May 1, 2013
SAN CARLOS, Calif.--Natera today announced that it has completed a $54.6 million financing round to support the expansion and continued global rollout of Natera’s non-invasive prenatal test, Panorama™. The financing round included two new lead investors, OrbiMed Advisors and Harmony Partners, as well as other undisclosed new investors. All existing investors participated, including Claremont Creek [...]
Raman Analyzer Company, DeltaNu Purchased by SciAps, Inc.
May 1, 2013
SciAps, a Woburn, MA based portable analytical instrumentation company, is pleased to announce that it has acquired DeltaNu, located in Laramie, WY and formerly a business unit of Intevac Photonics. DeltaNu develops and manufactures a range of Raman-based analyzers applicable for pharmaceutical, law enforcement, and many general analytical spectroscopy applications. The combined companies fuse SciAps’ [...]
Real Time Genomics and J. Craig Venter Institute Embark on Strategic Research Initiative
May 1, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, California - Real Time Genomics, Inc. (RTG), the genome analytics company, today announced a long-term strategic collaboration with the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not-for-profit genomic research institute, aimed at understanding and analyzing the genetic changes that induced pluripotent stem cells may acquire during the process of differentiation. RTG and [...]
April 30, 2013
BOSTON, Mass. – Addressing the needs of R&D laboratories to free scientists from time consuming IT and information management responsibilities, Ceiba Solutions today formally introduced its portfolio of Information Innovation Solutions. Developed through years of experience working with the world’s leading life sciences R&D organizations, the solutions span three areas that can erode scientists’ productivity: [...]
Caltech uses Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis to characterize new therapeutic nanoparticles
April 30, 2013
Salisbury, UK - NanoSight reports on how Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, NTA, is being applied in the Chemical Engineering Department of the California Institute of Technology to study nanoparticle-based therapeutics being developed for the treatment of illnesses such as dementia and Alzheimer's. The central theme of the Mark E Davis research group at Caltech is the [...]
WDS Joins the Team: EDAX Luanches TEAM™ WDS Analysis System
April 30, 2013
MAHWAH, NJ – EDAX Inc., a leader in X-ray microanalysis and electron diffraction instrumentation, has introduced the new TEAM™ WDS Analysis System. With the introduction of TEAM™ WDS, EDAX has merged its Wavelength Dispersive Spectrometry (WDS) product line into the highly successful TEAM™ Analysis System, which improves workflow and streamlines all three microanalysis techniques: Energy [...]
New University of Illinois publication on nanoscale chemical analysis using AFM-IR
April 30, 2013
Santa Barbara, CA - Anasys Instruments reports on the recent publication from the University of Illinois which describes the development of a novel technique for chemical identification at the nanometer scale based on AFM-IR. The work is described in a paper published in the Review of Scientific Instruments 84. For more than 20 years, researchers [...]
April 30, 2013
LAVAL, QUEBEC, CANADA - ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. (TSX: PLI) (OTCQX: PFSCF) ("ProMetic" or the "Corporation") announced today the expansion of its existing strategic collaboration with Sartorius Stedim Biotech ("SSB") to include a contribution of equipment to ProMetic's plasma purification facility as well as an agreement for the co-commercialization of PPPSTM on a global basis. [...]
Highly Specific Aptamer Protein Precipitation Kits
April 30, 2013
AMSBIO has announced a new range of Aptamer Protein Precipitation Kits that bind with unmatched high specificity and affinity to target molecules. The new AMSBIO Aptoprecipitation (AP) / Co-aptoprecipitation (Co-AP) Kits are aptamer based protein precipitation kits designed to provide easy, quick and consistent protein precipitation. The new kits offer a range of unique characteristics [...]
Real time binding analysis made easy with OpenPlex
April 29, 2013
HORIBA Scientific is pleased to announce the launch of OpenPlex, a flexible research platform for the real time analysis of label-free molecular interactions in a multiplex format. OpenPlex uses Surface Plasmon Resonance imaging (SPRi) to monitor the binding of molecules to an array of receptors immobilized on a sensor chip. It can give qualitative (Yes/No [...]
