February 2, 2017 Bio/Pharma/CRO M&A, Partnerships

Arven Pharmaceuticals selects GE Healthcare’s FlexFactory to improve Turkish and regional access to biopharmaceuticals

CHALFONT ST. GILES, UK and ISTANBUL, TURKEY– 2 February 2017 – Arven Pharmaceuticals, a Toksoz Group Company, has selected GE Healthcare’s FlexFactory manufacturing platform to expand production capacity at its facility in Kirklareli, Turkey. With this expanded capacity, Arven will support local healthcare needs by bringing biopharmaceuticals to the Turkish and surrounding markets faster, whilst... Read more

February 1, 2017 Life Science Tools Product Launch

IDT first to market with complete Cpf1-based CRISPR genome editing system

Expanded CRISPR toolkit includes Cpf1 and range of Alt-R™ support products, increasing the options available to molecular biology researchers CORALVILLE, IA (February 1, 2017) – Reflecting its drive to provide innovative solutions to the genomics community, Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) is the first genomics company to develop and bring to market a complete ribonucleoprotein-based Cpf1... Read more

February 1, 2017 Microscopy Product Launch

Oxford Instruments Asylum Research Announces the New Cypher VRS Video-Rate Atomic Force Microscope

01 February 2017 Oxford Instruments Asylum Research announces the new Cypher VRS Video-Rate AFM, the first and only full-featured video-rate atomic force microscope (AFM). The Cypher VRS sets a new benchmark for speed, enabling high resolution imaging of dynamic events at up to 625 lines/second, corresponding to about 10 frames per second. For comparison, this... Read more

January 31, 2017 PR/Corporate

NuGEN Continues with Investment Across Worldwide Territories

San Carlos, California , Jan 31, 2017 NuGEN Technologies, Inc. announced the appointment of new distribution agreements, and Director of Sales – Worldwide Territories. “With the addition of our new partners, NuGEN has dramatically improved access to its innovative technology” said Nitin Sood. “We are also pleased that these relationships and our customer support will be... Read more

January 31, 2017 Informatics & Software

Industry First EDXIR-Analysis Software Package Enables Efficient Contaminant Analyses and Confirmation Tests

In recent years, among food manufacturers, chemical manufacturers, and contract inspection organizations, there has been an increase in demand for analyses of contaminants, whether they have been mistakenly introduced as components or have adhered to the product. The increasing importance of inspections to determine if raw materials or other materials conform to specifications and meet... Read more

January 30, 2017 Microscopy

Forensics: How digital microscopy helps to gather evidence from hair, fibers, paint, explosives and insects

Hair and fiber evidence obtained from crime scenes [10, 11] are often imaged and analyzed with a microscope [10-13]. The Leica DVM6 digital microscope can provide high quality images of hair or fiber samples under investigation quickly and easily. Images of human and animal hair and fibers in a textile sample taken with the Leica DVM6 are shown. The human... Read more

January 30, 2017 Lab Equipment Product Launch

Eppendorf Introduces the New BioFlo® 120 Bioprocess Control Station

The new BioFlo 120 Bioprocess Control Station Hamburg, January 30, 2017 – Leading life science company Eppendorf introduces the BioFlo 120, their latest bench scale fermentor/bioreactor system for research and development. This flexible instrument is capable of microbial fermentation as well as mammalian cell culture applications with a single platform. It features an extensive range... Read more

January 30, 2017 Bio/Pharma/CRO Clinical Research/Diagn.

Announcement on submission of the Clinical Trial Plan Notification for phase II clinical trial of Oncolytic virus HF10 in Japan

2017 2017/01/30 Announcement on submission of the Clinical Trial Plan Notification for phase II clinical trial of Oncolytic virus HF10 in Japan Kusatsu/Shiga, Japan — January 30, 2017 — Takara Bio Inc. (Takara Bio), today announced that the Clinical Trial Notification was submitted to PMDA (Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency; Japanese regulatory agency) to conduct... Read more

January 29, 2017 Bio/Pharma/CRO Lab Top-10 Life Science Tools M&A, Partnerships

10x Genomics Collaborates with PerkinElmer to Jointly Offer Automated Next Generation Sequencing Solutions to Researchers

Combines award-winning Chromium™ System from 10x Genomics with PerkinElmer’s state-of-the-art automation solutions PLEASANTON, Calif., January 9, 2017 – 10x Genomics, Inc., a company focused on enabling the mastery of biology by accelerating genomic discovery, today announced they and PerkinElmer, Inc. will jointly offer automated next-generation sequencing (NGS) solutions. PerkinElmer’s automation solutions increase both the throughput... Read more