Bio-Rad Launches Vitamin D Kit for its BioPlex 2200 System
June 23, 2014
Hercules, CA — — Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), today announced the launch of the BioPlex® 2200 25-OH Vitamin D kit for use outside the U.S. on the company's BioPlex® 2200 system. The assay offers a fully-automated method for the quantitative measurement of total 25-hydroxyvitamin D in human serum. The Vitamin D testing [...]
Harvard University Joins the Long List of Erlab’s GreenFumeHood Technology Customers
June 22, 2014
Rowley, MA -- Once again, Erlab solves a challenging problem by providing a safe, versatile, easy to install, and powerful filtered fume hood using GreenFumeHood Technology. Harvard University’s Lyman Laboratory of Physics required an additional fume hood. The common option is a traditional ducted fume hood. This posed a challenge because the lab is located [...]
New Case Story: First teaching laboratory in Denmark with scanning electron microscopes
June 20, 2014
Denmark -- Staff and students at schools and universities throughout Denmark are excited about a new facility housing multiple scanning electron microscopes that has opened within Nanoteket, a nanotechnology teaching laboratory at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), near Copenhagen. The laboratory operates in collaboration with the university’s physics department and centre for electron nanoscopy. [...]
Vivione Biosciences Inc. announces agreement with Litmus, LLC for Molecular Design Rights
June 20, 2014
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas. - Vivione Biosciences Inc. (“Vivione”) (TSXV:VBI) through its wholly owned subsidiary, Vivione Biosciences, LLC, announced today that through a new agreement (the “Amending Agreement”) with Litmus, LLC (“Litmus”), Vivione has acquired Litmus’ 50% royalty interest in net proceeds derived from the Molecular Design technology. The Molecular Design technology was originally developed by [...]
New sample chamber design for PicoQuant’s FluoTime 300 spectrometer
June 20, 2014
Berlin (Germany)-– PicoQuant has released a new design of the FluoTime 300 fluorescence lifetime spectrometer. The sample chamber of the system is now designed around modular sample holders, which allow a quick and easy change between different sample configurations, e. g. liquids, powders, or wafers. The range of available sample holders was also extended and [...]
AMETEK Completes Acquisition Of Zygo Corporation
June 20, 2014
BERWYN, Pa.-- AMETEK, Inc. AME +0.01% today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Zygo Corporation ZIGO -0.02% for $19.25 per share in cash per fully diluted common share, or approximately $280 million net of cash acquired. The completion of the transaction follows approval from Zygo shareholders and the receipt of all regulatory approvals. [...]
Bioo Scientific Releases Sciclone and Biomek Protocols to Eliminate NGS Library Prep Bottlenecks
June 20, 2014
Austin, TX -- Today Bioo Scientific announced the release of high throughput automated methods for next generation sequencing library preparation on the Beckman Biomek® FX and Biomek® FXP Laboratory Automation Workstations, and the Perkin Elmer Sciclone liquid handling workstations. These protocols were designed to enable researchers to leverage the NEXTflex library prep kits on liquid [...]
June 19, 2014
SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD) today announced a new collaboration with AstraZeneca, Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and GSK intended to promote transformational change in infectious disease therapy by developing a rapid diagnostic test that can target multi-drug resistant pathogens and support the appropriate use of antibiotics. Targeting bacterial infections with the right treatment will slow [...]
June 19, 2014
Goettingen, Germany -- Invent Biotechnologies, Inc., USA, is a biotech company located in Minnesota, USA. The company is focused on developing innovative technologies to meet the demand of biomedical research communities. Many biological research procedures are tedious and time-consuming. Lin Yan, CEO of Invent Biotechnologies, Inc.: "We believe that there is always a simpler and [...]
TeraView Establishes Asian Presence
June 19, 2014
Cambridge, UK –With a growing list of customers in Asia, TeraView has taken the step of establishing an initial base in the region. The first office is located in Seoul, and is intended to enhance the service, technical support and applications-specific expertise which TeraView offers its customers and commercial partners in the region. The new [...]
