Abbott Park, Illinois (NYSE: ABT) — Abbott announced today that it has completed its $123 million acquisition of STARLIMS Technologies Ltd., a leader in laboratory information management systems. The acquisition provides Abbott with leading products and expertise to build its position in laboratory informatics, an emerging and rapidly growing field focused on helping to manage […]

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India — Ocimum Biosolutions, a leading provider of Life Sciences Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) and genomic solutions, is pleased to announce that its Biotracker™ LIMS solution has been selected by The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center as their standard for the automation of their Research Core Facilities. The […]

Deal provides OGT with an expanded customer base for its market-leading aCGH arrays Oxford, UK — Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), the pioneer of microarraybased technologies, has today announced that it has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Kreatech Diagnostics (Amsterdam, The Netherlands). The deal will enable Kreatech Diagnostics to sell OGT’s CytoSure™ products throughout France, […]

Respected proteomics expert commits to new system Sydney, Australia: Gelcompany has made the first sale of its new High Performance Electrophoresis (HPE) FlatTop Tower system into Saudi Arabia. The buyer of three complete HPE systems is Shareef Antar from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia. KAUST is a new […]

Forensic DNA Extraction Method Validated on Eppendorf epMotion™ 5075-TMX Chromosomal Laboratories, Inc is excited to announce that is has successfully pioneered the development and validation of an automated method for using the Prepfiler extraction kit on the Eppendorf epMotion™ 5075-TMX platform. The marriage of the latest robotic technology with the recently released Prepfiler™ DNA extraction […]

(openPR) – Microfluidic as part of Micro technology has a growing share in the economical development in this area. Applications are found in an equally growing variety of fields, starting from analytical devices for mass spectrometry and chromatography to devices used in pharmaceutical and life science research, from clinical to point of care diagnostics to […]

A Novel Two-Stage Sequence Capture Method with NimbleGen Arrays and 454 Sequencing Systems MADISON, Wis.–Researchers from Iowa State University, University of Minnesota, University of Florida and Roche NimbleGen (SIX:RO)(SIX:ROG)(Pink Sheets:RHHBY) have published a novel method to perform targeted sequencing in the highly complex maize genome. The method, which can be easily adapted to other genomes […]

Molecular & cellular image manipulation software, Voxel Tracker™ is first-of-its-kind Pittsburgh, PA (Vocus/PRWEB ) — Celsense, Inc. announced today its launch of the first off-the-shelf software for merging scanner images. The software, dubbed Voxel Tracker™, was designed to optimize the use of Celsense’ imaging reagents but will be made available to any researcher wanting to […]

Sensitive & Specific anti-DDK Antibody for FLAG Epitope Tagging AMSBIO has announced 4C5 – an anti-DDK monoclonal antibody for the detection of DYKDDDDK epitope – the same protein sequence as FLAG-tag*. Validated for Western blot, immunoprecipitation, immunofluorescence and flow cytometry applications – 4C5 anti-DDK offers higher sensitivity and specificity compared to other commercially available anti-FLAG […]

First User on Indian Subcontinent New Milton, Hampshire, UK — Genetix, a leading provider of solutions for imaging and image analysis, announces that Indian Immunologicals Ltd. (IIL) has become the first company on the Indian sub-continent to invest in a ClonePix™ FL system. ClonePix FL is used for screening and selection of secretory cell lines, […]