Unchained Labs drives Big Lunatic downstream with shockingly accurate protein quantification!

April 21, 2020 – Pleasanton, CA Pleasanton, CA – Unchained Labs, the life sciences company that’s all about getting biologics researchers the right tool for the job, launched its new Fundamentals UV/Vis standards and performance verification protocols for the Big Lunatic platform today. These new tools make it a cinch for researchers to confidently use Big Lunatic anywhere in their... Read more

Roche develops new serology test to detect COVID-19 antibodies

The new Elecsys Anti-SARS-CoV-2 serology test can support the detection of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in patients who have been exposed to the virus which causes COVID-19 The detection of these antibodies could help indicate if a person has gained immunity against the virus and inform treatment decisions Roche aims to have this test available by... Read more

Bio-Techne Introduces Replex Capabilities for Simple Western Assays on Jess

APRIL 16, 2020 MINNEAPOLIS, April 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) today announced the upcoming release of RePlex™ for use on the Jess instrument, a member of the Simple Western™ instrument family. RePlex adds to Jess’s already advanced, fully automated, capillary electrophoresis-based Western blotting capabilities by allowing users to analyze the same sample twice... Read more

QIAGEN launches therascreen BRAF test as companion diagnostic to a BRAFTOVI® (encorafenib) based regimen in metastatic colorectal cancer

Germantown, Maryland, and Hilden, Germany, April 15 2020 – QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced launch of its novel therascreen® BRAF V600E RGQ PCR Kit (therascreen BRAF V600E Kit) following U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval as a companion diagnostic to the BRAF inhibitor, BRAFTOVI® (encorafenib), which the FDA has... Read more

PerkinElmer Launches Solutions to Streamline Analysis for Labs in Pharmaceuticals, Semiconductors, Biomonitoring, Food and Materials

Multi-Quadrupole ICP-MS, FT-IR and automation innovations provide testing and research performance, flexibility and ease of use WALTHAM, Mass. – April 15, 2020 – PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today expanded its analysis and automation portfolio for quality, safety and content testing. Geared for pharmaceutical, semiconductor, biomonitoring, food, materials... Read more

EDAX Releases New APEX Software for EDS and EBSD

Wednesday, April 15, 2020 JOIN THE CONVERSATION MAHWAH, NJ, April 15, 2020 – EDAX, Inc., a leader in X-ray microanalysis and electron diffraction instrumentation, has introduced the latest version of its APEX™ software for integrated Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS)-Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) applications. APEX™ 2.0 gives users the ability to collect and analyze simultaneous EDS and... Read more

Release of the “2019 Novel Coronavirus Detection Kit”Reduces labor and halves detection time

Shimadzu Corporation is announcing the release of its “2019 Novel Coronavirus Detection Kit”, with sales beginning on 20th April. For the time being the kits will only be available in Japan, but preparations are underway to export these kits overseas from May onwards. Current PCR methods for the detection of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) require... Read more

Bio-Rad Announces the Launch of a Serology Assay to Detect Coronavirus (COVID-19) Antibodies

Date: 04/07/2020 HERCULES, Calif. – Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a global leader of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, today announced that the company is launching a blood-based immunoassay kit to identify antibodies to the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the virus associated with COVID-19. Preliminary performance of the assay has been established and the... Read more

Digital Science partners with Zhipu.AI to conduct data challenges and build COVID-19 information portal

LONDON, UK, (03 April 2020). Digital Science, a leading technology company serving emergent needs across the research sector, is pleased to announce a partnership with Beijing-based technology company Zhipu.AI to conduct data challenges and collaborate in building a COVID-19 information portal.Zhipu.AI, a spin-out from Tsinghua University, aims to build an advanced artificial intelligence engine that can support and... Read more