Free Webinar: New cleanliness workflow from Leica and Pall

Obtaining cleanliness results rapidly, accurately, and reliably is a significant advantage for manufacturers and component suppliers. For this reason, Pall Corporation and Leica Microsystems have joined efforts to offer a new, unique workflow solution customizable to your individual needs. Join our free webinar to get a sneak preview on Leica Microsystems’ new fully implemented LIBS... Read more

BD Expands Efforts to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance with New Diagnostic Test in Europe

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., Sept. 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced the launch1 of the first automated phenotypic test to detect and classify carbapenemase-producing organisms (CPO). Available as part of the BD Phoenix™ automated microbiology system in Europe, the new BD Phoenix™ CPO detect test... Read more

New Promega HiBiT Protein Tagging System Easily Combines with CRISPR/Cas9 Knock-in to Simplify Studies of Proteins Under Natural Expression Conditions

MADISON, WI USA (September 26, 2017) Promega Corporation’s new bioluminescent HiBiT Protein Tagging System can be combined with CRISPR/CAS9-mediated gene editing to tag endogenous proteins and simplify their study under natural expression conditions, as demonstrated in “CRISPR-Mediated Tagging of Endogenous Proteins with a Luminescent Peptide,” a recently published paper in the journal ACS Chemical Biology. HiBiT technology, which... Read more

Next-Generation Media System Provides the Highest In Vitro Survival of Neurons

Gibco B-27 Plus Neuronal Culture System overcomes common neurobiology research challenge CARLSBAD, Calif., Sept. 25, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — A newly launched media system by Thermo Fisher Scientific has been designed to enable reliable and biologically relevant in vitro neuronal cell models by increasing survival of neurons by more than 50 percent compared to conventional products. The new Gibco B-27... Read more

New Multi-Technique Surface Analysis System Delivers High Sample Throughput and Research Grade Results

Thermo Scientific Nexsa surface analysis system integrates XPS with additional techniques for true correlative analysis in materials research Photos(1) Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc Nexsa Sep 25, 2017 The Thermo Scientific Nexsa surface analysis system is designed to deliver true correlative analysis in materials research. Download: Hi Res CLOSE EAST GRINSTEAD, England, Sept. 25, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Materials researchers,... Read more

Lexogen Launches SLAMseq Kit for Metabolic Sequencing of RNA

Lexogen launches the SLAMseq product family for high throughput metabolic sequencing of RNA, developed in collaboration with the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Vienna, Austria. Dr. Stefan Ameres (IMBA group leader) and Dr. Alexander Seitz (Founder and CEO of Lexogen). Press release Vienna, Austria – September 25, 2017 – Today Lexogen, the transcriptomics and next-generation sequencing... Read more

New Multi-Technique Surface Analysis System Delivers High Sample Throughput and Research Grade Results

New Multi-Technique Surface Analysis System Delivers High Sample Throughput and Research Grade Results Thermo Scientific Nexsa surface analysis system integrates XPS with additional techniques for true correlative analysis in materials research EAST GRINSTEAD, England, Sept. 25, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Materials researchers, product developers and failure analysis scientists seeking to conduct cost-effective, research-level x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS)... Read more

GE sets new standard for monoclonal antibody purification: Up to 40% increase in capacity

CHALFONT ST. GILES, UK and UPPSALA, SWEDEN – 25 September 2017 – GE Healthcare introduces a new Protein A chromatography resin, MabSelect PrismA, which will help biopharmaceutical manufacturers improve their monoclonal antibody (mAb) purification capacity by up to 40 percent (1). The resin is also significantly more alkaline-stable (2), meaning that MabSelect PrismA can be... Read more

Shimadzu’s New i-Series Plus Integrated High-Performance Liquid Chromatograph Significantly Improves Analytical Productivity with Automated Pretreatment Operations

Shimadzu Corporation has released the i-Series Plus integrated high-performance liquid chromatograph. With i-Series Plus, pretreatment operations, such as the processes to dilute samples and add reagents, have been automated, resulting in less mistakes and measurement errors and ensuring highly reproducible and reliable data in the analysis of pharmaceuticals and foods. i-Series Plus also has functions... Read more