Life Science News and Press Releases

Introducing aCOLyte 3, Synbiosis’ New Affordable Automated Colony Counter For Delivering Accurate Results up to Ten Times Faster than Manual Counting

Synbiosis

14/05/2013

Cambridge, UK: Synbiosis, a world-leading manufacturer of automated microbiological systems, today introduced its aCOLyte 3 cost-effective colony counting system, which is ideal for microbiologists that need to significantly increase their throughput, as well as improve count accuracy. The new aCOLyte 3 is a low-cost automated colony counter, designed for a rapid count of pour, spread and spiral plates. The system can read plates of up to 90mm in seconds, generating...

PrimeTime® qPCR Assay Plates Streamlines High Throughput qPCR Analysis

Integrated DNA Technologies

14/05/2013

PrimeTime® qPCR Assay Plates with online tool for ordering primers and probes in 96 well format CORALVILLE, IA – 14 May 2013 – Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), the world leader in oligonucleotide synthesis, has announced the launch of PrimeTime® qPCR Assay Plates, for high throughput qPCR analysis. Primers and probes for 5’-nuclease and intercalating dye assays (e.g., SYBR®) can now be directly ordered online in a 96 well plate format,...

DNASTAR Lasergene Software Now Available on the Amazon Cloud

DNASTAR, Inc.

06/05/2013

MADISON, Wisconsin – May 6, 2013 – DNASTAR® announced the release of Lasergene 11 today. The major news in this release is that Lasergene, the most published sequence analysis software in peer reviewed journals for each of the past 28 years, is now available on the Amazon Cloud.Other significant improvements to Lasergene, which is an integrated suite of software for Sanger and next-generation sequence assembly and analysis, include the introduction of...

Fluidigm to Develop and Supply a Custom High-throughput Prep System for HLA Typing

Fluidigm Corporation

03/05/2013

Custom system will ultimately enable DKMS Life Science Lab to type several thousand samples per weekSouth San Francisco, Calif. May 1, 2013. Fluidigm (www.fluidigm.com) announced an agreement to develop and supply a customized version of its high- throughput library prep system to the DKMS (Deutsche Knochenmarkspenderdatei gemeinnützige Gesellschaft mbH) Life Science Lab. The new system will help the DKMS accelerate its research to fight against blood cancer by...

Highly Specific Aptamer Protein Precipitation Kits

AMS Biotechnology (AMSBIO)

30/04/2013

AMSBIO has announced a new range of Aptamer Protein Precipitation Kits that bind with unmatched high specificity and affinity to target molecules.The new AMSBIO Aptoprecipitation (AP) / Co-aptoprecipitation (Co-AP) Kits are aptamer based protein precipitation kits designed to provide easy, quick and consistent protein precipitation. The new kits offer a range of unique characteristics and provide significant advantages over alternative methods.Based upon a proprietary...

OGT Expands NGS Offering with Targeted Familial Sequencing and Analysis

Oxford Gene Technology

30/04/2013

Oxford, UK – 30 April 2013. Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), provider of innovative genetics research and biomarker solutions to advance molecular medicine, has extended its high-quality whole exome sequencing services with a targeted Familial Sequencing and Analysis Service. Ideal for investigators of inherited disease, the new service delivers multi-genome analysis of related samples for the detection of causative, de novo and disease susceptibility mutations. With a...

Holding the right CARDs with Tecan Cavro® components

Tecan Trading AG

30/04/2013

Rheonix Inc, a molecular diagnostics device manufacturer based in Ithaca, New York, has integrated Tecan’s Cavro® Air Displacement Pipettor (ADP) into its EncompassMDx™ molecular platform, providing complete automation of sample processing and analysis using Rheonix CARD® technology. The CARD system allows complete automation of nucleic acid testing of various biological sample types, including FFPE (formalin fixed paraffin embedded) samples, using a...

Merck Millipore Launches OsteoMAX-XF™, a Fully Defined, Xeno-free Mesenchymal Stem Cell Osteogenic Differentiation Medium

EMD Millipore

30/04/2013

• Enables rapid differentiation of fully functional human bone tissue from MSCs• More consistent and potent than currently available formulations • Accelerates time to mineralization to less than one week compared to the typical three weeks April 30, 2013, Darmstadt, Germany and London, UK - Merck Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck, and Plasticell of London, UK, today announced the...

Comprehensive Tissue Biorepository and Collection Services

AMS Biotechnology (AMSBIO)

23/04/2013

AMSBIO has announced further expansion of its tissue biorepository and collection services** to now include blood products from human donors with auto-immune and neurological conditions. Whole blood, plasma, serum, PBMCs and cerebrospinal fluid samples are available from a wide variety of donors. In addition AMSBIO is now able to offer collection services of patient samples that meet the demographic and medical history requirements of specific research...

Orbital Shaker Helps Accelerate Protein Precipitation Sample Preparation

Porvair Sciences Ltd

22/04/2013

Porvair Sciences has announced an online video demonstrating its MicroShake™ orbital shaker and how it can be used to accelerate sample preparation when using the company's popular p3 protein precipitation plates.By simply placing a p3 plate on the MicroShake™ dedicated plate holder and agitating for less than 30 seconds - rapid and complete mixing of serum samples with acetonitrile is ensured. The MicroShake™ has been rigorously tested with p3 plates to...