AirClean® Systems PowderSafe™ Type B

CREEDMOOR, NORTH CAROLINA – AirClean® Systems PowderSafe™ Type B Enclosures usher in a new era of powder weighing and containment technology. PowderSafe™ Type B enclosures provide a controlled negative pressure HEPA-filtered environment for professionals to work with and weigh powders. PowderSafe™ Type B is fabricated with polypropylene, which is a chemically resistant, high mass polymer. [...]

Grace Announces Additional Patent Granted for Flash Chromatography Technology

Columbia, MD – -W. R. Grace & Co. (NYSE: GRA) announced today that the Australian Patent Office has granted a patent related to the company’s REVELERIS® flash chromatography system. The patent concerns the use of Evaporative Light Scattering Detection (ELSD) with flash chromatography, which is a key component of the REVELERIS® flash chromatography system. The [...]

Huntsman Cancer Institute Discovery Translates into Clinical, FDA-Cleared Breast Cancer Test at ARUP Laboratories

SALT LAKE CITY—The PAM50 breast cancer signature developed at the University of Utah and Huntsman Cancer Institute received FDA approval and will launch at ARUP Laboratories in Salt Lake City. The test utilizes gene expression data from 50 genes weighted together with clinical variables to generate a risk category and numerical score to assess a [...]

Life Technologies’ Food Pathogen Detection Methods Gains Approval by Australian Government

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Life Technologies Corporation ( https://www.lifetech.com )(NASDAQ:LIFE) today announced that its MicroSEQ(R) Real-Time PCR workflow was officially approved by the Australian Government, Department of Agriculture as an Approved Test Method to detect pathogens in export meat and meat products. Australia is a major exporter of food and the second largest exporter of beef [...]

Bruker Introduces High-Performance Opterra™ Multipoint Scanning Confocal Microscope

NEW ORLEANS -- Today at the 2013 American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting, Bruker (NASDAQ: BRKR) introduced the Opterra Multipoint Scanning Confocal Microscope, which sets a new standard for integration of confocal imaging with photoactivation. The new Opterra microscope utilizes a number of innovative features to obtain the speed of wide-field imaging and the [...]

Agilent Technologies Introduces New Software to Optimize Chemometric Profiling Workflows

SANTA CLARA, Calif.Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced MassHunter Profinder software designed for batch processing of complex mass spectrometric data. The latest member of the MassHunter software family, MassHunter Profinder transforms chemometric peak-finding workflows with enhanced batch processing, robust re-mining and alignment capabilities. "Using Agilent's MassHunter Profinder in our untargeted metabolomics and proteomics experiments, [...]

Cham Sciences’ ROSA Quantitative Aflatoxin Grain XR Test Utilizing WET (Water Extraction Technology), Receives USDA-GIPSA Approval

Lawrence, MA –– Charm’s ROSA WET XR Aflatoxin Quantitative test for feed and grain receives GIPSA approval for the detection of 0 to 100 ppb aflatoxin in a single 5 minute assay. WET (Water Extraction Technology) eliminates the use of organic solvents such as ethanol and methanol through the use of a non-hazardous extraction powder [...]

Operator Protection during laboratory manipulation of chemicals

Since 1959, Mystaire® has designed, developed and manufactured exposure control equipment for operator safety. The Mystaire® FE-2620 ductless economy chemical workstation provides a high level of operator protection while performing routine laboratory manipulations with liquid chemicals or powders. By incorporating the economy chemical workstation into your laboratory, you eliminate excessive installation costs and allow for [...]

Genovis was granted SEK 1 million in research support from VINNOVA

Genovis has been granted SEK 1 million in research support from VINNOVA (the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems) to explore a method for online process control in conjunction with manufacturing of the biological drug, mAbCHECK. The project, which is being carried out in collaboration with CapSenze, runs until 2016. Pharmaceutical companies have a constant need [...]

EMSL Makes the Decision to Implement the bioMérieux VITEK®MS

St. Louis, Missouri. BioMérieux,Inca world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, is pleased to announce that EMSL Analytical, a leader in microbiology testing specializing in rapid pathogen detection is adopting the company’s VITEK® MS technology for rapid identification of potentially harmful microorganisms. VITEK MS, uses MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry technology to identify bacteria, yeast, [...]

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