Thermo Scientific Nunc IVF Centrifuge and Cryopreservation Tubes Provide Reliable Results MILFORD, Mass.: Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the new Thermo Scientific Nunc IVF centrifuge and cryopreservation tubes for improved sample safety and protection. These consumables are certified free of toxins that would impair viability during the centrifugation […]

PHILADELPHIA — Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, will showcase its latest informatics solutions within booth 101/202, hall B1 at Analytica 2010, being held from March 23-26 in Munich, Germany. In line with the “Progress Starts Here” theme of its Thermo Scientific-branded products, the company will unveil a range of innovative […]

MADISON, Wis.–Roche NimbleGen (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY ) has announced that ATLAS Biolabs GmbH, a Berlin, Germany-based company, has officially become a Certified Service Provider (CSP) for NimbleGen Sequence Capture. They will provide services for NimbleGen 454 Optimized Sequence Capture Arrays coupled with sequencing services on the Genome Sequencer FLX System from 454 Life […]

Disruptive platform technology enables greater speed, sensitivity, and simplicity for single-cell analysis to accelerate breakthroughs in human health and disease research and diagnostics LEXINGTON, Mass.–RainDance Technologies Inc., the leader in sequence enrichment and single-cell analysis, today announced that the Board of Directors has appointed Sirshendu Roopom Banerjee as President and Chief Executive Officer. RainDance Technologies […]

Over $325,000 in Label-free Instrumentation Awarded Enabling Ground Breaking Research WOBURN, Mass.–SRU Biosystems, a leader in label-free technology, publicly announced today the recipients of its Label-free Instrument Research Grants. The company awarded BIND® label-free detection systems to three research groups located at the University of Hamburg-Eppendorf, the University of Cambridge and Purdue University. The recipients […]

Renowned Acumen technology provides base for screening service platform Royston, UK – TTP LabTech has today launched its new contract screening service based around the company’s HCS technology, the Acumen® microplate cytometer. The service will provide clients with high-content data using cell-based assays for the investigation of various biological phenomena – including cell cycle, RNAi […]

New Molecular Test Provides Rapid Sample Preparation and qPCR Method for Specific and Sensitive Detection of This RNA Virus CARLSBAD, Calif.–Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:LIFE) today announced a new molecular test for the detection of Vesivirus 2117, a potential contaminant of mammalian cell culture based biopharmaceutical manufacturing. The Applied Biosystems ViralSEQTM Vesivirus Detection Kit is a […]

New West Nile Virus Antibodies – West Nile Virus (WNV) is an insect-borne virus that first appeared in the US in 1999. Since then it has spread steadily throughout the country. This member of the flaviviruses infects animals including birds and horses as well as humans. Most human infections are asymptomatic, however some can result […]

Edinburgh — Lab901 announced at the Peptalk 2010 conference that its Protein ScreenTape® platform can deliver, for the first time, true, practical at-line monitoring of monoclonal antibody production. Before now, at-line monitoring of antibody production by SDS PAGE has been impractical with other existing platforms as the cost per test-point is too high or the […]

Trevigen announces a validated assay, with higher sensitivity and pre-coated antibody plates to measure the effectiveness of PARP inhibitors in cell and tissue lysates for anticancer drug screening. Pharmacodynamic (PD) assays have recently been developed and employed early in the drug screening process to assess the ability of potential drug candidates to affect molecular targets. […]