Laboratory Automation

Robotics, liquid handlers and scheduling software that take repetitive work off the bench, and the interoperability problem that keeps them from talking to each other.

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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
MinION Oxford Nanopore

MinION Sequencer Reproducibility Tested in Depth by Five Labs

Researchers from five labs have tested in depth the performance of the MinION, the sequencer developed by Oxford Nanopore. The labs belong to the MinION Analysis...

Equipment

WaferGen Presents the Latest Device for Single-Cell Isolation

WaferGen has launched the ICELL8 Single Cell System, a device capable of isolating 1800 single cells and identifying them thanks to CellSelect imaging and software. Multiple...

Equipment

AutoGen Fully Automatizes DNA Isolation

In collaboration with Qiagen, AutoGen has launched the FlexStar, a nucleic acid extraction system that fully automates the process of extracting DNA from whole blood, tissues,...

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Pacific Biosciences Launches the Most Accurate Sequencer for Long Reads

Pacific Biosciences has launched a new sequencer, the Sequel System, with improved throughput and scalability and lower costs and footprint respect to its predecessor, the PacBio®...

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Biotechnica, Europe’s No.1 Event for Lab Tech, in Hannover

Biotechnica 2015, Europe´s most important event for biotechnology, life science and lab technology, will take place in Hannover between October 6th and 8th. This year,...

Bioengineering

New NGS Platforms for Targeted Sequencing

Thermo Fisher presents two new next-generation sequencing (NGS) systems that simplify targeted sequencing. The Ion S5 and Ion S5 XL platforms are benchtop systems based...

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New Labeling System to Avoid Errors and Improve Lab Productivity

Errors in vial identification cause serious problems in the laboratory like loss of samples, messed up experiments or waste of reagents. In the worst case...

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