Natural Killer Cells: Cultivation, Activation and Growth Miltenyi Biotec extends its product portfolio in the area of cell culture media with the NK MACS® Medium

BERGISCH GLADBACH, August 3, 2017 – A new addition to the well-known product family of cell culture media: With the new NK MACS® Medium, human, Miltenyi Biotec offers a product to improve the cultivation of human natural killer cells, or NK cells as they are called. The biotechnology company from Bergisch Gladbach, already known as a... Read more

PerkinElmer Launches Clinical Whole Genome Sequencing Services

PerkinElmer Genetics Provides Complete Genomic Lab Testing Solution WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI), a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today announced the launch of PerkinElmer Genetics’ clinical genomics services. Through its integrated laboratories in the U.S., India and China, PerkinElmer offers a global genomic lab testing platform that performs... Read more

Swift Biosciences Announces New Industry-Leading Indexed Adapters for Sequencing Larger Numbers of Samples in a Single Run

Revolutionary technology will accelerate utility of gene mapping, biomarker discovery, tumor profiling, and liquid biopsy analysis (ANN ARBOR, Mich. – August 3, 2017) Swift Biosciences, a leading provider of innovative library prep solutions for genomic sequencing, today announced the launch of Accel-NGS® 2S Indexed Adapters, a new portfolio of indices that significantly improves multiplexed next-generation sequencing on... Read more

New Technical Note: Structure Elucidation of Fluorinated Compounds by NMR

August 1, 2017 (Peabody, Mass.) — A new JEOL technical note, “Structure Elucidation of Fluorinated Compounds by NMR,” describes the technology and applications of the new JEOL ROYAL HFX probe for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy. The JEOL ROYAL HFX NMR probe offers a new level of flexibility for NMR analysis of fluorinated compounds prevalent... Read more

Rigaku introduces new NANOPIX mini benchtop small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) system

New instrument enables non-destructive evaluation of the distribution of nanoparticles or nanopores by size August 1, 2017 – Tokyo, Japan. X-ray scientific, analytical and industrial instrumentation manufacturer Rigaku Corporation, has announced the NANOPIX mini, the world’s first benchtop small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) system that delivers automatic nanoparticle size distribution analysis for both quality control (QC) and... Read more

SPECTRO Introduces New SPECTRO MIDEX MID05 Small-Spot ED-XRF Spectrometer For Precious Metals Testing

Tuesday, August 1, 2017 SPECTRO Introduces New SPECTRO MIDEX MID05 Small-Spot ED-XRF Spectrometer For Precious Metals Testing KLEVE, GERMANY — SPECTRO Analytical Instruments today introduced the SPECTRO MIDEX MID05 spectrometer — a fifth-generation, fast, accurate, small-spot energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence (ED-XRF) analyzer for precious metal testing. The new, compact SPECTRO MIDEX MID05 spectrometer delivers improved sensitivity and speed,... Read more

Next-Generation Gas Analyzers Ease Air Quality Data Acquisition and Control

Thermo Scientific iQ Series gas analyzers, the first instruments built on the new Thermo Scientific iQ Series platform, are designed to maximize uptime and provide access to uninterrupted data Thermo Scientific iQ Series 1 Aug 1, 2017 Download: Hi Res CLOSE FRANKLIN, Mass., Aug. 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — A new, easy-to-use air quality monitoring solution is now available... Read more

Hitachi High-Technologies develops “ETHOS” High-Performance Composite FIB-SEM System

– Analytical and Processing Platform for the Development of Advanced Materials and Devices – Tokyo, Japan, August 1, 2017—Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (TSE: 8036, Hitachi High-Tech) announced the development of an all-new high-performance “ETHOS” Focused Ion Beam-Scanning Electron Microscope (FIB-SEM). A newly developed magnetic/electrostatic compound lens enables ETHOS to deliver advanced imaging performance resolving sub-nanometer features... Read more

First Fully Integrated LC-MS System for Clinical Diagnostics Announced by SCIEX

The SCIEX Topaz™ System lowers the barriers to adoption of LC-MS to clinical diagnostic labs by making this powerful technology accessible to all users July 31, 2017 Framingham, MA — SCIEX Diagnostics, the in vitro diagnostics division of SCIEX, a global leader in mass spectrometry in the life sciences industry, announced today the launch of the first fully integrated... Read more

Rigaku introduces new ZSX Primus 400 WDXRF spectrometer for large and heavy samples

New WDXRF spectrometer from Rigaku enables elemental analysis of large objects by WDXRF spectroscopy with micro-mapping July 31, 2017 – Tokyo, Japan. Rigaku Corporation is pleased to announce the introduction of the new Rigaku ZSX Primus 400 sequential wavelength dispersive X- ray fluorescence (WDXRF) spectrometer. The new instrument was conceived specifically to handle very large and/or heavy... Read more