SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Labcyte Inc. today launched a new 1536-well tissue-culture treated microplate for cell-based screening and discovery applications. By enabling cell culture directly in a high-density microplate, this new product expands cell-based assay miniaturization capabilities, such as direct PCR from cell cultures. The exacting rigidity and flatness specifications improve well-to-well reproducibility, resulting in better […]

TAP Biosystems, (formerly The Automation Partnership), the leading supplier of innovative automation and consumables for life science applications today announced it is introducing a 96-well version of its RAFT™ (Real Architecture for 3D Tissue™) system for the generation of consistent multi-cellular 3D tissue models on Booth 1107 at the Society of Biomolecular Screening (SBS) Conference. […]

Männedorf, Switzerland – The Tecan Group (SIX Swiss Exchange: TECN) and HP (NYSE: HPQ) today announced that they have entered into an agreement to commercialize products based on HP’s high-performance inkjet dispensing technology for pharmaceutical drug discovery. The new dispensing technology intended for use in research is designed to enable biopharma researchers to accelerate and […]

At the Society for Biomolecular Screening (SBS) conference 2011, TTP LabTech has announced an exciting collaboration with a world leader in membrane protein crystallography. Here, Professor Martin Caffrey, Trinity College, Dublin, renowned for automating and miniaturizing the in meso method, has highlighted a number of attractive features of the new mosquito® LCP instrument. The mosquito® […]

Reno, Nevada – Hamilton Robotics introduces the FlipTube, for use on the company’s MICROLAB® STAR and NIMBUS automated liquid handling platforms. This 1.5 mL polypropylene microcentrifuge tube features a snap-cap that can be automatically opened and closed using an independent pipetting channel, eliminating manual steps. The automated opening and closing of this novel reaction tube […]

The Automation Partnership (TAP), a leading supplier of innovative automation for life science applications today announced that the company will now be known as TAP Biosystems. This new corporate identity will ensure existing and future customers in life science will have a better understanding of the breadth of products and services which the company now […]

Sunnyvale, CA – Freeslate, Inc., the leading provider of high-throughput solutions that enable step-change gains in R&D productivity and innovation, today announced it has successfully installed a high throughput workflow at China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec Corp.) to support research and development in the area of zeolite catalysts. This will support Sinopec’s ongoing research […]

BioTek Instruments is now three hundred employees strong! The company recently welcomed Dennis Lamb to their Winooski-based manufacturing department as their 300th employee. Kathy Gendron, BioTek’s VP Human Resources noted, “BioTek is growing rapidly and we’re always on the lookout for exceptional new talent to join our family”. “It’s very satisfying to see this company […]

Nottingham, UK – Copley Scientific has delivered a multiple order of eight tablet dissolution testers to Melbourn Scientific as the contract research organisation extends its testing capabilities in response to increasing client demand. The eight DIS6000 systems, one of the most compact dissolution testers available, have been installed and commissioned with full support from the […]