New from Cole-Parmer: GreenLight Environmental Bacterial Count Systems
November 20, 2013
Vernon Hills, IL -- For a low-cost method of measuring disinfection efficiency and contamination levels, Cole-Parmer presents the new GreenLight® Environmental Bacterial Count Systems. The systems are ideal for monitoring wastewater discharge for disinfection limits in NPDES permits, drinking water plant disinfection, and bacteria in water at beaches. The systems measure oxygen consumption to determine [...]
If Santa Doesn’t Bring Life Scientists What They Need, These Catalogs Will
November 20, 2013
HOLLISTON, Mass. -- This holiday season as usual, mailboxes will be filled to bursting with catalogs offering every imaginable item. However, there's one series of catalogs that relatively few people will ever see—except for those within the life science community. Indeed, life scientists in the U.S. and around the world depend heavily on these particular [...]
November 19, 2013
SAN DIEGO - Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced that it received premarket clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the MiSeqDx system, the first high-throughput DNA sequencing analyzer to receive FDA clearance. Illumina also received FDA premarket clearance for the MiSeqDx Cystic Fibrosis 139-Variant Assay, MiSeqDx Cystic Fibrosis Clinical Sequencing Assay, and [...]
BioLife Solutions Appoints Raymond W. Cohen as Chairman and Joe Schick to Board of Directors
November 19, 2013
BOTHELL, Wash. -- BioLife Solutions, Inc. (BLFS), a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of proprietary clinical grade hypothermic storage and cryopreservation freeze media for cells and tissues, and contract aseptic media manufacturer, today announced that it has appointed a new chairman of the board and also a new director. Current board director Raymond Cohen was [...]
November 19, 2013
ReadyToProcess WAVE™* 25 bioreactor system is an intuitive and easy-to-use cell culture device with advanced functionality designed to meet the evolving needs of bioprocessing. The innovative system allows precise, automated, and intelligent control of numerous process parameters through a user-friendly graphical operator interface, which provides real-time control and many data analysis and reporting options. ReadyToProcess [...]
November 19, 2013
JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on how the NanoWizard AFM is being applied in the study of nanostructures and nano-sized systems at the École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. The "Laboratory of the Physics of Living Matter"(LPMV) at the École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, [...]
MO BIO Laboratories, Inc. launches new kits for fast DNA and RNA clean-up
November 19, 2013
CARLSBAD, Calif. -- MO BIO Laboratories, Inc., the leader in microbial, stool, plant, and soil nucleic acid purification, announces the launch of the PowerClean® Pro DNA and RNA Clean-Up Kits, featuring a fast, 7 minute protocol for removal of amplification inhibitors including humic substances, polysaccharides, polyphenolics, heme, and lipids from purified DNA or RNA. The [...]
Repligen names Biogen exec to its board of directors
November 19, 2013
WALTHAM, MA –– Repligen Corporation today announced that it has elected to its Board of Directors John G. Cox, Executive Vice President of Pharmaceutical Operations & Technology for Biogen Idec Inc., a leading biopharmaceutical company. Mr. Cox has over 20 years of biopharmaceutical manufacturing experience and has supported the commercial launches of a number of [...]
FDA allows marketing of four “next generation” gene sequencing devices
November 19, 2013
Today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration allowed marketing of four diagnostic devices that can be used for high throughput gene sequencing, often referred to as “next generation sequencing” (NGS). These instruments, reagents, and test systems allow labs to sequence a patient’s DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). The new technology also gives physicians the ability to take [...]
Biogas Consortium Using Genedata Selector for Metagenomics-based Process Optimization
November 19, 2013
Munich, Germany -- Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for industrial biotechnology, drug discovery, and life science research, today announced its collaboration with GOBI ("General Optimization of BIogasprocesses"), an interdisciplinary biogas research consortium consisting of leading academic and commercial members to improve the overall efficiency of biogas production. GOBI will be using Genedata [...]
