Roche announces new data at the ISTH 2020 Congress, demonstrating ongoing commitment to advancing care for people with haemophilia A

Spark Therapeutics will present data from the initial dose cohorts of its phase I/II SPK-8011 gene therapy study, showing stable and durable factor VIII expression, substantial improvement in annualised bleed rate for more than two years, and an acceptable safety profile after more than two years of follow-up1 Roche will present second interim analysis results... Read more

BURLINGAME, CA – June 25, 2020 – Halo Labs, a life science instrumentation company developing tools for biologics researchers, today announced it has launched its latest aggregate and particle identification system, called Aura™. Aura is the next generation of the Horizon®, Halo Labs’ popular Backgrounded Membrane Imaging (BMI) platform. With as little as 5 µL and a linear range... Read more

Waters Extends the Capability and Power of its High-Resolution Mass Spectrometers

Enhancements for the Waters Xevo G2-XS QTof, SYNAPT XS and SELECT SERIES Cyclic IMS Instruments Accelerate Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research Milford, Mass. – June 23, 2020 – Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) announced today a new fragmentation technique and an imaging option for its high-resolution mass spectrometers giving research scientists working across a broad range of end markets... Read more

Waters Introduces the New Arc High-Performance Liquid Chromatograph to Help Laboratories Meet Quality and Production Targets

Modern LC System Replicates Established Test Methods, Delivers Improved Performance; Updates to Lab Business Continuity Solution Also Announced Milford, Mass. – June 23, 2020 – Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) today introduced the Waters™ Arc™ HPLC System, a new high-performanceliquid chromatograph (HPLC) for routine testing in the pharmaceutical, food, academic and materials markets. A key target application is... Read more

GE Healthcare Launches New AI Suite to Detect Chest X-ray Abnormalities, Including Pneumonia Caused by COVID-19 & Tuberculosis

Chalfont St Giles, UK, June 18, 2020 – GE Healthcare today introduced its Thoracic Care Suite, a collection of eight artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms from Lunit Insight CXR to help alleviate clinical strain due to COVID-19. The AI suite quickly analyzes chest x-ray findings and flags abnormalities to radiologists for review, including pneumonia, which may... Read more

iSPA Workflow Helps Pharmaceutical Companies Bring New Drugs to Market Faster

Reliable, easy-to-use cryo-EM workflow solution quadruples throughput for pharma labs HILLSBORO, Ore., June 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — To help pharmaceutical companies obtain faster results in their drug discovery process and reduce the cost of bringing new drugs to market, Thermo Fisher Scientific has released the Thermo Scientific iSPA Workflow, the first commercially available single particle analysis (SPA) workflow... Read more

GE Healthcare, Orange Healthcare and TheraPanacea collaborate with Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris and Société d'Imagerie Thoracique to create COVID-19 database and develop new AI-based tools

Paris, France –15 June 2020: GE Healthcare, Orange Healthcare and TheraPanacea plan a collaboration with Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris to create a database around chest imaging in patients suspected of being infected with SARS-Cov-2, the virus responsible for Covid-19. This collaboration supports the STOIC project (ThOracian Scanner for the dIagnosis of Coronavirus19 pneumonia – COVID-19)... Read more

GE Healthcare, Orange Healthcare and TheraPanacea collaborate with Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris and Société d'Imagerie Thoracique to create COVID-19 database and develop new AI-based tools

Paris, France –15 June 2020: GE Healthcare, Orange Healthcare and TheraPanacea plan a collaboration with Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris to create a database around chest imaging in patients suspected of being infected with SARS-Cov-2, the virus responsible for Covid-19. This collaboration supports the STOIC project (ThOracian Scanner for the dIagnosis of Coronavirus19 pneumonia – COVID-19)... Read more

Roche announces 2-year risdiplam data from SUNFISH and new data from JEWELFISH in infants, children and adults with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)

Basel, 12 June 2020 – Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) today presented two-year data from Part 1 of its pivotal SUNFISH trial in people aged 2-25 years with Type 2 or 3 spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) at the virtual Cure SMA Annual Conference, 8-12 June, 2020. The results of an exploratory efficacy analysis show... Read more

PCR Biosystems launches 4x RT-qPCR kit to enable ultra-sensitive, high-throughput detection of viral RNA sequences

Caption: New qPCRBIO Probe 1-Step Virus Detect. Click images to download. London, UK (11 June 2020) – PCR Biosystems, the UK-based PCR experts, today announced the launch of qPCRBIO Probe 1-Step Virus Detect, a high-concentration 4x RT-qPCR kit designed specifically for ultra-sensitive, high-throughput detection of viral RNA sequences, including SARS-CoV-2. The new kit, which marks the latest... Read more