ROCHESTER, N.Y. – William A. Sanger recently joined the Board of Directors of Carestream Health, Inc., an international healthcare imaging and IT company with more than 7,200 employees worldwide. Mr. Sanger is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Emergency Medical Services Corporation, a leading provider of emergency medical services in the U.S. The company operates […]

San Antonio Tx – ImaginAb, Inc. is pleased to announce the availability of custom radiolabeling services for proteins, peptides and other macromolecules as of the 1st of July 2011. This is part of the company’s ongoing initiative to broaden the range of product and service offerings to the biopharma and research community and is synergistic […]

HOPKINTON, Mass. – Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: CALP), a leading provider of tools and services for drug discovery and life sciences research, hosted its 2011 annual Customers Owners Group (COG 2011) meeting on May 17 and 18 at its Hopkinton headquarters. This thought-leadership conference brought together leaders in research, drug discovery, and diagnostics to […]

Santa Clara, CA – Spectra-Physics®, a Newport Corporation brand, introduces InSight DeepSee, an extraordinary new ultrafast laser system that takes multiphoton imaging to new depths. Based on a novel proprietary technology, the new InSight DeepSee delivers nearly double the tuning range of existing ultrafast lasers and provides seamless access to long infrared wavelengths for deepest […]

West Chester, Pennsylvania, Molecular Targeting Technologies, Inc., (MTTI) announced that it has obtained an exclusive license from the Massachusetts General Hospital for novel fluorescence dyes developed by Scott Hilderbrand, Ph.D., Fangwei Shao, Ph.D., and Ralph Weissleder, Ph.D. M.D.. Dr. Scott Hilderbrand, Principal Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School said, “Due to the […]

WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN – GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) today announced it has acquired the assets of Steady State Imaging (SSI), a Minneapolis based company that develops novel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology. The terms of agreement were not disclosed. Through this acquisition, GE Healthcare’s Magnetic Resonance Imaging business expands its […]

Canandaigua, New York – Lieutenant Governor Robert J. Duffy today joined officials in announcing a $3 million partnership between Carestream Health and the Research Foundation of SUNY on behalf of the Smart System Technology & Commercialization Center of Excellence (STC) of the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany, a […]

BURLINGTON, Mass. – Tomophase Corporation, a leading developer of minimally invasive optical coherence tomography (OCT) tissue imaging devices, announced today that it has installed the first of its OCT Imaging Systems (OCTIS™) at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, Texas. This first system sale will be for research use in the laboratory […]

CULVER CITY, Calif. – Sofie Biosciences, a developer of molecular imaging systems and agents, announced the launch of GENISYS4, their new benchtop small animal PET system. Introduced today at the 2011 American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting, this compact, preclinical multimodality PET system provides researchers with the ability to non-invasively visualize and measure the […]

Oncology – HOPKINTON, Mass. – Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: CALP), a leading provider of tools and services for drug discovery, life sciences research and molecular diagnostics, today announced the launch of XenoLight(TM) RediJect(TM) COX-2 Probe (Fluorocoxibs), a novel fluorescent imaging agent for pre-clinical research that specifically detects the cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) biomarker noninvasively in live […]