Billerica, Mass.—October 1, 2008—Millipore Corporation (NYSE:MIL), a Life Science leader providing technologies, tools and services for bioscience research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing, today announced the availability of the new Elix Advantage water purification system, which provides high quality pure water from tap. Featuring Millipore’s patented Elix electrodeionization technology and outstanding ergonomics, coupled with a “green” design […]

454 Life Sciences Corporation, a Roche company, announced the launch of the new GS FLX Titanium series reagents and software that are transforming the life science’s industry. The new reagent kits provide individual sequencing reads with an improved Q20 length of 400 base pairs (99% accuracy at the 400th base and higher for preceding bases) […]

QIAGEN Acquires Biosystems Business from Biotage Venlo, The Netherland, October 1, 2008 – QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt, Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that it has acquired all assets related to the Biosystems business from Biotage AB, a publicly listed developer, manufacturer and distributor of products for genetic analysis and medicinal chemistry headquartered in Uppsala, […]

FULLERTON, Calif. (September 30, 2008) – Beckman Coulter, Inc. announces an advanced version of its eXPert software for the Optima L-XP Series Ultracentrifuges. The new Optima eXPert software delivers important capabilities for academic, biopharmaceutical and bioprocessing users in protein, virus and vaccine development. New security and audit trail features support users working with 21 CFR […]

454 Life Sciences, a Roche company, and GenomeQuest, Inc. announced a co-marketing agreement whereby GenomeQuest will offer its recently launched On-Demand Informatics Service to users of the 454 Genome Sequencer FLX System. GenomeQuest’s high-throughput annotation and data management tools enable rapid characterization of all sequences generated by the Genome Sequencer FLX System. The combination of […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 29 — Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD) today announced it has received clearance from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to market its Xpert(TM) MRSA/SA Skin and Soft Tissue Infection (SSTI) test, which runs on the GeneXpert(R) System, for the rapid detection of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Staphylococcus aureus (SA, typically Methicillin-sensitive) […]

Renowned separations science expert Milos Novotny, PhD, has joined Protein Discovery’s scientific advisory board. Protein Discovery will call upon Professor Novotny’s deep knowledge of electrophoretic and chromatographic separations as the company continues to develop and commercialize sample preparation systems for mass spectrometry. “Protein Discovery has commercialized electrophoretic sample preparation in a unique and immediately useful […]

454 Life Sciences, a Roche company, and Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc., Coralville, USA announced today they have entered into an exclusive co-promotional agreement wherein IDT will design, synthesize, and purify the fusion primers required for certain 454 Sequencing applications. These applications include ultra-deep amplicon sequencing for detection of low-frequency mutations in disease associated genes, and […]

BRANFORD, Conn.–454 Life Sciences, a Roche company, today announced the publication of the 250th peer-reviewed study using the Genome Sequencer System. Researchers are taking advantage of the high accuracy and long reads that the Genome Sequencer FLX System provides to quickly generate high quality, biologically relevant results. These results are yielding breakthrough publications, giving 454 […]

How do you guarantee the quality and characteristics of chemical products? The water content can give you important information. Karl Fischer titration is the specific standard method to determine the water content and gives accurate and precise results within minutes. With the new METTLER TOLEDO Karl Fischer titrators your operators need only to press one […]