QIAGEN welcomes WHO’s new global guidelines on latent TB screening

Germantown, Maryland, and Hilden, Germany, February 22th, 2018 – QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today endorsed new guidelines issued by the World Health Organization (WHO), which coordinates global efforts to control tuberculosis (TB), calling for harmonization of preventive screening and treatment of latent TB infection among vulnerable groups in countries with a... Read more

QIAGEN welcomes new decision by U.S. Centers for Disease Control to use modern blood-based TB tests for immigration screening

Germantown, Maryland, and Hilden, Germany, February 20th, 2018 – QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) announced today that it welcomed a decision by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to require the use of modern blood-based tests (IGRA) for tuberculosis (TB) screening. QIAGEN’s QuantiFERON-TB® Gold Plus (QFT-Plus®), the gold standard and market... Read more

BD Launches Circulating Cell-Free DNA Blood Collection Tube for Cancer and Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing Applications

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. and EYSINS, Switzerland, Feb. 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced the commercial availability of the CE-IVD marked PAXgene® Blood ccfDNA tube within the European Economic Area and Switzerland (Western Europe). The plastic blood collection tube, which includes a proprietary sample... Read more

Takara Bio to Establish a New Facility for the Research and Manufacturing of Regenerative Medical Products

Takara Bio to Establish a New Facility for the Research andManufacturing of Regenerative Medical Products January 30, 2018 – Takara Bio’s Board of Directors resolved today to establish a new facility for the research and manufacturing of regenerative medical products in coordination with the expansion of existing research and manufacturing facilities at the company’s head... Read more

The VERITY 3011 Isocratic Pump Achieves Nearly Pulse-free Flow Rates for Improved Efficiency

Middleton, WI (February 15, 2018) – Gilson, an industry leader in liquid handling, purification, and extraction laboratory instruments, announces an expansion to its chromatography systems product offering with the introduction of the VERITY® 3011 Isocratic Pump. The new VERITY 3011 Pump broadens the depth of the VERITY purification systems portfolio with advancements over existing pumps including a... Read more

Twist Bioscience Launches Exome and Custom Target Enrichment Solutions for Next-Generation Sequencing

Download PDF SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – February 14, 2018 — Twist Bioscience Corporation, a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA, today announced the commercial availability of several new products to enhance next-generation sequencing including its Twist Human Core Exome Kit, an innovative and comprehensive library preparation and target enrichment kit,... Read more

FDA Approves New HPV Test that Detects and Identifies HPV Genotypes that put Women at High Risk for Cervical Cancer

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., Feb. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced that it has received pre-market approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the BD Onclarity™ HPV assay. The test detects 14 types of high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) from specimens collected... Read more

SMRT Sequencing of Human Genomes to be Showcased at AGBT Conference

MENLO PARK, Calif., Feb. 12, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pacific Biosciences of California Inc., (Nasdaq:PACB) today announced its Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT®) Sequencing technology will be demonstrated in several presentations and posters at the annual Advances in Genome Biology & Technology (AGBT) conference taking place February 12-15 in Orlando. PacBio is also an official sponsor of this... Read more

A Proper Stopper for DURAN® GL 45 bottles from DWK Life Sciences

By: Communications, 08.02.18 | DWK Life Sciences has launched a new DURAN® branded GL 45 synthetic rubber stopper specifically shaped for the reliable sealing of all laboratory bottles with a GL 45 neck finish. Thanks to the virtual inertness of DURAN® borosilicate 3.3 glass, high value and sensitive materials are routinely stored in the DURAN®... Read more

NuGEN Announces Launch of a New Streamlined Library Preparation Kit – Celero DNA-Seq

San Carlos, California , Feb 08, 2018 Today NuGEN Technologies announces a breakthrough DNA-Seq library system giving researchers a simplified library preparation system for Illumina sequencers. The new system, Celero™ DNA-Seq, features a fast, addition-only workflow that eliminates in-process bead purifications. The system also features a breakthrough library quantitation method that saves both time and cost. In line with... Read more