5 March 2009 – Sydney, Australia: Fluorotechnics Limited (ASX:FLS), the global leader in fluorescence and protein technologies, has appointed James Walker as its new chief executive officer. The appointment is effective immediately and has been made to coincide with the company’s shift to major sales growth. Dr Duncan Veal, an experienced microbiologist, will step down […]

MILFORD, MA and Bridgewater, NJ. March 5, 2009 — Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) and LabVantage Solutions, Inc. today jointly announced a strategic partnership to integrate laboratory software for improved efficiency and effectiveness at laboratory dependent organizations. Collaborating with existing common customers, Waters® and LabVantage have already successfully integrated LabVantage’s SAPPHIRE™ Laboratory Information Management Suite (LIMS) with […]

Chip-On-Chip and Gene Expression Used to Study How Yamanaka Factors Trigger Pluripotency SHANGHAI–Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A – News) today announced its collaboration with a team from the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences and Tongi University that has achieved new insight into how adult cells can be induced to act like embryonic stem cells (ESC), with […]

MADISON, Wis.–Promega Corporation, a global leader in DNA and RNA Analysis, will plant a tree for each GoTaq® Hot Start product purchased through May 31st. This green initiative is designed to compliment the mission of life scientists around the world – to improve the lives of others now and for generations to come. The benefits […]

Using the new ActiPix Dissolution Imager from Paraytec (UK, York) – formulation scientists are able ‘to see’ in real-time what is happening at a tablet surface during the process of dissolution. Due to be launched at Pittcon 2009 (booth 4040)** on 9th March 2009 the new product offers pharmaceutical companies a powerful tool that can […]

Applications in discovery research, regenerative medicine and bioprocessing CAMBRIDGE, England–Mar 4, 2009 – The Automation Partnership (TAP), a leading supplier of innovative automation for life science research and production, today announced that this week marks 20 years since the installation of its first automated cell culture system. In 1989, following in-house design and development, TAP […]

Web-Based LIMS, SDMS and ELN Solution for Quality Control Labs On Three Continents HOLLYWOOD, Fla., March 4, 2009 — STARLIMS Technologies Ltd. (NasdaqGM:LIMS – News), a leading provider of laboratory information management systems, or LIMS, today announced that it has been selected by a world-leading biotechnology company for a multi-site project. The contract value is […]

A major breakthrough publication, published last Friday in the February 27 early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, describes studies that were greatly aided by utilizing Biolog Phenotype MicroArray technology to advance our understanding of an important class of pathogenic bacteria. At the Rocky Mountain Laboratories of the NIH, NIAID division, […]

Direct Covalent Coupling Simplifies Immunoassay Design and Reduces Capture Protein Requirements TORONTO, Mar 04, 2009 — Axela Inc has introduced the dotLab(R) Amine Reactive Sensor for stable covalent coupling of affinity reagents such as antibodies for use with the Axela dotLab(R) System. Now researchers in the basic and clinical sciences and protein production have additional […]

The Center for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona installed a Genomatix Genome Analyzer The Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, Spain purchased the Genomatix Genome Analyzer (GGA), as announced today by Genomatix Software GmbH. GGA comprises purpose built high performance hardware and terabytes of proprietary databases and software providing a complete solution for the analysis […]