Lightweight Electronic Pipette Offers Enhanced Ease of Use
August 27, 2014
INTEGRA has announced a software update for its VIAFLO II electronic pipette range that now features a full-text, multilingual user interface in English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese. Combining ultra lightweight ergonomic design with a highly intuitive user interface – VIAFLO II electronic pipettes are as easy to use as a single channel manual [...]
Ocean Optics Launches New Website
August 26, 2014
Dunedin, Florida, USA -– Ocean Optics has launched a redesigned website at oceanoptics.com. The all new site design helps users more easily navigate through spectroscopy product and educational information with an interactive product selector, spectrometer range and resolution calculator, applications section, measurement techniques section, and a new search function that groups results by type. The [...]
August 26, 2014
Toronto -- AB SCIEX and Dalton Pharma Services (Dalton) announced today a research collaboration to develop Antibody-Drug Conjugate (ADC) analysis capabilities. This will include development of more definitive and comprehensive method for the identification of drug loading and position of conjugation on macromolecules. This collaboration is part of AB SCIEX's commitment to support the growing [...]
Tecan and RECIPE announce co-marketing agreement for automation of LC-MSMS IVD kits
August 26, 2014
Männedorf, Switzerland -- With clinical laboratories increasingly turning to high throughput LC-MSMS analysis, laboratory automation specialist Tecan and RECIPE Chemicals and Instruments GmbH, a leading manufacturer of IVD/CE diagnostic products, have announced a co-marketing agreement for automation of LC-MSMS IVD kits. Visitors to Booth #1 at MSACL 2014 EU in Salzburg, Austria, from the 2nd [...]
August 26, 2014
Billerica, MA — EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, today announced the opening of a new Biomanufacturing Sciences Training Center (BSTC) facility in Tokyo. The state-of-the-art facility is designed to help biopharmaceutical companies develop manufacturing processes and find solutions to processing challenges in collaboration with engineers from EMD Millipore. “We [...]
August 26, 2014
JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, announces their expansion into the US market with new distributors and the availability of the NanoWizard® AFM. JPK have been developing and supplying nanotechnology instrumentation for the materials & life sciences for more than twelve years. Having introduced their [...]
New Portable Alcohol Meter for Distillates: Snap 50 from Anton Paar
August 26, 2014
Ashland, Virginia -- Anton Paar has developed an alcohol meter which measures distillates in all strengths with an accuracy of 0.1 % v/v. The portable Snap 50 is so easy to operate that quality checks directly on-site, outside the laboratory are accomplished in next to no time - independent of the ambient temperature. Snap 50 [...]
Miriam Monge to Join Sartorius Stedim Biotech as Director
August 26, 2014
Aubagne, August 26, 2014 – Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), a leading international pharma and biotech supplier, today announced the appointment of Miriam Monge as Director of Marketing for SSB’s Integrated Solutions unit. In this newly created position, Monge will focus on sharpening SSB’s profile as an integrated solution provider for the biopharmaceutical industry. Miriam Monge [...]
Perten Instruments and System Scale Corp. Join Forces
August 26, 2014
System Scale Corporation will now distribute and service the AM 5200-A and AM 5200-Farm grain moisture meters from Perten Instruments. The AM 5200-A is USDA certified as UGMA compatible and is NTEP approved. The AM 5200-Farm uses the same technology as the official meter but designed to meet the needs of producers. “It gives me [...]
Protein Synthesis Technology developed at the LMB licenced for use in drug discovery
August 26, 2014
A method for linking proteins together with specific chemical bonds, developed in the LMB’s PNAC Division by Satpal Virdee and Jason Chin, has been licenced by MRC Technology to the global life sciences company Bio-Techne. The company will use the technology to join ubiquitin, or other proteins, to a target protein, enabling both fundamental research [...]

