WALTHAM, Mass.–Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Biolab, the leading provider of analytical instruments, life science consumables and laboratory equipment for scientific, environmental and healthcare markets in Australia and New Zealand, for AUD $175 million (approximately USD $120 million). […]

LILLE, France–At the 15th Annual Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) Conference , PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced the introduction of several new technologies in automation and detection, cellular imaging and analysis, and drug discovery and research reagents for advancing drug discovery and […]

Novus Biologicals, a Colorado based company supplying research reagents to the scientific community is opening its first international office in Cambridge, UK. The company is negotiating space in Cambridge Science Park, and has started the search for a divisional manager to head up the operation. Novus has worked with East of England International, a UK […]

Global leader in assay technology improves speed and sensitivity for detection of proteins associated with diseases Experimental Biology 2009 NEW ORLEANS–At Experimental Biology 2009, PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced the launch of Western BLAST™, an amplification system used to enhance and simplify […]

SAN DIEGO–EMD Chemicals’ Biosciences site in San Diego has achieved ISO 9001: 2008 certification, as verified by an independent auditor. According to the International Organization for Standards (ISO), ISO 9001 “provides the requirements for a quality management system that is a framework for an organization to control its processes in order to achieve objectives including […]

World leader in assay technology expands offerings for disease biomarker research Experimental Biology 2009 NEW ORLEANS–At Experimental Biology 2009, PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today unveiled a major new series of AlphaLISA® “No Wash” immunoassay kits to help enable advanced biomarker research in […]

DENVER–HTG, Inc., provider of the quantitative Nuclease Protection Assay (qNPA™) today announced the launch of the quantitative Nuclease protection assay (qNPA™) 96 Max gene expression assay at the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting. This new testing configuration enables the measurement of 46 genes in a 96 well Array Plate. The offering provides […]

Global leader in assay technologies releases new kits featuring “All-in-One-Well” functionality for investigation of disease-related cellular events DENVER–Today at the 100th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Denver, PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, unveiled a new series of AlphaScreen® SureFire® […]

Low volume SPE assays enhanced by novel C18 sorbent… Porvair Sciences Ltd. has announced the availability of a new range of BioVyon™ C18 silica columns and microplates for use in low volume Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) assays. Packed bed SPE columns and microplates traditionally perform relatively inefficiently when using the shallow sorbent beds necessary to […]

Neihu, Taiwan and Uppsala, Sweden (April 16, 2009). Abnova Corporation and Olink Bioscience today announce a co-development and co-marketing agreement. This collaboration will address the unmet need for high performance assays for studies of protein phosphorylation and protein interactions by combining Abnova’s growing collection of +30,000 antibodies with the DuolinkR product line from Olink Bioscience. […]