Innovative Incubation Monitoring System with Cell Count and Confluency Analysis to Improve the Regenerative Medicine Workflow

January 07, 2020 Track the health of cell cultures without removing them from the incubator The OLYMPUS Provi CM20 incubation monitoring system* provides quantitative data about the health of cell cultures while they are in the incubator. The system periodically scans the cultures, counts the number of cells, determines confluency and wirelessly communicates the data... Read more

JEOL Ltd. Acquires IDES

2020/01/17 JEOL Ltd. (headquartered in Akishima, Tokyo; JEOL hereafter) acquired all shares of INTEGRATED DYNAMIC ELECTRON SOLUTIONS, INC. (headquartered in California, USA; IDES hereafter), an entrepreneurial venture specialized in technologies related to transmission electron microscopy (TEM hereafter), and made IDES its wholly-owned subsidiary. Background And Objective JEOL is driving continuous and sustainable growth by implementing... Read more

Shimadzu and Providence Cancer Institute Partner to Advance Cancer Immunotherapy Research

Jan 17, 2020 Shimadzu Corporation and the Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, a division of Providence Cancer Institute (Providence) in Portland, Oregon, have entered into a joint research agreement to apply mass spectrometry technology to develop tools for personalized cancer immunotherapeutics. Shimadzu and Providence will develop technologies to reliably identify cancer antigens recognized by an... Read more

Track your samples by their ID

Hamburg, January 2020 Safe and distinct sample ID is key for successful results in the lab. The new Eppendorf SafeCode system enables a safe sample vial tracking from the bench to the longterm storage in the ULT freezer. SafeCode is based on a multi-level coding of the CryoStorage Vials for sample storage. The coding can... Read more

Launch of Fluorescent X-ray Coating Thickness Gauge FT160 series that enables measurement of micro-spot smaller than 100µm

January 15, 2020 Hitachi High-Tech Science Corporation announced the release of the FT160 series of X-ray coating thickness gauges for measuring plating thickness and composition at micro spots of less than 100 micrometers in diameter. Advances in mobile electronic devices such as smartphone and tablet PCs, as well as in automotive electronic components have resulted... Read more

New Technological Leader in Particle Characterization

On 1 January 2020 the companies RETSCH Technology GmbH, Microtrac Europe GmbH and BEL Europe GmbH have merged to become the new Microtrac Retsch GmbH. This new constellation allows users of particle characterization in the EMEA region to access the broadest product portfolio worldwide from one single source. Under the brand name Microtrac MRB the company provides systems... Read more

Roche helps further reduce risk of severe illness for transplant patients by expanding the portfolio to include Adenovirus Test on the cobas 6800/8800 Systems

●  Immunocompromised transplant recipients are at risk of major complications when infected with adenovirus, a common and highly contagious virus ●  Healthcare professionals can use this new test to determine whether transplant patients are at risk of developing severe illness from adenovirus infection ●  The Adenovirus Test leverages the flexibility, automation, and reliability of the cobas omni Utility... Read more

Advanced BioMatrix Acquires HyStem® from Lineage Cell Therapeutics

Advanced BioMatrix acquires HyStem® technology for R&D marketTechnology highly synergistic with existing Advanced BioMatrix productsAdvanced BioMatrix to fully manufacture and distribute the HyStem® kits California, USA – January 14, 2020 – Advanced BioMatrix has acquired the HyStem® line of products from Lineage Cell Therapeutics – previously BioTime/ESI Bio/Glycosan. HyStem® kits are based on innovative thiolated hyaluronic... Read more

LabCorp to Adopt Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Ion Torrent Genexus Next-Generation Sequencing System and Pan-Cancer Assay for Use in Oncology Research and Development

January 14, 2020 06:39 AM Eastern Standard Time BURLINGTON, N.C. & CARLSBAD, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–LabCorp® (NYSE: LH) announced it will adopt the Ion Torrent Genexus System* and Oncomine Precision Assay* for use in research and development of companion diagnostics as well as other future oncology and precision medicine applications. LabCorp will also evaluate the potential for... Read more

SPECTRO Introduces its New SPECTROMAXx with iCAL 2.0 ARC/SPARK OES Analyzer

Kleve, Germany, January 14, 2020 – SPECTRO Analytical Instruments has introduced the eighth generation of its SPECTROMAXx with iCAL 2.0 ARC/SPARK OES Analyzer — improved with innovative new capabilities and advancements in performance to achieve fast, accurate elemental analysis precisely tuned for material control and foundry applications. The SPECTROMAXx may well be the industry’s leading OES... Read more