Ghent, Belgium –- Trinean NV today announced to be included in the ISBER Biorepository Proficiency Testing Program 2012. The ISBER PT program is designed for biospecimen repositories to assess the accuracy of their quality control assays, including their DNA quantification methods. The recently launched proficiency testing program dedicated a specific category for the quantification and […]

Cambridge, UK –- TTP Labtech, leading provider of liquid handling automation for crystallography, including the renowned mosquito® Crystal and mosquito LCP, will preview their latest innovation, the woodpecker® automated, non-contact screen optimiser, at ICCBM 14, 23rd – 28th September, Huntsville, Alabama, booth #20. The woodpecker®’s novel positive displacement pipetting technology will broaden the screen optimiser […]

Freeslate, Inc.,the leading provider of high throughput research solutions, today announced the release of LEA 8.4. Building on over 12 years of successful customer deployments and feedback, Freeslate LEA 8.4 provides an improved user experience in designing experiments by significantly reducing manual entry and providing integration with DOE software and customer chemical inventory databases. Freeslate […]

Poway, CA, Brooks Life Science Systems, a division of Brooks Automation, Inc. (Nasdaq: BRKS), a leading worldwide provider of automation solutions for compound and biological sample storage and management, announced today that Karolinska Institute Biobank (KI Biobank) is successfully using Brooks’ REMP single-use heat sealed sample tubes to secure the long-term storage of plasma, serum […]

Frederick, MD —— Akonni Biosystems today announced the availability of a new family of “smart tip” extraction products for rapidly purifying human genomic deoxyribonucleic acid (gDNA) on the Hamilton Microlab® STAR line of robotic liquid handling workstations. Starting from fresh or frozen blood, buffy coat, and soon tissue or cells, these new TruTip kits extract […]

Männedorf, Switzerland, – Tecan and Siloam Biosciences Inc. announce their intent to co-market a new automated low volume, high sensitivity microfluidic ELISA. The system is based on Tecan’s Freedom EVO® liquid handling technology and the Siloam Biosciences’ OptiMax™ microplate. It offers rapid, sensitive and specific chemifluorescence-based ELISA procedures using exceedingly small sample volumes. The speed, […]

Biowake BV (Arnhem, The Netherlands) will be launched as a new company on 5th September 2012! Biowake will feature at ELRIG’s (European Laboratory Robotics Interest Group) Innovation Zone during Drug Discovery 2012 meeting, to be held at Manchester Central, UK. ‘Biowake represents a new dawn in affordable automation’ commented CEO of Biowake, Erdal Demir. ‘We […]

PLEASANTON, Calif., USA and THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS – IntegenX Inc., a leading developer of rapid human DNA identification technology, today launched its RapidHIT™ Human DNA Identification System to the European law enforcement and forensic communities at the 6th European Academy of Forensic Science (EAFS) Conference in The Hague, The Netherlands. Representatives from IntegenX are […]

CHICAGO –– The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) gratefully announces that Beckman Coulter Life Sciences made an unrestricted contribution of $20,000 to the SLAS Endowment Fund. “Beckman Coulter is the first company to step forward this year with major support for the SLAS Endowment Fund,” says SLAS President Dave Dorsett. “Their generosity ensures […]