Eppendorf AG completes conversion to European public limited company

Conversion to SE ("Societas Europaea") completed No impact on current business Group headquarter remains in Hamburg, Germany Hamburg  – The internationally active life science company Eppendorf, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, has completed its conversion to the European legal form Societas Europaea (SE) as of October 19, 2021. The company will operate as Eppendorf SE with [...]

Pilar Franco, Ph.D. Promoted to President of Daicel Chiral Technologies Europe

Illkirch, France – Daicel Chiral Technologies Europe is pleased to announce the promotion of Pilar Franco, Ph.D., to the position of President. Dr. Franco has been with Chiral Technologies for 19 years, first as Product Manager, then Technical Manager, and recently in New Business Development. Dr. Franco accepted this position upon the recent retirement of [...]

Walsh University and Shimadzu Scientific Instruments to Dedicate New Center for Analytical Excellence Laboratory for Advanced Chemical Analysis

Walsh University (North Canton, OH) and Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI) will dedicate the Center for Analytical Excellence Laboratory, a collaborative project that includes the installation of nearly $1.2 million worth of new analytical equipment. This ongoing partnership was developed through the Shimadzu Partnership for Academics, Research and Quality of Life (SPARQ) program, which is designed [...]

TESCAN’s New Large Volume Workflow Significantly Speeds Sample Processing Time for Semiconductor Failure Analysis and Materials Research

Reduce time and cost-per-sample by combining the thousands-times faster laser ablation technique with plasma focused ion beam to speed sample analysis workflows Brno, Czech Republic― TESCAN ORSAY HOLDING a.s. launches the new Large Volume Workflow for faster failure and defect root-cause analysis in semiconductor manufacturing and materials research. The new approach implements correlative microscopy techniques [...]

Unchained Labs blasts Big Kahuna and Junior into the future, launches LEA 10!

Pleasanton, CA – Unchained Labs, the life sciences company that’s all about getting biologics and gene therapy researchers the right tools for the job, released its LEA 10 automation software today – making Big Kahuna and Junior even more ready to plow through scientific challenges and workflow bottlenecks. Big Kahuna and Junior are workhorses that labs rely on to explore [...]

Molecular Assemblies Awarded NIH Phase I SBIR Grant to Develop a Fully Enzymatic DNA Synthesis Process to Propel Synthetic Biology

SAN DIEGO — Molecular Assemblies, Inc., today announced that it has been awarded a $250,000 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant (Award No. R43HG011679) from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). The grant supports Molecular Assemblies’ development of a fully enzymatic synthesis cycle for [...]

Promega Launches Sanger Sequencing Chemistry Compatible With All Capillary Electrophoresis Platforms

ProDye™ Terminator Sequencing System brings Sanger sequencing to any size laboratory Madison, WI USA Research labs performing Sanger sequencing can now use Promega chemistry on any capillary electrophoresis (CE) platform. The ProDye™ Terminator Sequencing System, launched today by Promega Corporation, can be implemented on any CE instrument, including the benchtop Spectrum Compact CE System. More than [...]

Purigen Biosystems Enables Scientists to Extract and Purify Higher Yields of DNA from Fresh Frozen Tissue Samples

New automated Ionic® Tissue to Pure DNA Kit recovers more than three times the amount of high-quality nucleic acid from limited samples compared to leading column-based products Pleasanton, Calif. – Purigen Biosystems, Inc., a leading provider of next-generation technologies for extracting and purifying nucleic acids from biological samples, today announced the launch of the Ionic® [...]

UPM Biomedicals and Cellbox Solutions collaborate to provide a live cell shipment solution

(Helsinki) – UPM Biomedicals and Cellbox Solutions have signed an agreement to provide a unique live cell shipment solution. This plant-derived, animal-free transport technology for living cell and tissue cultures will allow shipping of live 3D cell assays between researchers and pharmaceutical companies. Combining UPM’s nanocellulose-based hydrogels and Cellbox’s portable CO2 incubators offers protection from mechanical stress to maintain cell activity during [...]

CYTENA launches C.STATION, a fully automated platform for stable cell line development to streamline production of antibody and gene therapies

Today CYTENA, a BICO company, launched C.STATION, a new platform for fully automated stable cell line development. The platform combines CYTENA’s already proven single cell dispensing technology along with its best-in-class liquid handling expertise to enable affordable and high-quality laboratory automation. This combination of technologies advances BICO’s Bio Convergence agenda and democratizes access to production of next generation [...]

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