Salem, NH-- ALPCO has launched their new STELLUX™ Chemiluminescent Human Intact Proinsulin ELISA, the latest assay to be launched in the company’s STELLUX™ Chemiluminescent product line. The new Human Intact Proinsulin ELISA features a broad dynamic range (5-3,000 pg/mL) which is ideal for measuring normal to pre-diabetic samples. The assay also boasts a superior sensitivity [...]

WILMINGTON, MA - Morpho (Safran), through its subsidiary Morpho Detection, today announced that Air Canada has deployed Morpho's Itemiser® DX desktop explosives trace detector (ETD) to screen air cargo. Under terms of the contract, Itemiser DX was deployed at Air Canada cargo locations to replace legacy systems and maintain compliance with enhanced U.S. Transportation Security [...]

SALT LAKE CITY --BioFire Diagnostics, LLC today announced that it has submitted the FilmArray Gastrointestinal (GI) Panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for 510(k) clearance. The comprehensive FilmArray GI Panel tests for over 20 common bacteria, viruses and parasites that cause infectious diarrhea. The submission of the FilmArray GI Panel comes after [...]

Center Valley, PA (USA) – Avantor™ Performance Materials, a global manufacturer and supplier of high-performance chemistries, announces the appointment of Jean-Paul Mangeolle to its Board of Directors. Mangeolle’s extensive experience includes a long career with Millipore, a global supplier of materials for the life science industry. Mangeolle served in various executive leadership roles within Millipore [...]

Nechatel, Switzerland--NanoWorld AG today announced the official commercialization of six types of Ultra-Short Cantilevers (USC) dedicated for use in High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy (HS-AFM). High Speed Atomic Force Microscopy is a quickly evolving technique within the field of Scanning Probe Microscopy that enables the users of dedicated instruments and AFM probes to visualize dynamic processes [...]

CINCINNATI-- Bioline, The PCR Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Meridian Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIVO), announces that it has entered the rapidly growing Epigenetics field, with the launch of the first kits in the new EPIK™ product range; EPIK™ Fast Quantification Kit and EPIK™ Amplification Kit. These EPIKTM Kits have been developed to meet the needs of [...]

ST. LOUIS-- Sigma-Aldrich® Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL) today announced the appointment of Darryl Goss as President of SAFC® Hitech (www.sigmaaldrich.com/safchitech), its high-technology custom manufacturing services business unit. As a vertically integrated supplier of critical on-wafer materials to the microelectronics material space, the new appointment reinforces the Company's commitment to drive new products into industry applications. "Darryl [...]

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the current cancer research project of Dr Florian T. Ludwig at the Institute of Physiology II, University Hospital Münster, who uses a CellHesion® 200 to measure the adhesive forces between tumor cells. The Institute of Physiology II [...]

Worcester, Mass.–– Eppendorf, a global life science products company, has signed a three-year partnership agreement with the Biomanufacturing Education and Training Center (BETC) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Under the agreement, Eppendorf will supply three of its New Brunswick bench-scale bioreactors, a CEPA continuous-flow centrifuge, a New Brunswick CO2 Incubator, and other equipment for use [...]

ST. LOUIS, Mo. and LEXINGTON, Mass. – Appistry, a leading provider of high-performance computing and analytics solutions for next-generation medicine, and N-of-One, the leading provider of molecular interpretation and therapeutic strategies for personalized medicine in cancer care, today announced a partnership to jointly provide genetic sequencing data analysis and molecular interpretation services. This partnership will [...]