Porvair Sciences Ltd, specialists in application optimised microplates, has announced the appointment of a Master Distribution Partner for China, Hong Kong & Macau and investment in a new, modern warehousing facility in Wuhan, China. Mr Steve Knight, Sales & Marketing Manager of Porvair Sciences Ltd commented ‘This new investment in Asian infrastructure is in response […]

TTP LabTech combines microplate cytometer with Invitrogen reagents to maximise HCS parameters Royston, GB, 14 May 2009 – TTP LabTech has today announced a number of high throughput platform solutions for the study of cytotoxicity. The platforms utilise the successful Acumen® eX3 fluorescence microplate cytometer and a number of new solutions for toxicity profiling developed […]

PENZBERG, Germany–Roche Applied Science announced today the availability of a new detection kit for the Influenza A/H1N1 virus. The detection kit is offered for use in life science research. Roche currently is filing to get approval of the local health authorities worldwide for use of the kit in emergency situations. The kit runs on Roche´s […]

Anton Paar presents the new Monowave 300 – a smart, powerful monomode microwave synthesis reactor. Featuring revolutionary new techniques, Monowave 300 provides unrivaled reliability and the most extended operation limits for method development and optimization. With the highest field density available, even low absorbing solvents can be heated effectively in 20 mL scale as well. […]

Agreement Broadens use of Qdot Nanocrystals to Enhance In Vivo imaging and Biomarker Discovery CARLSBAD, Calif.–Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE), a provider of innovative life science solutions, and Zymera, Inc., today announced a licensing and supply agreement that gives Zymera rights to Life Technologies’ extensive intellectual property estate related to quantum dots. Zymera will use […]

Employees Volunteer More Than 12,000 Hours for Local Communities CARLSBAD, Calif.–Nearly 3,000 employees at Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE – News), a provider of innovative life science solutions, today are donating a half day of their time to more than a hundred projects around the globe. It’s part of the company’s sixth Annual Global Volunteer […]

ST. LOUIS, May 13 — Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL – News) today introduced Precisio(TM) Kinases (www.sigma.com/precisiokinases), a new collection of high quality active kinases that is expected to enable scientists to achieve greater insight into protein phosphorylation and cell signaling. Optimized for high-throughput kinase screening and profiling, Precisio Kinases allow for the characterization of cellular processes […]

Berlin, Germany, May 13, 2009 – caprotec bioanalytics GmbH announced today the commercial launch of its Stauro caproKitTM, enabling the discovery, identification and characterization of proteins interacting with staurosporine. Staurosporine, originally isolated from the bacterium Streptomyces staurosporeus, is a potent inhibitor of many protein kinases and widely used for research purposes, e.g. as an inducer […]

FREDERICK, Md., May 13, 2009 — SAIC-Frederick Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) [NYSE: SAI], and Sensor Technologies Inc. of Shrewsbury, Mass., have signed a collaboration agreement to begin integrated studies of complex protein interactions involved in cancer and other diseases. The agreement is part of the National Cancer Institute’s […]

ST. JOSEPH, Mich., May 12 — GeneGo, Inc., the leading provider of pathway data mining & analysis solutions, and OmicSoft Corporation, the premiere visualization and analysis software for the interpretation of high dimensional data, today announced the integration of the MetaCore(TM) pathway analysis platform with Array Studio. “Array Studio is a powerful analysis platform and […]