The aviation bug has only taken a nibble at Dr Chloe Barnes of 2Excel Geo, which specializes in the acquisition and processing of airborne hyperspectral imagery. On the one hand, she describes the Piper Navajos she works with as “just platforms for the sensors”. But then she muses about how much she enjoys her newfound ability to speak with her partner’s PPL-holding father about NOTAMs and restricted airspace.
As head of remote sensing at 2Excel Geo, part of UK aviation services company 2Excel Aviation, Barnes’ work perfectly demonstrates aviation’s more unusual career opportunities. 2Excel Geo delivers bespoke remote sensing solutions with a domain focus on forestry and the environment. It has a Bio Systems team which applies aircraft-mounted hyperspectral sensors to precision agriculture.
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PCR Biosystems, the UK-based specialists in DNA and RNA analysis, have launched a range of IsoFast™ Bst Polymerase reagents for rapid, robust and sensitive DNA and RNA amplification. Through its nucleic acid strand displacement capabilities, Bst polymerase eliminates the need for the high temperature denaturation step associated with traditional Taq enzymes. This enables faster time to result and facilitates DNA and RNA amplification in the field without specialised thermocycling equipment.
The new range of IsoFast Bst reagents from PCR Biosystems can be used for a variety of techniques including whole genome amplification, multiple displacement amplification and isothermal amplification. Such techniques have important applications in sectors ranging from environmental and food pathogen testing to clinical diagnostics and next generation sequencing. Scientists performing DNA and RNA amplification using IsoFast Bst Polymerase can benefit from consiste
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LOWELL, Mass., March 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Rapid Micro Biosystems, Inc., the leading provider of data integrity and automation technology for microbial detection in biopharmaceutical manufacturing, today announced the completion of an $81 million equity financing.
The funding round was led by new investor D1 Capital Partners, along with funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., Adage Capital Management, Sunley House Capital Management, and CaaS Capital Management. These new investors join an existing investor group that includes Bain Capital Life Sciences, Ally Bridge Group, Longitude Capital, Xeraya Capital, Endeavour Vision, Quaker Partners, and Asahi Kasei Medical.
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced the launch of its Applied Biosystems TaqMan SARS-CoV-2 Mutation Panel, a customizable menu of 22 verified real-time PCR assays for identification of SARS-CoV-2 mutations. These assays enable surveillance of variants that are causing COVID-19 infections in specific regions globally and allow laboratories to choose which mutations to track.
DGAP-News: Molecular Health GmbH: Molecular Health and FALCO biosystems team up to provide genetic analysis services using MH Guide/BRCA and MH Guide/Mendel
PMS2, respectively. Therefore, testing
BRCA1/2 genes and other heritable cancer-associated genes is becoming increasingly important: both to evaluate the affected patient s individual risk of developing cancer
[1],[2], and as a predictive biomarker and companion diagnostic test for certain drugs
[3]. Whereas MH Guide/BRCA detects variants in HBOC-associated genes, MH Guide/Mendel can analyze large gene panels as well as whole-exome or whole-genome data, so that many different hereditary diseases can be identified at once. With this collaboration in place, Japanese patients will benefit from state-of-the-art genetic identification of inherited diseases like Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer and many other diseases. This will allow sooner diagnosis and potentially earlier therapeutic intervention , said Christian Meisel,