June 1, 2017 Clinical Research/Diagn. Lab Top-10 M&A, Partnerships

Philips and Illumina team up with Navican, an Intermountain Healthcare Company, to Accelerate the Delivery of Precision Medicine to Health Systems Worldwide

– New “turnkey” approach to precision medicine seeks to deliver Intermountain’s best practices into a streamlined service to be integrated at the point of care – Solution’s goal is to benefit late stage cancer patients through advanced analytics and expert decision support, combined with providing better access to targeted treatments and clinical trials NEWS PROVIDED... Read more

May 31, 2017 Chromatography Lab Top-10 M&A, Partnerships Molecular Spectroscopy

Waters and Wyatt Collaborate to Advance Polymer Analysis and Biopharmaceutical Characterization Studies

Coupling of technologies delivers valuable information 5x faster than conventional size exclusion chromatography (SEC) MILFORD, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 31, 2017– Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) announced that it entered into a Co-Marketing agreement with Wyatt Technology to advance the analysis of synthetic polymers and biotherapeutic proteins. By pairing Waters® ACQUITY® UPLC® and Waters® ACQUITY® Advanced Polymer Chromatography® (APC™)... Read more

May 31, 2017 Uncategorized

Observing surface wetting under water

Confocal image in 3D of the water−air interface beneath a water drop sitting on a superhydrophobic surface. The substrate is microtextured epoxy covered with gold and modified with a dodecanethiol self-assembled monolayer. A Leica confocal microscope and profilometer has been used by scientists to better understand the wetting properties of hydrophobic (water repellant) surfaces. They... Read more

May 31, 2017 Chromatography Lab Top-10

Phenomenex Opens New Gas Chromatography Research and Manufacturing Facility

Torrance, Calif. (May 30, 2017) – Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the research and manufacture of advanced technologies for the separation sciences, announces the opening of a new manufacturing and development facility dedicated to the company’s gas chromatography (GC) columns, marketed under the Zebron™ brand name. The 15,000-square-foot facility, which was designed and extensively... Read more

May 30, 2017 Life Science Tools Product Launch

New England Biolabs® Launches New NEBNext® Ultra™ II RNA Kits for Streamlined NGS Library Preparation with as Little as 5 ng of Total RNA

New Ultra II technology addresses lower input amounts and challenging sample types for Illumina® next generation sequencing systems IPSWICH, Mass., May 30, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — New England Biolabs (NEB®) today announced the expansion of their NEBNext Ultra II NGS library preparation product portfolio to include kits for RNA. The strand-specific NEBNext Ultra II Directional RNA Library... Read more

May 30, 2017 Licensing, IP, and Legal Life Science Tools

NuGEN Technologies Inc. Announces Issuance of US Patent for Its Single Primer Target Enrichment Technology (SPET) for Next Generation Sequencing Applications

San Carlos, California , May 30, 2017 NuGEN Technologies today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued US Patent No. US 9,650,628 describing the Single Primer Target Enrichment Technology (SPET) which enables targeted nucleic acid analysis by next generation sequencing (NGS). NuGEN offers commercial solutions using SPET to create target and strand-specific libraries... Read more