GE Healthcare Introduces New Edge Technology Designed to Give Clinicians Rapid Access to Critical Data

CHICAGO – October 14, 2020 – GE Healthcare today introduced Edison HealthLink, new edge computing technology designed specifically for the needs of healthcare providers, that allows clinicians to collect, analyze and act upon critical data closer to its source. With 10 applications already available through Edison HealthLink – including TrueFidelity image reconstruction, Mural Virtual Care... Read more

Thermo Fisher Scientific Announces Plans to Expand Sterile Filling Capacity for Therapies and Vaccines with New Facility in Singapore

Thermo Fisher Scientific Announces Plans to Expand Sterile Filling Capacity for Therapies and Vaccines with New Facility in Singapore WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced plans to develop two new sterile filling lines in Singapore to extend capacity to the Asia-Pacific... Read more

Thermo Fisher Scientific Further Expands COVID-19 Test Portfolio with Two New Antibody Tests

Thermo Fisher Scientific Further Expands COVID-19 Test Portfolio with Two New Antibody Tests WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today introduced two new SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests: the Thermo Scientific OmniPATH COVID-19 Total Antibody ELISA test, and the Thermo Scientific EliA SARS-CoV-2-Sp1 IgG test. These... Read more

Newport, Wales Laboratory Goes Live as First Lighthouse Lab featuring PerkinElmer’s COVID-19 Solutions

Company’s RT-PCR kits and workflow solutions will help to significantly increase capacity of the UK’s testing program WALTHAM, Mass. – October 8, 2020 – PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today announced that the first Turnkey Lighthouse lab in Newport, South Wales, is now processing COVID-19 testing samples as... Read more

Swift Biosciences Innovates Swift 2S Sonic DNA Library Kit for a Rapid, Cost-effective Workflow

Highest Data Quality Bolsters Large Scale Studies ANN ARBOR, Mich, (October 7th, 2020) Swift Biosciences, Inc., a leader in the commercialization of DNA and RNA Library Preparation Kits introduces the new Swift 2S Sonic DNA Library Kit to the NGS Industry. After a tremendously successful debut of Swift 2S Turbo’s low-cost enzymatic fragmentation-based library preparation... Read more

PerkinElmer Launches Industry First, Fully Automated Workflow for Cannabis & Hemp Pesticide Residue Testing

Streamlined solution features quality control reagent kits, robotic sample preparation, mass spectrometry analysis and data reporting software to transform analysis efficiency WALTHAM, Mass. – October 7, 2020 – PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today launched the cannabis industry’s first fully-automated liquid handling sample preparation and LC/MS/MS analysis workflow... Read more

Pacific Biosciences Launches the Sequel IIe System to Accelerate Adoption of Highly Accurate HiFi Sequencing

MENLO PARK, Calif., Oct. 05, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB), a leading provider of high-quality sequencing of genomes, transcriptomes and epigenomes, today announced the launch of the Sequel® IIe System, the next instrument evolution based on the company’s Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT®) Sequencing technology. With increased computational capacity and on-instrument data... Read more

BD Granted FDA 510(k) Clearance for BD FACSLyric™ Flow Cytometer with Newly Integrated BD FACSDuet™ Sample Preparation System

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., Oct. 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the BD FACSLyric™ Flow Cytometer with the Integrated BD FACSDuet™ Sample Preparation System. The new integrated system enables clinical laboratories to fully automate... Read more

New England Biolabs Expands its Luna® Portfolio with One-Step Master Mix for Multiplex RT-qPCR

The new Luna Probe One-Step RT-qPCR 4X Mix with UDG enables minimal sample handling, efficient performance and sensitive detection of up to five target RNA sequences, including those of low abundance for pathogen detection. IPSWICH, MA (October 1, 2020): New England Biolabs® (NEB®) today announced the launch of its Luna Probe One-Step RT-qPCR 4X Mix with... Read more

PCR Biosystems introduces kit for reliable quantification of libraries prepared for Illumina® NGS systems

Caption: PCR Biosystems NGSBIO Library Quant Kit for Illumina®.To download this image, please click here. London, UK (30 September 2020) – PCR Biosystems, the UK-based PCR experts, have expanded their range of specialist molecular biology kits with the introduction of NGSBIO Library Quant Kit for Illumina®. The new kit contains all the components necessary for accurate and sensitive quantification of DNA libraries... Read more