Waters Corporation Launches PeptideWorks™ Tryptic Protein Digestion Kits

Waters enables automated, high efficiency, and reproducible protein digestion with meaningful sample prep savings WHO: Waters Corporation, Milford, Massachusetts, USA WHAT: Waters launched its new PeptideWorks Tryptic Protein Digestion Kits to provide biopharma scientists with a comprehensive, automatable solution for rapid sample preparation for peptide mapping. By reducing missed cleavages and autolysis peaks, which can [...]

Bio-Rad and QIAGEN Announce Patent Settlement and Cross-Licensing Agreement

HERCULES, Calif., & VENLO, the Netherlands --  Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb) and QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA), today announced that the companies have agreed to settle their patent dispute pending in the U.S. District Court of Delaware pursuant to a global settlement and patent cross-licensing agreement relating to digital [...]

DKSH Partners with PacBio in South East Asia

DKSH has started a partnership with PacBio, a leading developer of high-quality, highly accurate sequencing solutions to distribute its products in Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, and Malaysia Singapore – DKSH Business Unit Technology has entered a partnership with PacBio, a leading provider of high-quality, highly accurate sequencing solutions for the most complete and accurate [...]

The World Health Organization supports the use of targeted sequencing, including a test under development from Oxford Nanopore, to detect drug resistance in tuberculosis

The rapid test being developed by Oxford Nanopore, in collaboration with the Quadram Institute Bioscience (QIB), is one of three sequencing-based tests for TB supported by the WHO in a significant step in the global fight against infectious disease.   The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that a rapid sequencing solution being developed by Oxford [...]

Nikon introduces the AX R MP with NSPARC Super-Resolution Multiphoton Confocal Microscope

AX R MP with NSPARC super-resolution multiphoton confocal microscope system (configured with AX-FNSP microscope)   MELVILLE, NY - Nikon Instruments Inc. has announced the release of the AX R MP with NSPARC super-resolution multiphoton confocal microscope, which enables extremely sensitive array detection and super-resolution in deep areas within large living organism specimens. This product will contribute to [...]

BD Names Joanne Waldstreicher to Board of Directors

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. -- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced the appointment of Dr. Joanne Waldstreicher to its board of directors. Waldstreicher, 63, was most recently the chief medical officer for Johnson & Johnson (J&J), serving in this capacity from 2012 until her retirement in 2023. As chief medical [...]

SomaLogic partners with Dante Genomics to enhance clinical and research adoption of proteomics in Europe

SomaLogic’s 7,000-plex SomaScan® Platform will be used in proteomics testing at scale in Europe BOULDER, Colo. and L’AQUILA, Italy -- SomaLogic Operating Co. Inc., (Nasdaq:SLGC), a leader in data-driven proteomics technology, today announced its partnership with Dante Genomics, a global leader in genomics and precision medicine, to offer a comprehensive solution for proteomics testing at [...]

Illumina and Pillar Biosciences partner to improve access to personalized cancer treatment options

SAN DIEGO -- Illumina Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN), a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, and Pillar Biosciences Inc., the pioneers of Decision Medicine™, today announced a strategic partnership to make Pillar's suite of oncology assays commercially available globally as part of the Illumina portfolio of oncology products. The agreement will result in an [...]

Fore Genomics Adopts DNAnexus Platform to Access and Analyze Whole-Genome Newborn Screening Data

Comprehensive cloud platform provides industry-leading data quality, security, privacy, and compliance for ongoing service that screens for more than 300 inherited conditions with automated annual re-analysis MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., and LA JOLLA, Calif. — DNAnexus Inc., the leading provider of cloud-based genomic and biomedical data access and companion analysis software, today announced that Fore Genomics, [...]

Vizgen Installs 100th MERSCOPE® Instrument

Baylor College of Medicine to utilize spatial genomics tools to continue research into retinal disease  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Vizgen, the life science company dedicated to improving human health by visualizing single-cell spatial genomics information, today announced that it has installed its 100th MERSCOPE instrument in the Single Cell Genomics Core at the Baylor College of Medicine Department of [...]

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