Single Use Technology Featured Articles
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Stainless Steel Vial Filling System Developed For Use In Vaccine Facilities
7/17/2014
TAP Biosystems (now part of the Sartorius Stedim Biotech Group), a leading supplier of innovative cell culture and fermentation systems for life science applications, recently announced the development of a stainless steel version of the fill-it system, designed for safely dispensing biohazardous materials such as vaccine stocks.
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New Epoch 2 Provides Enhanced User Interface For Spectral Absorbance Detection
7/2/2014
BioTek proudly unveils the new Epoch™ 2 Microplate Spectrophotometer. Epoch 2 is the first reader to combine a large touchscreen and full onboard data analysis software for simplified and efficient operation and reporting of absorbance-based detection workflows.
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Roche Invests In Stratos Genomics For Further Development Of The ‘Sequencing By Expansion’ (SBX) Method Applied To Single Molecule Nanopore Sequencing
6/26/2014
Roche announced recently, it made a strategic investment in Stratos Genomics and entered into a research collaboration to support further development of their unique chemistry applied to single molecule sequencing of DNA fragments using protein nanopores.
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Merck Assesses Single Use: Does It Make Sense At A Large Scale?
5/14/2014
In an industry as conservative as the pharmaceutical industry, it is common practice to be adverse to new technologies because they are often viewed as too much of a risk. However, in this effort to play it safe, companies force themselves into a repetitive state of employing technologies that may not be the most efficient or effective. Rather than getting stuck in old habits — or conversely, jumping too quickly into new ones — Merck has put together a group of teams it calls the Technology Encouragement Collaborators, or TEC, to look at new technologies and determine whether or not to implement them.
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New LIAISON Ixt/Arrow CellSep Advanced Provides Rapid, Automated Cell Separation For Up To Three Cell Types In A Single Run
4/29/2014
DiaSorin has launched LIAISON Ixt/Arrow CellSep Advanced for the automated isolation of cells directly from whole blood or buffy coat.
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Addition Of UMTS Modem To Dyzle Remote Cold Chain Monitoring Solution Extends Global Coverage To Japan And South Korea
4/28/2014
Dyzle BV, the global leader in measuring and analyzing business process data for the cold chain in real-time, has introduced a UMTS modem to its Y-Gate wireless sensor base station solution, enabling full global coverage of the company’s real-time cold chain monitoring solution, including in countries like Japan and South Korea.
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Beckman Coulter Life Sciences To Acquire Cytometer Maker Xitogen
4/22/2014
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences has entered into an agreement to acquire Xitogen Technologies Inc. together with Cytojene Corporation. Xitogen, a flow cytometer developer based in Suzhou and Dalian, China, will provide Beckman Coulter Life Sciences with both a strong operational base in the growing China market and a high quality research instrument to round out their world-class cytometry offering.
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BioTek Presents Multi-Functional, Microplate-Based Workflow Solutions At Analytica 2014
3/25/2014
BioTek Instruments, Inc., will highlight their latest microplate instrumentation technologies, designed to automate and improve lab efficiency, at Hall A3, Stand #310 during Analytica 2014, the 24th International Trade Fair for Laboratory Technology, Analysis and Biotechnology.
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Hamilton Robotics Partners With Coastal Genomics To Introduce Innovative Technologies To Automate Agarose Gel DNA Fragment Selection
1/22/2014
At the annual Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) meeting Hamilton Robotics has announced a partnership with Coastal Genomics to launch the new Microlab NIMBUS Select workstation with Ranger Technology.
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Nanotherapeutics Selects GE Healthcare Life Sciences Technologies For Advanced Development And Manufacturing Center
1/22/2014
GE Healthcare recently announced that biopharmaceutical company Nanotherapeutics, Inc. has selected GE Healthcare Life Sciences' FlexFactory biomanufacturing platform to perform a central role in its Advanced Development and Manufacturing (NANO-ADM) Center at Alachua, Florida, USA.