Paragon Genomics Launches its CleanPlex (TM) Target Enrichment Solution at AACR 2017

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WASHINGTON – AACR 2017 — Paragon Genomics, a life science company dedicated to improving the critical upfront target enrichment and library preparation workflow for Next-Generation Sequencing, is launching its CleanPlex™ target enrichment solution. It is a patented amplicon sequencing technology, debuting at AACR Annual Meeting 2017 together with its CleanPlex™ OncoZoom Panel covering the hotspots of 65 key oncogenes, panels covering the entire coding regions of specific genes […]

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SP Industries Names Vice President Marketing for SP Scientific Division

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SP Industries, Inc. (SP),  has announced that Robert (Rob) Darrington has joined SP Industries as Vice President of Marketing for the SP Scientific division. Ian Whitehall, Chief Marketing Officer of SP stated, “In this leadership role, Rob will be heading our product management and technical marketing teams, assuring that SP Scientific product strategies are aligned with […]

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Announcement of Company Name Change

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Tokyo – Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd. (“Panasonic Healthcare HD”) and Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd. (“Panasonic Healthcare”) have decided to change the company names (trade names) to PHC Holdings Corporation and PHC Corporation respectively. This will become effective April 2018. In 2014, Panasonic Healthcare was carved out of the Panasonic group with external funding. Founded […]

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Essen BioScience Launches the IncuCyte(R) S3 Live-Cell Analysis Platform

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– Enables real-time measurements of cell health, proliferation, movement and function while cells remain unperturbed in a physiologically relevant environment – Automates data capture and cell assessment around-the-clock, inside the incubator – Offers a simple yet powerful workflow that supports an entire research team ANN ARBOR, Michigan — Essen BioScience, a pioneer and leader in the field of cell-based assays […]

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LGC acquires Axolabs and invests in GMP manufacturing capacity for therapeutic nucleic acids

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LGC today announced that it has acquired Axolabs, a leading Contract Research, Development and Manufacturing Organisation, specialising in the development of therapeutic nucleic acids  (TNAs). LGC also announced a major investment at its Biosearch subsidiary in Petaluma, California, USA to expand its GMP oligonucleotide manufacturing capacity to provide TNA synthesis to the 1kg scale in […]

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BIOKÉ and Bethyl Laboratories, Inc. Announce a Distribution Agreement for The BeNeLux countries

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LEIDEN – BIOKÉ, a business unit of Cell Signaling Technology Europe (CST Europe), and Bethyl Laboratories, Inc. announced that they have signed an agreement allowing BIOKÉ to exclusively distribute Bethyl’s products in the BeNeLux countries (Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg), effective immediately. Bethyl Laboratories is dedicated to supporting scientific discovery through its qualified polyclonal and recombinant rabbit monoclonal […]

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IncellDx Releases CE-IVD Quantitative Single Cell PD-L1 OncoTect iO® Assay

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MENLO PARK, Calif.–IncellDx, Inc. announces the release of their CE marked OncoTect iO® Lung Kit today, March 30, 2017, entering the immunotherapeutic diagnostic market in Europe and countries that accept the CE- mark and declaration of conformity to the European In Vitro Diagnostic Directive 98/79 EC for registration of in vitro diagnostic devices. The OncoTect […]

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New Research Innovations in Liquid Biopsy, Bioinformatics and Liquid Handling Advance Future of Precision Medicine

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Broad spectrum of technological advances for cancer research on display at AACR 2017 WASHINGTON, D.C.–AACR 2017 – Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, will highlight its latest innovative solutions for research designed to help customers advance the future of precision medicine. The new products and a wide spectrum of scientific posters will […]

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New Cole-Parmer Symmetry Touch-Screen Balances Offer Advanced Features, Accuracy and Affordability

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The new Cole-Parmer® Symmetry® touch-screen balances, with industry-leading warranties, boast many useful features at an affordable price. Vernon Hills, IL Laboratory workers can now have a state-of-the-art touch-screen balance at their fingertips while remaining budget savvy. The new Cole-Parmer® Symmetry® touch-screen balances, with industry-leading warranties, boast many useful features at an affordable price. Each balance […]

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CARL R. WOESE INSTITUTE FOR GENOMIC BIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN A new agreement between the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and ZEISS has named the Core Facilities at IGB as an official ZEISS labs@location Partner. The model facility will allow researchers from around the U.S. to test-drive new instruments in the IGB’s Core Facilities Microscopy Suite. This partnership represents the first North American location of the ZEISS labs@location partner program, already in use across Europe. “With this special partnership with IGB Core Facilities, we transfer a successful labs@location program from Europe to the U.S.,” said Jim Sharp, President Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC. “labs@location is a community of our ZEISS customers and partners providing in depth knowledge and dedicated services. We are very excited that the IGB becomes our first American ZEISS labs@location.” The agreement will allow IGB and Illinois researchers access to select cutting edge technologies immediately following–or in some cases before–their broad release. New instruments, on loan from ZEISS, will cycle through the Core and be available to all users during that time. In addition, the agreement provides for training and classes taught by ZEISS personnel at the IGB that will better position Core staff and researchers to best utilize new equipment. ZEISS instrument specialists will provide instruction and instrument demos to Illinois and visiting scientists, as well as assist in training the IGB Core staff to provide similar instruction themselves. “ZEISS training is really valuable,” said Core Facilities Director Glenn Fried, “but until now, you’ve had to send your people to the ZEISS Microscopy Customer Center in New York twice a year to see that benefit. Now all of my staff, as well as graduate students, postdocs, and faculty, can come to those classes at the IGB.” Fried anticipates that one of the first new instruments under the agreement will be a ZEISS Celldiscoverer 7, a new automated microscopy platform for high throughput live cell imaging. Though the IGB has equipment for that purpose, Fried says that the ZEISS Celldiscoverer 7 offers improved clarity and visibility, allowing for sharper and more accurate images. “This is a really exciting thing for the Core, and for everyone who uses our instruments,” said Fried. “Researchers will have access to the newest technology–like ZEISS Celldiscoverer–long before they would if we had to write a grant or even just went out and bought it.” In all, the ZEISS partnership promises to establish itself as a regional center of excellence in biological imaging by attracting researchers from around the country to demo new instruments and attend trainings. “We are thrilled to partner with ZEISS in this way, because it will enhance the research capabilities of scientists studying many different types of questions, thus enabling the IGB to provide an important new benefit to the campus. Being selected by ZEISS to be the first labs@location in North America is a great honor, and a recognition of the excellence of our Core Facilities and especially the entire Core Facilities staff,” said IGB Director Gene Robinson.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Cellecta, Inc. today announced the launch of the Driver-Map™ Human Genome-Wide Gene Expression Profiling kit, a targeted RNA expression profiling assay designed to easily provide a molecular snapshot of all known 19,000 human protein-coding genes from complex samples starting from as little as 10 pg of total RNA. The multiplex RT-PCR-based, followed […]

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