Sphere Fluidics: Expanding Executive Team for Growth of New Market Opportunity
December 10, 2013
CAMBRIDGE, England--Sphere Fluidics Limited has developed unique technology for single cell analysis and characterization and provides proprietary products and novel services for this rapidly-growing market. This enabling approach can find rare variants in large cell populations and Sphere Fluidics has patented novel Cyto-Mine™ technology that permits up to one billion assays per biochip per day. [...]
ZEISS Executive Board enlarged
December 10, 2013
Oberkochen, Germany -- The start of calendar year 2014 will see some changes to the Executive Board of Carl Zeiss AG headed by President and CEO Dr. Michael Kaschke. The enlargement of the Executive Board and the reallocation of responsibilities are aimed at driving forward the consistent positioning of ZEISS as a portfolio company in [...]
December 9, 2013
Santa Clara, California – Finesse Solutions, Inc., a manufacturer of measurement and control solutions for life sciences process applications, announced the launch of its new G3Pro Universal™ SmartControllers for upstream cell culture and fermentation. The G3Pro is designed to complement the G3Lab and simplify process scale-up using bioreactors from different vendors. These SmartControllers are designed [...]
Los Gatos Research unveils Ultraportable trace gas analyzers at AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco
December 9, 2013
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA-- Los Gatos Research, a member of the ABB Group, the leader in precision trace gas analyzers, announces a new ground-breaking ultraportable line of gas analyzers at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting. The new analyzers are designed for both environmental and industrial applications. LGR Ultraportable analyzers are small and lightweight, requiring [...]
December 9, 2013
Hamilton, a global manufacturer of process sensor technologies, has signed an agreement regarding the acquisition of the Biotech sensors business of Fogale Nanotech, a worldwide leader for biomass monitoring. This deal is set to be closed in December 2013. With this acquisition Hamilton becomes the only sensor manufacturer offering all valuable parameters for the online [...]
Artel Launches New Website with Enhanced Content and Usability
December 9, 2013
Westbrook, Maine– Artel, world leader in liquid handling quality assurance, announced today that its revamped website is now live. The site offers a comprehensive resource library of information on topics including pipette calibration, automatic liquid handling verification, tips for optimized pipetting operation, plus scientific articles and posters and case studies from Artel customers. Improved navigation [...]
Cerilliant Introduces New Antifungal Certified Spiking Solutions®
December 9, 2013
ROUND ROCK, TEXAS –– Cerilliant introduces new antifungal Certified Spiking Solutions® of fluconazole, itraconazole, voriconazole, posaconazole, 5-fluorocytosine and ketoconazole at a 2.0 mg/mL concentration. These Certified Reference Materials (CRMs) are suitable as Snap-N-Spike® starting materials in preparation of calibrators, controls, or linearity standards for LC-MS/MS testing of antifungals in therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) or other [...]
December 9, 2013
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., and MADISON, WIS. – The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences today announced a collaborative agreement with Cellular Dynamics International (CDI) to develop predictive in vitro screening assays for chemical, environmental and pharmaceutical toxicology assessments that utilize CDI’s human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell-derived hepatocytes. Current in vitro models of liver function [...]
POPULATION GENETICS LICENSES VERITAG™ PATENT TO AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES
December 9, 2013
Cambridge, UK -- Population Genetics Technologies Ltd (PGT) has exclusively licensed patent rights including US 8,481,292 covering its VeriTag™ technology to Agilent Technologies. PGT retains exclusive rights to develop and commercialize VeriTag™ for applications in human infectious disease diagnostics, and non-exclusive rights for veterinary diagnostics and plant genomic uses. VeriTag™ is a PGT proprietary technology [...]
Analytik Jena AG Appoints New Managing Director at Japanese Subsidiary
December 9, 2013
Jena, Germany — Analytik Jena AG has appointed Dr. Marco Tilgner as the new managing director of the Japanese subsidiary AJ Japan as of January 1, 2014. Mr. Tilgner, who will report in his future role to Analytik Jena Chief Executive Officer Klaus Berka, already took over responsibility for finance and administration at the subsidiary [...]

