WASHINGTON – Bruker today announces the North American launch of its compact, fully automated and fast toxin identification system, called pTD(TM) (portable Toxin Detector), at the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Bio-Defense and Emerging Diseases Research Meeting in Washington, DC. The novel, benchtop, push-button pTD system is intended for smaller, field and mobile laboratories for […]
Sensortec Ltd has sold Cawood Ltd, its successful agricultural contract testing business, in a management buyout. Sensortec has developed Cawood over the last 8 years through the merger of several small testing laboratories, and has achieved consistent year-on-year sales growth. The proceeds from this transaction will be invested in the company’s biosensor business, Universal Sensors, […]
ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. – Beckman Coulter, Inc. (NYSE: BEC), a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of products that simplify, automate and innovate complex biomedical testing, and Danaher, a diversified technology leader that designs, manufactures, and markets innovative products and services to professional, medical, industrial, and commercial customers, announced today that they have entered into a […]
PLEASANTON, CA–(February 03, 2011) – Securing the company’s leading position in sample preparation for genetic analysis, IntegenX Inc. (IXI) today announced the close of a transaction that included acquiring substantially all the stock of GenVault Corporation and a $15.6M round of financing led by Domain Associates with participation from returning investors. The capital will fund […]
GE Healthcare launches Installation Qualification (IQ) and Operational Qualification (OQ) protocols for ImageQuant™ LAS 4000 mini, 4000 and 4010 biomolecular imagers. Required for controlled environments, the protocols enable ImageQuant systems to comply with regulatory and Good Manufacturing Processing standards (GMP). The protocols have been developed in accordance with recent guidelines, including GAMP5 and ASTME2500, and […]
Avacta Group plc (“Avacta” or the “Company”), which provides innovative, high value proprietary technologies and services to the pharmaceutical and diagnostics markets, announces that it has signed a distribution agreement for Optim, the market leading low volume protein analysis system, with Cold Spring Biotech Corp (“Cold Spring”) in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Avacta […]
BioNanomatrix, Inc., a genomics company that is developing and commercializing breakthrough single-molecule analysis technology, has named R. Erik Holmlin, Ph.D., president, chief executive officer and director. Effective Jan.12, 2011, Mr. Holmlin succeeded Edward Erickson, who headed the company since December 2009. “Erik’s taking the helm is part of the company’s strategic succession planning,” said Tracy […]
RainDance Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of microdroplet-based single molecule and single cell analysis solutions, today announced the availability of the DeepSeq™ FFPE Solution, an end-to-end workflow for the ultra-deep targeted sequencing of Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded (FFPE) and fresh frozen tissue samples. The company is launching the DeepSeq Solution this week at the 12th annual Advances […]
SEATTLE, Wash. – NanoString Technologies, Inc., a privately held life sciences company marketing a complete solution for detecting and counting large sets of target molecules in biological samples, today announced the appointment of J. Wayne Cowens, M.D. as Chief Medical Officer. An industry veteran and clinical oncologist, Dr. Cowens will drive the development of the […]
WOBURN, MA – Avantra? Biosciences, a leading innovator in protein diagnostics, announced today their first shipments of the new Q400 Biomarker Workstation and the innovative Angio QxTM BioChip Immunoassay. The system provides quantitative protein biomarker results for ten analytes in less than an hour, requiring less than five minutes for sample preparation. Multiplex protein assays […]
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