May 30, 2017 Licensing, IP, and Legal Life Science Tools

NuGEN Technologies Inc. Announces Issuance of US Patent for Its Single Primer Target Enrichment Technology (SPET) for Next Generation Sequencing Applications

San Carlos, California , May 30, 2017 NuGEN Technologies today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued US Patent No. US 9,650,628 describing the Single Primer Target Enrichment Technology (SPET) which enables targeted nucleic acid analysis by next generation sequencing (NGS). NuGEN offers commercial solutions using SPET to create target and strand-specific libraries... Read more

May 29, 2017 Microscopy Product Launch

Hitachi High-Technologies Introduces New Regulus Series of Field-Emission Scanning Electron Microscopes

– High-Quality Imaging with Improved Resolution, Higher Magnification, and New Functions – Tokyo, Japan, May 29, 2017 – Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (TSE: 8036, Hitachi High-Tech) announced the introduction of the new Regulus series of field emission scanning electron microscopes (FE-SEM) on May 30. As a new brand for FE-SEMs, the Regulus series lineup comprises four... Read more

May 29, 2017 Informatics & Software Life Science Tools M&A, Partnerships

Bluebee and MediSapiens Announce Strategic Partnership

Combined Offering Provides a Comprehensive Integrated Solution For (NGS) Data Analysis And Interpretation in Healthcare And Research Finland and The Netherlands – May 29, 2017 – Today, Bluebee, a leading provider of high-performance genomics analysis and storage solutions and MediSapiens, a leading biomedical big data curation, management and interpretation company, announce a strategic partnership to provide... Read more

May 25, 2017 PR/Corporate

VWR Proudly Donates $35,000 to SickKids Foundation

NEWS PROVIDED BY VWR 25 May, 2017, 09:05 ET SHARE THIS ARTICLE RADNOR, Pa., May 25, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — VWR (NASDAQ:  VWR), the leading global independent provider of product and service solutions to laboratory and production facilities, recently presented SickKids Foundation with a $35,000 donation. This contribution was made possible through the VWR Collection program.  Designed to make... Read more

May 24, 2017 Clinical Research/Diagn. Mass Spectrometry Product Launch

SCIEX Announces the First FDA-Cleared Vitamin D Assay Kit for Mass Spectrometry

SCIEX Vitamin D 200M Assay for the TopazTM System designed to measure Vitamin D with greater accuracy and simplicity for In Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) analysis in clinical diagnostic labs May 24, 2017 Framingham, MA — SCIEX Diagnostics, the in vitro diagnostics division of SCIEX, a global leader in mass spectrometry in the life sciences industry,... Read more

May 24, 2017 PR/Corporate

Sartorius Places 350 Million Euro Note Loan

Goettingen, May 24, 2017 – Sartorius, a leading international laboratory and pharmaceutical equipment provider, successfully placed a note loan with a volume of 350 million euros. The note loan with maturity terms of 5, 7 and 10 years was arranged by Commerzbank and Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, and subscribed by national and international financial institutions, primarily savings banks... Read more