OHSU, GE Healthcare team up to explore new frontiers in health care innovation

PORTLAND, Ore. – Oregon Health & Science University and GE Healthcare have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop collaborative research programs in cardiovascular medicine, imaging and big data research. The research programs are aimed at bringing together OHSU’s clinical expertise with GE Healthcare’s technology prowess to answer fundamental questions in biology and medicine.  ... Read more

GE Healthcare Acquires Leading Healthcare Advisory Firm, The Camden Group, to enable Healthcare Organizations to Navigate Industry Transformation

BARRINGTON, Ill., November 9, 2015 — GE Healthcare (NYSE: GE) announced today it is expanding its U.S. healthcare consulting business with the acquisition of The Camden Group, one of the nation’s leading population health & strategic advisory firms. GE Healthcare Camden Group will act as the U.S. business unit of GE Healthcare’s global advisory firm,... Read more

It Takes Two: GE Healthcare and SHINE team up to solve longstanding radiopharmaceutical supply concerns in medical imaging

CHALFONT ST. GILES, UK – 9 November 2015 – Technetium-99m (Tc‑99m) is used in more than 40 million medical imaging procedures each year, primarily stress tests to assess heart disease, and bone scans to determine the stage of cancer progression. This essential medical isotope is generated in pharmacies and hospitals from another isotope—molybdenum-99 (Mo-99).  Despite... Read more

NEW Versatile High Throughput SEM from JEOL

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:Patricia Corkum, Marketing Manager978-536-2273 • pcorkum@jeol.com • www.jeolusa.com Portland, OR – November 4, 2015 — JEOL’s new JSM-IT100 is the latest addition to its InTouchScope Series of Scanning Electron Microscopes. Representing 50 years of industry leadership with advances in SEM, the IT100 is a simple-to-use versatile, research-grade SEM with a compact ergonomic design.... Read more

Discovery RT Designed to Improve Accuracy for Radiation Therapy Planning

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS – October 19, 2015 – GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), is introducing the DiscoveryTM RT*, a new advanced radiation therapy planning computed tomography (CT) system at the 57th Annual American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. http://www.genewsroom.com/press-releases/discovery-rt-designed-improve-accuracy-radiation-therapy-planning-282063 Read more

New Predatory Cockroaches (Insecta: Blattaria: Manipulatoridae fam.n.) from the Upper Cretaceous Myanmar Amber

We describe a new extinct lineage Manipulatoridae (new family) of cockroaches from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) amber of Myanmar. Manipulator modificaputis gen. et sp. n. is a morphologically unique extinct cockroach that represents the first (of a total of 29 known worldwide) cockroach family reported exclusively from the Myanmar amber. Read more

Molecular Devices Awarded New Product Innovation Prize for ImageXpress Micro Confocal System

Sunnyvale, California, October 12, 2015. Molecular Devices LLC, a leader in protein and cell biology technologies, is pleased to announce it has been awarded the New Product Innovation Award for the ImageXpress® Micro Confocal High Content Imaging system, launched at the recent Miptec conference in Basel, Switzerland. The award is in recognition for the AgileOptix™... Read more

Get the big picture from a small, compact, and versatile Benchtop SEM

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:Patricia Corkum, Marketing Manager978-536-2273 • pcorkum@jeol.com • www.jeolusa.com Introducing the JCM-6000PLUS NeoScope from JEOL JEOL USA, Peabody, MA (October 6, 2015) — JEOL’s benchtop SEM makes it possible to bring basic high resolution imaging and analysis features of a full-sized Scanning Electron Microscope into the lab. It fits into both small spaces and... Read more

Leakwise Oil-on-Water Demo Video

Oct 5, 2015 – Boulder, CO – GE Analytical Instruments invites you to view the Leakwise Oil-on-Water Monitoring System demonstration video. In addition to an overview of the new SLC-220 Controller, this video reviews the capablities of various types of Leakwise Sensors for multiple applications and needs, as well as types of communication, and options that are available... Read more

A Pacific Biosciences lança uma nova plataforma de sequenciamento baseada em sua tecnologia SMRT

MENLO PARK, Calif., 2015-10-03 02:39 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — A Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (NASDAQ:PACB), pioneira e líder em sequenciamento de leitura de longa duração usando sua tecnologia Single Molecule, Real-Time (Molécula Única, em Tempo Real – SMRT(R)), anunciou hoje que lançou uma nova plataforma de sequenciamento de ácido nucleico. O sistema Sequel(TM) proporciona... Read more