Construction completed for expanded facility within California headquarters SANTA ANA, California, July 14, 2022: FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific, Inc., a world leader in the development and manufacture of serum-free and chemically defined cell culture media for bioproduction and cell therapy manufacturing, has announced the completion of its Armstrong Cell Culture Center of Excellence. More than doubling the R&D [...]

New synthetic controls add to growing portfolio of NGS applications for viral diseases SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, today launched two human monkeypox virus synthetic DNA controls1. Positive controls provide quality control measures for the [...]

Porvair Sciences has introduced a 96-well deep well microplate designed for labs using magnetic beads for nucleic acid purification, clean up and protein purifications. The 96-well magnetic bead separation plate has a reinforced base that can be routinely centrifuged at up to 6,000x g enabling faster magnetic bead separation protocols and improved sample quality. Manufactured in [...]

The Science Based Targets initiative has validated Illumina's targets to reach Net-Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 SAN DIEGO -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN), a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, announced today it is among the first group of companies worldwide to receive approval of its net-zero targets by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). [...]

PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Following a comprehensive search process, 10x Genomics, Inc. (Nasdaq: TXG), today announced the hiring of Jim Wilbur, Ph.D., as Chief Commercial Officer, effective July 27. In this role, Wilbur will be responsible for driving commercial strategy and execution and leading the company's sales, support and marketing functions. A life sciences entrepreneur and seasoned [...]

Application period for the Merck Uptune program starts today Topics vary from AI-enabled health and cell and gene therapy tools to innovative technologies and materials in semiconductor and smart manufacturing Selected startups can receive funding of up to € 100,000 SHANGHAI -- Merck, a leading science and technology company, today announced the launch of its [...]

FAPS will use the FIB-SEM for silver printing and copper coating analysis in an effort to improve mechatronic systems, battery components, additive manufacturing and more. Brno, Czech Republic, and Erlangen, Germany ― TESCAN ORSAY HOLDING a.s. announces the installation of the AMBER X focused ion beam-scanning electron microscope (FIB-SEM) at the Institute for Factory Automation and Production [...]

New site will strengthen Cytiva’s security of supply Cytiva, a global life sciences leader, is investing in additional resins manufacturing operations outside of Sweden, for the first time in the company’s history, with the acquisition of a new facility in Muskegon, Michigan. The new chromatography resins manufacturing site is part of Cytiva and Pall Corporation’s [...]

Mestrelab Announces the Release of a Next-Generation Automation Platform with Workflows for Chromatographically Coupled Mass Spectrometry data Santiago de Compostela -- Mestrelab Research SL, innovators in analysis and management of complex analytical data, is announcing the release of a new set of automated solutions for chromatographically coupled MS (LC- and GC-MS) data workflows. This new [...]

Expands bioanalytical services to include many emerging areas worldwide MALVERN, Pa. – Alliance Pharma (Alliance), a U.S. leader in small and large molecule bioanalytical services in the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry, today closed on the purchase of Drug Development Solutions (DDS), a U.K.-based bioanalytical and material science testing contract research organization (CRO), from LGC. Ampersand Capital Partners, a global healthcare [...]