NanoString Launches Multiple New Products at AACR 2017 to Advance Precision Oncology Research

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New Offerings Include nCounter Platform Enhancements as Well as New Panels That Expand NanoString’s Footprint in Immuno-oncology and 3D Biology Research SEATTLE — NanoString Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:NSTG), a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, is releasing multiple new products at the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Meeting. The new products build […]

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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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BioTek Accelerates China Growth with Opening of New Guangzhou Office

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WINOOSKI VT, USA — On March 19, 2017, BioTek Instruments further expanded their presence in China with the opening of their Guangzhou office. As BioTek’s third China location, this most recent addition is situated in Guangzhou’s Tianhe district, Zhujiang New Town, and will include sales, service and applications support for the rapidly expanding South China […]

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GENALICE and BioDiscovery partner to empower rapid NGS data interpretation

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Harderwijk, the Netherlands and El Segundo, CA, USA – March 29, 2017 – GENALICE and BioDiscovery announce a co-marketing partnership to offer their products together as a turn-key end-to-end solution for the use of next-generation sequencing (NGS) data to interpret genomes. GENALICE provides an ultra-fast and highly accurate secondary analysis suite that seamlessly connects to […]

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SGI-DNA Launches Automated Next-Generation Sequencing Library Construction Kits for the BioXp 3200 System to Expand the Capabilities of the Genomic Workstation

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LA JOLLA, Calif. — SGI-DNA Inc., a Synthetic Genomics, Inc. (SGI) company, today announced the launch of Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) Library Construction Kits for the BioXp™ 3200 System, enabling researchers to automate even more processes in the genomics research continuum. With the new kits, scientists can now prepare DNA samples for NGS applications on the BioXp 3200 […]

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Twist Bioscience Raises $33 Million

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SAN FRANCISCO — Twist Bioscience, a company accelerating science and innovation through rapid, high-quality DNA synthesis, today announced that it raised an additional $33 million. To date, Twist Bioscience has raised a total of $166 million. “It is an exciting time to be leading Twist Bioscience as we expand our reach and continue to deliver industry-leading gene […]

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10x Genomics Launches First High-Throughput Solution for Adaptive Immune System Analysis at Single-Cell Resolution

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– The Chromium™ Single Cell V(D)J Solution enables the scalable identification of paired T-cell transcripts from hundreds to millions of lymphocytes, an essential capability for immunotherapy development and proliferation – PLEASANTON, Calif. – 10x Genomics, a company focused on enabling the mastery of biology by accelerating genomic discovery, today announced the commercial availability of the […]

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GenScript Partners With iGEM to Expand Synthetic Biology Community in China

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Piscataway, NJ – ​​​​​GenScript USA, Inc., the number one global provider of gene synthesis services, is announcing a partnership with iGEM to engage and expand the synthetic biology research community in China. This will be the ninth year GenScript has supported the iGEM competition, which enables young scientists all over the world to solve real-world […]

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Addgene Announces Alnylam and New England Biolabs Sponsorships

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AMBRIDGE, Mass. — Addgene announces Alnylam and New England Biolabs® (NEB®) as founding sponsors of Addgene’s new Viral Service launched in late 2016. Addgene’s nonprofit mission is to accelerate research and discovery by improving access to useful research materials and information. The organization is now providing scientists with ready-to-use viral samples derived from the Addgene plasmid […]

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