September 24, 2019 Environ, Ag./Food & Bev Informatics & Software Licensing, IP, and Legal

Clear Labs’ Clear Safety Platform Receives AOAC Certification for Listeria Testing

Official Approval from Leading Accreditation Group Follows the Recent Addition of Listeria testing and Environmental Mapping™ capabilities to the Clear Safety™ platform MENLO PARK, CALIF. (PRWEB) SEPTEMBER 24, 2019 Clear Labs, the only automated and intelligent NGS platform purpose-built for food safety testing, today announced that its flagship product, Clear Safety, has received AOAC Performance Tested... Read more

September 24, 2019 Clinical Research/Diagn. Mass Spectrometry Product Launch

Fluidigm Becomes the First Company to Enable 50-Plex Cytometry Panels with the Release of Seven New Metal Antibody Labels

Powering industry-leading CyTOF technology to deliver new insights in translational and clinical research SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept. 24, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM), an innovative biotechnology tools provider with a vision to improve life through comprehensive health insight, today announced that it has launched seven new cadmium metal labeling kits for use with mass cytometry. The newly available... Read more

September 10, 2019 Clinical Research/Diagn. Licensing, IP, and Legal Mass Spectrometry

Fluidigm Files Patent Infringement Suit Against IONpath

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept. 10, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM), an innovative biotechnology tools provider with a vision to improve life through comprehensive health insight, today announced that it has filed new legal action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Californiaseeking to stop the infringement of its patented technology by IONpath. In... Read more

September 9, 2019 Life Science Tools Liq. Handling & Robotics Product Launch

Fluidigm Revolutionizes Next-Generation Sequencing RNA Library Preparation with Microfluidic Automation

Fluidigm Launches Breakthrough RNA Sequencing Library Preparation Workflow, Delivering Substantial Cost Savings and Efficiency SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept. 09, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM), an innovative biotechnology tools provider with a vision to improve life through comprehensive health insight, today announced the launch of a breakthrough RNA sequencing library preparation workflow that provides substantial cost savings... Read more

September 4, 2019 Clinical Research/Diagn. Mass Spectrometry Product Launch

Fluidigm Launches Imaging Mass Cytometry Immuno-Oncology Panel Kits and Advanced CyTOF Software at the 2019 World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC)

Fluidigm Showcases Immuno-Oncology Imaging Innovations at WMIC to Advance Translational and Clinical Cancer Research SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept. 04, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM), the global leader in highly multiplexed single-scan tissue imaging, today announced the launch of three new Imaging Mass Cytometry™ Maxpar® Human Immuno-Oncology Panel Kits and an advanced CyTOF® Software solution at the World... Read more

September 4, 2019 Lab Top-10 PR/Corporate

David Alsteens Receives 2019 Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award for Analytical Science

04 SEP 2019 | DARMSTADT, GERMANY Belgian chemist wins prestigious science award worth € 15,000 Recognition of young researchers who develop new methods in chemical analysis Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, presented Professor David Alsteens (33), Catholic University of Louvain (UCLovain), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium with the 2019 Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award for Analytical Science.... Read more

September 4, 2019 Atomic Spectroscopy Lab Top-10 Product Launch

Bruker Announces New D8 DISCOVER PlusTM X-ray Diffraction (XRD) Solutions

D8 DISCOVER Plus TM with non-coplanar arm and MONTEL Plus TM optic CHIBA, Japan – September 4, 2019 – At the Japan Analytical Scientific Instruments Show (JASIS), Bruker today announced the release of new D8 DISCOVER PlusTM X-ray diffraction (XRD) solutions, featuring the new non-coplanar arm and the MONTEL PlusTM X-ray optics. The new non-coplanar arm allows the D8 DISCOVER Plus to perform in-plane diffraction... Read more

September 3, 2019 Life Science Tools Product Launch

Samplix Launches Xdrop™ – Providing PCR-free Target Enrichment of Single Molecules

Pictured: The Xdrop™ system from Samplix. To download this image, please click here. Herlev, Denmark – September 2nd 2019 – Today, Samplix announced the commercial launch of its Xdrop™ sample preparation products for PCR-free target enrichment yet maintaining PCR-level specificity.  Xdrop™ enables single molecule resolution and bias free enrichment of genomic regions longer than 100 kb from... Read more

August 28, 2019 Chromatography Lab Top-10 Mass Spectrometry PR/Corporate

Waters Corporation Names Jonathan M. Pratt as President of TA Instruments

MILFORD, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug. 28, 2019– Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) today announced that Jonathan M. Pratt has been named Waters Corporation Senior Vice President and President of TA Instruments, effective September 3, 2019. Headquartered in New Castle, DE, TA Instruments designs, manufactures, and supports premier thermal analysis, rheology, microcalorimetry, and mechanical testing technologies for the material and life science industries. Waters Corporation... Read more

August 27, 2019 M&A, Partnerships

Fluidigm and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Collaborate on Landmark Single-Cell Study of the Human Epigenome

Aug 27, 2019 Mount Sinai selects Fluidigm single-cell microfluidics systems to identify epigenetic changes from environmental agents in study funded by the U.S. Department of Defense SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Aug. 27, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM), an innovative biotechnology tools provider with a vision to improve life through comprehensive health insight, today announced that it has... Read more