New Collaboration with Industrial Customer Expands NPPD’s Renewable Energy Portfolio

Columbus, Nebraska – BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, and Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) announced today an agreement to purchase renewable energy credits from NextEra Energy Resources’ Steele Flats Wind Farm for the next 20 years. Energy from the recently completed 75-megawatt Steele Flats Wind Farm, located [...]

Agilent Technologies Introduces IQFISH FFPE Buffer, Enabling One-Hour Hybridization of FFPE Tissue Samples

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced the IQFISH FFPE Hybridization buffer, which enables one-hour hybridization for FISH processing on formalin fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) tissue samples. The IQ technology, originally developed by Dako, was previously available only to anatomic pathology labs. Now, with the IQFISH FFPE Hybridization buffer offered as [...]

Agilent Technologies Joins Forces with Baylor College of Medicine to Provide Customized CGH Microarrays for Cancer, Prenatal and Postnatal Research

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) has announced it is collaborating with Baylor College of Medicine's Medical Genetics Laboratories to provide customized CGH (comparative genomics hybridization) microarrays to researchers worldwide. Six new microarray designs unite the power of Baylor's data-rich expertise in genetics research with Agilent's microarray manufacturing capabilities to enable advanced [...]

Applied Nanotech Receives $400K Contract from California Citrus Research Board

Austin, Texas -- Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. (OTC QB: APNT) announced that it has received a contract from the California Citrus Research Board (CRB), worth approximately $400,000, that will fund increased instrument development and testing for HLB disease and other pathogens in citrus trees, with a focus on early detection. The contract is a Year [...]

Compact All-In-One Multiple Format Mixer

Operated via an intuitive touchscreen the Co-Mix offers effortless changing between mixing of 96- and 384-well microplates in skirted, semi-skirted and unskirted variants plus deep-well plates and PCR tubes / strips. An innovative plate holding mechanism ensures smooth manipulation of microplates eliminating sample spillage and cross-contamination problems. A vortex module enables mixing of numerous tube [...]

SeraCare Life Sciences Introduces IVD Labeled ACCURUN Controls for Women’s Health

MILFORD, Mass. -- SeraCare Life Sciences, a manufacturer of life sciences tools, bulk plasma, and quality controls for diagnostic companies and clinical laboratories, announced availability of IVD labeled ACCURUN® controls for Women's Health. These Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) and Chlamydia trachomatis/Neisseria gonorrhea (Ct/Ng) offerings are cellular-based independent controls used by clinical laboratories to challenge their [...]

ZEISS grants license for LED fluorescence excitation to Lumencor, Inc.

Jena/GERMANY, Beaverton/USA -- ZEISS has granted a license for patents relating to LED fluorescence excitation in microscopy to Lumencor, Inc., Beaverton, USA. These patents protect the use of light emitting diodes for the excitation of fluorescence radiation in light microscopes. The property rights, which are valid in the USA and Canada, were acquired by ZEISS [...]

Advanced Photonix, Inc. Reports 35% Increase in Second Quarter Revenues

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Advanced Photonix® (NYSE MKT: API) (the Company, we, us or our) today reported improved results for the second quarter ended September 27, 2013. Financial Highlights for the Second Quarter Ended September 27, 2013 • Net sales for the quarter were $7.5 million, an increase of $2.0 million or 35% from the [...]

Cerno Bioscience Announces Most Significant Upgrade of MassWorks™ Software Product

Norwalk, CT. – Cerno Bioscience has today announced a new version of its flagship MassWorks software product. More than any previous improvements and enhancements, the new Version 4 adds DirectRead™ data support for three high resolution MS systems: Thermo Orbitrap or FT ICR MS, Agilent TOF, and Waters TOF, while expanding unit mass resolution direct [...]

New Serological Pipettor Improves Liquid Handling Productivity

Building upon over 30 years of unmatched quality and hundreds of thousands of instruments in use worldwide - INTEGRA announces the launch of the new PIPETBOY acu 2 serological pipettor. The second generation of PIPETBOY acu is equipped with the latest technology providing a significant increase in pipetting speed and a sizeable weight reduction making [...]

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