Thermo Fisher Scientific Appoints New Members to Scientific Advisory Board
September 16, 2014
WALTHAM, Mass.-- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, has appointed three new members to its Scientific Advisory Board: Dr. Andrea Califano, Dr. Arnold J. Levine and Dr. Aviv Regev. Dr. Califano is the founding chairman of the department of systems biology at Columbia University, and he currently serves on [...]
Laser Absorption Device for Freeze Drying Monitoring & Control
September 16, 2014
SP Scientific has entered into an exclusive agreement with Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) to distribute the LyoFlux® 200 Water Vapor Mass Flow Rate Monitor for laboratory and pilot scale freeze dryers. The LyoFlux® 200 is an innovative two line-of-sight tuneable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) based device for continuous monitoring of laboratory, pilot and production [...]
InDevR Wins Barda Contract for Cutting-Edge Influenza Diagnostic
September 15, 2014
BOULDER, CO -- InDevR, a Boulder-based life science company, announced today that it has signed a contract (HHSO100201400010C) with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to complete product development of their unique influenza diagnostic, FluChip-8G, which is capable of rapidly genotyping influenza viruses directly from clinical samples. The total contract award is for [...]
Eppendorf licenses technology for thermal cyclers to SensoQuest
September 15, 2014
Hamburg -– Eppendorf AG has licensed patents covering gradient technology for thermal cyclers to SensoQuest GmbH, including German patent Nos. DE 196 55 282 and DE 196 55 141. Eppendorf utilizes the technology in its Eppendorf Mastercycler® pro gradient and Mastercycler nexus gradient models.
Gamma H2AX Pharmacodynamic Assay Kit
September 15, 2014
AMSBIO announces the first commercially available gamma H2AX Pharmacodynamic assay kit for the study of double strand DNA breaks through the detection of gamma H2AX - a phosphorylated histone historically proven as a highly specific and sensitive molecular marker for double strand DNA damage detection. This new assay has been developed for anti-cancer drug screening, [...]
September 15, 2014
ALAMEDA, Calif. & LONDON -- OncoCyte Corporation, a subsidiary of BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT: BTX), and Abcodia Ltd., a UK-based company focusing on the early detection of cancer, today announced their collaboration focused on the development of OncoCyte’s blood-based PanC-Dx™ test for early detection of breast cancer. PanC-Dx™ is a class of non-invasive cancer diagnostics [...]
Nabsys Appoints Steve Lombardi as Chief Executive Officer
September 15, 2014
PROVIDENCE, R.I.-- Nabsys, Inc., a life sciences company pioneering semiconductor-based tools for genomic analysis, today announced it has named Steve Lombardi as the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer effective immediately. The firm has also appointed Mr. Lombardi to its Board of Directors. “By adding Steve's deep life science commercialization experience, executive leadership experience and [...]
Improved TPT Mini-Peristaltic Pump
September 15, 2014
Aalborg® Instruments’ Improved Model TPT Mini peristaltic pumps provide low cost, reliable service. Flow rates are user-selectable from 7 mL/min to 28 mL/min by selecting from a choice of four different RPM drives (8, 12, 17, or 25) and tubing sizes. Simple to load and operate, two plastic slide on/off plastic tubing holders accommodate easy [...]
September 15, 2014
IRVINE, Calif.-- Zymo Research Corp., has announced the release of a new viral transport solution for safe ambient temperature storage and transport of infectious biological specimens prior to molecular testing. Importantly, the infectivity of agents in such samples is completely inactivated by the solution while maintaining the integrity of the viral nucleic acids for subsequent [...]
Hudson Robotics and Johns Hopkins Receive NIH Grant for Zebrafish HTS System
September 15, 2014
SPRINGFIELD, N.J. -- Hudson Robotics, Inc., of Springfield, NJ, in cooperation with Johns Hopkins University, has recently been awarded an NIH grant to develop a commercially viable high-throughput screening (HTS) system for in vivo studies of zebrafish. This system, termed the Automated Reporter Quantification in vivo (ARQiv) system, will bring high-throughput screening technology into the [...]
