BD Signs Agreement for Installation of the BD Cato™ Workflow Solution in Leading Cancer Center First Healthcare Institution in the U.S. to Implement the System

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J.-- BD Medical, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced an agreement with The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center for BD Cato™, a system that enhances safety and workflow efficiency in medication preparation via gravimetric and barcoding technology. MD Anderson [...]

Agilent Technologies and PREMIER Biosoft Couple Hardware-Software Platforms to Advance Glycomics Research

SANTA CLARA and PALO ALTO, Calif. -— Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A) and PREMIER Biosoft today announced that a selection of Agilent’s high-resolution mass spectrometry and liquid chromatography instruments now support PREMIER Biosoft’s SimGlycan software. The combined analytical strength of Agilent instrumentation and PREMIER Biosoft’s glycan and glycopeptide data analysis software will open up a [...]

Agilent Technologies to Distribute Cerno Bioscience’s Calibration and Analysis Software with GC/MSD Systems

NORWALK, Conn. and SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Cerno Bioscience and Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced Agilent will distribute Cerno Bioscience’s MassWorks™ calibration and analysis software with all Agilent GC/MSD systems. This novel calibration technology increases the mass accuracy of Agilent's single quadrupole GC/MSD to enable unknown compound identification. This process normally requires more [...]

BioLife Solutions CryoStor® Freeze Media Adopted by TxCell for Ovasave® Regulatory T Cell-Based Personalized Immunotherapy

BOTHELL, WA— June 16, 2014 —BioLife Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLFS), a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of proprietary clinical grade hypothermic storage and cryopreservation freeze media and precision thermal shipping products for cells and tissues today announced that Nice, France-based TxCell (Euronext Paris: TXCL)a biotechnology company developing innovative, personalized cell-based immunotherapies using antigen specific regulatory [...]

Waters and Omics LLC Partner to Advance Petroleum Sample Analysis

Baltimore, MD -- Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) announced that Omics LLC’s PetroOrg Petroleomics Software is now available for Waters® SYNAPT® G2-Si. The combined solution delivers time saving performance, enhanced results and comprehensive data for chemical composition characterization of petroleum. Energy companies seek better analytical methodologies to determine crude oil’s economic value and the level of [...]

Next Generation Triple Quadrupole GC-MS Designed to be More Sensitive and Three Times Faster than Predecessor

BALTIMORE -- Laboratories analyzing food, the environment, and biological samples for compounds like dioxins, PCBs, pesticides, steroids and other challenging analytes now have access to a new generation of GC-MS/MS from Thermo Fisher Scientific, designed to deliver more sensitivity at faster speeds than its predecessor. The new Thermo Scientific TSQ 8000 Evo triple quadrupole GC-MS [...]

Cepheid Announces European Release of Xpert Carba-R, a Molecular Test for Rapid and Accurate Detection of Carbapenemase-producing Gram-negative Bacteria

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Cepheid (NASDAQ: CPHD) today announced the release of Xpert? Carba-R, an on-demand molecular test for rapid and accurate detection of carbapenemase-producing Gram-negative bacteria, to be marketed as a CE IVD product under the European Directive on In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices. The test runs on Cepheid's GeneXpert? System, the world's leading molecular [...]

Agilent Technologies Introduces First-Ever Electron Ionization GC/MS/MS System with Attogram-Level Sensitivity

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -– Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced the 7010 Triple Quadrupole GC/MS System featuring a totally redesigned ion source that is a radical departure from the conventional ion sources currently on the market. The new high-efficiency electron ionization (EI) source enables attogram detection limits–a first for any EI GC/MS/MS system. Along [...]

Genedata Enhances Mass Spectrometry Software for Biopharma Workflows

Baltimore, MA, USA -- Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced that the latest version of Genedata Expressionist for Mass Spectrometry (MS) will be showcased at the 62nd ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics. Developed in collaboration with leading mass spectrometry labs, the [...]

Platform Transforms Proteomics Research

AB SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, today introduced the TripleTOF 6600 system with SWATH Acquisition 2.0 – the company’s revolutionary solution for quantitative proteomics. This high-resolution, accurate-mass system, combined with the new SWATH Acquisition 2.0, brings new power to proteomic data challenges for advanced biomarker discovery and systems biology. As the [...]

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