SCIEX and Labor Berlin Collaboration to Advance Forensic Testing
March 2, 2015
Framingham, MA, Darmstadt, Germany — SCIEX announced today a research collaboration with Labor Berlin, the largest clinical laboratory in Germany, for the development of a hybrid Quadrupole Time-of-Flight (TOF) MS/MS reference library of relevant forensic chemical compounds. The library will cover thousands of chemical substances, allowing users of SCIEX TripleTOF® 6600 mass spectrometers for forensic [...]
March 2, 2015
Tokyo, Japan -- Rigaku Corporation has announced its launch of the new CT Lab GX series of industrial 3D X-ray micro computed tomography (CT) imagers, signaling its entry into the industrial CT market. The CT Lab GX is an ultra-high-speed, high-resolution 3D CT suited for measurements of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, bones, ores, electronic devices, batteries, [...]
March 2, 2015
WILSONVILLE, OR -- FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) today announced that Tony Trunzo, Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer, has resigned effective March 27, 2015, to pursue other professional opportunities. Dave Muessle, Vice President, Corporate Controller and the Company's Principal Accounting Officer, who joined FLIR in 2000, will work closely with Tony in [...]
MTS ANNOUNCES NEW GLOBAL PRODUCT LINE FOR MATERIALS TESTING
March 2, 2015
Eden Prairie, Minn. –– MTS Systems Corporation (NASDAQ: MTSC), a leading global supplier of high-performance test systems and position sensors, today announced the world-wide introduction of MTS Exceed™ Testing Systems, a new product line designed for the growing material testing market for manufacturing and quality assurance applications. “With this new product line, MTS greatly expands [...]
February 26, 2015
JENA/Germany, OBERKOCHEN/Germany -- Dr. Michael Kempe and Dr. Michael Totzeck have been designated as Fellows, the highest level of the ZEISS technical ladder. They both work at Corporate Research & Technology. Kempe is Head of the Technology area. Totzeck is Head of Industrial and Consumer Innovations. President and CEO of ZEISS Dr. Michael Kaschke congratulated [...]
Shimadzu Corporation Launches Nexera UC – The World’s Foremost Unified Chromatography System
February 26, 2015
COLUMBIA, Md. -- The fully automated supercritical fluidic chromatography-based Nexera Unified Chromatography system (Nexera UC) can sequentially analyze up to 48 samples utilizing automatic extraction and chromatographic separation combined with high-sensitivity detection of targets by mass spectrometry. The Nexera UC system is designed to fulfill the measurement requirements of a wide range of applications, including [...]
Illumina Accelerator Secures $40 Million Boost Capital to Back New Graduates
February 26, 2015
SAN FRANCISCO -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced its new Illumina Accelerator Boost Capital has secured an initial capital commitment of $40 million from Viking Global Investors, a privately owned, global investment firm. Capital commitments made to Illumina Accelerator Boost Capital will be used to fund investments in promising genomic startups that graduate from Illumina [...]
February 26, 2015
CINCINNATI -- Meridian Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIVO) today announces that it has received the CE Mark for its new test for Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumo). TRU STREP PNEUMO™ is a rapid, qualitative immunoassay for the detection of S. pneumo antigen in urine and CSF and will be distributed in the EMEA regions by Meridian Bioscience [...]
February 26, 2015
CINCINNATI -- Meridian Bioscience, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio (NASDAQ: VIVO) today announced that it has received the CE Mark for two new molecular diagnostic tests for Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG), the sixth and seventh assays on the illumigene® platform. Along with these two new assays, Meridian also received the CE Mark for an [...]
Station X Simplifies Use of The Cancer Genome Atlas via Integration with its GenePool Platform
February 26, 2015
Marco Island, Florida and San Francisco, CA –- Station X, Inc., a leading developer of technologies that make large-scale human genome management and analysis easier, today announced that researchers can now utilize the open-access data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) through the company’s secure cloud-based GenePool™ platform. “TCGA is a national treasure and we [...]
