Press Releases

The IDEX Health & Science team is excited to announce a significant product advancement designed to provide unparalleled value and performance: the BrightLine 2.0 and BrightLine Basic optical filter sets. Both new BrightLine filter sets represent the culmination of 20+ years of technological advancement for Semrock optical filters, and they are a prime example of enhancing core Semrock products to meet current industry requirements. Learn more.
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BioTight is ideal for bio markets including genomics, next-generation sequencing, spatial biology, IVD Bio, and Chromatography. BioTight is easy to use, compact, versatile, and metal-free. It’s made with all PEEK components to ensure chemical and biological compatibility.
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Attain higher data and sample throughput, lower cost and superior image quality for applications such as next generation sequencing, next generation proteomics, and spatial biology. Learn more about our new product, Melles Griot XPLAN CCG Lens Series.
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IDEX Health & Science has launched the new Semrock line of Nanopede Optical Filters specifically designed for flow cytometry applications. These optical filters cover the visible spectrum in 20 nm Full-Width, Half-Max (FWHM) steps. Learn more.
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In 2022 alone, the Life Science Optics (LSO) team—working in conjunction with the IDEX Foundation—donated $168,900 to local organizations and hundreds of volunteer hours.
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IDEX Health & Science has extended its line of Semrock™ brand optical filters with the launch of the new Avant™ filter set family. This new filter set has been designed to provide significant improvement in fluorescence performance for corresponding short Stokes Shift fluorophores.
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IDEX Health & Science’s fluidics team in Bristol, CT recently made a $14,500 donation through the IDEX Foundation to the Meals for Neighbors program at Zion Lutheran Evangelical Church in Bristol.
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Employees at the IDEX Health & Science Middleboro facility participated in a clean-up day at the Boys and Girls Club Metro South’s Camp Riverside where they helped prepare the camp for the summer season with various activities. They also made a $15,000 donation through the IDEX Foundation to the Boys and Girls Club of Metro South.
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IDEX Health & Science’s Life Science Optics Team recently made a $15,000 Donation through the IDEX Foundation to the Special Olympics of New York.
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IDEX Health & Science’s Life Science Optics Team—comprised of units in Rochester, NY Lima, NY and Carlsbad, CA—donated $104,998 in 2021 to local organizations.
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The Verona™ optical filters product line was designed from the ground up specifically for Raman instruments. Understanding that crucial spectroscopic data lies within the fingerprint region close to the excitation laser line, IDEX Health & Science designed the VLP01-785 with a transition width < 29 cm−1 at 785 nm.
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Rohnert Park, California, September 27, 2021— IDEX Health & Science (IH&S), the global leader in optofluidic components and subsystems, announced today that its Life Science Optics business unit has received the Laser Focus World Innovators Award for their Kola Deep™ Spectral Measurement System. This award recognizes excellent innovation, the benefits of which are clear and represents substantial improvement over previous methods employed, approaches taken, or products/systems used, was determined by an esteemed and experienced panel of judges from the optics and photonics community.
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Rohnert Park, California, May 18, 2021 – IDEX Health & Science (IH&S), industry leader in optofluidic components and subsystems, introduces a new Partnership Personality survey that allows individuals to learn about their view of supplier partnerships as well as, the partnership view of the company they work for.
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Rohnert Park, California, January 22, 2021 – IDEX Health & Science, industry leader in fluidic connections for life science applications, has launched the Intuitive™ Torque Limiting Fitting System which is a patented torque limiting true “Finger Tight” fitting for low pressure connections. The torque limiting technology provides a haptic “click” feedback when it reaches the optimum torque, assuring a perfect connection every time. This universal fitting can be used with 1/16” & 1/8th” OD tubing.
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Rohnert Park, California, November 30, 2020 – IDEX Health & Science, industry leader in fluidic connections for life science applications, has launched the new MarvelXACT™ PEEKsil™ Connection Systems. Employing patented MarvelXACT™ connections technology, these new bioinert tubing and fitting connection systems are designed to be compatible with low flow applications at high pressures that require low contamination and minimal flow resistance. The new connection systems have an extremely smooth internal diameter and provide a secure dead volume connection which helps avoid carryover and blockage.
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Rochester, New York, October 12, 2020 — IDEX Health & Science (IH&S), industry leader in optofluidic components and subsystems, announces the market expansion of its patented Semrock line of VersaChrome® tunable bandpass and tunable edge optical filters beyond fluorescence microscopy into tunable Raman spectroscopy and hyperspectral imaging applications.
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Rohnert Park, California, August 28, 2020 — IDEX Health & Science (IH&S), industry leader in fluidic components and subsystems, introduces a new Constant Performance Degassing Pump (CPDP) system that enables a new method of in-line HPLC degassing control that delivers greater HPLC instrument performance and reliability.
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Rohnert Park, California, July 22, 2020 — IDEX Health & Science, industry leader in fluidic connections, introduces its newest addition to their BioVersal™ line of products; zero dead volume bioinert sample loops for use in Ultra High-Pressure applications.
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Rochester, New York, April 22 2020— IDEX Health & Science (IH&S) announced it has reached a major milestone, shipping its 5 millionth Semrock optical filter. IH&S design and process control of Semrock optical filters provides the life science market with an important and robust component that has become widely accepted as the industry standard. More recently, Semrock optical filters have played a role in detecting (through PCR instruments) and monitoring (through sequencing instruments) the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 resulting in a significant increase in demand.
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Rohnert Park, CA, December 17, 2019 — IDEX Health & Science, LLC (IH&S), the global leader in life science fluidics and optics, today unveiled its new Flat Film Membrane Degasser. In a radical transition from traditional lumen designs, IDEX presents a new cutting-edge technology that provides powerful performance control with increased solvent compatibility. The film degasser provides improved performance and efficiency in a smaller footprint device and the control methodology shifts the emphasis from ‘constant vacuum’ to ‘constant performance’, by allowing users to select an optimal degassing efficiency for any HPLC methods.
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