Affymetrix and Reveal Biosciences partner to offer RNA ISH tissue staining, imaging, and image analysis services

Santa Clara and San Diego, California - Affymetrix Inc. (NASDAQ: AFFX) and Reveal Biosciences LLC, an advanced tissue technologies company, today announced a partnership agreement through which Reveal will use Affymetrix ViewRNA® ISH products for tissue samples to provide RNA in situ hybridization (ISH) staining, imaging, and quantification services using the company’s proprietary image analysis [...]

VWR Continues to Deliver an Improved Web Experience to Customers

RADNOR, Pa. -- VWR (NASDAQ: VWR), a leading, global, independent provider of laboratory products, services and solutions, recently launched new functionality globally to its customers through its website, www.vwr.com. Building upon previous enhancements to the website's look and feel, the new functionality delivers features that personalize the customer experience. "Our goal is to meet the [...]

Block Engineering Announces a Suite of Product Offerings for Protection against Terrorist Chemical Attacks

Marlborough, MA – Block Engineering offers a suite of products that can be used to protect against terrorist chemical threats. With increasing terrorist attacks throughout the world and knowledge that chemical warfare weapons are accessible to and in the hands of terrorist groups, the threat of chemical attacks continues to increase. The recent news link [...]

SYGNIS signs distribution agreement with Mayflower Bioscience for the US market

Madrid, Spain and Heidelberg, Germany – SYGNIS AG (Frankfurt: LIO1; ISIN: DE000A1RFM03; Prime Standard) announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with Mayflower Bioscience LLC (St. Louis, USA) for the commercialization of SYGNIS’ proprietary product portfolio in the USA. Under the terms of the agreement, SYGNIS has granted Mayflower Bioscience the rights to promote, [...]

3M’s Next Generation Molecular Detection Assay for Listeria Receives AOAC PTM Validation

ST. PAUL, Minn. –– 3M Food Safety announced today that its 3M™ Molecular Detection Assay 2 – Listeria has been approved by the AOAC® Performance Tested MethodsSM program (Certification #111501). The approval certifies that this new second-generation test kit is equivalent or better than standard reference methods in the detection of Listeria spp. within a [...]

Tecan helps Repsol to drive the fuels of the future

The Madrid Technology Center of global energy company Repsol relies on two Freedom EVO® platforms for colony picking and enzymatic assays for research into fossil fuel alternatives, using Tecan’s 350 µl nested LiHa disposable tips to achieve extended walkaway times. Jose Miguel Seoane, a researcher in the biotechnology department, explained: “The investigation of new biological [...]

Park Systems Announces Nanotechnology Innovation – the First and Only Microscope Module that Provides the Power of SICM with AFM

Santa Clara, CA -- Park Systems, world leader in Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) announces Park NX10 SICM Module, an add-on scanning ion conductance microscopy module to Park NX10 that is the only product available today that easily integratesthe power of SICM to an AFM. Park SICM benefits virtually all materials characterization that require measurements in [...]

Dolomite celebrates 10 years of microfluidic innovation

Dolomite, part of the Blacktrace group of companies, is celebrating a decade of excellence in the design and manufacture of novel, high quality microfluidic products, including individual components such as pumps, chips, connectors, temperature controllers and sensors, software solutions and complete microfluidic systems. The company, based in Royston, UK, was the world’s first microfluidic application [...]

Brooks Automation Announces Completion of BioStorage Technologies Acquisition

CHELMSFORD, Mass. -- Brooks Automation, Inc. (Nasdaq:BRKS), a leading worldwide provider of automated and cryogenic solutions for multiple markets including semiconductor manufacturing and life sciences, announced today that it has closed its previously announced acquisition of BioStorage Technologies, Inc. BioStorage, headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, is an industry leader in the storage of biological samples for [...]

SomaLogic announces College of American Pathologists (CAP) accreditation of its CLIA laboratory

SomaLogic, Inc., announced that its SomaLogic Clinical Laboratory (CLIA laboratory) has been registered with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988, and has received accreditation by the College of American Pathologists (CAP). “The CAP accreditation of our CLIA laboratory is an important milestone on our way [...]

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