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Nobel Prize in Medicine

Nobel Prize Goes to Researchers Who Unravelled the Machinery of Vesicle Traffic

Researchers from Stanford, Berkeley and Yale were announced the joint winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work on unraveling the inter...

Biomedicine

Waters ACQUITY QDa Detector Blends Chromatography with Mass Spectrometry

Waters Corporation has launched a new mass detector that can be integrated with the company’s chromatographic systems. The Waters ACQUITY QDa Detector is first of...

Health and Pharmaceuticals

Berthold Technologies Launches New Mithras2 Monochromator Multimode Reader

Berthold Technologies has introduced the advanced Mithras2 LB943 Monochromator Multimode Reader, a high-end monochromator-based microplate multimode reader with enhanced versatility. In addition to its renowned...

Biotechnology
DNA coding

New Programming Language Makes Coding for Synthetic DNA Possible

Researchers from the University of Washington have developed a new programming language. Unlike the conventional programming languages used to write codes for computers, this programming...

Biotechnology
DNA extraction

MO BIO Labs Launches a New Kit for Rapid Extraction of Microbial DNA from Swabs

MO BIO Laboratories Inc., a leading provider of nucleic acid purification solutions has launched a new kit for rapid mechanical lysis of microbial cells present...

New Launch
portable lab ph meter

Hanna Instruments Launches the Most Attractive Portable Lab Meter

Leading analytical instrument manufacturer, Hanna Instruments announced the launch of edge® at the Internationale Messe für Pharma Chemie Biotechnologie in Basel Switzerland. Edge is a...

Laboratory Automation

Green Photon Beam Scores Over Laser for Optical Manipulation

Optical tweezers have been the equipment of choice for applications involving manipulation of small molecules and structures. The highly focused laser beams used in optical...

Bioengineering
Wyss institute breakthrough

Wyss Researchers Discover the Best Way to Express Synthetic Genes

Researchers at Wyss Institute might have found the solution to very synthetic biologist’s nightmare: bacteria disobeying commands to express genes of interest. In an incredible...

Bioengineering