Tecan acquires IBL International to offer integrated solution for specialty diagnostics
July 30, 2014
Männedorf, Switzerland -- The Tecan Group (SIX Swiss Exchange: TECN) today announced the acquisition of IBL International as an important strategic step to support Tecan's evolution into a solutions business with a higher share of recurring revenues. IBL International is a leading company in the field of microtiter plate based immunoassays with one of the [...]
Tecan acquires IBL International to offer integrated solution for specialty diagnostics
July 30, 2014
Männedorf, Switzerland -- The Tecan Group (SIX Swiss Exchange: TECN) today announced the acquisition of IBL International as an important strategic step to support Tecan's evolution into a solutions business with a higher share of recurring revenues. IBL International is a leading company in the field of microtiter plate based immunoassays with one of the [...]
Grace Launches New REVELERIS® Prep Purification System
July 30, 2014
Columbia, MD -- W. R. Grace & Co. (NYSE: GRA) announces today the release of the REVELERIS® Prep purification system, a dual-mode instrument that allows organic chemists, preparative chromatographers, and other researchers to perform both flash and preparative liquid chromatography (LC) using a single unit. With the REVELERIS® Prep purification system, researchers can easily switch [...]
Dotmatics announces North American Expansion to be led by Rusty Irving
July 30, 2014
Bishops Stortford, UK.-- Dotmatics, a leading provider of scientific informatics solutions and services, is pleased to announce Rusty Irving as the Head of North American Operations. Rusty brings two decades of extensive scientific background and significant experience in building successful global sales teams at organisations including BIOVIA (formerly Accelrys), CambridgeSoft Corporation, and most recently PerkinElmer [...]
University of Manchester selects Anasys AFM-IR for coatings and corrosion research
July 29, 2014
Anasys Instruments reports on the recent installation of an AFM-IR system at the Corrosion & Protection Centre, part of the School of Materials at the University of Manchester for use by the group of Professor Stuart Lyon. Corrosion is of primary concern in many industrial sectors, including oil, transportation, infrastructure, nuclear, and even bio-technology. At [...]
Cepheid Reports China Installed Base Close To 1,000 GeneXpert® Systems
July 29, 2014
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-- With the recent completion of a record shipment of 774 GeneXpert systems to a single country in one quarter, Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD) today applauded groundbreaking tuberculosis programs in China where more than a million new cases of tuberculosis (TB) are reported each year. Combined with systems placed previously, the second quarter placements bring [...]
New Development Kit for Spectral Sensing Applications from Ocean Optics
July 29, 2014
Dunedin, Florida, USA -– Ocean Optics has introduced a new set of spectral sensing tools for developers and others who want to deploy spectroscopy in new applications. The STS Developers Kit brings together its powerful STS spectrometer, a Raspberry Pi microcomputer, customizable software, and wireless capabilities in single package for integrating spectral sensing quickly and [...]
EXpressLO LLC Granted Second U.S. Patent for Innovative Specimen Preparation Methods
July 29, 2014
EXpressLO LLC, expert provider of focused ion beam (FIB) ex situ lift out specimen preparation solutions, has been granted patent number 8,789,826 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for specimen manipulation methods incorporating a unique specimen carrier support grid design described in U.S. Patent 8,740,209. This is the second company patent for EXpressLO LLC [...]
SAGE® Labs Licenses CRISPR/Cas9 Technology from the Broad Institute
July 29, 2014
ST. LOUIS -- SAGE Labs Inc., a leading provider of products, services and technologies in the field of genome engineering, announced today that they have licensed CRISPR/Cas9 technology from the Broad Institute. The license enables SAGE Labs to use the CRISPR/Cas9 system to engineer cell and animal models for their clients as well as distribute [...]
NanoString Technologies Introduces New Universal Junction Probe Design for Detecting Gene Fusions
July 29, 2014
SEATTLE & CHICAGO -- NanoString Technologies, Inc., (NASDAQ:NSTG) a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced that it has expanded the capabilities of its nCounter Elements™ General Purpose Reagents (GPRs) with the addition of a universal junction probe design that offers specific detection and analysis of known fusion [...]

