October 12, 2020 Acad, Gov/Utilities Clinical Research/Diagn. Microscopy PR/Corporate

GE Healthcare Receives FDA Clearance for Vivid Ultra Edition, AI-Powered Cardiovascular Ultrasound System Designed to Shorten Diagnostic Exam Time and Improve Measurement Consistency

Chicago (October 12, 2020) – GE Healthcare today announced U.S. FDA 510k clearance for its Ultra Edition package on Vivid[1] cardiovascular ultrasound systems, which includes new features based on artificial intelligence (AI) that enable clinicians to acquire faster, more repeatable exams consistently. Methodical assessments of heart function are key in echocardiography but can be tedious... Read more

October 12, 2020 Lab Top-10 Liq. Handling & Robotics Product Launch

Thermo Fisher Scientific Further Expands COVID-19 Test Portfolio with Two New Antibody Tests

Thermo Fisher Scientific Further Expands COVID-19 Test Portfolio with Two New Antibody Tests WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today introduced two new SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests: the Thermo Scientific OmniPATH COVID-19 Total Antibody ELISA test, and the Thermo Scientific EliA SARS-CoV-2-Sp1 IgG test. These... Read more

October 8, 2020 Clinical Research/Diagn. Life Science Tools

Fluidigm to Offer Millions of Advanta COVID-19 Tests at Low Cost to U.S. Colleges and Universities

Fluidigm COVID-19 Campus Safeguard Program Improves Availability of Noninvasive, Saliva-Based SARS-CoV-2 Tests for Higher Education Institutions High-Throughput, Integrated Testing Platform and Reliable Supply Chain SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Oct. 08, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Fluidigm Corporation (Nasdaq:FLDM), an innovative biotechnology tools provider with a vision to improve life through comprehensive health insight, today announced a program to expand availability of Fluidigm® COVID-19 tests for U.S. colleges and universities. The Fluidigm COVID-19 Campus Safeguard Program will provide... Read more

October 8, 2020 Bio/Pharma/CRO Environ, Ag./Food & Bev Licensing, IP, and Legal

Axxam and FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics Announce Strategic Alliance to Deliver Integrated hiPSC Drug Discovery Solutions

MILAN (Italy) and MADISON (Wis., USA) –  October 6, 2020 – Axxam S.p.A., a leading provider of integrated drug discovery services across life sciences industries, and  FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics, Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) models and therapies, announce a strategic alliance to improve the drug discovery process.... Read more

October 8, 2020 Lab Top-10 Liq. Handling & Robotics Product Launch

Newport, Wales Laboratory Goes Live as First Lighthouse Lab featuring PerkinElmer’s COVID-19 Solutions

Company’s RT-PCR kits and workflow solutions will help to significantly increase capacity of the UK’s testing program WALTHAM, Mass. – October 8, 2020 – PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today announced that the first Turnkey Lighthouse lab in Newport, South Wales, is now processing COVID-19 testing samples as... Read more

October 7, 2020 Life Science Tools Product Launch

Swift Biosciences Innovates Swift 2S Sonic DNA Library Kit for a Rapid, Cost-effective Workflow

Highest Data Quality Bolsters Large Scale Studies ANN ARBOR, Mich, (October 7th, 2020) Swift Biosciences, Inc., a leader in the commercialization of DNA and RNA Library Preparation Kits introduces the new Swift 2S Sonic DNA Library Kit to the NGS Industry. After a tremendously successful debut of Swift 2S Turbo’s low-cost enzymatic fragmentation-based library preparation... Read more

October 7, 2020 Environ, Ag./Food & Bev Lab Top-10 Life Science Tools PR/Corporate

Danaher Schedules Third Quarter 2020 Earnings Conference Call

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR) announced today that it will webcast its quarterly earnings conference call for the third quarter 2020 on Thursday, October 22, 2020 beginning at 8:00 a.m. ET and lasting approximately 1 hour. The call and an accompanying slide presentation will be webcast on the “Investors” section of... Read more

October 7, 2020 Uncategorized

Imaging Cilia and Centrioles Below the Diffraction Limit

Novel use of expansion microscopy with ZEISS Airyscan technology Primary cilia are organelles that protrude from the cell surface and function as “cellular antennae” to receive and transduce extracellular signals. They are approximately 3 µm in length and 0.3 µm in diameter, which is below the optical diffraction limit of standard light microscopes. Junior Associate... Read more

October 7, 2020 Environ, Ag./Food & Bev Lab Top-10 Liq. Handling & Robotics Product Launch

PerkinElmer Launches Industry First, Fully Automated Workflow for Cannabis & Hemp Pesticide Residue Testing

Streamlined solution features quality control reagent kits, robotic sample preparation, mass spectrometry analysis and data reporting software to transform analysis efficiency WALTHAM, Mass. – October 7, 2020 – PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today launched the cannabis industry’s first fully-automated liquid handling sample preparation and LC/MS/MS analysis workflow... Read more

October 7, 2020 PAI Top-10

Luminex Corporation Pre-Release of 3rd Quarter 2020 Revenue

AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Luminex Corporation (Nasdaq: LMNX) today announced 3rd quarter 2020 revenues of approximately $106 million, up approximately 35% over the 3rd quarter of 2019. Highlights include: Molecular Diagnostics revenue of approximately $60 million, up almost 100% vs. Q3 2019 Licensed Technologies Group revenue of approximately $35 million, down 10% vs.... Read more