December 8, 2021 Lab Top-10

Bruker Announces $500 Million Private Placement of Senior Notes to Support Strategic Growth Objectives

BILLERICA, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR) announced today that it has completed a new private placement of 10-year senior notes in the aggregate principal amount of $500 million to enhance its financial flexibility and fund strategic growth objectives. Gerald Herman, Bruker’s Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, commented “This new debt financing capitalizes... Read more

December 2, 2021 Lab Top-10 Life Science Tools Liq. Handling & Robotics

Bruker Expects its FluoroType® SARS-CoV-2 varID Q PCR Assay to Reliably Detect and Tentatively Differentiate Omicron (B.1.1.529) Variant

Includes robust dual-target SARS-CoV-2 detection and identification of 4 S-gene mutations Reliable detection and even tentative differentiation of Omicron variant expected Validated with the GenoXtract® and GenoXtract ® fleXT extraction system Validated with Bruker’s novel FluoroCycler® XT real-time PCR thermocycler NEHREN, Germany–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR) today announced that its established CE-IVD marked FluoroType®... Read more

December 2, 2021 Lab Top-10

Thermo Fisher Scientific and Color Health Launch K-12 ReadyCheckGo COVID-19 Testing Solution for Texas Schools

Thermo Fisher Scientific and Color Health Launch K-12 ReadyCheckGo COVID-19 Testing Solution for Texas Schools WALTHAM, Mass., Dec. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and Color Health, a health technology company committed to advancing public health, have launched a significant expansion of the K-12 ReadyCheckGo COVID-19 testing solution in Texas.... Read more

November 30, 2021 Lab Top-10 Product Launch

New High Fidelity CRISPR Cas9 Protein Reduces Off-target Effects for More Precise Genome Editing

New High Fidelity CRISPR Cas9 Protein Reduces Off-target Effects for More Precise Genome Editing Growing CRISPR genome editing portfolio supports researchers on path to future therapeutic applications CARLSBAD, Calif., Nov. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — For research applications requiring highly precise genome editing, including engineering CAR T cells and creating cellular models for disease discovery, the Invitrogen... Read more

November 29, 2021 Lab Top-10 Life Science Tools Liq. Handling & Robotics

PerkinElmer Confirms That Omicron Variant Does Not Impact SARS-CoV-2 Detection Capability of its RT-PCR Assays

Diagnostic accuracy of PerkinElmer’s COVID-19 PCR tests remains unaffected WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nov. 29, 2021– PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI), a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today announced that the performance of its SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR assays are not impacted by the emergence of Omicron (B.1.1.529), a variant of concern that was recently identified... Read more

November 29, 2021 Lab Top-10

Thermo Fisher Scientific Confirms Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Samples Containing the Omicron Variant with its TaqPath COVID-19 Tests

Thermo Fisher Scientific Confirms Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Samples Containing the Omicron Variant with its TaqPath COVID-19 Tests WALTHAM, Mass., Nov. 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE:TMO), the world leader in serving science, today confirmed that its polymerase chain reaction (PCR) TaqPath COVID-19 Combo Kit*, and TaqPath COVID-19 CE-IVD RT-PCR Kit*, which test... Read more

November 22, 2021 Informatics & Software Lab Top-10 Liq. Handling & Robotics Product Launch

PerkinElmer Launches Cloud Based Solution to Enable Remote Lab Management

The PKeye Workflow Monitor offers 24/7 monitoring capabilities to ensure high productivity and throughput WALTHAM, Mass. – November 22, 2021 – PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today announced the launch of its PKeye™ Workflow Monitor, a cloud-based platform enabling laboratory personnel to remotely manage and monitor their PerkinElmer... Read more