The mission of the Proteomics Innovation Network is to generate “from sample to discovery” solutions in all facets of proteomics, including expression, identification, characterization, interaction and function. Each member organization has complementary expertise, core technologies, and infrastructure to address critical unmet needs in biomarker and drug target discovery, personalized medicine, drug profiling, and selective reaction […]

Chalfont St. Giles, UK – GE Healthcare today announced two new members of its leadership team in a move designed to drive differentiated product and service offerings that meet its global customers’ diverse needs. Tom Gentile, currently vice president of GE Aviation’s Services division, has been named president and CEO of GE Healthcare’s Healthcare Systems […]

Shanghai, China — EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA* of Germany, today opened its state-of-the-art Biopharmaceutical Technical and Training Center in Shanghai, China. The 2,500 square meter facility will provide support, training and validation services to EMD Millipore’s biopharmaceutical customers with operations in China. “We are responding to China’s commitment to strengthen […]

Uppsala, Sweden – Gyros AB, a leader in utilization of microfluidic technologies to miniaturize and automate immunoassays, announced today that sales are showing a positive trend similar to that seen throughout 2010. Major biopharmaceutical companies continued to demonstrate their confidence in the Gyros immunoassay platform, with existing accounts investing in additional Gyrolab™ workstations at different […]

Royston, Herts, United Kingdom – The Dolomite Centre Ltd, a world leader in the design and manufacture of microfluidic devices, has signed a collaboration agreement with Sphere Fluidics, a leading company in commercialising picodroplet technology – Dolomite-Microfluidics.com. The Dolomite Centre Ltd, signed a collaboration agreement with Sphere Fluidics, a leading company in commercialising picodroplet technology […]

Boston, MA – SAW Instruments GmbH, today announced the launch of the sam®5 GREEN acoustic biosensor, and the availability of its family of sam®5 acoustic biosensors in the US market. Founded on SAW’s proprietary Surface Acoustic Wave technology, sam®5 offers precise, real-time, label-free measurement of biomolecular interactions. Building on the success of the existing sam®5 […]

Santa Clara, CA – Cell Biosciences, Inc. today announced the issuance of three key patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Nos. 7,935,489, 7,935,308 and 7,935,479. These patents address central aspects of Cell Biosciences’ NanoPro™ Assay Technology. NanoPro assay systems utilize novel approaches to protein capture and detection to enable high-sensitivity measurement […]

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM) today announced the availability of assays and primers optimized for the company’s integrated fluidic circuit technology. Fluidigm Assays and Target-specific Primers will provide customers with significantly lower costs than today’s standard solutions, at volumes appropriate for microfluidics, and flexible chemistries so that customers can easily create highly […]

IRVINE, Calif. – Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. (“Shrink”) (OTC Markets: INKN), an innovative high technology innovation and development company announced today that it has signed a multi-phase joint development agreement with one of the world’s largest industrial and consumer electronics and optics companies, headquartered in Japan, and with offices for its biological components group in Salzburg, […]

SINGAPORE – Fluidigm today announced that its Singapore factory has manufactured and shipped more than 1 billion microscopic NanoFlex™ valves. Each NanoFlex valve is so small that it takes 10 to span the width of a human hair. The billion valves built into Fluidigm’s integrated fluidic circuits (IFCs) are equivalent to the number of valves […]