Momentum continues as company moves to larger offices and hires more senior staff Ottawa, ON – Dr. Paul Lem, Founder, and the Board of Directors of Spartan Bioscience Inc., a Canadian molecular diagnostics company that develops, manufactures, and markets DNA analyzers for on-demand applications, today announced the appointment of Mr. Larry D’Andrea as CEO. This […]

A Perfect Combination of Performance and High Throughput PENZBERG, Germany–The new MagNA Pure 96 System from Roche Applied Science (Pink Sheets:RHHBY) (SWX:RO) (SWX:ROG) has been designed and engineered to meet the needs for high throughput laboratories worldwide. Its performance is based on Roche Applied Science’s 10 years experience in the development and application of glass-magnetic-particle […]

Ontario Institute for Cancer Research Validates NEBNext(TM) DNA Sample Preparation Reagents from New England Biolabs for use in Next Generation Sequencing IPSWICH, Mass. — Dr. John McPherson, Platform Leader, Cancer Genomics and High-Throughput Screening, and Dr. Kamran Shazand, Project Manager, of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) led a team of scientists who have […]

Seven non-profit organizations to receive grants for research and education efforts CARLSBAD, Calif.–The Life Technologies Foundation, a non-profit arm of Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) dedicated to advancing science education and scientific discovery, has awarded approximately $1.7 million in new grants that include the creation of an online biology textbook, and building a museum exhibit […]

Trophos targets opportunities with instrument manufacturers and vendors for well-proven system that plugs market gap in fast high resolution imaging Marseille, France — Trophos SA, a clinical stage pharmaceutical company developing innovative therapeutics for indications with under-served needs in neurology and cardiology, announced today the launch of the new generation of its fluorescence fast plate […]

SALT LAKE CITY–Idaho Technology’s patent portfolio continues to grow as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted the company U.S. Patent No. 7,582,429 relating to methods of performing genetic analysis in the presence of a double-stranded nucleic acid binding dye. This most recent patent is the latest in Idaho Technology’s high resolution melting patent family, […]

First to publish using company’s new research tool to net $10,000 grant MEMPHIS, Tenn.– Memphis-based Computable Genomix today announced it will launch a contest on Oct. 1, 2009, to coincide with the release of GeneIndexer, the company’s next-generation Web-based text-mining tool. Publish or Perish will award a $10,000 grant to each of the first three […]

HERCULES, CA — Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a multinational manufacturer and distributor of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, announced today the release of several new spectral databases and version 8.1 of its award-winning KnowItAll® Informatics System. ________________________________________________________________ 1. New & Enhanced Spectral Databases Released Bio-Rad offers researchers access to one […]

Version 1.1 of the Analyze IQ software suite, the most sophisticated chemometric software in the industry, is now available. It provides rapid and accurate analysis of complex mixtures, using both well-established chemometric methods and innovative new techniques based on machine learning. The two main Analyze IQ software products have been updated: • Analyze IQ Lab, […]