Nature-based climate change mitigation at the microbial level IRVINE, Calif.— Zymo Research Corp. has teamed up with the Blue Carbon Lab, an academic research group at Australia’s Deakin University, and colleagues at the Portuguese Centre for Marine Sciences, University of Algarve, on the ‘TeaComposition H2O’ project. This is a global initiative that will link litter decomposition with the microbial communities […]

Genedata Selector for Biosafety streamlines the detection of adventitious agents using next-generation sequencing Basel, Switzerland Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for R&D, today announced the availability of Genedata Selector for Biosafety, an innovative software platform enabling adventitious agent detection based on next-generation sequencing (NGS) data. The new offering allows for efficient management and […]

SAN DIEGO — SLAS 2018 – Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced new laboratory automation technologies designed to streamline workflows, optimize productivity, and speed time to results. The new solutions are on display this week at the 2018 Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) conference, Booth 1105, San Diego Convention Center, California. “Laboratories are constantly […]

Dow Biomedica, partner of GenDx in South Korea, has completed the IVD registration of the NGSgo® Workflow for typing of HLA-A, B, C, DRB1, and DQB1 on Illumina Miseq platforms and analysis with NGSengine®. The Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) has released the official IVD certificate this week. This makes NGSgo® the […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, recently launched the Applied Biosystems Axiom Microbiome Array for simultaneous detection of archaea, bacteria, fungi, protozoa and viruses in human and non-human samples. Developed in collaboration with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the array is designed to increase the understanding of microorganisms, while […]

GenDx is the first global company to register a chimerism monitoring product line as CE-IVD. The chimerism portfolio is intended for monitoring the chimeric status after stem cell or bone marrow transplantation, and includes KMRtype® and KMRtrack® reagents, as well as KMRengine® software. The in vitro diagnostic products will be distributed to clinical laboratories, supporting […]

New liquid handling platform reduces assay development time and improves assay robustness in high throughput screening Global commercial launch at SLAS 2018 from 3rd to 7th February 2018, in San Diego, CA, Booth #1219  Cambridge, UK: TTP Labtech Ltd, a global leader in the design and development of automated instrumentation and consumables for life science […]

FOSTER CITY, Calif. — MedGenome has expanded its sequencing capacity at its Foster City, Calif., headquarters laboratory, adding HiSeqX and NovaSeq 6000 platforms to meet the rising demands for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) in research and clinical settings. The new additions increase MedGenome’s data-generation capability by a factor of five. Additionally, availability of a wide range of sequencing […]

New system launch planned for second half of 2018 with two CE-IVD molecular diagnostics, U.S. launch planned for 2019 and broad pipeline in development Germantown, Maryland, and Hilden, Germany – QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) announced today it has entered into an agreement to acquire STAT-Dx, a privately-held company developing the next generation […]

High-speed data analysis enables the scale-up of mechanism-of-action and kinetic assays for in-depth hit and lead characterization Basel, Switzerland Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for R&D, today announced the release of Genedata Screener 15, featuring extended support of large-scale mechanistic analyses. The new version also delivers new functionality for the analysis of kinetic binding […]