WITec Establishes New Partnership with Elliot Scientific for UK and Ireland

WITec is pleased to announce a new partnership for the sales and support of its products in the UK and Ireland. The cooperation with Elliot Scientific Limited, an established supplier of opto-mechanical components, will enhance the local visibility of WITec’s line of Raman imaging and scanning probe microscopes and ensure closer contact with its customer... Read more

Lexogen upgrades the TeloPrime Full-Length cDNA Amplification Kit empowering multiple downstream applications

Vienna, Austria, December 17, 2018 / PRNewswire/ – Today Lexogen launches a Version 2 (V2) upgrade for the TeloPrime Full-Length cDNA Amplification Kit; an all-in-one protocol for generating 5’ cap-specific full-length cDNA from as little as 1 ng of total RNA. The new TeloPrime V2 Kits provide higher yields and enhanced representation of longer cDNAs than the... Read more

Bruker Launches the INVENIO-S Research FTIR Spectrometer for Advanced Routine Analysis and Spectroscopic Research

ETTLINGEN, Germany, December 14th, 2018 – Today, Bruker announced the launch of the INVENIO S Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) research spectrometer.  The novel INVENIO S is a research FTIR spectrometer for advanced routine analysis and spectroscopic reseach and replaces the previous TENSOR spectrometer series.  The INVENIO S is a peak performance FTIR spectrometer focused on maximum... Read more

Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches Complementary Diagnostic Immunoassay Measuring Plazomicin Concentrations

Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches Complementary Diagnostic Immunoassay Measuring Plazomicin Concentrations FREMONT, Calif., Dec. 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Thermo Fisher Scientific has received FDA clearance for its de novo submission of the Thermo Scientific QMS Plazomicin Immunoassay, the first of its kind for complementary diagnostic immunoassays. This quantitative immunoassay measures the concentration of a novel therapeutic... Read more

Bruker Introduces Advanced Illumination for Next-Generation Lattice Light-Sheet Microscopy

New Luxendo SPIM AIM Provides Adjustable Beam Patterns for Flexible Lattice Light-Sheet or Structured Illumination of Live Samples SAN DIEGO, Dec. 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — At the 2018 American Society of Cell Biology Meeting (ASCB), Bruker today announced the launch of the new Luxendo InVi SPIM AIMnext-generation lattice light-sheet microscope, which features an advanced illumination... Read more

B&W Tek Releases New Versions of BWIQ®, BWSpec® and BWID®

Posted on December 17, 2018 B&W Tek, a mobile spectroscopy solutions company that delivers lab quality Raman, LIBS, UV-Vis and NIR solutions through user-friendly mobile platforms, recently released the latest versions of their BWIQ®, BWSpec®and BWID® software packages. All of the updates were designed to provide more capabilities to users when collecting and analyzing data. BWIQ® 4.1.2BWIQ® is a comprehensive multivariate... Read more

Illumina Announces a New Genotyping Array and Scientific Contribution to Three Genome Centers to Support the All of Us Research Program

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced the launch of its new high-density genotyping array, the Infinium™ Global Diversity Array. This new array was developed for and inspired by the All of Us Research Program. The All of Us Research Program is a historic effort to gather data from one million or more people living in... Read more

The Native Antigen Company launches new Zika immunoassays with unprecedented specificity and sensitivity

29 November 2018, Oxford, UK – The Native Antigen Company has launched a series of ground-breaking immunoassays for Zika virus, offering researchers in academia, public health and drug discovery the capability to work with unprecedented levels of specificity and sensitivity. Unlike previous methods, the new assays have little or no cross-reactivity with other flaviviruses, including... Read more

Axol Bioscience Launches Human iPSC-derived Microglia

Cambridge, UK – (6th December 2018) – Axol Bioscience, the human cell culture specialist, is launching a new line of Human induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSC)-derived Microglia for the consistent and reproducible study of neuroglia and their involvement in neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. Microglia are commonly described as the... Read more

QIAGEN announces new collaboration to develop companion diagnostic to guide treatment for patients with PIK3CA-mutated advanced breast cancer

Germantown, Maryland, and Hilden, Germany, December 6, 2018 – QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that a clinical development program is underway with Novartis to bring to market a molecular test as a companion diagnostic to guide the use of the investigational compound BYL719 (alpelisib) in combination with fulvestrant for men... Read more