BELLSHILL, SCOTLAND-- an ISO 9001:2008 certified specialist oligonucleotide reagent manufacturer, has invested in a comprehensive online customer support platform – the Link Help Centre (helpcentre.linktech.co.uk). Featuring three distinct components including an expansive resource knowledgebase, a ticketed technical support system and an interactive community forum, the Link Help Centre sets new standards in the industry for [...]

Frederick, MD —— Akonni Biosystems, a developer of nucleic acid extraction products that are 2-fold to 5-fold faster than industry gold standards, and low-cost mid-multiplex platforms for genetic testing, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued two patents for its novel method for amplifying nucleic acids using polymerase chain reaction (PCR). [...]

Previously supported by Mettler Toledo, the MiniBlock® product line is now manufactured and supplied by SiliCycle Inc. With this exceptional synthesis tool, combined with our unique expertise in purification, metal scavenging, catalysis and silica-supported reagents, chemists can quickly screen for optimal reaction conditions and optimize critical process parameters. The SiliCycle MiniBlock® platform enables solution phase [...]

Jena (Germany, CyBio AG, the Jena, Germany-based manufacturer for liquid handling machinery and automation solutions, has delivered a robotics system to Boehringer Ingelheim for replicating plates for its compound management activities in its Biberach location as part of a major contract. For the company, a subsidiary of Analytik Jena, the contract comprised delivery of the [...]

Franklin Lakes, NJ -– BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE:BDX), a leading global technology company, today announced the appointment of Amit Bhalla as Vice President, Global Strategy and Development. Mr. Bhalla will join BD in March, 2014 and will report to Vincent A. Forlenza, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President. “I am pleased to welcome [...]

BOSTON - Cambridge Isotope Laboratories, Inc. (CIL), the world’s leading supplier of stable isotopes and stable isotope-enriched small molecules, is working together with Nexomics Biosciences, a structural biology and protein production contract research organization, to provide isotope-labeled proteins to life science research organizations. Scientific research guided by stable-isotope-enriched protein reagents has become common place in [...]

Minneapolis -- Techne Corporation announces the appointment of James T. Hippel as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) effective April 1, 2014. Mr. Hippel is a finance executive with experience in several globally diverse technology businesses, including extensive experience with mergers, acquisitions, and operations integration. Mr. Hippel replaces Greg Melsen who resigned effective February 3, 2014 and [...]

Berwyn, PA. AMETEK, Inc. announced the appointment of Emanuela Speranza as Vice President, AMETEK Precision Instruments, Europe (APIE). She replaces Allan Imrie, who retires after 15 years with the Company. “Emanuela joins AMETEK from Danaher Corporation, bringing extensive international experience to her new position. We expect her to play a key part in the continued [...]

WILMINGTON, Mass.-- Implant Sciences Corporation (OTCQB:IMSC), a high technology supplier of systems and sensors for homeland security and defense markets, announced today it has sold 20 QS-H150 explosives trace detectors (ETD) to a construction company in Asia. The handheld QS-H150s will be used to protect construction sites, including perimeter security, for the construction company which [...]

Berwyn, PA- AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE:AME) today announced that the Board of Directors has elected Gregory J. Nelson as Vice President and General Manager, Electronic Components and Packaging within AMETEK’s Engineered Material, Interconnects and Packaging Division (EMIP). Mr. Nelson had previously served as Vice President and Business Unit Manager for the Precision and Engineered Materials business [...]