ProteinSimple Says “Never Run a Gel Again!”
July 28, 2014
Santa Clara, California -- ProteinSimple announced today that it has launched a total protein assay for the Simple Western. This new assay allows users to detect all proteins separated in the assay simultaneously. For the first time, Simple Western users can analyze proteins without the need for an antibody. The Simple Western has changed protein [...]
Leica Microsystems’ App on Confocal Microscopy Available for iPad
July 28, 2014
Mannheim, Germany. Leica Microsystems launched the “Confocal” iPad app, which introduces researchers and students of the life sciences to confocal methods and technologies, and provides a bandwidth of articles that ranges from basic knowledge to advanced applications. It also serves as a compact source for product information. The app is interactively linked to Leica Science [...]
New Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Assays on the BD Viper™ LT System Receive CE/IVD Marking
July 28, 2014
Baltimore, MD -- BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), announced today that it has achieved CE/IVD marking for the BD ProbeTec™ Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) Qx Amplified DNA Assay and the BD ProbeTec™ Neisseria gonorrhoeae (GC) Qx Amplified DNA Assay on the BD Viper™ LT System. The BD Viper LT System is [...]
Viewpoint Laboratories to bundle Dark Reader transilluminators with new Polaroid Gel Camera systems
July 28, 2014
PUTNAM, Conn. -- Viewpoint Laboratories, LLC, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Clare Chemical Research, Inc., that enables Viewpoint Laboratories to sell Clare Chemical's Dark Reader blue LED transilluminator (model DR22A) in combination packages with Viewpoint's new Polaroid Z2300 Instant Print Digital Gel Camera Enclosure throughout the United States. Viewpoint Laboratories' [...]
July 25, 2014
Malvern Instruments Ltd (Malvern, UK) has today announced that it has completed the acquisition of MicroCal from GE Healthcare Life Sciences and has also purchased the Archimedes particle characterization system from Affinity Biosensors LLC (Santa Barbara, CA). Both of these developments extend Malvern’s portfolio of analytical solutions for the rapidly advancing biopharmaceutical industry. The agreement [...]
Bio-Rad Announces the Appointment of New Board Member
July 25, 2014
Hercules, CA — - Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a global provider of life science research and clinical diagnostics products, announced today that Joel McComb has been appointed to its Board of Directors. Mr. McComb has 25 years of life science and diagnostics business experience. Since mid-2010 he founded three technology companies in [...]
AMETEK Names Kurtis L. Goos, Vice President & General Manager, Engineered Medical Components
July 25, 2014
BERWYN, Pa.-- AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE: AME) today announced the appointment of Kurtis L. Goos as Vice President and General Manager, Engineered Medical Components, within AMETEK's Engineered Materials, Interconnects and Packaging (EMIP) Division. "I am pleased that Kurt has joined AMETEK. He has extensive general management and business development experience, especially in the medical device industry, [...]
July 25, 2014
Cambridge, UK -- Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE:HZD) (Horizon), a leading provider of research tools to support translational genomics and the development of personalized medicines, today announced its Horizon CombinatoRx division has been contracted by Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development and Commercialization, Inc. (OPDC) to perform in vitro cell line screening of certain OPDC development candidate(s). Pursuant [...]
Ametek Names Robert J. Amodei as Vice President, Audit Services
July 25, 2014
BERWYN, Pa.-- AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE: AME) today announced that the Board of Directors has elected Robert J. Amodei as Vice President, Audit Services. He most recently has served as Director, Operational Accounting in AMETEK's Corporate Office. "I am pleased to announce Rob's promotion to Vice President, Audit Services. Rob has done an outstanding job for [...]
MoBiTec, Germany, Announces Availability of Human Herpesvirus-6 (HHV-6) Assay Kits
July 25, 2014
Goettingen, Germany -- ELISA-VIDITEST and IF-VIDITEST anti-HHV-6 kits are intended for serological diagnosis of diseases associated with HHV–6 infection, such as exanthema subitum, acute respiratory illnesses, diarrhoea with fever and febrile seizures in infants, heterophile antibody-negative infectious mononucleosis in children, also interstitial pneumonia, encephalitis, meningitis, hepatitis, and aplastic anemia in immunodeficient patients. The presence of [...]

