Superb New Wavelength Calibration Standard Released By NSG Precision Cells

Farmingdale, NY - With up-to-date technology, NSG Precision Cells is honored to announce their latest innovative product in calibration standard technology, wavelength calibration filters. The filter is uniquely specified in calibrating the wavelength of spectrophotometers and other spectral instruments. It is extremely robust as well as NIST compatible and is highly recommended for all types [...]

Ion Channel Consortium for Ion Channel Drug Discovery Formed by Aurora, Alion Pharmaceuticals and Specs

Vancouver, BC, Canada, Aurora Biomed Inc. is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with Alion Pharmaceuticals and Specs to form a new Ion Channel Consortium that will provide a novel, comprehensive solution for ion channel drug discovery. Together, the three companies will offer value added identification and validation of ion channel modulators. [...]

Oxford Nanopore introduces DNA ‘strand sequencing’ on the high-throughput GridION platform and presents MinION, a sequencer the size of a USB memory stick

Oxford, UK/FL, US. Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd. today presented for the first time DNA sequence data using its novel nanopore 'strand sequencing' technique and proprietary high performance electronic devices GridION and MinION. These data were presented by Clive G Brown, Chief Technology Officer, who outlined the Company's pathway to a commercial product with highly disruptive [...]

Asuragen launches miRInform® Pancreas Test for Use on Fine Needle Aspirate Specimens of Pancreatic Masses

Austin, Texas, Asuragen, Inc. announced today the immediate availability of the miRInform® Pancreas Test in its CAP-accredited CLIA Laboratory. miRInform® Pancreas was developed to aid physicians in the diagnosis and management of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) when cytology is inconclusive. The test evaluates expression levels of seven miRNAs in Fine Needle Aspirate (FNA) specimens of [...]

LECO Corporation Opens New Separation Science R&D Facility

St. Joseph, Mich.—LECO Corporation has opened the newest addition to its corporate headquarters campus in St. Joseph, Michigan—the Elizabeth S. Warren Technical Centre. Named in honor of LECO Executive Vice President and Treasurer Elizabeth S. Warren, this 28,000 square-foot facility is dedicated to the research and development of innovative instrumentation and equipment for LECO’s separation [...]

New York Genome Center Launches Major Initiative with the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research to Sequence Whole Genomes of Alzheimer’s Patients

New York, NY,(Marco Island, FL) - New York Genome Center (NYGC), in collaboration with Illumina, today announced at the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) annual meeting the initiation of a large-scale whole genome sequencing project with the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, part of the North Shore-LIJ Health System, an Institutional Founding Member [...]

Bioline Introduces New SensiFAST™ HRM Kit for Gene Mutations and SNP Analysis

CINCINNATI, Bioline, The PCR Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Meridian Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIVO), is proud to announce the latest addition to its SensiFAST family real-time PCR products. SensiFAST HRM Kit facilitates High Resolution Melt (HRM) curve analysis, enabling amplification and discrimination of even the most challenging sequence differences (such as class 4 SNPs) without sequence [...]

Fujifilm Holdings Successfully Completes Tender Offer for SonoSite

Tokyo, Japan / New York, NY, FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation (TSE: 4901, hereinafter: Fujifilm), a diversified technology company that operates in healthcare, highly functional materials, and document solutions, announced today the successful completion of a tender offer through its indirect wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary Salmon Acquisition Corporation (hereinafter: Purchaser) for all outstanding shares of common stock of [...]

New England Biolabs’ NEBNext® Oligo Modules Offer Flexible Construction of Singleplex and Multiplex Libraries for the Illumina® Sequencing Platform

IPSWICH, Mass., New England Biolabs today introduces NEBNext® Oligo Modules that enable the construction of singleplex or multiplex high yield libraries for DNA, ChIP-Seq or mRNA sequencing on Illumina® instruments. NEBNext Oligo Modules contain a novel adaptor that ligates efficiently to end-repaired, dA-tailed DNA. Designed for maximum flexibility, two NEBNext Oligo Modules are now available: [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Provides Electronic Access to Chromatography Resources

ATLANTA, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, provides you with easy access to online, iPhone and iPad optimized versions of the Thermo Scientific Chromatography Columns and Consumables catalog and Thermo Scientific Accucore HPLC Column Technical guide, which contain technical specifications and application examples to help with your chromatography separations. With over [...]

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