OGT named OBN’s Best Medtech Dealmaker
October 9, 2014
Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), the molecular genetics company, has won the Best Medtech Dealmaker award for the second year in a row at the Oxford Bioscience Network (OBN) awards held on Thursday 2 October. The award recognises OGT’s acquisition of Cambridge-based Cytocell Limited (Cytocell), a leading provider of DNA technology for the detection of gene [...]
Claremont BioSolutions Announces Reagent Supply Agreement with SeraCare Life Sciences
October 9, 2014
Upland, CA -- Claremont BioSolutions, LLC, pioneer of rapid sample preparation technologies, today announced an agreement with SeraCare Life Sciences to supply synthetic stool matrix for use in its quality control products. ClaremontBio has developed products for sample preparation of difficult-to-handle samples such as sputum and stool and has particular expertise in developing biologically relevant [...]
October 9, 2014
Santa Barbara, CA – Anasys Instruments reports on the new AFM-IR results from the Energy Research Group at NIST just published in the journal for Advanced Optical Materials. The paper is entitled “Nanoscale imaging and spectroscopy of plasmonic modes with the PTIR technique.” 1 Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) [...]
Hach Launches SL1000 Portable Parallel AnalyzerTM (PPA) Platform
October 9, 2014
Loveland, Colo. -- Hach Company (www.hach.com) is introducing an important and innovative new technology for the Drinking Water Industry, the Hach SL1000 Portable Parallel AnalyzerTM (PPA) platform. This analyzer is specifically designed and engineered to dramatically streamline water quality testing. The PPA platform offers faster testing of multiple parameters, greatly reduced variability from test to [...]
October 9, 2014
Billingham, Teesside, UK and Research Triangle Park, NC, USA -– FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies has announced the launch of its new mammalian expression platform, which it has named ‘Apollo™’. The platform is designed to create a robust ‘manufacturing-ready’ cell line and consists of four key components: a new CHO DG44-derived host cell line; a novel expression [...]
October 9, 2014
Columbus, OH -- METTLER TOLEDO’s newly improved XS balance line includes analytical and precision balances as well as a dual range microbalance. As a revolutionary step in balance performance, the new SmartPan™ weighing pan delivers results up to twice as fast, even in a fume cupboard. On all balances, ergonomic design details mean users no [...]
October 9, 2014
Redwood City, CA -- The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded a $1M contract for whole genome, whole exome, and SNP Chip DNA data analysis to Bina Technologies, Inc., as part of the VA’s Million Veteran Program (MVP), which aims to enroll 1 million veterans over the next years. Bina Technologies will provide [...]
Pall Corporation Board of Directors Increases Quarterly Dividend
October 9, 2014
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. -- Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL) today announced that its board of directors declared a nearly 11 percent increase in the company’s quarterly dividend from the current rate of $0.275 to $0.305 per share. The dividend of $0.305 is payable on November 10, 2014 to shareholders of record on the close of business on [...]
Gyros Launches Gyrolab™ Protein A Kit for Efficient Quantification of Residual Protein A
October 8, 2014
Uppsala, Sweden — Gyros AB, a leader in utilization of microfluidic technologies to miniaturize and automate immunoassays, today announced the launch of its Gyrolab™ Protein A Kit for use on Gyrolab™ xP workstation. During purification of biotherapeutics, Protein A can leach from the chromatography support and co-elute with the therapeutic antibody product. The contamination complicates [...]
Artel Announces Upgrades to ArtelWare™ Software for Automated Liquid Handler Management
October 8, 2014
Westbrook, Maine -– Artel, the leader in liquid handling quality assurance, introduces ArtelWare v1.1, providing new functionality for the management of automated liquid handlers. The first in a series of upgrades now in development, ArtelWare v1.1 adds event tracking and management capabilities that give users more information about causes and effects relating to liquid handler [...]
