Edinburgh – Lab901 Limited, the Edinburgh-based developer and manufacturer of innovative automation systems for the life science industry, has successfully raised £2.4 million in equity funding. This latest vote of confidence comes from Lab901’s strong consortium of UK investors, comprising Archangel Informal Investment Ltd, Alliance Trust Equity Partners (ATEP), Scottish Enterprise SVF, Foresight 3 VCT […]

SDI’s RapidChek® SELECT™ E. coli O157:H7 and Salmonella, Food Pathogen Detection Products Added NEWARK, Del. & WILMINGTON, Del.–SDI (Strategic Diagnostics Inc., NASDAQ:SDIX), a leading provider of biotechnology-based detection solutions for food safety and life science applications, and Wilmington, DE-based, DuPont Qualicon today announced the expansion of their distribution agreement to include SDI’s proprietary RapidChek® SELECT™ […]

Seahorse Bioscience to Present Novel Cellular Bioenergetics Data in Collaboration with University of Nebraska at AACR Metabolism and Cancer Conference – New instrument reveals the impact of genetic and nutrient factors in the malignant transformation of cancer cells. NORTH BILLERICA, Mass., Sept. 9 — Seahorse Bioscience, Inc., the leader in the design and development of […]

Fluidigm has announced that its Singapore biochip factory has manufactured and shipped more than 250 million microscopic NanoFlex™ valves. The 250 million valves built into Fluidigm’s integrated fluidic circuits (IFCs) would be equivalent to the number of valves required for all the conventional plumbing – both residential and commercial – in a metropolitan region the […]

SEQUENOM Announces Partnership With GeneWorks for Sales & Marketing of MassARRAY Systems and Applications in Australia SAN DIEGO — SEQUENOM, Inc. (Nasdaq: SQNM) and GeneWorks Pty. Ltd. today announced an exclusive sales agency agreement under which GeneWorks will assist SEQUENOM in expanding its sales & marketing presence in Australia. The partnership will initially focus on […]

Xcyte Laser Setting the Standard for Cell Sorting Applications MILPITAS, CA – JDSU (NASDAQ: JDSU) (TSX: JDU) today announced that it has shipped more than 1,000 Xcyte ultraviolet (UV) lasers to the biotech industry. The Xcyte cell sorting lasers are optimized for use by bio-analytical companies in molecular biology, pathology, immunology, plant and marine biology […]

Symyx Technologies, Inc. has announced, as part of continued expansion to support the growing customer needs of its software solutions and services in Europe, personnel additions in consulting services, pre-sales and sales. In addition, Julie Page, vice president of global customer support, will take over European operations, reporting directly to Trevor Heritage, president of Symyx’s […]

MADISON, Wis.–Promega announces the release of the Maxwell® 16 Viral Total Nucleic Acid Purification Kit which, among other labs, currently serves the OCA Hospital in Mexico for H1N1 clinical research. OCA, the largest private hospital in Monterrey Mexico, participated in a Promega early access program for the kit and continues its use after going through […]

MATTHEWS, N.C. — CEM Corporation, a leading global provider of microwave laboratory instrumentation, is pleased to announce that its fourth US patent covering microwave-assisted peptide synthesis (US 7,582,728) was issued on September 1, 2009. The patent contains broad claims regarding the process of using microwave energy to accelerate two key steps in performing almost all […]