GE Healthcare and Rockwell Automation Collaborate to Drive the Next Generation of Bioprocessing Automation

Chicago, IL and Milwaukee, WI, US – March 28, 2019 – GE Healthcare and Rockwell Automation are combining their automation, IT and single-use solution expertise to build bioprocessing operations for the digital age. The two companies will help biopharmaceutical companies create flexible and scalable facilities of the future, focused on rapid response to market demands,... Read more

Tecan publishes 2018 Annual Report and notice of its Annual General Meeting

Männedorf, Switzerland, March 26, 2019 – The Tecan Group (SIX Swiss Exchange: TECN) today announced the publication of its 2018 Annual Report in the Investor Relations section of the company’s website at www.tecan.com. An iPad App for the Tecan Financial Reports is available from the App Store. Tecan already published its 2018 financial results in a... Read more

PerkinElmer Highlights Analysis and Discovery Innovations Helping to Advance Science and Healthcare at FORUM LABO PARIS 2019

WHAT: PerkinElmer — a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world – will be at FORUM LABO PARIS 2019, sharing how its advanced detection instruments, software and services help researchers and scientists find answers and breakthroughs more efficiently and effectively.   PerkinElmer’s offerings on display will span across applications within food and environmental testing,... Read more

QIAGEN supports World TB Day with major innovations in the fight against latent tuberculosis

Hilden, Germany, and Germantown, Maryland, March 24, 2019 – QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) recognized the annual World TB Day 2019 held on March 24 by highlighting its growing global commitment to preventive screening and treatment for latent tuberculosis (TB) infection, a widespread condition that can lead to active TB disease in... Read more

Tecan to vertically integrate supplier of key parts

Männedorf, Switzerland, March 22, 2019 – The Tecan Group (SIX Swiss Exchange: TECN) announced today that it has signed agreements to acquire a long-term supplier to vertically integrate the manufacturing of critical precision-machined parts for its liquid handling pump portfolio. With two manufacturing sites, one in California, USA, and a second site in Vietnam, Tecan will... Read more

Bruker Announces Improved Assay for Tuberculosis Diagnostics in Novel Liquid Array™ Format for Improved Multiplexing

– Expanded FluoroType™ MTBDR 2.0 Liquid Array molecular assay with CE-IVD mark provides highly differentiated tuberculosis (TB) detection and antibiotic resistance testing – Novel FluoroCycler™ XT PCR system with CE-IVD mark enables new Liquid Array format NEHREN, Germany, March 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — In time for the World Tuberculosis (TB) Day 2019 on Sunday, March... Read more

PerkinElmer Receives FDA Clearance for EUROIMMUN Anti-Tissue Transglutaminase ELISA

Serological testing plays critical role in helping diagnose patients with celiac disease WHAT: PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today announced that its EUROIMMUN Anti-TissueTransglutaminase (tTG) ELISA has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The test system is designed to help clinicians confirm or exclude... Read more

QIAGEN and Tecan announce collaboration to streamline preanalytical processing of QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus

Germantown, Maryland, Hilden, Germany, and Männedorf, Switzerland, March 08, 2019 – QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) and Tecan Group AG (SIX Swiss Exchange: TECN), a global leader in laboratory automation and liquid handling technology, announced today a collaboration to improve the processing of QIAGEN’s QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus (QFT-Plus) diagnostic test through the... Read more

Manual pipetting of 384-well plates made easy!

Hamburg, March 2019 Once throughput increases and sample volumes decrease, users face a dilemma. The so-called “alternate well pipetting method”, which uses 8 and 12 channel pipettes to fill 384-well plates, demands intense concentration; furthermore, it is time-consuming and carries a high risk of error. With their 16 and 24 channels, the new mechanical multichannel... Read more