[Christchurch, New Zealand] — SciTOX announces their second product release, the UniTOX toxicity analyzer. The UniTOX is dedicated to the University and Research markets and allows those customers to develop custom applications and methods for toxicity and metabolic measurements. The UniTOX builds on the first SciTOX product, ALPHA toxicity analyzer. “Customers doing research or custom […]

SAN DIEGO — Sequenom, Inc. (Nasdaq: SQNM), today announced the appointment of Dr. Kenneth Buechler and Mr. David Pendarvis to its board of directors. Kenneth F. Buechler, Ph.D., was president, chief scientific officer and co-founder of Biosite Incorporated. From 1988 to 1994, Dr. Buechler was Biosite’s director of chemistry. Prior to forming Biosite, Dr. Buechler […]

Implementation of its Proposal Filed Under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act MONTREAL, CANADA–ART Advanced Research Technologies Inc. (ART) (TSX:ARA – News), a Canadian medical device company specializing in optical molecular imaging products for the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, announces that it has emerged from its Court-supervised restructuring on December 11, 2009. All transactions in connection […]

Sales Climb Steadily Throughout the Recession SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.–Fluidigm Corporation today announced that sales of its flagship BioMark™ System for Genetic Analysis surpassed 100 cumulative units in the field. The BioMark system, based on proprietary microfluidic chips called integrated fluidic circuits (IFCs), provides high throughput real-time qPCR enabling researchers to streamline their experimental workflow, […]

Optical biosensor uses tiny laser to detect range of pathogens LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico — Los Alamos National Laboratory has executed an agreement with Biomagnetics Diagnostics Corporation (BMGP) for the further development of a diagnostic tool known as an optical biosensor. Los Alamos, whose staff developed the prototype bench-top and hand-held biosensors for the detection […]

MONTREAL, CANADA– ART Advanced Research Technologies Inc. (ART) (TSX:ARA – News), a Canadian medical device company specializing in optical molecular imaging products for the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, announces that the Quebec Superior Court approved today the amended proposal (the “Proposal”) filed by ART under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada) (the “BIA”). The Proposal […]

Royston, UK — Dolomite, a world leader in microfluidic design and manufacture, has introduced the glass microfluidic Y-Junction Chip. Enabling liquid-liquid contact of immiscible fluid streams, as well as investigations into the diffusion of molecules between parallel laminar flow streams, the chip has extremely smooth channel surfaces for an uninterrupted flow. With a compact size […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Cell Biosciences, Inc. today announced that it has acquired Protein Forest, Inc. of Lexington, Massachusetts, a leader in sample preparation technology for proteomic analysis and biomarker discovery. This strategic acquisition adds Protein Forest’s novel digital ProteomeChip(TM) product line to Cell Biosciences’ expanding portfolio of innovative products for protein analysis. Protein Forest, […]

MONTREAL, CANADA — – ART Advanced Research Technologies Inc. (ART) (TSX:ARA – News), a Canadian medical device company and a leader in optical molecular imaging products for the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, announces that its unsecured creditors (the “Unsecured Creditors”) voted unanimously in support of its proposal (the “Proposal”) under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act […]

ScreenTape “dramatically improves productivity” (UCL) Edinburgh — Lab901 today announced that it has shipped its first ScreenTape® P200 systems for automated protein analysis. GSK (Stevenage, UK) will use the ScreenTape system in its core Monoclonal Antibody production facility for antibody production QC and at-line monitoring of antibody expression. UCL Cancer Institute (London, UK) is using […]