Horizon Discovery Signs Supply and Distribution Agreement with Sirion Biotech GmbH
February 17, 2014
CAMBRIDGE, England -- Horizon Discovery™ (Horizon), a leading provider of research tools to support translational genomics and the development of personalized medicines, today announced it has signed a supply and distribution agreement with Sirion Biotech GmbH (Sirion). Under the terms of the agreement Horizon’s customers can now access Sirion’s highly efficient RNAiONE custom shRNA development [...]
Australia’s Genea Biocells becomes the world’s largest provider of human embryonic stem cells
February 16, 2014
SYDNEY -- Australian stem cell company Genea Biocells is now the world’s largest provider of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines on the USA National Institutes of Health (NIH) Stem Cell Registry. The approval of 52 of Genea’s hESC lines provides academic and commercial researchers with innovative cellular tools to drive the discovery of new [...]
NEW Chilling Incubators – Vibration Free Ideal for Protein Crystallography
February 15, 2014
Carlsbad , CA … Torrey Pines Scientific announces NEW Larger EchoTherm™ vibration free bench top chilling incubators that are ideal for protein crystallography and other life science laboratory uses. The incubators are 100 liter capacity and are Peltier-based for heating and chilling. They have no compressors or CFC’s and are vibration-free making them ideal for [...]
New Study Reinforces Major Advantages of Dako’s HER2 IQFISH pharmDx™ in Breast Cancer Diagnostics
February 14, 2014
GLOSTRUP, Denmark --Dako, an Agilent Technologies company and worldwide provider of cancer diagnostics, today announced positive findings in an independent French multicenter study on the performance of Dako's HER2 IQFISH pharmDx™. The Toulouse, France, breast cancer group led by Magali Lacroix-Triki, has published a peer-reviewed publication in the Journal of Histopathology(1) that supports the use [...]
SCIENTIFIC DIGITAL IMAGING PLC ACQUISITION OF OPUS INSTRUMENTS
February 14, 2014
The Board of Scientific Digital Imaging plc, the AIM quoted group focused on the application of digital imaging technology to the needs of the scientific community, announces the acquisition of Opus Instruments Limited ("Opus") from its founder shareholders for consideration of up to £1,325,000 payable in cash and shares. Opus is the manufacturer of the [...]
February 14, 2014
Geneva, Switzerland--Andrew Alliance releases Andrew Assistant 2014, the free general purpose software for liquid handling protocol design. Just one year ago Andrew Alliance launched Andrew, the anthropomorphic liquid handling robot that manipulates a complete set of manual pipettes, unattended (see video). In the meanwhile, Andrew has received the New Product Award at SLAS2013 and MIPTEC2013, [...]
DR. MICHAEL JOST APPOINTED AS NEW SR. VICE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER FOR MTS TEST
February 14, 2014
Eden Prairie, Minn. –- MTS Systems Corporation (NASDAQ: MTSC), a leading global supplier of high-precision test systems and position sensors, today reported that Dr. Michael (Mike) Jost has been appointed as the new Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Test business. He will be based in Eden Prairie and will assume his new [...]
BD Onclarity™ HPV Assay on the BD Viper™ LT System Achieves CE-IVD Mark
February 14, 2014
Baltimore, MD -– BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, announced today that the company has achieved CE/IVD marking for the BD OnclarityTM HPV Assay on the new BD ViperTM LT System. The BD Onclarity HPV Assay targets E6/E7 DNA oncogenes and is designed to provide [...]
ACQUISITION OF OPUS INSTRUMENTS
February 14, 2014
The Board of Scientific Digital Imaging plc, the AIM quoted group focused on the application of digital imaging technology to the needs of the scientific community, announces the acquisition of Opus Instruments Limited ("Opus") from its founder shareholders for consideration of up to £1,325,000 payable in cash and shares. Opus is the manufacturer of the [...]
February 14, 2014
Atlanta, GA--Adrian Treverton COO of Xstrahl Life Sciences commented, “We are pleased to carry the market leading PET/CT systems in our product portfolio. Sedecal devices complement our SARRP irradiation platform that can deliver pinpoint radiation beams to orthotopic tumor models. Working with Sedecal allows us to not only make this pioneering imaging technology available to [...]

