Cancer and personalized medicine are two research areas in which discoveries are accelerating. Supporting research in these fields are biobanks for the storage of tissue samples. The presence of all types of biobanks has increased at such a rate that nearly two-thirds of US biobanks have emerged within the past decade. According to the NIH’s […]
Jena, Germany 4/2/13; Jena, Germany 4/10/13—Analytik Jena has agreed to acquire US-based UVP for an undisclosed amount. A supplier of digital imaging systems for proteomic, genomic and animal science applications, UVP posted fiscal 2012 sales of $17.2 million, with half of its sales generated in North America. Analytik Jena expects the acquisition to increase its […]
Atomic Spectroscopy Bruker debuted the Aurora Elite inductively coupled plasma (ICP)–MS, a high-performance sibling to its existing Aurora M90. The improved ion optics and fast electronics increase the sensitivity of the system, and Bruker considers it the most sensitive single quadrupole ICP-MS on the market. The base price is $178,000, though a complete system with […]
Company Announcements ChemImage named IVG a distributor of its HSI Examiner products in Mexico. In January, Avantes announced a partnership with Tornado Spectral Systems for the design, manufacture and distribution of a new line of high-performance spectrometers based on Tornado’s High Throughput Virtual Slit technology. X-Rite, a Danaher company, named Ron Voigt president, effective March […]
Company Announcements Horizon Technology appointed Board member Dr. Peter Brown as CEO in September 2012. Previously, he served as general manager of VG Elemental. Claremont BioSolutions announced in October 2012 a strategic partnership and technology development agreement with In-Q-Tel for its Prep-on-a-Chip. Pressure BioSciences signed a supplier agreement with Cole-Parmer for its PBI Shredder SG3 […]
Solid phase extraction (SPE) is among the most widely used sample preparation techniques for chemical and biological analyses. SPE is used to purify a compound by concentrating liquid phase components onto a solid phase substrate and extracting the target analytes. Greater sample complexity and more sensitive instrumentation have driven the need for SPE advancements. Also […]
Company Announcements NorDiag sold its molecular diagnostics assets in May to DiaSorin for €7.6 million ($10.0 million) and changed its name to Norda. It will continue to sell its Magnatrix automated DNA purification systems. Precision System Science reorganized its structure, effective July 1, setting up a Global Sales & Marketing Group, Production and Supply Management […]
Horizon Technology started out as a company offering instruments that work with SPE disks but now offers the disks themselves. At the time of the company’s formation in 1993, SPE disks were a new alternative to SPE cartridges. “Disks are simply much faster when processing large samples, and more tolerant of sediment that might be […]
Company Announcements In April, Horizon Technology named Axel Semrau its newest German distributor. Target Discovery expanded its strategic technology license and supply agreement with Pressure BioSciences for clinical lab testing services for the extraction of membrane protein biomarkers from human tissue. In May, Pressure BioSciences signed a strategic codevelopment, comarketing and coselling agreement with LEAP […]
Sample storage and management (SSM) systems provide storage and retrieval of compounds, biological samples or specimens used in a wide array of industries and applications from biotechnology, combinatorial chemistry, personalized medicine and biobanking. Typically, there are two types of SSM systems: smaller units, which are able to fit in most labs, and larger units, which […]
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