JENA/Germany, Maryland/USA -- ZEISS and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus have signed an exclusive license agreement for the commercialization of Bessel beam plane illumination microscopy, also called lattice light sheet microscopy. The fluorescence imaging method was invented by Dr. Eric Betzig, group leader at the Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, USA. [...]

YOKOHAMA, Japan -- ReproCELL (JASDAQ:4978) announced that it will acquire the iPS Cell Business Unit of Stemgent, Inc. This acquisition allows the ReproCELL Group to expand the product lineups of its iPS Cell Business and establish technical advantages, promoting great differentiation. Stemgent has succeeded in launching many worldwide leading iPS cell research reagent products including [...]

DELRAY BEACH, Fla.-- PositiveID Corporation ("PositiveID" or "Company") (OTCQB:PSID), a developer of biological detection and diagnostics solutions, today announced that it has shipped three M-BAND (Microfluidic-based Bioagent Autonomous Networked Detector) systems to Aberdeen Proving Ground ("APG") in Maryland for continued testing to protect U.S. warfighters as part of The Joint United States Forces Korea Portal [...]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. –– Knome, Inc. today announced that it has entered a sponsorship agreement with LabCentral to provide the knoSYS® Informatics and Genomic Interpretation System to startups operating in LabCentral’s facility in Kendall Square. LabCentral was founded in November 2013 as a first-of-its-kind shared laboratory space designed as a launchpad for high-potential life-sciences and biotech [...]

CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM -- Today, ZEISS launches an automated petrophysical analyzer to provide fully quantitative data for reservoir characterization and exploration studies. The ZEISS Mineralogic Reservoir™ system combines automated mineralogy with the quantification of porosity and organics, and dedicated oil and gas outputs. This complete solution enables the industry to both research potential oil fields [...]

908 Devices, a pioneer of purpose-built analytical devices for chemical analysis, announces the award of $2.6M in funding from the U.S government’s Technical Support Working Group (TSWG). This multi-year award covers development and testing of a handheld device that leverages 908 Devices’ patented High Pressure Mass Spectrometry™ (HPMS), which also powers the flagship M908TM device. [...]

WILMINGTON, Mass. -- Implant Sciences Corporation (OTCQB: IMSC), a high technology supplier of systems and sensors for homeland security and defense markets, announced today it has sold 12 QS-B220 desktop explosives and drugs trace detectors to Incheon International Airport Corporation, operator of Incheon International Airport, the largest airport in South Korea. Implant Sciences' ETDs will [...]

BOSTON & SEATTLE & HOUSTON & NEW YORK & SAN DIEGO -- World-renowned cancer centers and Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced the formation of the Actionable Genome Consortium (AGC), an effort to recommend openly published standards for the widespread use of next-generation sequencing to guide decision-making in clinical oncology. The core remit of the AGC [...]

Delft -- DELMIC develops and manufactures products which are focused on high performance, user friendly, integrated microscopy solutions. In a collaborative development with electron microscope provider Phenom-World, both companies announce the launch of Delphi, the world’s first integrated correlative tabletop fluorescence and electron microscope at the 18th IMC in Prague. DELMIC and Phenom-World announce Delphi™, [...]

Wetzlar, Germany -- Leica Microsystems is launching the Leica DMi8 inverted microscope with built-in modularity that can grow and adapt to ever-changing research needs. With this new concept, life scientists can custom-configure an inverted microscope now and upgrade it in the future for applications ranging from basic imaging to advanced fluorescence microscopy. The Leica DMi8 [...]