October 12, 2017 Life Science Tools Product Launch

Swift Launches Accel-Amplicon™ Custom NGS Panels, Accelerating Variant Discovery in Challenging Biological Samples

Genialis/Swift partnership delivers a complete targeted sequencing solution with intuitive analysis software (ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Oct. 12, 2017) Swift Biosciences, a leading provider of innovative library prep solutions for next-generation sequencing (NGS), today announced the launch of its Accel-Amplicon™ Custom NGS Panels. These new panels offer a targeted DNA sequencing product that enables clinical researchers to... Read more

October 10, 2017 Cell Analysis Tools Product Launch

Unchained Labs brings biologic stability into hi-def, launches Hunky!

October 10, 2017 – Pleasanton, CA – Unchained Labs, the life sciences company that’s all about getting biologics researchers the right tool for the job, launched Hunky today, the one and only complete solution for quantifying biologic stability and predicting aggregation. Hunky measures ΔG, the amount of energy it takes to unfold a protein, letting scientists quantify... Read more

October 9, 2017 Life Science Tools Product Launch

iGenomX Launches Riptide™ High Throughput NGS Rapid Library Prep

Novel library prep accelerates the rate and scale of DNA sequencing October 09, 2017 06:05 AM Pacific Daylight Time SAN DIEGO & WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–iGenomX, an innovator of NGS library preparation technology, announced today the commercial launch of their Riptide™ High-Throughput Rapid Library Prep (HT-RLP) during the American Society of Microbiology’s (ASM) Conference on Rapid Applied... Read more

October 9, 2017 Atomic Spectroscopy Microscopy Product Launch

The Institute of Photonic Science, Barcelona becomes a new NANOSCOPY IMAGING REFERENCE SITE for Leica Microsystems

Lluis Torner, ICFO Director and Christoph Thumser, Sales Director for Life Science Research EMEA celebrating the new agreement with members of their teams. This new collaboration sees the installation of the latest generation in nanoscopy systems from Leica Microsystems at the ICFO – the Leica microscopy system TCS SP8 STED 3X. Through the collaboration, Leica... Read more

October 6, 2017 Atomic Spectroscopy Product Launch

Rigaku Oxford Diffraction (ROD) Introduces New High-flux Dual Wavelength X-ray Diffractometer

Rigaku Oxford Diffraction debuts new XtaLAB Synergy-DW dual wavelength chemical crystallography X-ray diffractometer October 6, 2017 – The Woodlands, TX. Rigaku Oxford Diffraction announced the release of a new dual wavelength single crystal diffractometer, the XtaLAB Synergy-DW, at the 24th Congress & General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr). The XtaLAB Synergy-DW system is... Read more

October 6, 2017 Atomic Spectroscopy Product Launch

Winners of 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Helped Spark “New Era” in Biochemistry

Cryo-electron microscopes are used to “see the molecules inside the cell and how they interact” WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — The 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recognizes the pioneering work of three scientists, Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson, whose breakthrough developments in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) have helped to broaden the use of... Read more

October 5, 2017 Product Launch

QIAGEN launches fourth-generation QuantiFERON®-TB Gold Plus in the U.S.

Germantown, Maryland, and Hilden, Germany, October 5, 2017 – QIAGEN (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced the U.S. launch of QuantiFERON®-TB Gold Plus (QFT®-Plus), the fourth generation of its leading blood test for tuberculosis (TB) infection. QFT-Plus kits will be available on October 9, 2017 for diagnostic use following U.S. Food and Drug... Read more

October 5, 2017 Informatics & Software Life Science Tools Product Launch

DNAnexus Launches Powerful Data Analysis and Management Solution for the NovaSeq™ Series of Sequencing Systems

DNAnexus CloudSeq provides a turn-key solution for rapidly scaling cloud-enabled bioinformatics infrastructure for research and clinical sequencing applications October 05, 2017 04:50 AM Pacific Daylight Time MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. & CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DNAnexus, the global leader in genome informatics and data management, announced today the availability of the DNAnexus CloudSeq solution, a suite of cloud-based tools and... Read more

October 5, 2017 Lab Top-10 Molecular Spectroscopy Product Launch

Shimadzu's New Compact Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectrophotometers Offer Exceptional Ease-of-Use and Functionality

FTIR systems detect infrared light that is transmitted through or reflected from the sample, and then determine the wavelength components in that light by a Fourier transform process. They are used for applications such as identifying or quantifying substances contained in samples or predicting their chemical structure. In recent years, the demand for compact models... Read more