lasergene desktop computer software with advanced capabilities on the cloud. Genomic scientists can now run multiple sequence assemblies on the cloud simultaneously without the need to invest in a large compute cluster. Lasergene 12.1 also introduces the [...]
October 10, 2014
JENA/Germany -- ZEISS congratulates Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell and William Moerner on winning the 2014 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. All three underscored the value of microscopy in research with their discovery of methods to achieve superresolution. The limit of optical resolution calculated by Ernst Abbe, company founder Carl Zeiss's partner, in the 19th century has [...]
Carl Zeiss Research Award Winners and Partners Receive Nobel Prize
October 10, 2014
OBERKOCHEN/Germany -- The Nobel Prize was recently awarded for medicine, physics and chemistry. Customers and partners of ZEISS are also among the winners, including former Carl Zeiss Research Award winners Shuji Nakuamura and Stefan Hell. "We are very excited that these researchers have won the Nobel Prize," says Professor Michael Kaschke, President and CEO of [...]
October 10, 2014
MR Solutions has demonstrated its world-wide presence in the preclinical MRI imaging sector at the 2014 World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC) in Seoul, Korea in September 2014. Being shown for the first time was MR Solutions’ new in vivo optical imaging technology, the MRS CellLIVETM system which can examine the interior of a sedated animal [...]
BioTime, Inc. Closes $31 Million Financing
October 9, 2014
ALAMEDA, Calif. -- BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT: BTX) today announced that it has closed the equity financing it disclosed on October 3, 2014, through which BioTime received $29,425,961 and certain subsidiaries received approximately $1,558,905 from the sale of BioTime common shares. BioTime and the subsidiaries intend to use the net proceeds from their sales to [...]
October 9, 2014
Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today it made a technology acquisition from AbVitro Inc, a company focused on therapeutic target discovery. Roche obtained exclusive rights to a primer extension based target enrichment technology and associated patent applications filed by AbVitro. Under the terms of the agreement, AbVitro and Roche scientists will collaborate on [...]
OGT named OBN’s Best Medtech Dealmaker
October 9, 2014
Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), the molecular genetics company, has won the Best Medtech Dealmaker award for the second year in a row at the Oxford Bioscience Network (OBN) awards held on Thursday 2 October. The award recognises OGT’s acquisition of Cambridge-based Cytocell Limited (Cytocell), a leading provider of DNA technology for the detection of gene [...]
Claremont BioSolutions Announces Reagent Supply Agreement with SeraCare Life Sciences
October 9, 2014
Upland, CA -- Claremont BioSolutions, LLC, pioneer of rapid sample preparation technologies, today announced an agreement with SeraCare Life Sciences to supply synthetic stool matrix for use in its quality control products. ClaremontBio has developed products for sample preparation of difficult-to-handle samples such as sputum and stool and has particular expertise in developing biologically relevant [...]
October 9, 2014
Santa Barbara, CA – Anasys Instruments reports on the new AFM-IR results from the Energy Research Group at NIST just published in the journal for Advanced Optical Materials. The paper is entitled “Nanoscale imaging and spectroscopy of plasmonic modes with the PTIR technique.” 1 Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) [...]
Hach Launches SL1000 Portable Parallel AnalyzerTM (PPA) Platform
October 9, 2014
Loveland, Colo. -- Hach Company (www.hach.com) is introducing an important and innovative new technology for the Drinking Water Industry, the Hach SL1000 Portable Parallel AnalyzerTM (PPA) platform. This analyzer is specifically designed and engineered to dramatically streamline water quality testing. The PPA platform offers faster testing of multiple parameters, greatly reduced variability from test to [...]
