August 20, 2014
Bishops Stortford, UK. -- Dotmatics, a leading provider of scientific informatics solutions and services, announced today that Prof. Cooper’s renowned Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Development research group at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland has deployed Vortex, Dotmatics’ leading scientific intelligence and analytics solution, to assist with their innovative research in anti-infective therapies. [...]
Datacolor Corporate Headquarters Reopen After Extensive Renovations
August 20, 2014
Datacolor, a global leader in color management solutions, today announced the re-opening of the renovated corporate headquarters in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, USA. The investment into a state-of-the-art office building and an open, modern working environment will support the operational growth the company has experienced in recent years. The renovation converted the office building into a [...]
PositiveID’s M-BAND System Shipped to Korea for Testing to Protect U.S. Military
August 20, 2014
DELRAY BEACH, Fla.-- PositiveID Corporation ("PositiveID" or "Company") (OTCQB:PSID), a developer of biological detection and diagnostics solutions, today announced that its M-BAND (Microfluidic-based Bioagent Autonomous Networked Detector) system has been sent to the Korean peninsula for continued testing as part of The Joint United States Forces Korea Portal and Integrated Threat Recognition (JUPITR), a program [...]
New Hydrophobic Interaction Column Offers
August 20, 2014
SAN JOSE, Calif. -– Many laboratories analyzing monoclonal antibodies (mAb) regularly encounter situations where they need alternative hydrophobic interaction chromatography (HIC) selectivity. Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed new column chemistry that separates many more of these challenging mAbs, antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) and proteins. The Thermo Scientific MAbPac HIC-10 HPLC column has been demonstrated to provide [...]
Accurate timing control through new detector option in FREEDOM
August 20, 2014
Ibsen Photonics (www.ibsenphotonics.com), the global leader in fused silica transmission gratings and industrial grade spectrometer modules, today announced the availability of a new detector option for the FREEDOM series of ultra compact spectrometers. The new detector option enables short integration time down to 10 µsec as well as accurate synchronization control for external triggering. These [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches First Clinical Next-Generation Sequencing Oncology Quality Control
August 20, 2014
CARLSBAD, Calif.-- Clinical laboratories running next-generation sequencing (NGS) oncology tests now have access to a universal quality control material compatible with multiple sequencing platforms. The AcroMetrix Oncology Hotspot Control provides a common quality control material that can be used across laboratories with different NGS instrument platforms, assays and bioinformatics pipelines to test precision and detect [...]
August 20, 2014
The Ion PGM is a fast and cost-effective platform for next generation sequencing applications. The release of the Ion TrueMate™ Library Kit will expand the platform’s capabilities by allowing long mate pair libraries up to 8 kb to be run on the PGM. Mate pair libraries are critical for de novo genome assembly, chromosomal rearrangement [...]
August 20, 2014
SANTA CLARA, Calif., and KYOTO, Japan -— Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and Shimadzu Corp. today announced the release of each other’s GC instrument control for their respective chromatography data systems. The move provides customers in analytical laboratories with more freedom of choice when selecting a chromatography data system. Agilent has released drivers for the [...]
GE Healthcare Life Sciences to Create New US Headquarters in Massachusetts
August 20, 2014
MARLBOROUGH, Mass. -– GE Healthcare Life Sciences announced today that it will open a new 160,000 square-foot facility in Marlborough, Massachusetts, as the new headquarters for its US operations. A $21M investment in the long-term future of this key GE Healthcare growth business, it will establish a new site for more than 500 GE Healthcare [...]
Cellular Research, Seven Bridges Partner to Offer RNA-seq Products
August 19, 2014
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Cellular Research announced today the start of an early access program for its Precise™ assays and is currently making the product available to 10 sites. The Precise assays provide ultra-sensitive RNASeq assay technology designed to examine large numbers of standard or low input mRNA samples in high throughput. Based on Cellular [...]
