One Instrument for Raman, UV-Visible-NIR and Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Microscopic Samples
September 1, 2014
San Dimas, CA -- CRAIC Technologies, the world leading innovator of microspectroscopy solutions, has added Raman microspectroscopy to its flagship product: the 20/30 Perfect Vision™ microspectrophotometer . Users of the 20/30 PV™ now have the ability to acquire Raman spectra, with multiple laser wavelengths, in addition to UV-visible-NIR absorbance, reflectance, fluorescence and emission microspectra™. The [...]
Dako Launches Fast HER2 ISH Assay for New Automated Staining Platform in Europe
September 1, 2014
GLOSTRUP, Denmark -- Dako, an Agilent Technologies company and a worldwide provider of cancer diagnostics, today announced the EU launch of HER2 IQFISH pharmDx™ automated on Dako Omnis. The new product will enable pathology laboratories to easily integrate the renowned Dako HER2 IQFISH and IQFISH hybridization buffer into their IHC workflow. Dako Omnis is Agilent’s [...]
Achieving the World Highest Level Sensitivity and Spatial Resolution
September 1, 2014
Shimadzu Corporation has released the EPMA-8050G, a high-end electron probe microanalyzer. While maintaining excellent operability, this model is equipped with the latest field emission (FE) electron optical system, and achieves the world leading sensitivity and spatial resolution for an FE-EPMA instrument. EPMA can perform non-destructive analyses of a wide range of samples. They are primarily [...]
BioLegend Acquires the Antibody Products Business Unit from Covance
August 29, 2014
BioLegend, Inc. (BioLegend) acquired the shares of Covance Antibody Services Inc., a business unit of Covance, located in Dedham, Massachusetts, on August 29, 2014. The Covance Antibody business unit develops and manufactures antibodies and research reagents for Neuroscience, Immunopathology, Cell Biology, Epitope Tags, and Immunohistochemistry Detection. These products, including In Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) antibodies for [...]
August 28, 2014
AXT Pty Ltd, a leading Australian supplier of high technology analytical solutions for industry and academia is proud to announce their association with Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, with revenues in excess of US$ 17 billion. AXT and the Nano-scale Materials Analysis product lines of Thermo Fisher Scientific recently signed [...]
August 28, 2014
Houston, TX., USA –– PAC, a leading global provider of advanced analytical instruments for laboratories and online process applications, recently welcomed Samuel Wong as the Vice-President of Sales for Asia Pacific. Mr. Wong has over 25 years of sales experience in the oil and gas, marine, power generation, and transport industries. He joins PAC from [...]
August 28, 2014
WILMINGTON, Mass.-- Marking a major milestone for the Company, Implant Sciences Corporation (OTCQB: IMSC), a high technology supplier of systems and sensors for homeland security and defense markets, announced today that its QS-B220 desktop explosives trace detector has successfully completed the certification process for the United States Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) Explosive Trace Detection (ETD) [...]
August 28, 2014
TOKYO -- Hitachi High-Tech Science Corporation (Hitachi High-Tech Science, President: Toshiyuki Ikeda) announced the release of the AFM5000II, a Scanning Probe Microscope (SPM) controller, and the PS3500DDII, a sequential high resolution ICP Optical Emission Spectrometer. These instruments will be displayed at the "JASIS 2014," to be held at Makuhari Messe International Exhibition Hall from September [...]
August 28, 2014
ALAMEDA, Calif.-- BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT:BTX) today announced that it has entered into a collaboration with Susan Thibeault, Ph.D., of the University of Wisconsin and Marc Remacle, M.D. of Louvain University to evaluate BioTime’s proprietary HyStem®-based hydrogel for the treatment of vocal fold scarring. Preclinical studies published by Dr. Thibeault and her colleagues have demonstrated [...]
August 28, 2014
MADISON, WIS. -— Cellular Dynamics International (CDI; Nasdaq: ICEL) today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) awarded the company Patent No. 8,815,585 on the automated production of human pluripotent stem cells, including induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). CDI’s products and services are based on iPSC technology. This patent has broad-reaching effects, covering [...]

