Worldwide license agreement expands the Company’s veterinary assay portfolio and aims to contain future outbreaks of the devastating viral disease Venlo, The Netherlands – November 6, 2008 – QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) has announced today that it has entered into a worldwide exclusive partnership with the Institute for Animal Health (IAH), […]

Roche Applied Science and NuGEN Technologies, Inc., a leader in nucleic acid sample preparation systems, announced today a co-research agreement that will enable NuGEN to develop a NimbleGen array application for small, degraded, and compromised samples. Designed to meet MAQC standards, it will explore input sample capabilities. Using NuGEN WT-Ovation Systems for amplification and labeling, […]

BRANFORD, Conn.–Using the Genome Sequencer System from 454 Life Sciences, a Roche company, French scientists have identified a small virus that can actually be parasitic to a larger one. The 50 nm virus, named Sputnik, is associated with a new strain of the giant Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus (APMV) and is believed to represent a currently […]

Tovatech announces German-engineered Elmasonic S Ultrasonic Cleaners with the versatility needed in the laboratory: to clean parts, degas solvent, and prepare samples, easily and reproducibly. South Orange, NJ (PRWEB) November 4, 2008 — Tovatech LLC announces the Elma Ultrasonic Cleaning Equipment for cleaning the wide variety of materials (glass, rubber, plastic, metal, etc.) found in […]

London, UK, 4 November 2008 – Smiths Detection today announces that it is developing a rapid diagnostic system, initially for use in hospital screening programmes for infectious diseases such as MRSA and Clostridium difficile. The Bio-Seeq system will provide easy-to-use tests suitable for either a laboratory or Point of Care setting where it can be […]

Spartan Bioscience Inc, a Canadian molecular diagnostics company that develops, manufactures, and markets DNA analyzers for on-demand applications, and NorDiag ASA, a Norwegian biotechnology company that develops, manufacturers and markets automated nucleic acid sample preparation instruments and magnetic bead based reagents for assays that require the purification of nucleic acid from difficult clinical samples such […]

October 29, 2008 — With unparalleled technical features, the XP56 microbalance tackles a typical problem of development and quality-control labs: With its minimum sample size and simple sample transfer procedure directly to a large tare container, the XP56 considerably reduces the use of expensive control substances. Control substances are particularly valuable materials. Their uses include […]

– Sale Reinforces Strategic Focus and Enhances Cash Position – HOPKINTON, Mass., Oct. 29 — Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALP – News), a leading provider of tools and services for drug discovery and life sciences research, today announced that it has reached an agreement to sell its Pharmaceutical Development & Quality Analysis (PDQ) product […]

Applied Biosystems Inc. (NYSE:ABI) today announced the worldwide availability of a new universal genotyping reagent solution that accelerates the generation of high-quality genotyping data for a host of life science applications. The TaqMan(R) Sample-to-SNP(TM) Kit enables scientists who conduct genetic disease investigations, cancer research, transgenic animal studies, plant research, and agricultural seed selection to prepare […]

Grant Instruments (www.grant.co.uk), a world-renowned supplier of scientific, life sciences and data acquisition products, has launched the LMC-3000, a general purpose, low speed benchtop centrifuge with interchangeable metal rotors accommodating up to 12 tubes (10 to 15 ml or 50 ml) or two 96-well microtitre plates. Designed for use in a wide range of analytical […]