FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., July 18, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced new technology that can automatically report and release negative urine cultures. Every day, medical laboratory professionals spend a significant amount of time reviewing urine samples. Because up to 70 percent of these samples... Read more
Basel, 18 July 2017 Reminder: Invitation to Roche Analyst Event on Diagnostics Division at AACC 2017 Tuesday, 1st August 2017, 6:00pm PDT We are pleased to invite you to an analyst event on Tuesday, 1st August 2017 to discuss Roche’s Diagnostics Division, in conjunction with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) Annual Meeting and... Read more
Scientists at Osaka University in Japan are developing flexible sensor materials for detecting signals from the human body. The research involves soft, organic electronics and progress is being made with help from Leica microscopes. The ultimate goal is to create more biocompatible sensors which are comfortable to wear and make monitoring a person’s health more... Read more
Shimadzu Corporation announces the release of its flagship SPM-8100FM scanning probe microscope, featuring five times faster data acquisition, four times wider scan in both X and Y-axis directions, and ultra-high resolution performance that is as high in both air and liquids as in a vacuum. A scanning probe microscope (SPM) is a microscope that scans... Read more
CAMBRIDGE, England, July 17, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Sphere Fluidics Limited and their partners have just won a $1.25 million grant to develop a novel automated single cell genome engineering platform. The grant syndicate also includes Horizon Discovery (UK), Twist Bioscience (US) and the University of Edinburgh (UK). The grant was an Open Innovation Grant from InnovateUK with participation open to companies in... Read more
New Solution Streamlines Workflow and Eliminates Sequencing Errors SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 17, 2017 Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced its newest next-generation sequencing (NGS) library prep solution — Agilent SureSelectXT HS — a complete target enrichment research solution that provides total workflow management for laboratories, from QC to target enrichment, to analysis and... Read more
CONTACT: Steve Quinlan, Vice President & CFO, 517/372-9200 LANSING, Mich., July 17, 2017 — Neogen Corporation (NASDAQ: NEOG) announced today the company has named John Adent as chief executive officer, effective immediately. James Herbert, the company’s founder and former CEO, will remain as executive chairman and work closely with Adent in the transition of responsibilities. “I’m... Read more
Basel, 17 July 2017 Roche’s OCREVUS (ocrelizumab) approved for relapsing and primary progressive multiple sclerosis in Australia Second approval after the US for OCREVUS as the first and only approved treatment for people with primary progressive multiple sclerosis, a highly disabling form of MS Australia has among the highest prevalence of MS in the Southern... Read more
Basel, 17 July 2017 Roche’s OCREVUS (ocrelizumab) approved for relapsing and primary progressive multiple sclerosis in Australia Second approval after the US for OCREVUS as the first and only approved treatment for people with primary progressive multiple sclerosis, a highly disabling form of MS Australia has among the highest prevalence of MS in the Southern... Read more
Canopy Biosciences signs deal with Array Bridge to market kits for impurity analysis ST. LOUIS, July 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Canopy BiosciencesTM, LLC, an emerging provider of gene editing and personalized medicine technologies, announced today that it will enter the bioprocessing field by marketing kits for host cell protein detection. Array Bridge, a biotech company that developed the... Read more