Picarro Expands Executive Team with Subra Sankar as Vice President of Engineering

Santa Clara, Calif. — Picarro Inc. today announced the appointment of Dr. Subra Sankar as vice president of engineering. Dr. Sankar brings to Picarro more than two decades of engineering and R&D expertise from the life sciences, semiconductor, and high technology instrumentation markets. At Picarro, he will oversee hardware and software engineering as the company [...]

Agilent Technologies Appoints Ron Nersesian President and Chief Operating Officer

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that its board of directors has appointed Ron Nersesian Agilent president and chief operating officer, effective immediately. Nersesian has been executive vice president and chief operating officer since November 2011. Nersesian, 53, will continue to be responsible for Agilent's Chemical Analysis (CAG), Life Sciences (LSG), Electronic Measurement (EMG), [...]

DNA2.0 Teams Up With Penn’s Gene Therapy Program on Optimizing Gene Expression for HIV-1 Vaccine

DNA2.0, the leading bioengineering solutions provider, today announced a collaboration with the Gene Therapy Program at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, to evaluate the impact of gene optimization on in vivo protein expression. DNA2.0’s patented GeneGPS™ technology will be utilized to optimize in vivo protein expression. The research partnership will primarily support [...]

Inauguration of the HORIBA Europe Research Center on Paris Saclay Campus.

HORIBA open its brand new 7500m² European research centre near Paris, France close to the renown French Ecole Polytechnique Campus. The new facility is hosting the HORIBA Europe holding headquarter and a large part of HORIBA’s local activities: HORIBA Jobin Yvon is a worldwide leader in diffraction grating and scientific instrument design and manufacturing base [...]

Promega Opens New Shanghai Facility

MADISON, Wis.--Promega Corporation celebrates the opening of a new facility for its China operations. The new site for Shanghai Promega Biological Products, Ltd. both replaces an existing molecular biology reagent production site and it provides additional research, development and cGMP manufacturing capabilities for molecular diagnostics products for the Chinese market. Since its purchase in June [...]

Stratedigm announces the launch of the A700 High Throughput Hotel

San Jose, CA – line of Flow Cytometry platforms which include the A600 High Throughput Auto Sampler and Stratedigm’s suite of Flow cytometer analyzers, ranging from the entry level two laser, eight parameter SE520 model to Stratedigm’s flagship the S1000Ex, which can be configured with up to four laser and eighteen parameters. The A700 High [...]

LifeTech TaqMan Integrates with Genedata Expressionist for Genomic Profiling

Basel, Switzerland,-- Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced a partnership with Life Technologies Corporation designed to create a streamlined ecosystem that empowers researchers in both academic and commercial settings to accelerate discovery and validation experiments. As part of the collaboration, Genedata will integrate Life [...]

New test to combat scrapie and mad cow disease in sheep and goats

Zurich, - An innovative new test is now available to detect TSE (scrapie and mad cow disease) in sheep and goats. With the Prionics®-Check PrioSTRIP SR, Prionics brings to the market the first test to achieve high diagnostic sensitivity on preclinical TSE cases. The test was approved today by the European Commission for use in [...]

Grant Instruments launches 12 new products for the life-sciences

CAMBRIDGE, UK, - Grant Instruments (www.grantinstruments.com), a world-renowned supplier of scientific and life sciences products, has launched 12 new innovative life-science products to complement its existing Grant-bio range. The new range of laboratory equipment, designed for sample preparation and molecular diagnostics, offer multi-functionality, ease of use, reliability, low energy consumption and excellent value for money. [...]

WHEATON® to launch new website supporting clinical and life science customers

Laboratory Sales Limited (LSL) has become WHEATON, offering researchers and clinicians a single brand name for pharmaceutical, diagnostic, biotechnology and cosmetic packaging products. Supporting the consolidation, WHEATON launched www.wheaton-uk.com, a new website that offers access to the products and manufacturing services formerly available from LSL. Here, customers will find one of the U.K.’s premier suppliers [...]

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