HORIBA to Establish New R&D Site

July 6, 2018 HORIBA, Ltd. (Head Office: Kyoto, Japan; hereinafter, “HORIBA”) announced today the relocation of a development site in Reno, Nevada, USA (hereinafter, the “Reno Technology Center”) with a view toward developing technology for fluid measurement and control of gases and liquids for the semiconductor production process. The new site will go into full... Read more

COPAN Announces the Worldwide Launch of CYCLONE AUTO-PREP™ with Smart Incubators and AI for Automatic Determination of Bacterial Growth During the Upcoming International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) Annual Meeting

  MURRIETA, Calif., July 6, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — COPAN is proud to announce the worldwide launch of CYCLONE AUTO-PREP™, a fully automated instrument for preparing pour plate total viable bacterial counts on liquid samples, with optional Smart Incubators and the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for automatic colony counting and colony recognition  for most common bacteria of specific... Read more

BASi and Seventh Wave Laboratories Combine Operations to Provide Broader Solutions and Greater Scientific Expertise to Clients

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 02, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bioanalytical Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:BASI) and Seventh Wave Laboratories, LLC, today announced that they have signed an asset purchase agreement (APA) joining operations to provide broader solutions and greater scientific expertise to clients. BASi provides contract research services and niche instrumentation to the life sciences industry, primarily in drug research, discovery,... Read more

Rigaku Presents Latest X-ray Diffraction Instrumentation at EPDIC16

Rigaku is a Gold Sponsor of the 16th European Powder Diffraction Conference (EPDIC16), being held in Edinburgh from 1st – 4th July 2018. July 2, 2016 –Edinburgh, Scotland. Rigaku Corporation is pleased to announce its attendance at The 16th European Powder Diffraction Conference (EPDIC16) taking place at the John McIntyre Conference Centre, Edinburgh University. Established in... Read more

MilliporeSigma to Expand Operations in Gillingham, UK

Jul 02, 2018 Company to expand distribution centre for Life Science products to support future business growth MilliporeSigma, a leading science and technology company, today announced plans to expand its Gillingham, UK distribution centre. The €9 million investment will boost distribution capabilities for the business. Anticipated to open in early 2019, the new facility will... Read more

Count particles on filters quickly and easily

02 July 2018 Leica Microsystems launches a new cleanliness analysis software The new Cleanliness Expert software from Leica Microsystems is now available. It is an easy-to-use, optimal cleanliness solution to provide you with reliable, repeatable analysis results for your specific application needs. Benefit from an exceptional, unique, customizable workflow solution in this new version: Save... Read more

Advanced Instruments Introduces OsmoTECH

JULY 2, 2018 • NEWS Advanced Instruments Introduces OsmoTECH™ Single-Sample Micro-Osmometer Designed to meet the demanding needs of the biotech industry NORWOOD, MA- July 2, 2018: Today, Advanced Instruments—a leading developer of scientific and analytical instruments for the biotech industry and leading authority on osmometry—announced the release of the OsmoTECH Single-Sample Micro-Osmometer. OsmoTECH’s data management capabilities, security... Read more

Life Sciences Industry Veteran Todd R. Nelson Named SGI-DNA CEO to Lead Spin-out from Synthetic Genomics

LA JOLLA, CA — July 2, 2018 —SGI-DNA, a leader in commercial DNA synthesis, today announced industry veteran Todd R. Nelson, Ph.D., MBA has been appointed Chief Executive Officer to lead the spin-out of the company from Synthetic Genomics, Inc. (SGI). “Todd is a proven life sciences leader who brings a wealth of knowledge and experience... Read more

New Viscovery® SOMine® data mining suite raises the bar for Big Data preprocessing and visual model interpretation

Planegg, Germany (29 June 2018) Biomax data-mining subsidiary, Viscovery Software, has launched version 7.2 of its Viscovery® SOMine® visual data mining suite. The new version offers a set of features for improved performance in Big Data preprocessing, as well as for advanced annotation and interpretation of explorative models on multiple semantic levels. Viscovery SOMine suite... Read more

Eppendorf introduces first ready-to-use, synthetic cell cultureware for iPSC and MSC stem cells

06/28/2018 Since the groundbreaking discovery of human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) by Shinya Yamanaka in 2006, the use of pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) has experienced a boom. Due to their extensive in vitro self-renewal properties and their ability to differentiate into many different cell types, PSCs, and especially hiPSCs, offer exciting promises in a... Read more