January 30, 2015
Bibby Scientific Ltd announced today that Techne®, a leading UK manufacturer of laboratory benchtop equipment, has launched its revolutionary new qPCR system, the Prime Pro 48. The new system offers greater accuracy and higher quality data for a variety of applications, setting novel standards of performance, simplicity and versatility. The Prime Pro 48 has 400 [...]
The VWR Foundation Donated Dollars in Honor of the VWR’s Sales Force
January 29, 2015
RADNOR, Pa. -- During VWR's (Nasdaq: VWR) annual Americas Sales Conference, the VWR Charitable Foundation made significant charitable contributions in honor of the Company's sales force. The Foundation, dedicated to giving back to the science community, announced it was donating a total of $100,000 to two organizations. The VWR Foundation Donated Dollars in Honor of [...]
January 29, 2015
MADISON, WISCONSIN -- Promega Corporation announces the release of the PowerPlex® Fusion 6C System, a 6-color, 27-locus multiplex. The system combines common and informative loci to overcome typical challenges faced by laboratories, including sample inhibitors, low levels of input DNA, degradation, and mixtures. The PowerPlex Fusion 6C System includes the 23 loci in the expanded [...]
January 29, 2015
AstraZeneca today announced four research collaborations aimed at harnessing the power of CRISPR, a pioneering genome-editing technique, across its entire discovery platform in the company’s key therapeutic areas. The technology will allow AstraZeneca to identify and validate new drug targets in preclinical models that closely resemble human disease. AstraZeneca will share cell lines and compounds [...]
January 29, 2015
SIMCA 14 is a major upgrade of SIMCA 13, now including support for Unicode is a computing industry standard for consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world’s writing systems. This means that SIMCA now will be able to import and represent characters earlier not supported. This release also includes [...]
January 29, 2015
ST. LOUIS -- Sigma-Aldrich Corporation's (NASDAQ: SIAL) Research business unit, which supports scientific research by supplying products, services and solutions, today announced it has entered into a new gene editing collaboration with the Institute of Molecular Genetics (IMG) at the Czech Center for Phenogenomics (CCP) in Prague. Under the collaboration, Sigma-Aldrich will provide the Transgenic [...]
Servomex Launches World’s Smallest Cross Stack TDL Monitor
January 29, 2015
Servomex (UK) has launched the SERVOTOUGH MiniLaser Oxy: the world’s smallest cross-stack Tunable Diode Laser (TDL) gas analyser and only TDL analyser specifically optimised for O2 measurement. Dr Stephen Firth, Photometric Product Manager at Servomex, said: “Based around Servomex’s revolutionary new MiniLaser platform and developed at our UK Technical Center, the MiniLaser Oxy is a [...]
January 29, 2015
ST. PAUL –- 3M Food Safety announced today that two of its 3M? Molecular Detection Assays, Listeria monocytogenes and Listeria species, have been approved for First Action Official Method of Analysis SM distinction by AOAC INTERNATIONAL (OMA method numbers 2014.07 and 2014.06, respectively). The scope of the validations cover a variety of food matrices including [...]
ACD/Labs Announces Release of Updated Software
January 29, 2015
Toronto, Canada -- ACD/Labs, a leading cheminformatics company, today announced the release of their Version 2015 software. Version 2015 builds upon the capabilities of the ACD/Spectrus and ACD/Percepta platforms. Since their market introduction in 2012, and based on the 20 years of ACD/Labs expertise in the chemistry software market, these two platforms enable organizations to [...]
Regis Technologies Expands Chiral Column Product Line
January 29, 2015
Morton Grove, IL -- Regis Technologies introduces small particle sizes to its family of chiral columns. The new columns will meet needs of analytical scientists for fast and efficient chiral separations. Regis Technologies is a leader in chiral separations that serves both the analytical and preparative needs of chromatographers and researchers worldwide. To respond to [...]
