Refurbished Lab Equipment Sale Announced by Organomation
February 1, 2014
From: Tanya Samazan [mailto:tsamazan@strategic-directions.com] Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 3:02 PM To: Gina Ragus Subject: For IBO under Lab PRod and Sample Prep Berlin, MA-- Organomation announces a sale on a wide variety of newly refurbished laboratory evaporators and extractors in the company's official online store. The evaporator manufacturer fully stands behind the quality of [...]
January 31, 2014
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Thermo Fisher), a leading manufacturer of products used in scientific research, has agreed to sell assets to GE Healthcare to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its proposed $13.6 billion acquisition of Life Technologies Corporation (Life) would likely substantially lessen competition. The FTC complaint challenging the transaction alleges that the deal, [...]
PathoGenetix Signs Sparton to Manufacture Bacterial Identification System
January 31, 2014
WOBURN, Mass. – PathoGenetix, Inc., developer of an automated system for rapid bacterial strain typing, announced today that it has signed Sparton Corporation as the design and manufacturing partner for the RESOLUTION™ Microbial Genotyping System. Under the terms of the agreement, Sparton will conduct design for manufacture and pilot production of a limited number of [...]
Ready-to-UseLentivirus for miRNA Expression and Inhibition
January 31, 2014
AMSBIO has introduced a range of ready-to-use human and mouse lentivirus products for miRNA and anti-miRNA expression (miRNA inhibition). Lentiviral expression vectors are the most effective vehicles for delivering genetic material to almost any mammalian cell—including non-dividing cells and whole model organisms. miRNAs are endogenous non-coding RNAs that are highly conserved in mammals and that [...]
Synthesis & Evaporation In Pear Shaped Flasks
January 31, 2014
Asynt has developed a version of DrySyn heating block purpose designed to allow scientists to perform safe, productive heating and stirring experiments with pear shaped flasks commonly used with rotary evaporators. Pear shaped flasks are popular with organic chemists as concentrated samples can be removed much more easily than from a round bottom flask. Pear-shaped [...]
Commission approves General Electric as purchaser of Thermo Fisher’s divestment businesses
January 31, 2014
Brussels,The European Commission has approved today General Electric as the purchaser of Thermo Fisher's divestments businesses producing and supplying (i) media and sera for cell culture, (ii) gene silencing products, and (iii) polymer-based magnetic beads. Thermo Fisher had committed to divest these three businesses as a condition for the Commission to allow the acquisition of [...]
TECHNE ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT WITH FISHER SCIENTIFIC
January 31, 2014
Minneapolis, Minnesota - Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) today announced a three year agreement to distribute Techne's R&D Systems, Tocris, and Boston Biochem brand catalog products through the Fisher Scientific customer channel in the United States and Canada. Fisher Scientific, the premier customer channel brand within Thermo Fisher Scientific, has a leading position in the life [...]
January 31, 2014
Rockville, MD -- Stable Isotope Standards and Capture by Anti-Peptide Antibodies (SISCAPA), an approach developed by Dr. Leigh Anderson, is a novel technology that can achieve high sensitivity quantitation of proteins in clinical samples using affinity-capture SRM Mass spectrometry. One of the most desirable aspects of SISCAPA technology is that it has the potential for [...]
InSphero hires new Director of Global Marketing
January 30, 2014
Schlieren, Switzerland & Cambridge, USA -- InSphero starts 2014 with a new Director of Global Marketing: Randy Strube, Ph.D. joined the company in January 2014 to strengthen InSphero’s marketing team. With Dr. Strube, InSphero won a technically skilled and very experienced life science professional to continue its remarkable growth over the past years. Previously, Dr. [...]
Smiths Detection To Help Safeguard Teams, Staff And Visitors At Super Bowl™ XLVIII
January 30, 2014
Edgewood, Md.– Smiths Detection was awarded a contract by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to help provide security at Super Bowl™ XLVII in East Rutherford, NJ on Sunday, 2 February. Smiths Detection technologies will be featured as part of a layered security framework to help protect teams, staff, and visitors at [...]
