ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 1 — Assay Designs, Inc., a leading provider of immunoassay kits, antibodies, and reagents to the life science and translational research markets, has announced the release of the first commercially available multiplex assay dedicated to the analysis of heat shock proteins and molecular chaperones, the MultiBead(TM)* HSP/Chaperone 8-Plex Kit. The bead-based […]

SOUTH EASTON, Mass., May 29, 2009 — Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq:PBIO) (“PBI” and the “Company”) today announced that it will unveil and release for sale its PCT MicroTube Adapter Kit (patent pending) at the 57th Annual Conference of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS), to be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center (Philadelphia, PA) […]

Unlimited, complementary, software licenses now included with all BlueGnome CytoChips. At last week’s Human Genetics Society of Australia meeting in Freemantle, BlueGnome announced the latest release of their arrayCGH analysis and database software, BlueFuse Multi. Rapid increases in both the resolution and number of microarrays being used in arrayCGH investigations are driving an explosion in […]

MADISON, Wis.–The recent outbreak of the flu virus, the new strain of Influenza A (nH1N1), has rapidly spread around the world. Many experts are concerned for the evolutionary track of this new strain and whether it will mutate or re-assort with other influenza strains to potentially produce a more deadly strain, as the world experienced […]

KNOXVILLE, TN–May 28, 2009 — The GELFREE(TM) 8100 Fractionation System is the first instrument for proteomics that partitions complex protein mixtures into user-selectable, liquid-phase molecular weight fractions. Protein Discovery anticipates that the new system will be utilized broadly by proteomics research laboratories in combination with routine research techniques such as IEF, trypsin digestion, western blotting, […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 28 — Clontech Laboratories, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Takara Bio Inc., today announced the upcoming (June 1, 2009) release of the Xfect(TM) and Xfect(TM) Stem transfection reagents. These novel transfection reagents are based on biodegradable nanoparticles that permit superior transfection efficiency of plasmid DNA into mammalian cells. For added ease […]

Specialists in applications optimised microplates – Porvair Sciences Ltd – have announced a new range of high quality Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) plates. Manufactured from ultra clean medical grade polymer under Class 10,000 clean room conditions the new range of eleven plates are certified free of pyrogens as well as DNAse and RNAse enzyme activity […]

May 28, 2009 12:50 PM Pacific Daylight Time OREM, Utah–Moxtek (www.moxtek.com), a nano-photonics company, today announced that it has reached a collaboration agreement with Philips Research to develop a new wire grid microarray chip (WGM) that has been designed to offer ultra-high surface specificity and excellent suppression of background signals. The WGM is based on […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 28, 2009 Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that its OpenLAB Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system now supports the archiving of data generated by Dionex Corp.’s Chromeleon 6.8 chromatography software. This demonstrates Agilent’s continued commitment to open systems, resulting in broader customer choice. “Chromatography software such as Chromeleon stores data […]

Global alliance in biomolecular imaging Uppsala, Sweden, May 28th, 2009 – GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announces that it has entered into a Strategic Alliance Agreement with FUJIFILM Corporation. Under the alliance, Fujifilm will develop, manufacture and supply advanced biomolecular imaging systems to GE Healthcare. The products will be sold […]