Exploring the Dawn of Animal Life

Researchers possibly identify first occurrence of digestive tracts in the fossil record using electron microscopy and tomographic X-ray imaging Dr. James Schiffbauer, University of Missouri Dr. James Schiffbauer and his team at the University of Missouri, USA, focus their research on how accurately they can interpret the history of life from the fossil record. Dr.... Read more

New Multi-Instrument Calibrator Designed to Improve Accuracy and Save Time for Leak Detection and Repair Compliance

New Multi-Instrument Calibrator Designed to Improve Accuracy and Save Time for Leak Detection and Repair Compliance Thermo Scientific MIC-6 Multi-Instrument Calibrator Designed to Streamline U.S. EPA LDAR Compliance MINNEAPOLIS, March 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — For refineries and petrochemical plants, a new multi-instrument calibrator is designed to save time and improve accuracy of daily calibrations and... Read more

New Thermo Scientific SureTect PCR Assays for expanded foodborne pathogen analysis

New Thermo Scientific SureTect PCR Assays for expanded foodborne pathogen analysis New assays for Campylobacter, STEC, Vibrio and Staphylococcus aureus enable more comprehensive pathogen testing for all food manufacturers BASINGSTOKE, England, March 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Thermo Fisher Scientific today released five new Thermo Scientific SureTect PCR Assays and enhanced software to test food and related... Read more

Neogen acquires Australian food safety assets

CONTACT: Steven J. Quinlan, Vice President & CFO, 517/372-9200 LANSING, Mich., March 2, 2020 — Neogen Corporation (NASDAQ: NEOG) announced today that it has acquired the food safety assets of Australia-based Cell BioSciences — a major supplier of food safety and industrial microbiology products. Cell BioSciences will continue to operate in its non-food safety markets.   ... Read more

Pacific Biosciences to Support Sequencing of California Species for the Earth BioGenome Project

MENLO PARK, Calif. and DAVIS, Calif., Feb. 25, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) and Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB), a leading provider of high-quality sequencing of genomes, transcriptomes and epigenomes, today announced that PacBio will support the sequencing of ecologically important organisms in the state of California through the EBP. The... Read more

Swift Biosciences and LGC Partner on Targeted Sequencing Assays for AgBio Market

(ANN ARBOR, Mich. – February 24, 2020) Swift Biosciences, Inc., a leader in commercialization of DNA and RNA library preparation kits for Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS), today announced a partnership agreement with LGC, Biosearch Technologies, a global leader in specialty genomic analysis tools to leverage Swift’s targeted sequencing technology into LGC Biosearch Techologies kits and service... Read more

Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former US FDA Commissioner, joins Illumina’s Board of Directors

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) announced today that Scott Gottlieb, M.D. has joined the company’s Board of Directors, effective February 4, 2020. Dr. Gottlieb is currently a special partner at the venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). From 2017 to 2019, he served... Read more

Neogen partners with ripe.io to bring blockchain to food safety and animal genomics

CONTACTs: Neogen: Joe Heinzelmann, 517/372-9200, jheinzelmann@neogen.comripe.io: 415/494-7767, press@ripe.io LANSING, Mich., Feb. 5, 2020 ― Neogen Corporation (NASDAQ: NEOG) announced today that it has entered into a partnership with food industry blockchain pioneer Ripe Technology (ripe.io) to adapt innovative blockchain technology for use with Neogen’s food safety diagnostics and animal genomics. Blockchain is a form of digital technology that... Read more