December 22, 2017 Environ, Ag./Food & Bev Product Launch

QIAGEN to take impairment on deferred tax assets, informs on expected impacts of new U.S. tax law and other changes in global tax environment

Germantown, Maryland, and Hilden, Germany, December 22, 2017 – QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) announces that, mainly as a consequence of the new U.S. tax legislation, it will take an after-tax charge on net income of approximately $110-120 million (or about $0.47-$0.52 per share) in the fourth quarter of 2017, and an... Read more

December 20, 2017 Life Science Tools Product Launch

PRECIPIO LAUNCHES ITS SECOND NEW ICE-COLD PCR(TM) TARGETED ENRICHMENT KIT TO IDENTIFY MUTATIONS IN LUNG CANCER USING LIQUID (BLOOD) BIOPSIES ON SANGER SEQUENCING PLATFORMS

NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 20, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Precipio, Inc. (NASDAQ:PRPO), announced today the launch of the second new version of its ICE-COLD PCR™ (ICP) enrichment kit, used to identify resistance mutations in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) using liquid biopsies. As part of the transformation of ICP to be platform-agnostic, this kit has... Read more

December 19, 2017 Microscopy Product Launch

Solutions for Correlative Microscopy and the Introduction of Imaris Stitcher

19 December 2017 Imaris 9.1: Another revolution in the visualization of complex microscopy datasets Bitplane, an Oxford Instruments Company and leader in 3D/4D microscopy image visualisation and analysis has recently launched Imaris version 9.1 along with  the newest member of the Imaris family, Imaris Stitcher. Many experiments require viewing an entire organism, organ, or tissue... Read more

December 18, 2017 Cell Analysis Tools Product Launch

Cell Microsystems Expands Availability of CellRaft Products and Technology

December 18, 2017 RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cell Microsystems, a provider of innovative tools and scalable solutions for the sorting and isolation of single cells, announced today it is accelerating the development of new products based on its CellRaft™ Technology and expanding their availability in the marketplace. The CellRaft Technology, which allows researchers to easily... Read more

December 18, 2017 Product Launch

Lifespan and GE Healthcare Put New Plan in Place to Reduce Care Delivery Costs by $182 Million over Six Years

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (December 12, 2017) – Lifespan and GE Healthcare announced today a commitment to improving health care delivery in the Rhode Island region for patients, health care providers and the community. The goal of the collaboration is to increase capacity within the health system while reducing the cost of care. The agreement targets $182 million... Read more

December 12, 2017 Informatics & Software Microscopy Product Launch

ZEISS introduces machine learning capability for microscopy First ZEISS ZEN Intellesis solution enables segmentation of correlative microscopy datasets

JENA/Germany, 2017-12-12. Today ZEISS announces ZEISS ZEN Intellesis, a new machine learning capability that enables researchers to perform advanced analysis of their imaging samples across multiple microscopy methods. The first algorithmic solution introduced by the ZEISS ZEN Intellesis platform makes integrated, easy to use, powerful segmentation for 2D and 3D datasets available to the routine... Read more

December 7, 2017 Informatics & Software Process Analytical Instr. Product Launch

Sartorius Stedim Biotech launches new versions of data analytics software solutions

The real-time monitoring and prediction system, SIMCA®-online, constantly monitors processes to provide a continuous snapshot of the users’ operations. SIMCA® and SIMCA®-online software updates in the UmetricsTM Suite help manufacturing industries make better business decisions and optimize process control Goettingen, Germany / Malmö, Sweden – December 07, 2017: Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), a leading international... Read more

December 7, 2017 Acad, Gov/Utilities Atomic Spectroscopy Life Science Tools Product Launch

New Myeloid Research Assay Combines Simultaneous DNA and RNA Analysis of Most Relevant Hematologic Cancer Driver Genes

New Myeloid Research Assay Combines Simultaneous DNA and RNA Analysis of Most Relevant Hematologic Cancer Driver Genes Oncomine Myeloid Research Assay leverages Thermo Fisher’s next-generation sequencing to analyze 74 genes in a single panel and overcome hurdles of sequential-based clinical research CARLSBAD, Calif., Dec. 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Clinical researchers interested in studying driver mutations suspected... Read more

December 6, 2017 Acad, Gov/Utilities Lab Top-10 Product Launch

Watch the Webinar On-Demand: New Cleanliness Workflow from Leica and Pall

Classical polarized light (compound) microscopes can only be used for prepared samples, because the working distance they offer is insufficient for whole samples. This means that thicker and bigger geological samples have to be sectioned and polished to fit under the limited working distance of a compound microscope. The Leica DVM 6 provides outstanding image... Read more