Top News from the Life Sciences Community this Month

Read a roundup of the latest advances in Life Sciences technology and applications in this month’s top news stories:

Nobel Prize for Inventor of Super-Resolution Microscopy, Stefan Hell
Leica Microsystems honors Nobel Prize winner, Stefan W. Hell, for the principle that enables STED (STimulated Emission Depletion) microscopy. In collaboration with Leica Microsystems, this principle was translated into the first commercially available STED microscope, whose latest generation is now the Leica TCS SP8 STED 3X.

Carl Zeiss Research Award Winners and Partners Receive Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize was recently awarded for medicine, physics and chemistry. Customers and partners of ZEISS are among the winners, including former Carl Zeiss Research Award winners Shuji Nakuamura and Stefan Hell, and Eric Betzig whose research led to the development of the ELYRA P.1 and PS.1 super-resolution systems.

PerkinElmer Launches Mantra™ Quantitative Pathology Imaging System for Cancer Immunology Research
PerkinElmer has announced the launch of its Mantra™ Quantitative Pathology Workstation with inForm® Image Analysis Software for cancer immunology and immunotherapy research.

Pluripotent Stem Cell Differentiation for Cancer Research
Learn how the Thermo Scientific™ Nunclon™ Sphera surface is designed to integrate into a researcher’s existing cell culture research workflow and facilitate an array of cancer and stem cell research tools, from routine passage of cells to high-throughput imaging analysis.

Novel FV-OSR Software from Olympus Provides Innovative Solution for Confocal Super Resolution Microscopy
Thanks to a novel software upgrade from Olympus, an optical resolution of up to 120 nm is now achieved in cell and tissue imaging.

Bio-Rad Introduces Wet-Lab Validated Real-Time PCR Assays for Rat Genome
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. has announced the launch of new PrimePCR™ Rat Genome Assays for quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR).

QIAGEN Demonstrates Expanded Bioinformatics Workflows at ASHG
QIAGEN announced a number of new capabilities of its Ingenuity® Variant Analysis™ and CLC Cancer Research Workbench solutions that accelerate workflows that allow researchers to move from sample to insight with next-generation sequencing.

How Circulating Tumor Cells Are Being Used in Cancer Research
Circulating tumor cells have a key advantage of being enriched above the background cell levels, enabling them to be analyzed using molecular based methods. Learn how circulating tumor cells have provided a genomic snapshot of breast cancer.

New Synergy™ HTX Offers Convenient, Flexible and Automated Microplate-Based Detection
BioTek has launched the Synergy™ HTX Multi-Mode Microplate Reader to incorporate practical functionality, user-friendly software, and affordable modularity.

LGC’s New Search Tool Gives Online Access to 110,000 SNP Genotyping Assays
LGC’s new Assay Search Tool allows you to search for new wet-lab validated KASP™ Genotyping Assays, view pricing and order online, without a sequence submission.