Faster analysis turn around from once a week to once per shift of feed and waste streams allows more frequent process adjustments to maximize metal recovery and economic return HILLSBORO, Ore.–FEI Company (Nasdaq: FEIC – News), a leading provider of high-resolution imaging and analysis systems, today released the MLA 600F system, a high-speed automated mineralogy […]

Radical new platform designed from the ground up delivers intelligent rheology solutions 3 September 2008: Malvern, UK: Malvern Instruments has today launched Kinexus, the radical new rotational rheometer platform whose development has been shaped by extensive market research and a fresh approach to addressing the real needs of users. Designed entirely from the ground up, […]

Companies to develop ChIP-on-Chip kits to enhance protein research BILLERICA, Mass. & SANTA CLARA, Calif.–Millipore Corporation (NYSE: MIL – News) and Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A – News) today announced they have formed a collaboration to develop innovative ChIP (chromatin immunoprecipitation) kits for the fast-growing epigenetics research market. The kits will be designed to improve […]

PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 1 — Varian, Inc. (NasdaqGS: VARI – News) announced today its new filtration plate for sample preparation. Captiva(TM) NDLipids is a simple to use, non-drip 96-well plate specially designed to remove phospholipids including lysophosphatidylcholines, from biofluids. It is intended for use by analytical chemists in the pharmaceutical and life science industries […]

Davis, CA/Thornwood, NY – August 2008. Carl Zeiss MicroImaging,Inc. and the Lucy Whittier Molecular and Diagnostics Core Facility at UC Davis have started a collaboration in the development and implementation of Laser Capture Microscopy (LCM) methodology. The Core Facility at UC Davis is currently using the patented non-contact LMPC technology for the contamination-free isolation and […]

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 26 — Cyntellect, a privately-held biotechnology company, and the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (“Burnham”) today announced they have entered into a joint collaboration to develop new applications on Cyntellect’s in situ live cell imaging and laser processing product (called LEAP(TM)) to accelerate research by Burnham’s scientists. The collaboration efforts will focus […]

SOUTH EASTON, Mass., Aug. 20 — Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: PBIO – News; “PBI” or the “Company”) today announced the release for sale of ProteoSolve-SB, a novel, pressure cycling technology (“PCT”)-dependent kit for the simultaneous extraction, isolation, and fractionation of nucleic acids (DNA and RNA), proteins, and lipids from animal and plant samples routinely used […]

CARLSBAD, Calif.–Invitrogen Corporation (NASDAQ:IVGN – News), a provider of essential life science technologies for research, production and diagnostics, announced today the launch of its Dynabeads® MAX Legionella, which enables a unique process for targeting and concentrating legionella from environmental water samples. The Dynabeads® MAX Legionella provides a rapid and highly reliable sample preparation process, improving […]

Oxford Nanopore Technologies Announces License Agreement with University of California, Santa Cruz, and formation of Technology Advisory Board August 19th 2008, Oxford, UK. Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd (“Oxford Nanopore”) today announced the completion of an exclusive licence agreement to develop nanopore science developed at the University of California, Santa Cruz (“UCSC”), in the laboratories of […]

BRANFORD, Conn.–Using the Genome Sequencer FLX system from 454 Life Sciences, a Roche company, investigators have identified a number of genetic variations potentially linked to prostate, breast, and colon cancers within a previously identified region of the human genome called 8q24. Researchers from the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland (USA) re-sequenced a total of […]