EMD Millipore Provides Disaster Relief to Typhoon Haiyan Victims
December 17, 2013
BILLERICA, Mass. -- EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA of Darmstadt, Germany, today announced it is providing product and monetary donations to assist those severely affected by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines as part of its corporate responsibility commitment to support natural disaster relief efforts. In partnership with Water Missions International, EMD [...]
Bio-Rad Offers New PrimePCR™ Disease Panels for Real-Time PCR
December 17, 2013
Hercules, CA —— Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. today announced the launch of more than 700 new PrimePCR human and mouse disease panels and 71 new pathway panels for real-time PCR (qPCR). The panels allow researchers to thoroughly and efficiently investigate genes known to be differentially expressed in a specified pathology or biological pathway. Bio-Rad now offers [...]
AirClean® Systems PowderSafe™ Type B
December 16, 2013
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
December 16, 2013
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 [...]
December 16, 2013
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
December 16, 2013
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
December 16, 2013
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
December 16, 2013
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, [...]
December 16, 2013
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
December 16, 2013
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 [...]
