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Beckman Coulter Life Sciences’ Yong Chen recognized as AIMBE Fellow

One of the world’s leading organizations for medical and engineering innovation and discovery has elected Dr.

From Beckman Coulter Life Sciences - Flow Cytometry 19 Apr 2016

Extracellular Vesicle Isolation and Characterization

In this interview, News Medical talks to Dr. Carly Ross, from Beckman Coulter Life sciences about extracellular vesicle isolation and characterization.

From Beckman Coulter Life Sciences - Flow Cytometry 23 Mar 2016

UAB research reveals heterogonous population of leukemia stem cells

University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers have found a marker on blood cells that may help the most pressing problem in chronic myelogenous leukemia, or CML, today — an inability to get patients off treatment.

16 Feb 2016

Using centrifugal elutriation and flow cytometry to answer biological questions: an interview with Peter Lopez

Flow Cytometry, the measurement of various cellular characteristics as they flow through a measuring apparatus, has so many applications.

From Beckman Coulter Life Sciences - Centrifugation 27 Jan 2016

Researchers identify biochemical factors that may predict Alzheimer's disease

Investigators have wondered why the brains of some cognitively-intact elderly individuals have abundant pathology on autopsy or significant amyloid deposition on neuroimaging that are characteristic of Alzheimer disease (AD).

22 Dec 2015

UCL Cancer Institute win $200,000 CytoFLEX Flow Cytometer from Beckman Coulter

An internationally renowned gene therapy research team has won a $200,000 CytoFLEX Flow Cytometer from Beckman Coulter Life Sciences.

From Beckman Coulter Life Sciences - Flow Cytometry 18 Dec 2015

A glass of clean drinking water contains 10 million bacteria

Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have discovered that our drinking water is to a large extent purified by millions of "good bacteria" found in water pipes and purification plants. So far, the knowledge about them has been practically non-existent, but this new research is about to change that.

17 Dec 2015

BD announces launch of BD FACSCelesta flow cytometer during ASCB annual meeting

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, today announced the launch of the BD FACSCelesta flow cytometer during the 2015 American Society for Cell Biology annual meeting. Uniquely designed to leverage the broad BD Horizon Brilliant reagent portfolio, this new system offers simultaneous measurement of up to 14 different single cell characteristics.

13 Dec 2015

Excellence in graduate student research, third annual Kaluza prizes

Beckman Coulter collaborated with the American Society for Cell Biology to sponsor the Third Annual ASCB Kaluza Prizes for academic excellence.

From Beckman Coulter Life Sciences - Flow Cytometry 7 Dec 2015

WHO Prequalification of IVDs Programme accepts Beckman Coulter’s Aquios CL flow cytometer

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences announce that their Aquios CL flow cytometer has been accepted by the World Health Organization (WHO) Prequalification of In Vitro Diagnostics Programme. It can now be used specifically for the immunologic assessment of patients having, or suspected of having, immune deficiency.

7 Dec 2015

Excelitas Technologies® Corp. and Quorum Technologies Present Microscopy Systems for Optogenetics Webinar

Excelitas Technologies® Corp. and Quorum Technologies will present a webinar entitled “How Can I Build a Microscopy System for Optogenetics?” led by featured speakers Kavita Aswani, Ph.D., senior applications scientist for the Life Sciences products at Excelitas Technologies, and Ryan Geil, M.Sc., service manager at Quorum Technologies Inc. The session will be moderated by Photonics Media and takes place on Thursday, November 12 at 1:00 pm (EST).

9 Nov 2015

Liposomal sizing and the Coulter principle: an interview with Professor Melvin E. Klegerman

For about the last 25 years, the cardiology group here have been developing a platform technology for both the diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis.

From Beckman Coulter Life Sciences - Particle Counting and Characterization 28 Oct 2015

LSTM CL3 lab refurbished by Medical Air Technology

Medical Air Technology (MAT) recently completed a project at the prestigious Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), increasing laboratory capacity to accommodate a new machine for counting and profiling cells. Founded in 1898, LSTM is the oldest School in Tropical Medicine in the world, and recognised globally for its groundbreaking research into infectious, debilitating and disabling diseases.

20 Oct 2015

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences launches QbD1200 Total Organic Carbon (TOC) Analyzer

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences has launched the QbD1200 Total Organic Carbon (TOC) Analyzer.

From Beckman Coulter Life Sciences - Particle Counting and Characterization 1 Oct 2015

Research suggests potential drug targets to stop cancer spread

It only takes seconds: one cancerous cell breaks off from a tumor, slips into the bloodstream and quickly lodges elsewhere in the body. These colonizers may bloom into deadly metastatic cancer right away or lie dormant for years, only to trigger a recurrence decades after the primary tumor is removed.

24 Sep 2015

Two international business awards won by Aquios CL flow cytometer

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences has gained two prestigious business awards for its clinical flow cytometer, the Aquios CL Flow Cytometer.

From Beckman Coulter Life Sciences - Flow Cytometry 16 Sep 2015

BD Life Sciences completes acquisition of Cellular Research

BD Life Sciences, a segment of leading global medical technology company BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), today announced it has completed the acquisition of Cellular Research, Inc.

From BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) 26 Aug 2015

NeoGenomics' revenue increases 18% to $24.3 million in second quarter 2015

NeoGenomics, Inc., a leading provider of cancer-focused genetic testing services, today reported its results for the second quarter of 2015.

23 Jul 2015

Beckman Coulter announces expansion of Cellular Accessible Retroviral Evaluation Systems Initiative at International AIDS Society 2015

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences today announces an expansion of its CARES Initiative at the 2015 International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference.

From Beckman Coulter Life Sciences - Flow Cytometry 21 Jul 2015

Omega-3 fatty acids and antioxidants may benefit people with Alzheimer's disease

Here's more evidence that fish oil supplementation and antioxidants might be beneficial for at least some people facing Alzheimer's disease: A new report published in the July 2015 issue of The FASEB Journal describes the findings of a very small study in which people with mild clinical impairment, such as those in the very early stages of the disease, saw clearance of the hallmark amyloid-beta protein and reduced inflammation in neurological tissues.

1 Jul 2015