Microsaic Systems plc (AIM: MSYS),today announces that Biotage AB (Uppsala, Sweden), a leading global supplier of laboratory equipment, will be presenting its fully integrated solution for ‘Mass Directed Flash’ purification at JASIS 2012 (Japan Analytical Scientific Instruments Show) in Makuhari Messe, Japan (5-7 September). This is the first time Biotage has presented the new system, […]

Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today that Daniel O’Day, currently Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Roche Diagnostics has been appointed as COO of Roche Pharma effective September 1, 2012. He will succeed Pascal Soriot, who will leave Roche and take on new responsibilities outside the Group. Daniel O’Day will be succeeded by Roland […]

Biotage® (STO: BIOT), a leading global supplier of solutions and technology for analytical and medicinal chemistry, introduced EVOLUTE® EXPRESS, a novel family of 96-well plates that simplify polymer-based SPE by employing a streamlined 3-step protocol; Load-Wash-Elute. By using this novel approach and removing the conditioning and equilibration steps, necessary with traditional bio-analytical SPE procedures, processing […]

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y., – Pall Corporation (NYSE: PLL) announced today that H. Alex Kim has joined the company as Senior Vice President, Business Development and Strategic Planning. In this newly created position, Mr. Kim is responsible for leading the strategic planning process for Pall’s Industrial and Life Sciences business segments and driving both organic and […]

CORNING, N.Y., — Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW), today announced its new Axygen® brand IMAG™ handheld magnetic beads separation devices. The Axygen brand magnetic separation devices (MSDs) revolutionize manual magnetic bead-based separation processes used in biological research, including nucleic acid purification and clean up, cell-based assays, and antibody and protein purification. The new IMAG MSDs can […]

GE Healthcare’s Ni Sepharose™ excel is an immobilized metal ion affinity chromatography (IMAC) medium (resin) for the direct capture and purification of secreted histidine-tagged recombinant proteins from eukaryotic cell culture supernatants. The new resin significantly reduces sample handling prior to purification and therefore increases target protein yield and decreases degradation. Ni Sepharose excel is precharged […]

INDIANAPOLIS, IND. –– SPRIselect from Beckman Coulter Life Sciences utilizes SPRI (Solid Phase Reversible Immobilization)-based chemistry to speed and simplify genomic DNA size selection for next generation sequencing fragment library preparation. Following shearing, the library construction process requires size selection to produce uniform distribution of fragments. SPRIselect allows size distribution to be adjusted between 150 […]

Worthing, UK –– Seward Limited has announced the application of its patented Stomacher paddle blender range in a newly developed analytical protocol for cosmetics product safety. Mercury in cosmetic products, such as face creams, has been illegal in the US and EU for many years, but its presence in imported products remains a potential problem. […]

ANN ARBOR, Mich., — Rubicon Genomics, Inc., today reported that its NovaPLEX™ family of sample preparation technologies is increasing the feasibility and utility of molecular diagnostic testing and helping to address the shortage of patient samples that is hampering new drug discovery and the development of personalized medicine. Rubicon is a leader in the development […]

SOUTH EASTON, Mass., — Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (OTCQB: PBIO) (“PBI” or the “Company”) today announced financial results for the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2012 and provided a business update. Total revenue for the second quarter of 2012 was $324,908 compared to $190,686 for the comparable period in 2011, a 70% increase. […]