Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches New Immunoassay for Kratom Alkaloid Mitragynine Screening

Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches New Immunoassay for Kratom Alkaloid Mitragynine Screening FREMONT, Calif., April 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced the availability of the Thermo Scientific CEDIA Mitragynine (Kratom) Assay, its newest drugs of abuse test that includes supporting calibrators and controls. The CEDIA Mitragynine (Kratom) Assay... Read more

Instron Releases New Bluehill® Impact Software

April 08, 2019 Built on the popular and adaptive Bluehill® platform, Bluehill Impact is Instron’s newest and most advanced impact testing software. Bluehill Impact is the first impact testing software to be designed for touch interaction. Its meticulously-crafted visual interface features large touchpoints and intuitive gestures to make the user experience simpler and smarter than ever before.... Read more

Bruker Announces World's First Superconducting 1.1 Gigahertz Magnet for High-Resolution NMR in Structural Biology

ASILOMAR, Calif., April 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — At the 60th Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference (ENC, www.enc-conference.org ), Bruker announced today a breakthrough in ultra-high field (UHF) high-resolution NMR spectroscopy applied to structural biology and the study of functional intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs).  UHF NMR is complementary to other structural biology methods like X-ray crystallography... Read more

BD Unveils Platelet Quality Control Media to Help Reduce the Incidence of Sepsis in Patients Requiring Platelet Transfusion

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., April 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced the global availability of BD BACTEC™ platelet quality control media, which allows microbiology laboratories, blood banks and transfusion services to identify contaminated platelet units.   An estimated 12 million apheresis platelet donations are... Read more

Hitachi High-Technologies Launches the SU3800 and SU3900 Scanning Electron Microscopes

April 3, 2019 — Featuring a large specimen chamber and advanced functionalities — Tokyo, Japan, April 3, 2019—Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (TSE: 8036, Hitachi High-Tech) announced today that it will commence sales of the SU3800 and the oversized SU3900 scanning electron microscopes (SEMs) featuring the ability to accommodate large, heavy specimens, along with advanced functionalities for... Read more

Swift Biosciences Launches Swift Hybridization Capture Kits for Targeted Sequencing of Human Exome, Pan-cancer and Inherited Diseases

(ANN ARBOR, Mich. – March 26, 2019) Swift Biosciences today announced the launch of its Swift Hybridization Capture Kits, enabling enrichment and sequencing of the human exome or subsets of disease-related genes involved in cancer and inherited diseases. Swift Hybridization Capture Kits save sequencing costs by targeting only genes of interest using a 4-hour capture,... Read more