August 16, 2017 PR/Corporate

10x Genomics Hires Technology and Intellectual Property Veteran Eric Whitaker as General Counsel

Decades-Long Track Record of Corporate Counsel and Establishing/Protecting Intellectual Property Across the Technology Landscape August 16, 2017 05:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time PLEASANTON, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–10x Genomics, a company focused on enabling the mastery of biology by accelerating genomic discovery, today announced the appointment of Eric Whitaker as general counsel. In this role, Whitaker will serve as... Read more

August 16, 2017 Mass Spectrometry Product Launch

Nu Instruments Launches SAPPHIRE, a New Collision / Reaction Cell Multi-Collector, Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer

Wednesday, August 16, 2017 Contact: Paul Warburton 44 (0)1978 661304, paul.warburton@ametek.com Nu Instruments Launches SAPPHIRE, a New Collision / Reaction Cell Multi-Collector, Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer SAPPHIRE Offers the Ideal Solution for Precise and Accurate Isotopic Analysis for a Wide Range of Applications. WREXHAM, UK – Nu Instruments, a world leader in the design and manufacture... Read more

August 16, 2017 Liq. Handling & Robotics Product Launch Uncategorized

“Top Performance” Varispenser 2 and Varispenser 2x –The new Uncompromising Solution for the most Demanding dispensing Applications

New! Uncompromising from the bottom to the top – Eppendorf Varispenser® 2 and Varispenser® 2x Hamburg, August 2017 Bottletop dispensers are needed in any lab where aggressive solutions like lyes, acids, bases or solvents are dispensed from large supply bottles. Bottletop dispensers need to be universally applicable and of uncompromising quality. As a specialist for... Read more

August 15, 2017 Clinical Research/Diagn. Informatics & Software M&A, Partnerships

Seven Bridges Selected To Build Groundbreaking Data Analysis Platform To Fight Pediatric Disease

August 15, 2017 New data resource center will be created with the NIH and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to enable pediatric research across both cancer and structural birth defects datasets for the first time BOSTON, Mass., and PHILADELPHIA, Penn., August 15, 2017 –  Seven Bridges, the biomedical data analysis company, today announced that it has been selected... Read more

August 15, 2017 M&A, Partnerships

Cambridge Epigenetix and NuGEN Technologies sign partnership agreement to combine leading technologies in epigenetics research

Cambridge, UK, Aug 15, 2017 Co-exclusive global licence covers manufacture and integration of CEGX TrueMethyl® technology for oxidative bisulfite sequencing (oxBS-Seq) with Targeted Methylation and NuGEN Ovation Methyl-Seq systems​ Cambridge Epigenetix (CEGX) and NuGEN Technologies, leaders in innovative epigenetic technologies, today announced that they have entered into a partnership agreement to integrate the CEGX TrueMethyl technology for oxidative bisulfite sequencing... Read more

August 15, 2017 Product Launch

QUANTERIX TO LAUNCH HIGH-SENSITIVITY BENCHTOP INSTRUMENT AND ASSAYS FOR MULTIPLEX BIOMARKER DETECTION

AUGUST 15, 2017 Boston, MA and Washington D.C. – August 15, 2017 — Quanterix Corporation, a company dedicated to digitizing biomarker analysis with the goal of advancing the science of precision health, today announced it will be expanding its single molecule array, or Simoa, technology platform portfolio to include the new Quanterix SR-Plex benchtop instrument. In... Read more

August 11, 2017 Lab Top-10 Life Science Tools Product Launch

New Real-Time PCR Systems Connect Researchers in the Cloud

Accelerate international collaboration and commission a global monitoring framework with a secure computing platform hosted by AWS CARLSBAD, Calif.–New real-time PCR systems that fully integrate with cloud computing technology mark a new era in data sharing and global research collaboration. The Applied Biosystems QuantStudio 3 and QuantStudio 5 Real-Time PCR systems, designed to enable multi-institutional... Read more

August 11, 2017 Chromatography Lab Top-10 Product Launch

New Ultrapure Methylene Chloride Enhances Trace Analysis Performance by GC and GC/MS

FAIR LAWN, N.J.–Researchers can now take advantage of enhancements to ultrapure methylene chloride solvents that deliver an interference-free baseline in chromatograms for better detection of trace levels of target analytes in identifying compounds of interest. This is particularly important for environmental testing of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), as well as pesticides in food, water, and... Read more

August 10, 2017 Life Science Tools Product Launch

Swift Announces the Highest Throughput Single-Cell Methyl-Seq Library Preparation Method

Study published in Science magazine demonstrates how epigenetic markers can identify cell subtypes and regulatory elements that drive cellular diversity (ANN ARBOR, Mich. – August 10, 2017) Swift Biosciences, a leading provider of innovative library prep solutions for next-generation sequencing (NGS), today announced the launch of a new single-cell methylation sequencing method based on its Accel-NGS® Adaptase™ technology,... Read more

August 10, 2017 PR/Corporate

Fluidigm Announces Sale of $30 Million of Common Stock in At-The-Market Equity Offering

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Aug. 10, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM) today announced the sale of 9,090,909 shares of its common stock for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $30.0 million before commissions and offering expenses under its previously announced “at-the-market” equity offering program. The sales were completed pursuant to the Sales Agreement between the company and Cowen and Company, LLC,... Read more