Illumina to Webcast Upcoming Investor Conference Presentations

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced that its executives will be speaking at the following investor conferences, and invited investors to participate via webcast. Goldman Sachs Global Healthcare Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, CATuesday, June 12, 2018 at 10:00 am Pacific Time William Blair & Company Growth Stock Conference in Chicago, ILWednesday, June 13,... Read more

QIAGEN launches the DNeasy PowerSoil Pro Kit to advance microbiome characterization in soils

Employing next-generation Inhibitor Removal Technology and improved sample disruption, the kit boosts the well-known performance of PowerSoil kits in isolating microbial DNA from soils Germantown, Maryland, and Hilden, Germany, May 23, 2018 – QIAGEN today announced the worldwide launch of the new DNeasy PowerSoil Pro Kit, the next generation of sample technology for the extraction of fungal... Read more

In memory Nils Foss 1928-2018

16. May, 2018   Born into a successful entrepreneurial family, Nils Foss has lifted the legacy. The ever curious and dedicated entrepreneur and business man recently established the Nils Foss Excellence Prizes, to be given for the third year in a row this year, and his life’s work, N. Foss Electric – today FOSS A/S,... Read more

Illumina Acquires Edico Genome to Accelerate Genomic Data Analysis

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced that it acquired Edico Genome, the leading provider of data analysis acceleration solutions for next-generation sequencing (NGS). Edico Genome’s DRAGEN® Bio-IT Platform (DRAGEN) uses field programmable gate array (FPGA) technology in conjunction with proprietary software algorithms to reduce both data footprint and time to results. DRAGEN can be run on... Read more

Faster NIR analysis improves dairy processing

2. May, 2018   FOSS announces the FoodScan™ 2, a new near infrared (NIR) analyser that equips quality control managers to handle the increasingly complex and time-critical tasks involved in analysis of solid and semi-solid dairy products such as cheese, butter and fermented dairy products. Building on the ground-breaking FoodScan, the FoodScan 2 harnesses the latest in... Read more

Agilent Opens Global Solution Development Center in Singapore

Agilent Opens Global Solution Development Center in Singapore Laboratory Designed to Meet Demand for Fully Tested Solutions in Pharma, Biopharma and Food Analysis SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 27, 2018 Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today opened a new facility in Singapore dedicated to developing integrated end-to-end workflows across a range of disciplines, including pharma, biopharma,... Read more

New Entry-Level, Automated Titrators Accelerate Laboratory Productivity

The Thermo Scientific Orion Star T900 Series is designed to automate QC/QA processes and boost efficiency WALTHAM, Mass., April 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — A new series of entry-level, automated potentiometric laboratory-grade titrators has been designed to make titrations easier, more reliable and more accurate than manual alternatives, across a wide range of QC/QA applications within food... Read more

Neogen names Donofrio VP of Food Safety R&D

CONTACT: Steve Quinlan, Vice President & CFO, 517/372-9200 LANSING, Mich., April 19, 2018 — Neogen Corporation (NASDAQ: NEOG) announced today that it had named Dr. Robert Donofrio as Vice President of Food Safety Research and Development. Donofrio had recently served as the director of this group of 75 scientists. “Neogen’s Board of Directors is pleased to... Read more

Bruker Introduces the New CTX™ Portable XRF Analyzer

MUNICH, April 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — At Analytica 2018, Bruker today introduces the new CTX™ X-ray fluorescence (XRF) elemental analyzer. The portable Counter Top XRF (CTX) is small, light-weight, safety-interlocked, and battery operated. At less than 7 kilograms in weight, the self-contained CTX is truly portable, and has a small footprint of 14 cm in... Read more