GE Healthcare and SOPHiA GENETICS to collaborate to match treatments to multimodal patient data and cancer type

Global collaboration aims to deliver on the promise of integrated cancer medicine by bringing insights across multiple diagnostic modalities – at scale – to clinical and biopharma customers. Support continuum of care by combining data from the GE Healthcare Edison platform and the SOPHiA DDM™ cloud-based platform. Advance standardization of data to improve quality of... Read more

How Fruit Flies Become Male or Female

Researchers use structured illumination and confocal microscopy to study proteins involved in Drosophila sex determination The generation of offspring through sexual reproduction between a male and a female evolved approximately 1.2 billion years ago. An important part of this process is that each new generation contains both males and females in order to continue propagation... Read more

Roche to present new data at the ISTH 2021 Congress highlighting long-standing commitment to advancing haemophilia A standard of care

Roche will present the final analysis from the phase IIIb STASEY study, reinforcing the safety and efficacy profile of Hemlibra in a broad range of people with haemophilia A with factor VIII inhibitors1 Spark Therapeutics will share updated data from the ongoing phase I/II clinical trial of investigational gene therapy SPK-8011, demonstrating that hepatocyte expression... Read more

Guardiola Sala Foundation To Address Sustainable Water Management

Pep & Pere Guardiola, EarthEcho International and Xylem Host First In Series Of Water Education Events, As Spain’s Water Resources Predicted To Decrease By Up To 40% RYE BROOK, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jul. 2, 2021– Pep Guardiola, along with his brother Pere, both representing their newly-established Guardiola Sala Foundation, have teamed up with global nonprofit, EarthEcho International... Read more

MKS Instruments to Acquire Atotech

$5.1 billion cash and stock transaction combines capabilities in lasers, optics, motion and process chemistry to enable next-generation advanced electronics Accelerates interconnect solutions for customers to address increasing miniaturization demands that enables integration of chips to devices Read more

GE Healthcare partners with the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of Congo to help efforts to fight COVID-19

June 30, 2021 – Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. GE Healthcare announces a partnership with the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of Congo to deliver mobile X-ray units and ECG machines to help efforts to fight COVID-19. The essential medical equipment will play an important role in supporting the diagnosis and the management... Read more

Photon antibunching identifies single-photon emitters

WITec combines antibunching experiments with fast Raman and photoluminescence imaging. Single-photon emitters have quantum mechanical properties that are exploited in quantum technology and information science, including the development of quantum computers and cryptography methods. Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamonds, single fluorescent molecules, carbon nanotubes and quantum dots are prominent examples of single-photon emitters. In... Read more

Cytiva acquires Intermountain Life Sciences; will double capacity for buffers and liquid cell culture media

Combined with Cytiva’s existing manufacturing in Logan, Utah, Intermountain will boost global production of buffers and liquid cell culture media to Cytiva’s customers Responds to increased demand for products that are used in emerging modalities such as gene therapy, and are currently in high demand for the manufacture of COVID-19 vaccines and therapies Cytiva intends... Read more

TA Instruments Helps Laboratories Automate Thermal Analysis Workflows with New TRIOS AutoPilot Software

06/29/21 Software Automates and Standardizes Materials Science Laboratory Workflows to Help Drive Thermal Analysis Testing Efficiency, Ensure Product Quality and Reduce Risk  NEWS SUMMARY: First of its kind software for TA’s thermal analysis product line, helping customers save time and money by automating standard operating procedures. Accelerates laboratory efficiency and reduces risks by simplifying the... Read more

Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches Collection Kit to Streamline Saliva Testing

Self-collection kit facilitates raw saliva collection to aid global SARS-CoV-2 research and surveillance efforts CARLSBAD, Calif., June 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — As businesses, universities and schools reopen, SARS-CoV-2 virus surveillance is critical to the management of outbreaks and emerging new strains, including the Delta variant that now makes up 91 percent of new cases in... Read more