PAM Acquires GGA Software Services, Expands Healthcare & Life Sciences Service Offering
June 6, 2014
Newtown, PA –– EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE:EPAM), a leading provider of product development and software engineering solutions known for its award-winning Central and Eastern European global delivery platform, announced that it has acquired GGA Software Services LLC, a US-based provider of scientific informatics services to global pharmaceutical, scientific instrumentation, medical device, scientific publishing and software, [...]
Cerilliant Introduces New Certified Snap-N-Spike® Solutions of NBOMe
June 6, 2014
ST. LOUIS -- Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL) is pleased to announce that the Cerilliant® brand within its Applied Diagnostics and Testing business segment has introduced six new certified Snap-N-Spike® reference standards of designer psychedelics in the NBOMe (N-methoxybenzyl-substituted) class of phenethylamines. New products include 25I-NBOMe HCl, 25C-NBOMe HCl, and 25B-NBOMe HCl and their deuterium labeled [...]
Leica Microsystems Introduces New Cell and Tissue Culture Microscope
June 6, 2014
Leica Microsystems has introduced the Leica DMi1, an entry-level inverted microscope with functions necessary for routine laboratory work. The Leica DMi1 enables cell biologists to check and document cell and tissue cultures within seconds. The high-performance microscope is equipped with LED illumination that provides constant color temperature with up to 20 years lifetime. The two-hour [...]
AgileBio LabCollector Workflow Manager: create custom workflows
June 6, 2014
Paris, France -- AgileBio, an IT solutions specialist providing web-based software for life sciences, announces the release of a new add-on for LabCollector called Workflows Manager. This add-on is a visual workflow designer to create custom workflow templates for any laboratory job. LabCollector, hostable on laboratories servers, is well adapted to any kind of academic [...]
ENZO BIOCHEM AWARDED U.S. PATENT ON MORE EFFICIENT VECTOR FOR USE IN GENE THERAPY
June 6, 2014
NEW YORK, NY -– Enzo Biochem Inc. (NYE:ENZ) announced that it has been assigned U.S. Patent Office Patent No. 8,742,090, related to the construct of an artificial vector capable of greater efficiency, in general, in targeting specific cells in the application of gene therapy and gene transfer technology. The invention provides an alternative to the [...]
June 5, 2014
Eden Prairie, Minn. -– MTS Systems Corporation (NASDAQ: MTSC), a leading global supplier of high-performance test systems and position sensors, today announced the receipt of a custom rock mechanics test system order from SINTEF to test the mechanical behavior of rock and rock masses. SINTEF is the largest independent contract research organization in Scandinavia. Founded [...]
Genetics Institute Improves Efficiency of Replication & Screening
June 5, 2014
The Institute of Genetics and Development of Rennes (IGDR), France reports on how, using a VIAFLO 96 handheld multichannel pipette from INTEGRA, they have been able to improve the efficiency and speed with which they replicate yeast strain collections and perform genetic screens in 96 well plates. The Institute of Genetics and Development of Rennes [...]
Micronic Launch Automated Screw Cap Storage Tube Decapper
June 5, 2014
Micronic has announced the launch of an Automatic Screw Cap DeCapper™ system. The next-generation Screw Cap DeCapper is an innovative, easy-to-use device that provides automated decapping/capping of screw cap storage tubes in 96-tube racks in portrait or landscape formats. The device is able to cap or decap 96 Screw Cap tubes, in rows of 8 [...]
FEI Increases Cash Dividend by 108%
June 5, 2014
HILLSBORO, Ore.-- Prior to its planned investor meeting in New York today, FEI Company (Nasdaq:FEIC) announced that the board of directors approved an increase in the quarterly cash dividends to its shareholders from $0.12 to $0.25 per share. A $0.25 quarterly dividend per share of common stock will be paid on July 22 to all [...]
June 5, 2014
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-- Affymetrix (Nasdaq: AFFX) and BioDiscovery, Inc. today announced the launch of a new analysis software, Nexus Copy Number for Affymetrix, which is specifically for data generated by Affymetrix’ genetic analysis platforms in cancer research, including CytoScan® Cytogenetics Suite and OncoScan® FFPE Assay Kit. “CytoScan Cytogenetics Suite and OncoScan FFPE Assay Kit are [...]

