May 20, 2014
San Diego -- Magritek, a leading worldwide provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, have released three new applications notes which showcase the use of their Spinsolve Benchtop NMR Spectrometer. Magritek has released three new applications notes to illustrate the versatility of their Spinsolve family of cost-effective benchtop NMR spectrometry solutions. Spinsolve uses standard 5 [...]
May 20, 2014
HILDEN, Germany, and GERMANTOWN, Maryland -— QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced the expansion of its industry-leading portfolio of bioinformatics solutions with additional content from BIOBASE, a provider of expertly curated biological databases, software and services. With access to HGMD, an especially in clinical markets widely used biomedical data resource as [...]
Advanced liquid level detection with Tecan’s Cavro® Omni Robot
May 20, 2014
Männedorf, Switzerland -– Effective liquid level sensing is vital for many applications, helping to avoid erroneous results and reduce the risk of sample carry-over. Tecan’s versatile Cavro® Omni Robot now offers increased process security by allowing a combination of capacitive liquid level detection (cLLD) and pressure-based liquid level detection (pLLD) on a single platform. Designed [...]
Regional Growth Fund success sees Malvern Instruments stepping up UK recruitment
May 20, 2014
Malvern, UK -- Malvern Instruments (Malvern, Worcestershire, UK) has been successful in securing £3 million support from the UK Government’s Regional Growth Fund (RGF) that will lead to the creation of 47 new jobs in the UK over the next five years. Malvern develops, manufactures and markets materials and biophysical characterization systems. These are used [...]
BioNano Genomics Appoints Mike Ward to the Senior Executive Management Team
May 20, 2014
SAN DIEGO -- BioNano Genomics, the leading genome mapping instrument company, announced today the appointment of Mr. Mike Ward as a member of the senior executive management team and vice president, corporate development. Mr. Ward has more than 20 years of life sciences-dedicated investment banking, venture capital and private equity experience. "With his impressive track [...]
May 20, 2014
Woburn, MA -- CryoXtract Instruments LLC, a provider of automated frozen aliquotting systems for high-value frozen biosamples (e.g., biofluids, tissue and stool), is pleased to announce that France's National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), one of the industry research leaders within the global human gut microbiome initiative, has integrated two CXT750 frozen biosample aliquotters into [...]
Simulations Plus Announces Agreement with License Provider
May 20, 2014
LANCASTER, Calif.-- Simulations Plus, Inc. (NASDAQ: SLP), a leading provider of simulation and modeling software for pharmaceutical discovery and development, today announced that it has entered into a Termination and Non-Assertion Agreement (the “Agreement”) with TSRL, Inc., a Michigan corporation (“TSRL”). Under the terms of the Agreement, the Company and TSRL agreed to terminate that [...]
Leica Microsystems Debuts New Pulsed STED Laser at ELMI Meeting 2014 in Oslo, Norway
May 20, 2014
Norway -- The Leica TCS SP8 STED 3X is the latest generation of super-resolution microscopes from Leica Microsystems, based on stimulated emission depletion (STED) technology. The super-resolution microscope system is flexible and versatile, and allows researchers to tune resolution in the lateral as well as the axial direction. The 775 nm pulsed STED laser is [...]
Tute Genomics Joins the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health
May 20, 2014
Tute Genomics has announced that they will join the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, a group of the world’s leading genomics and healthcare organizations with a shared mission to accelerate the sharing of genomic data for healthcare by developing ethical and secure standards. As a partner with the Global Alliance, Tute will work to [...]
InDevR to Develop Automated Hemagglutination Analyzer
May 20, 2014
BOULDER, CO -- InDevR, a Boulder-based life science company, has received a new NIH SBIR grant to develop an innovative optical system that will automate interpretation of hemagglutination assays. The 2-year Phase 1 grant (R43AI106054) is sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Hemagglutination and hemagglutination inhibition assays are widely used to [...]
