September 30, 2020 Product Launch

GE Healthcare Unveils Voluson SWIFT, AI-Enhanced Women’s Health Ultrasound with Industry-First Auto Recognition Tools to Help Improve Efficiency

Voluson SWIFT redefines the ultrasound experience for women’s health practitioners by integrating intelligent features that can reduce patient scanning time by as much as 45 percent and automate exam measurements resulting in significant time savings for users. World’s first ultrasound system with fully integrated AI that recognizes the 20 views recommended by the International Society... Read more

September 24, 2020 Lab Top-10 Mass Spectrometry Product Launch

New Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Workstream Offers Comprehensive Solution for Toxicology

New Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Workstream Offers Comprehensive Solution for Toxicology New Thermo Scientific Tox Explorer Collection provides instruments, columns and consumables with reliable and validated methods for reproducible results SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Clinical research, forensic and anti-doping toxicology laboratories facing the challenges of analyzing increasing numbers of analytes in biological matrices,... Read more

September 22, 2020 Life Science Tools Product Launch

BioTtechne Announces Commercial Release of New Co-detection Assays for Simultaneous Detection of RNA and Protein on the Same Sample

Expanding Bio-Techne’s lead in providing multi-omics research tools to co-detect RNA and protein targets MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ:TECH) today announced the expansion of the Advanced Cell Diagnostics (ACD)-branded RNAscope™ technology with release of the new RNA-Protein Co-Detection Assays. The RNAscope technology is an advanced in situ hybridization (ISH) assay that enables... Read more

September 21, 2020 Environ, Ag./Food & Bev Lab Top-10 Liq. Handling & Robotics Product Launch

PerkinElmer Launches Solus Listeria monocytogenes ELISA Assay for Testing Across Food and Environmental Samples

Solution Receives AOAC® PTM SM Certification WALTHAM, Mass. – September 21, 2020 – PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today launched the PerkinElmer Solus Listeria monocytogenes ELISA Assay. This new offering will help high throughput food processors and contract labs focus on L. mono testing for food and environmental... Read more

September 21, 2020 Environ, Ag./Food & Bev Product Launch

Illumina to Acquire GRAIL to Launch New Era of Cancer Detection

SAN DIEGO & MENLO PARK, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) and GRAIL, a healthcare company whose mission is focused on multi-cancer early detection, today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Illumina will acquire GRAIL for cash and stock consideration of $8 billion upon closing of the transaction. In addition, GRAIL stockholders... Read more

September 19, 2020 Bio/Pharma/CRO Licensing, IP, and Legal Product Launch

Roche presents new data from multiple Phase III studies of Tecentriq in triple-negative breast cancer at ESMO Virtual Congress 2020

Data from the Phase III IMpassion031 study demonstrated that Tecentriq in combination with chemotherapy improved pathological complete response for patients with early triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), when compared to placebo plus chemotherapy Final overall survival data from the Phase III IMpassion130 study were consistent with prior interim analyses in patients with metastatic TNBC, whose tumours... Read more

September 18, 2020 PAI Top-10 Product Launch

Roche launches new quantitative antibody test to measure SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, to support the evaluation of vaccines

The new Elecsys Anti-SARS-CoV-2 S test can quantitatively measure the level of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in patients who have been exposed to the virus. The test  targets antibodies against the spike protein. This is the focus of vaccines in development and convalescent plasma therapy.1 Using the Elecsys Anti-SARS-COV-2 S antibody test, together with the Elecsys... Read more

September 16, 2020 Chemicals, Reagents & Kits Life Science Tools Product Launch

Targeted sequencing with Oxford Nanopore: Fast, flexible, PCR-free Cas9 Sequencing Kit now available in store

Wed 16th September 2020 New Cas9 Sequencing Kit provides reagents for one-stop targeted sequencing, enabling scientists to cost-effectively sequence previously inaccessible target regions. Cas9 targeted sequencing with nanopore enables fast, simple, flexible target enrichment of long regions of interest – read lengths of over 100 kb have been observed to date. The approach is amplification-free, opening up regions... Read more

September 15, 2020 Bio/Pharma/CRO Informatics & Software Lab Top-10 Product Launch

PerkinElmer Launches DA 7350™ Instrument and Cloud-Based Software for Quality Control in Food Production

Solution helps producers reduce waste, increase product consistency and productivity and lower costs WALTHAM, Mass. – Sept 15, 2020 – PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today introduced the DA 7350™ instrument and Process Plus™ cloud-based software to provide continuous quality control for food and food ingredient manufacturing processes.... Read more