MADISON, Wis.–Promega Corporation announces the recent purchase of Turner BioSystems Inc. to grow their mutual interest in offering high quality integrated systems (optimized instrument with reagents) to life scientists in research, drug discovery and clinical diagnostics. This latest Promega expansion continues the existing synergies between the two companies. Together they have delivered integrated bioluminescent systems […]

WINOOSKI VT, USA — BioTek Instruments, Inc., a leader in microplate instrumentation technology, announces the availability of multi-lingual web sites for international customers. In addition to the previously launched and redesigned main web site www.biotek.com in English, the following international BioTek web sites are now available: – Spanish (www.biotek.es) – French (www.biotek.fr) – German (www.biotek.de) […]

Manchester, UK (July 23, 2009) RTS Life Science, a worldwide supplier of automated sample management and drug delivery testing systems is pleased to announce that they have successfully passed the NQA Audit of their Quality Management System and are now certified to ISO 9001:2008 standard and TickIT software standard level 5.5. The RTS Quality Management […]

New Pre-validated qPCR Assay Panels Accelerate Mouse Model Research WOBURN, Mass.–BioTrove, Inc. today announced the launch of the first Mouse Pathways panels available using the OpenArray® Real-Time qPCR System. Genes associated with key disease models have been collected into comprehensive qPCR assay panels for biomedical research. These panels contain a defined set of over 600 […]

BioTrove Installs First European RapidFire® System at Boehringer Ingelheim and Obtains CE Mark for the Instrument Novel RapidFire CE Marked System Successfully Evaluated for In Vitro ADME Studies, Enhances Productivity WOBURN, Mass.–BioTrove, Inc. today announced its innovative RapidFire® High-Throughput Mass Spectrometry (RF-MS) screening platform was installed in its first European customer site at Boehringer Ingelheim […]

Lab Managers Can Enhance Quality Control with ARTEL Pipette Tracker™ Chicago, IL (July 21, 2009) – Artel, the global leader in liquid handling quality assurance, announces that its Pipette Tracker™ software can now be used as an effective laboratory management tool to track and monitor pipette operator performance. When used in combination with the ARTEL […]

Labcyte Inks Agreement with Bio Laboratories to be Exclusive Distributor in Singapore Sunnyvale, CA — July 21, 2009 — Labcyte, the developer of acoustic liquid transfer, with systems in all of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies, today announced the selection of Bio Laboratories as its exclusive distributor in Singapore. “We are pleased to renew and […]

Tecan and pION expand their collaboration to develop automated drug screening solutions Following their successful launch of the manual assay systems for permeability and solubility, Tecan AG, premier manufacturer of automated liquid handling workstations and multimode microplate readers, and pION INC, long recognized as ‘the A in ADME’, have developed automated solutions for drug permeability […]