Agilent Completes Acquisition of BioTek Instruments

Builds on Multi-Year Growth Strategy in Critical Cell Analysis Technology SANTA CLARA, Calif., August 26, 2019 Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it has completed the acquisition of BioTek Instruments, a global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of innovative life science instrumentation. The BioTek acquisition expands Agilent’s growing presence and expertise in... Read more

Bruker Introduces Next-Generation 80 MHz Benchtop FT-NMR System

New Fourier 80 for High NMR Data Quality with TopSpin Software for Any Chemistry Lab BERLIN, Germany – August 25, 2019 – At EUROISMAR 2019, Bruker today announced the European launch of the Fourier 80 system, a next-generation, high-performance 80 MHz Fourier Transform nuclear magnetic resonance (FT-NMR) benchtop spectrometer. The Fourier 80 has been designed for organic or medicinal chemistry... Read more

Smiths Detection opens state-of-the-art service, training and experience centre in India

GURUGRAM, INDIA — 22 Aug 2019 Smiths Detection today announced the opening of its state-of-the-art service, training and experience centre in Gurugram, India. An investment of US1.5M, the facility is a first in the region and features a training centre, a rework depot, a customer call centre, a parts warehouse and a customer experience laboratory. The 11,000 square... Read more

Neogen’s NeoSeek™ for STEC receives AOAC validation

CONTACT: Joe Heinzelmann, Neogen Corporation, 517/372-9200 LANSING, Mich., Aug. 21, 2019 — Neogen Corporation (Nasdaq: NEOG) announced AOAC has validated NeoSeek™ for STEC, a proprietary testing platform that determines the genetic composition of bacteria in a food sample. The newly validated test detects and identifies seven Shiga toxin-producing strains of E. coli (STEC) known to cause severe human... Read more

Bio-Techne Introduces Maurice Empower Control Kit for the Maurice System

AUGUST 20, 2019 MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) today announced the release of the Maurice Empower® Control Kit for the ProteinSimple™-branded Maurice platform. This new kit enables users to collect, manage and report Maurice results with the industry leading Empower® 3 Software from Waters™ Corporation. Since its introduction in 2016, the Maurice platform has... Read more

Neogen licenses food safety data analytics platform from Corvium

CONTACT: Steve Quinlan, Vice President & CFO, 517/372-9200 LANSING, Mich., Aug. 19, 2019 ― Neogen Corporation (NASDAQ: NEOG) announced today that it has signed a development and licensing agreement with Corvium, Inc., that will allow Neogen’s customers exclusive access to an enhanced version of Corvium’s award-winning CONTROL-PRO™ food risk intelligence platform. To be marketed under the... Read more

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany Granted 20 CRISPR Patents Total Worldwide

19 AUG 2019 | DARMSTADT, GERMANY Patent offices in Europe, Israel, South Korea and U.K. issue seven additional grants for company’s CRISPR genome-editing technology Company has 20 allowed CRISPR patents to date across nine different geographies Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, today announced that the European, Israeli, South Korean and U.K. intellectual... Read more

New Shimadzu Micro-ESI 9030 Flowrate Compatible Ionization Interface Enables Fast, Easy, High-Sensitive LCMS Q-TOF Analysis

Aug 19 2019 Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI) announces the release of the Micro-ESI 9030, an interface compatible with the Nexera Mikros Microflow LCMS that enables micro flowrate analysis with the LCMS-9030 quadrupole time-of-flight (Q-TOF) system. The Micro-ESI 9030 detects target components with much higher sensitivity compared to analytical systems by optimizing the ESI probe position... Read more

Reforest the Tropics and New England Biolabs®, Inc. enter into agreement to plant 100 hectares of forest to offset carbon emissions

Mystic, CT and Ipswich, MA (August 15, 2019): Reforest The Tropics (RTT), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Mystic, Connecticut and New England Biolabs, Inc. (NEB®), a global leader in the production of reagents for the life science industry, announce that they have entered into an agreement to plant 100 hectares (247 acres) of new tropical... Read more

IDT launches oPools™ Oligo Pools – the longest, highest fidelity, and ready-to-use custom oligo pools on the market

Aug 15, 2019 Long, high-yield oligos with industry-beating low error rate enable researchers to skip amplification steps and start projects immediately CORALVILLE, IA (August 15, 2019) – Continuing its mission to advance biological research worldwide, Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) has launched oPools™ Oligo Pools – ready-to-use pools of high quality DNA oligonucleotides (oligos) up to 350 nucleotides in length. Thanks... Read more