AUSTIN, Texas-- 1st Detect Corporation, a subsidiary of Astrotech Corporation (Nasdaq:ASTC), announced today that the United States Patent Office ("USPTO") has allowed the issuance of a key patent for the company's unique ion trap used for chemical analysis and detection. "We are extremely pleased that the USPTO has allowed this patent. This patent is an [...]

CARLSBAD, Calif.– Life Technologies Corporation today announced that the company has expanded their GeneArt® Algae Engineering portfolio. The new kits contain features requested by algae biologists and are designed to make work with algae simpler and faster. The GeneArt® kits represent the first commercially available genetic modification and expression systems for photosynthetic microalgae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii [...]

BILLERICA, Mass. - Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) today announced that it has launched the ContourSP large panel metrology system, which more than doubles the measurement throughput of the high-density interconnect (HDI) substrates in multi-chip modules (MCM) over previous generation SP models used by the semiconductor packaging industry. Specifically designed to measure each layer of the [...]

NORCROSS, GA-- RayBiotech, Inc. ("RBI") today announced that it has executed a formal master services and supply agreement with the Proteomics and Metabolomics Core Facility of Colorado State University in Fort Collin, Colorado. Under the terms of the agreement, RayBiotech will provide biomarker discovery and characterization services and products to Colorado State University researchers located [...]

SAN DIEGO-- Calbiotech is proud to announce it recently expanded its holdings by acquiring Moduline Systems, a microplate-dispensing and vial-filling equipment manufacturer. Moduline Systems will become a business unit of Calbiotech, which made the acquisition in an effort to grow the business and expand product offerings. Calbiotech custom-develops and manufactures immunoassay products used by major [...]

Basel, Switzerland -- Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, announced release 8.0 of Genedata Expressionist® for Mass Spectrometry, which provides a single platform for the integrated analysis of metabolomics data. To explore the vast chemical space of the metabolome, researchers use a variety of mass spectrometers, [...]

ST. LOUIS, MO –– Certara™, a leading provider of software and scientific consulting services to improve productivity and decision-making from drug discovery through drug development, today announced that it has partnered with LabLogic Systems to integrate Certara’s Phoenix® WinNonlin® pharmacokinetic (PK)/pharmacodynamic (PD) modeling and non-compartmental analysis product with LabLogic’s Debra™ Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). [...]

Hercules, CA —— Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. today announced the release of its PrimePCR assays for Droplet Digital PCR systems. This release expands Bio-Rad's current offering by an additional 46 mutation detection assays and 323 copy number assays. In addition, the existing set of gene expression qPCR primer-only assays can now be used with the recently [...]

SAN DIEGO and SAINT-OUEN-L'AUMONE, France-- Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM), a life sciences company providing innovative testing and genetic analysis solutions, announced that Laboratoire Cerba has launched its validated noninvasive prenatal test (NIPT) to health care providers and their patients in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and portions of the Middle East and Africa. Laboratoire Cerba's test utilizes [...]

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has just initiated a project, '3D nanoSIMS - world beating label-free molecular imaging', which could revolutionise medicines research. Working with major pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, the project team is designing an instrument which could go beyond the micrometere resolution imaging currently available, by developing a 3D label-free molecular imaging system with [...]