Nexcelom Bioscience Adds User-Changeable Fluorescence Optics Modules to Cellometer Vision

Its Automated Fluorescence-Based Imaging Cell Counter and Analyzer New Cellometer Vision Allows Users to Perform a Wider Range of Assays With Multiple Fluorophores for Accurate and Reliable Cell Counting and Analysis Lawrence, MA - Nexcelom Bioscience LLC, provider of innovative devices and instruments for cell-based assays in cancer research and drug discovery, today announced a [...]

UCSF Team Develops “logic gates” to Program Bacteria as Computers

A team of UCSF researchers has engineered E. coli with the key molecular circuitry that will enable genetic engineers to program cells to communicate and perform computations. The work builds into cells the same logic gates found in electronic computers and creates a method to create circuits by “rewiring” communications between cells. This system can [...]

Breakthrough Towards Lab-on-Chip System for Fast Detection of Single Nucleotide Variations in DNA

San Francisco, US - Panasonic, core partner within imec’s Human++ program and imec today present at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco various critical components of a biomedical lab-on-chip sensor enabling fast detection of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) in DNA, such as a miniaturized pump for on-chip generation of high pressures, a micropillar [...]

AB SCIEX Collaborates with Major German Water Supply Company to Improve Identification of Contaminants in Drinking Water

Scientists aim to develop new test methods on the AB SCIEX TripleTOF™ 5600 System for general unknown screening of organic compounds Foster City, Calif. - AB SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, today announced a collaboration with Landeswasserversorgung Water Supply, one of the foremost water supply and treatment organizations in Europe, to [...]

Sofie Biosciences Raises $2M to Support Development of Diagnostic Imaging Agents and Devices

CULVER CITY, Calif. - Sofie Biosciences, a developer of agents and devices for the molecular imaging of disease, announced today the closing of an additional $2 million from new and existing investors. Funds will be used for the development of new PET imaging agents and for enhancements to their PET imaging systems and chemistry units. [...]

IDT Introduces Downloadable qPCR User Guide

Providing a MIQE compliant overview of this essential research technique CORALVILLE, IA - Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), the world leader in oligonucleotide synthesis, has developed an extensive quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) user guide, which is available to download for free from www.idtdna.com. Providing user guidance on the entire qPCR process - from RNA [...]

Novel Sintered Porous Plastic Encourage In-vitro Cell Culture Growth

Porvair Filtration Group reports that the open pore structure of their BioVyon™ sintered porous plastic materials offers optimum conditions for encouraging in-vitro cell culture and has been found to offer significant advantages over established Petri dish methods as well as the ceramic substrates (TCP) traditionally used. The efficient transfer of oxygen is essential for cell [...]

WITec Introduces “True Surface Microscopy”

Topographic Confocal Raman Imaging -The next evolutionary leap in cutting-edge microscope configurations WITec, worldwide leader in nano-analytical microscopy systems, has launched the new True Surface Microscopy option. The core element of this revolutionary imaging mode is an integrated sensor for optical profilometry. Large-area topographic coordinates from the profilometer measurement can be precisely correlated with the [...]

B&W Tek, Inc. Announces Glacier™ X Miniature Fiber Coupled Spectrometer

Newark, DE - B&W Tek, Inc. announces the new thermoelectric (TE) cooled miniature fiber coupled spectrometer, the Glacier™ X. The Glacier™ X is the smallest TE cooled spectrometer on the market, making it the perfect solution for applications that require high performance and portability. It is equipped with a 2048 element linear CCD array, built-in [...]

BioSystem Development and Agilent Technologies Collaborate to Bring Precision and High-Throughput to AssayMAP® Micro-scale Chromatography

MADISON, Wis., and SANTA CLARA - BioSystem Development and Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) announced a collaborative agreement to implement BioSystem Development's patented technology on the established Agilent Bravo automated liquid handling platform. BioSystem Development is a privately held life sciences analytics company and creator of AssayMAP® high-throughput micro-chromatography technology. The combined technologies will produce [...]

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