BOTHELL, WA –– BioLife Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:BLFS), a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of proprietary clinical grade hypothermic storage and cryopreservation freeze media and precision thermal shipping products for cells and tissues (“BioLife” or the “Company”), today provided an update on adoption of the Company’s proprietary HypoThermosol and CryoStor biopreservation media products. Management estimates that [...]

Shimadzu Corporation has released the iMScope TRIO, an advanced imaging technology platform bringing together innovative mass spectrometry and high resolution morphological images. The iMScope TRIO builds on the iMScope developed in April 2013 as part of the Development of Systems and Technology for Advanced Measurement and Analysis Program of the Japan Science and Technology Agency [...]

JEOL Ltd. (President Gon-emon Kurihara) and JEOL RESONANCE, Inc. (President Takahiro Anai) is pleased to announce a new line of NMR spectrometers, JNM-ECZS series. The JNM-ECZS series is a next generation NMR spectrometer that incorporates ultra-high accuracy RF circuitry utilizing the latest digital high frequency technology. The compact spectrometer design features unprecedented levels of performance [...]

Maven has completed a £3.9m investment in Crawford Scientific (Crawford). Founder and MD, Sam Crawford will continue to lead the business alongside the senior management team who will become shareholders as part of the transaction. Established in 1985 and with a turnover now in excess of £10m, Crawford provides chromatography consumables, instrument parts and technical [...]

Torrance, CA -- Neoteryx LLC, a new technology spin-off of Phenomenex, Inc., announces the launch of the new Mitra (RUO) Microsampling Device for the collection, transport, storage, and analysis of biological fluids. In seconds, the research-use-only Mitra microsampler consistently collects 10 µL of fluid while eliminating the volumetric blood hematocrit bias typically associated with the [...]

Durham, NC and Manassas, VA-- ATCC, the premier global biological materials resource and standards organization, and bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, announced today their collaboration to expand and solidify the bioMérieux VITEK® MS microbial identification database for the industrial market. Recently, ATCC acquired the bioMérieux VITEK® MS system to [...]

Carlsbad , CA … Torrey Pines Scientific, Inc. announces its new EchoTherm™ Model SC25XT Fully Programmable Variable Speed Shaking Dry Bath for use with biological and other samples. The SC25XT is fully programmable with 5-program memory and with a temperature range from -20°C to +100°C. It has a variable speed orbital shaker for mixing samples [...]

PHILADELPHIA -- Global public health and safety organization NSF International has expanded the use of Thermo Scientific Watson LIMS, the industry’s leading bioanalytical LIMS (laboratory information management system), to its laboratory in Bristol, Connecticut. NSF International’s Health Sciences division is one of the largest international contract research organizations (CRO), with a network of laboratories throughout [...]

AstraZeneca today announced that it has entered into a collaboration with gene sequencing company, Illumina, Inc., to develop its next generation sequencing (NGS) platform for companion diagnostic tests applicable across AstraZeneca’s oncology portfolio. In the first instance, AstraZeneca intends to apply Illumina’s cutting-edge technology to a novel companion diagnostic test in pivotal studies for one [...]

Baltimore, MD -- InSilico Medicine, a Baltimore-based company dedicated to aging interventions and addressing the challenges of a rapidly aging population, proposes a new concept, OncoFinder, for signalome-wide pathway analysis. This new method allows for accurate and robust cross-platform analysis of gene expression data obtained using high-throughput techniques. The original research, published in the journal [...]