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A New Nanopore Sequencer with Graphene Technology

Researchers from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have developed a new nanopore sequencing method based on graphene nanoribbons that detects double and single stranded DNA in...

Basic Research

3D Printing is not Innocuous for Health

Researchers from the University of California, Riverside have discovered that the material in some 3D printed objects is surprisingly harmful to living things. The finding...

3D printing

Cella Medical Solutions wins Adecco Award

The Spanish 3D printing company Cella Medical Solutions won the Adecco “Idea Joven Más Brillante” 2015 Award to the brightest idea from a young entrepreneur....

3D printing

A smartphone accessory to detect sickle cell disease

A team of scientists from four top American universities have developed a smartphone attachment that allows to detect sickle cell disease. The 3D printed device uses...

3D printing

The Genome Analysis Center Uses Fastest Processor Ever

  The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) will use Edico Genome´s DRAGEN, the world´s first processor specifically designed to analyze DNA sequences. DRAGEN reduces next generation sequencing...

Bioinformatics

A Small Flow-Cytometer with Full Clinical Capabilities

BD Biosciences has launched the BD FacsVia, a small flow-cytometer with full clinical capabilities like leucodepletion testing for blood product manufacturing. The FacsVia improves quality...

Equipment

New 3D Bioprinting Method Obtains Heart Model

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have printed 3D models of hearts, bones, arteries and brains using soft biological materials. The models were based on 3D...

3D bioprinting

A New NanoDrop with Contaminant Identification

Thermo Scientific has released the NanoDrop One and NanoDrop OnecUV-Vis, the last devices from the NanoDrop series of microvolume UV-Vis spectrophotometers and fluorospectrometers to measure DNA, RNA and protein...

Equipment