Bad Wildbad, Germany - Berthold Technologies is ready to present the second generation of its successful TriStar multimode plate reader - the TriStar2 LB942. The TriStar2 offers revised optimized optical paths for the reading technologies absorbance, luminescence and fluorescence. Hence TriStar2 has detection sensitivities known from dedicated instruments. Particularly notably is its new enhanced fluorescence [...]

UPPSALA, Sweden – Halo Genomics AB, an Uppsala?based genomics company, announces the availability of HaloPlex™ PCR Kit with increased sample multiplexing capabilities Halo Genomics today released HaloPlex™ PCR Reagent Kit with sample barcodes designed to work with Illumina Next-Generation Sequencers. The new kit enables multiplexing of up to 96 samples per sequencing lane. This significantly [...]

Fluidigm Corporation has announced that Rujin Hospital in Shanghai, China has used the company's integrated fluidic circuits (IFCs) to help validate two new susceptibility loci for Graves' disease. Researchers applied the unique properties of the Fluidigm 96.96 Dynamic Array™ IFC and the EP1™ System to re-genotype selected SNPs for the replication study. In a paper [...]

SKOKIE, IL - NanoProfessor®, a division of NanoInk, Inc.® focused on nanotechnology education, is pleased to announce that it has added Izon Science's qNano particle characterization instrument to the NanoProfessor suite of instrumentation. The qNano research instrument fits well within the NanoProfessor Nanoscience Education Program by offering students the hands-on ability to control, count, and [...]

MADISON, Wisconsin - With the decreasing cost and increasing throughput of sequencing, researchers require a high-performance, cost-effective sample preparation pipeline for targeted sequencing. To enable researchers to more readily match targeted sequencing sample preparation throughput to the ever increasing throughput of next-generation sequencing, Roche NimbleGen (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announces the imminent launch of [...]

ATHENS, Greece--Accelrys, Inc., a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, today announced the new Accelrys Cheminformatics Suite, providing R&D organizations with the most robust, end-to-end solution available to register, search, mine and analyze information on chemical structures and reactions, chemically modified sequences and associated data such as inventory, assay and analytical results. Industry-leading [...]

ATHENS, Greece--Accelrys, Inc., a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, today announced its agreement with SCYNEXIS, Inc., to market and sell the SCYNEXIS Hit Explorer Operating System (HEOS) for comprehensive drug discovery information management. This reseller agreement is the next phase of the ongoing partnership between Accelrys and SCYNEXIS that is enabling a [...]

With a record-breaking 95 delegates, the 8th Confocal Raman Imaging Symposium took place in Ulm, Germany from October 5th – 6th. Over the years the symposium has evolved to become one of the leading venues worldwide for the discussion of the latest developments in high-resolution Raman Imaging. Featuring a global line-up of Raman Imaging experts, [...]

Exiqon A/S, a leading supplier of high-value products for gene expression analysis, today announced the expansion of its product offering to include LNA™ products for the research and development of RNA targeted medicine including LNA™ as the active pharmaceutical ingredient. The first new products being offered include the following: oxy-LNA™ amidites in kilogram quantities LNA™ [...]

PHILADELPHIA - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced a new informatics solution specifically developed for laboratory professionals working in water and environmental testing laboratories. The Thermo Scientific Water and Environmental LIMS is preconfigured to enable customers to comply with water and environmental regulatory guidelines and requirements, and it is [...]