1st August 2018 Oxford Instruments NanoAnalysis, the global leader in microanalysis systems, today announces the termination of its long standing partnership with HORIBA, Ltd for the distribution of EDS systems sales and maintenance work under the EMAX brand in Japan and Asia, and the handover of all activity from Horiba to Oxford Instruments directly. Oxford... Read more
ISNES, Belgium, Aug. 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — VolitionRx Limited (NYSE AMERICAN: VNRX) (“Volition”) today announced that its first product the “Total Nu.Q™ Assay” research use only (RUO) kit, is ready and available for purchase through Active Motif, its Global Sales and Distribution Partner (https://www.activemotif.com/catalog/1266/NuQ-total-assay). This kit, based on Volition’s proprietary Nucleosomics® technology, is the first in a range of... Read more
August 1, 2018 July 31, 2018 To Our Valued Customers HORIBA, Ltd. Oxford Instruments Nano Analysis Announcing Transfer of EMAX Series Sales and Maintenance Service Operations Greetings, and we trust that this communication finds your company enjoying strong and prosperous business conditions. Upon this occasion, we wish to convey our most profound gratitude for your... Read more
BREA, CALIF. — (Aug. 1, 2018) — Beckman Coulter announced today commercialization of its DxM MicroScan WalkAway system, a diagnostic solution for bacterial identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing for microbiology laboratories. The DxM MicroScan WalkAway system uses direct minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) for detection of antimicrobial resistance, offering greater confidence in results through gold-standard accuracy and the... Read more
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Halo Labs, a venture-backed scientific instrumentation company developing high-throughput biopharmaceutical quality control tools, today announced the appointment of Robert Wicke as Chief Executive Officer. Robert is a seasoned executive with over 25 years of experience growing successful life science instrumentation companies through the commercialization of innovative new products and inorganic growth. Prior to... Read more
ANDOVER, Mass., July 31, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — MKS Instruments, Inc. (NASDAQ: MKSI), a global provider of technologies that enable advanced processes and improve productivity, announced today that Raj Batra, President of the Digital Factory Division of Siemens in the U.S., was appointed to its Board of Directors, with a term that will begin on... Read more
EU Regulation Compliant GC-MS/MS Method Package for Dioxins in Foods Supports the Analysis of Dioxins in Foods Using GC-MS/MS Until recently, the analysis of dioxins in foods was mainly performed using magnetic sector (double-focusing) GC-MS instruments. However, GC-MS/MS (TQ) instruments are low cost and easy to handle, and offer a significant improvement in quantitative accuracy.... Read more
Thermo Scientific ChromaCare flush solutions and Thermo Scientific UHPLC-MS solvents reduce background noise and prevent protein precipitation for high-quality chromatograms CHICAGO – AACC – (July 31, 2018) – Laboratories can minimize interference and maximize instrument uptime with a novel range of flush solutions for liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS) systems and a new line of... Read more
CHICAGO – AACC – (July 31, 2018) – A new benchtop instrument from Thermo Fisher Scientific, the Phadia 200, enables new levels of flexibility and automation for laboratory testing facilities to aid in the diagnosis of allergy and autoimmunity conditions. The Phadia 200 is CE-marked, and the first installations are underway at select European sites.... Read more
FDA-cleared microbroth dilution plates provide true minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) results, facilitating more targeted patient therapy CHICAGO – AACC – (July 31, 2018) – The antimicrobial delafloxacin, and the combination of meropenem and vaborbactam are now available on FDA-cleared microbroth dilution susceptibility plates. Delafloxacin is available for testing select fastidious and non-fastidious Gram positive and... Read more