Business in Brief

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences and 10x Genomics have formed a partnership to improve automation solutions for single cell assay workflows. As part of the initiative, 10x will develop a suite of automation-compatible consumables and Chromium Single Cell kits for Beckman’s Biomek i7 Automated Liquid Handler.

908 Devices and Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies will combine their automation technologies – 908’s MAVEN glucose and lactate analyzer and Terumo BCT’s Quantum Flex Cell Expansion System – to enable on-line monitoring of critical process parameters in cell culture processing. 

The Open University, UK, has purchased the first Syft Tracer – an automated mass spectrometry system developed by Syft Technologies and Element Lab Solutions – to facilitate the expansion of its Wolfson Analytical Centre for advanced space studies.

LECO Corporation has joined forces with Cal State LA to launch the new LECO Complex Chemical Compositional Analysis Lab – a collaborative educational and research lab for both undergraduate and graduate students.

PacBio has announced the initiation of the HiFi Solves consortium – a partnership involving geneticists from 15 institutions that aims to collect and share the best approaches to study long-read genomic sequencing in clinical research. 

The Sarawak Infectious Disease Centre (SIDC) in East Malaysia has joined Agilent Technologies to enhance research into neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) – signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). With Agilent’s 6475 LC/MS system – based on iFunnel technology – and the development of translational labs, the two bodies are hopeful to accelerate research advancements on NTDs. 

The SomaLogic SomaScan 11K Platform – an extended proteomics platform based on aptamer technology – was recently upgraded to be able to measure up to 11,000 proteins.

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