Japan’s Azbil takes an equity participation in Telstar S.A.

Telstar will further expand its business in the Life Sciences field to provide "next-generation solutions which integrate manufacturing equipment with environmental systems, inspired by automation technologies" to markets that contribute to people's health. It has been agreed that Japanese company Azbil will acquire an 80% stake in Telstar, S.A. from the founding shareholders (the Capella [...]

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences Introduces 14 New Antibodies

INDIANAPOLIS, IND. –– Beckman Coulter Life Sciences is expanding their flow cytometry portfolio with the addition of 14 new human monoclonal antibodies from Trillium Diagnostics LLC. The analyte specific reagents (ASRs) provide high specificity, convenience and flexibility in flow cytometry. A new cell permeabilization reagent is also being offered. The new monoclonals include human anti-hemoglobin [...]

QIAGEN gains SFDA approval to market careHPV Test in China – expanding access to HPV testing in low-resource countries

Shenzen, China, and Hilden, Germany, --QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that China’s State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) has approved QIAGEN’s careHPV Test and instrument platform. The careHPV Test is the first molecular diagnostic to screen for high risk human papillomavirus (HPV) designed for low-resource clinical settings, such as areas [...]

3D Biomatrix’s Perfecta3D Hanging Drop Plates Now Available through Cell Systems Biology in Australia and New Zealand

3D Biomatrix, a leader in three-dimensional (3D) cell culture products, is pleased to announce today that its 96- and 384- well Perfecta3D® Hanging Drop Plates are now available for purchase in Australia and New Zealand from Cell Systems Biology. The Perfecta3D Hanging Drop Plates help researchers focused on cancer research and drug development, toxicology testing, [...]

Guy Talbot Joins LabAnswer as Principal Informatics Consultant

Houston, TX -- LabAnswer, the nation’s leading laboratory informatics consultancy, announced today that Guy Talbot has joined the company as a Principal Informatics Consultant, with a focus on strategic services and project leadership. With the addition of Talbot’s expertise, LabAnswer clients will benefit from improved scientific data management using LabAnswer's innovative processes and services. LabAnswer’s [...]

WITec appoints new distributor in Israel

WITec, worldwide leader in nano-analytical microscopy systems, has appointed Advanced Technological Solutions Ltd. (ATSL) as its exclusive distributor in Israel. From now on ATSL will support WITec's market entry and promote the full product line of high-resolution SNOM, AFM and Raman Imaging solutions. The ATSL team can look back on more than 20 years of [...]

Leading Big Data Company Appistry Joins Genome Institute of Singapore to Accelerate Genomics in Asia

San Francisco – The Agency for Science, Technology and Research’s (A*STAR) Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) today announced the launch of a research collaboration with Appistry, a leading US-based provider of high-performance computing and analytics for managing and storing “big data.” “We are excited about this collaboration as it leverages on our computational genomics platform,” [...]

AB SCIEX India Opens New Centre for Analytical Science in Delhi

As part of its ongoing investment in India, AB SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, today announced the grand opening of a new $3 million (USD) facility in Delhi to give scientists and laboratory technicians across all of India access to the latest innovations in analytical technologies. This state-of-the-art, scientific support centre [...]

Hiroshima University is first to install Malvern Instruments’ new Zetasizer Nano ZSP

Malvern, UK: Dr Kikuo Okuyama of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University in Japan, was the first customer to take delivery of a Zetasizer Nano ZSP, the new top-of-the-range dynamic light scattering system from Malvern Instruments. In Dr Okuyama’s work the objective is to find alternative materials for [...]

PerkinElmer Introduces Latest Version of inForm® Advanced Image Analysis Software

inForm® Image Analysis Software is a patented automated image analysis package for accurately quantifying biomarker expression in tumors and surrounding tissues. The software program is available in two packages: inForm Tissue Finder™ and inForm Cell Analysis™. The inForm Tissue Finder software operates with the Vectra™ intelligent multispectral slide analysis systems and is a powerful research [...]

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