BioTek Instruments reports record growth for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2010, citing sales growth increases of 19% domestically and 16% internationally for their laboratory component business. In contrast, the scientific equipment market segment in 2010 reportedly grew around 6%. During the same period, BioTek opened a satellite office in Switzerland and launched a […]

Eppendorf North America announces that The Genome Center at Washington University has purchased and installed 10 additional epMotion® 5075 TMX PC systems for its next-generation sequencing (NGS) sample preparation needs on the Illumina GAIIx and HiSeq platforms The epMotion 5075 TMX PC easily automates the manual steps within the NGS workflow including end repair, A-tailing, […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it has acquired BIOCIUS Life Sciences, Inc., developer of the unique RapidFire(tm) high-throughput mass spectrometry drug-screening platform for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical markets. Financial details were not disclosed. BIOCIUS’ RapidFire drug-screening technology has successfully screened millions of compounds, providing results 10 to 100 times […]

WINOOSKI VT, USA — BioTek Instruments, Inc., continues their global expansion in the microplate-based technology market with the establishment of BioTek Korea. Managed by Mr. Yunki Kyung, the new direct sales and service organization will focus on growing BioTek’s brand and expanding direct service and application support for our growing customer base in South Korea. […]

The Automation Partnership (TAP), a world leader in the design and development of innovative automation for life science applications, today announced it is significantly expanding its European marketing and support team by appointing two new European distributors and a new Sales Manager in Germany. The two new distributors, Applikon Biotechnology in the Netherlands and Labtech […]

BioTek now offers three options to customers requiring peristaltic pump cassette recalibration for MultiFlo™ Microplate Dispenser, EL406™ Combination Washer Dispenser and MicroFlo™ Select Microplate Dispenser. Option #1: Customers may send used cassettes to BioTek’s Depot Service Center for refurbishment. Return forms may be requested at BioTek’s online Customer Resource Center which can be accessed via […]

HOPKINTON, Mass. – Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: CALP) and Covaris Inc., Woburn, Mass., today announced a co-marketing agreement which will leverage Covaris’ acoustic DNA shearing platforms and Caliper’s automation and microfluidics technologies to develop automated workflows for next generation sequencing experiments. Caliper has developed a complete suite of solutions for library construction, sample analysis, […]

Männedorf, Switzerland – Tecan and SciRobotics today announced the launch of the integrated Pickolo colony-picker for the Freedom EVO® liquid handling platforms, providing customers with a complete solution for automation of molecular biology workflows, from cloning to PCR sequencing or cell-based screening. SciRobotics developed Pickolo specifically for Freedom EVO. This application enables fully automated colony […]

Boston, MA – The University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Public Health and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), as part of their development of the High Throughput Laboratory Network (HTLN) for infectious disease surveillance, have selected HighRes Biosolutions to automate a high-throughput extraction and screening system for their prototype laboratory, the Global Bio […]

LONDON – For over 30 years UK customers have trusted Gilson to provide them with products renowned for reliability, durability and greater precision. Thousands of UK bench scientists choose Gilson’s range of PIPETMAN® and MICROMAN® pipettes and tips. Many will also use automated liquid handling and HPLC products. Gilson will provide you with full sales, […]