Expands proven automated testing technology into the personal care market Runcorn, UK — Leading automation systems developer, Astech Projects, has delivered automated testing systems to Unilever R&D Port Sunlight and to Unilever China. The three new, state-of-the-art systems will be used to develop the best performing hair care products to meet consumer needs. As the […]

CoroWare and Megah Suria Sign Agreement to Sell Robotics Product Line Across Asia REDMOND, Wash. — — CoroWare Technologies, a subsidiary of CoroWare, Inc. (OTCBB:COWI), today announced it has entered into a distribution agreement with Malaysia-based technology provider Megah Suria Sdn. Bhd. Beginning January 4, 2010, Megah Suria added CoroWare’s CoroBot and Explorer robots to […]

Capit-All IS Automated Capper/Decapper for Integration with Automated Liquid Handling Equipment Palm Springs, CA — Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today jointly introduced the new Capit-All™ IS Automated Capper/Decapper with The Automation Partnership, at LabAutomation 2010. This robust, high-throughput instrument can de-cap or re-cap an entire rack of samples in […]

Royston, UK — This year at Screening Europe 2010, TTP LabTech will be sharing its in-house expertise and technical advice with exhibition delegates in order to further improve current high content screening techniques and workflows. On 11th February, TTP LabTech will be offering a free workshop entitled “The Identification of novel cancer targets using a […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif.–Today Labcyte introduced two pre-calibrated liquid class packages for use with its award-winning Echo® acoustic dispensers and POD™ 810 plate assemblers, which move liquids with sound. This expanded capability will allow its high throughput screening customers to not only transfer compounds in DMSO, but enables the transfer of a wide range of liquids necessary […]

The Biomolecular Separation Engineering group at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, is using the Freedom EVO® liquid handling workstation, equipped with the Te-Chrom™ module and Atoll’s 96-array MediaScout® RoboColumn system, to create a fully automated chromatography platform for biopharmaceutical process development. Professor Jürgen Hubbuch explained the team’s research strategy: “We are using automation to […]

WINOOSKI VT, USA — BioTek Instruments, Inc., and Global Cell Solutions, Inc., (GCS) announce a formal collaboration for the coming year at LabAutomation 2010. The poster Automation of a Microplate Cell-based Assay to Measure Activity of the Histamine H1 G Protein-coupled Receptor Using a Novel 3-D Cell Culture Technique is the first in a series […]

Manchester, UK — RTS Life Science, a worldwide supplier of automated sample management and drug delivery testing systems announces the appointment of Richard Carpenter as New Mid-Atlantic Sales Manager. Richard has extensive experience in the scientific instrument market and expands the US field based sales team. Prior to joining RTS, Richard worked for LabCyte and […]

Nottingham, UK: Copley Scientific has launched the world’s first commercially available apparatus designed specifically for dissolution testing of inhaled drug formulations. Based on a concept developed by Professor Jason McConville and his team at the College of Pharmacy, University of Texas, a new NGI dissolution cup and membrane holder enables dissolution testing of size-fractionated particles […]

WINOOSKI VT, USA — BioTek Instruments, Inc., a leader in microplate instrumentation technology, announced 13% sales growth for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2009, which significantly outpaced the overall laboratory instrumentation market, which contracted during the same period. An extremely strong December performance contributed to a record-breaking fourth quarter, and year, for the Company. […]