INDIANAPOLIS — ASMS 2017 – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, and BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG, a global leader in metabolic phenotyping, today launched a ready-to-use kit for accurate and confident metabolic phenotyping on high resolution mass spectrometry instruments. As part of a co-marketing agreement, the companies will jointly promote and market the combined […]

New proteins will advance research in testing and treating the West Nile Virus globally.   New York — Enterprise Ireland, the Irish government agency for the promotion of international trade by Irish companies, today celebrated the success of client company Aalto Bio Reagents in launching its first-to-market native and recombinant West Nile virus (WNV) proteins for […]

Omaha, NE – Streck, Inc. and Nordic BioSite, a life sciences products distributor in Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway, have signed a distribution agreement for Streck’s full portfolio of cell stabilization, molecular and core products. Streck’s cell stabilization products include Cell-Free DNA Urine Preserve, a formaldehyde-free liquid reagent that stabilizes cell-free DNA (cfDNA) in urine; […]

Oxford, UK. Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), The Molecular Genetics Company, today announced that it has signed an agreement to be acquired by Sysmex Corporation (Sysmex), a Japanese in vitro diagnostic company. Sysmex will acquire all of OGT’s shares, gaining access to OGT’s genetic analysis technologies and expertise in the cytogenetics domain. OGT will become a […]

Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) and Andrew Alliance today announced they have signed an agreement that will bring drug development scientists an easy-to-use, semi-automated sample preparation approach for released N-glycan profiling and analysis by LC and LC-MS. Under the co-marketing agreement, Waters will combine its existing Glycoworks™ RapiFluor-MS™ (RFMS) N-Glycan Kits with an Andrew pipetting robot that […]

Genovis is expanding its product portfolio and launching three unique enzymes for glycan analysis. OpeRATOR™ is a completely unique protease that cleaves proteins at the exact site of a certain type of glycan. OglyZOR™ and SialEXO™ have improved performance compared with other similar enzymes on the market and together with OpeRATOR offer a unique and […]

Provia Laboratories is seeking researchers interested in licensing material or collaborating, as well as potential distribution partners for its recently launched library of mesenchymal stem cell research specimens. Littleton, MA Provia Laboratories LLC (Provia), a leader in cGMP autologous cell and tissue services, announced the launch of a comprehensive library of stem cell material available […]

Streck will sponsor an industry & science showcase presented by the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research at American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Microbe 2017 in New Orleans. Streck’s cell stabilization products include Cell-Free DNA Urine Preserve, a formaldehyde-free liquid reagent that stabilizes cell-free DNA (cfDNA) in urine; Cyto-Chex BCT, a blood collection tube for […]

SCIEX Vitamin D 200M Assay for the TopazTM System designed to measure Vitamin D with greater accuracy and simplicity for In Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) analysis in clinical diagnostic labs Framingham, MA — SCIEX Diagnostics, the in vitro diagnostics division of SCIEX, a global leader in mass spectrometry in the life sciences industry, announced today the first and only FDA-cleared […]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark Thermo Fisher to introduce Ion AmpliSeq™ On-Demand product line of pre-tested gene targets and several other new Ion Torrent NGS offerings at ESHG 2017  Clinical researchers studying germline disorders now have access to an extension of the highly referenced, Ion AmpliSeq next-generation sequencing (NGS) line of assays. The new Ion AmpliSeq On-Demand targeted sequencing panels […]