ALPCO Launches STELLUX™ Chemiluminescent Human Insulin ELISA

Salem, NH -- ALPCO has released their new STELLUX™ Chemiluminescent Human Insulin ELISA, the second assay to be launched in the company’s chemiluminescent product line. Holding true to ALPCO’s ’s goal for the STELLUX™ line, this new ELISA provides superior sensitivity at 2 pg/mL across a wide dynamic range of 5 – 30,000 pg/mL, with [...]

Bio-Rad Launches New TGX™ FastCast™ and TGX Stain-Free™ FastCast™ Acrylamide Kits for Gel Electrophoresis

Hercules, CA — Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. today announced the launch of its TGX FastCast acrylamide and TGX Stain-Free FastCast acrylamide kits, which provide handcast gel users access to Bio-Rad’s TGX gel chemistry, previously available only in precast gels. The TGX FastCast kits allow users to hand cast polyacrylamide gels with fast run times, efficient protein [...]

Advanced Photonix Announces Sale of T-Gauge® System into the Aircraft Industry for Nondestructive Testing and Quality Control

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Advanced Photonix® (NYSE MKT: API), announced today that it has sold the first T-Gauge® 5000 system to a Fortune 500 aircraft component manufacturer. The T-Gauge® 5000 system will be used as an off-line nondestructive quality control instrument to provide inspection of components prior to assembly. The first system is planned to [...]

Agilent Technologies Names Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary as Certified Service Provider for Next-Generation Sequencing and aCGH Solutions

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, has been authorized as a Certified Service Provider of Agilent's next-generation target enrichment and microarray-based comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) solutions. MEEI is home to the medical school's Department of Ophthalmology Ocular [...]

Smiths Detection Partners In Study To Find Toxic Risks To Firefighters

Edgewood, Maryland –– Smiths Detection has provided services and equipment to support a joint research health study conductedby Utah Valley University Emergency Services Department and the Fire Smoke Coalition. The study is examining if residue left on firefighters’ personal protective equipment after fighting fires poses a health risk. Results are planned to be released later [...]

Cartagenia Announces more than 120 Labs and Clinics Globally Now Relying on Its Bench Platform for Routine Genetic Testing and Variant Sharing

Boston/Leuven — Cartagenia, the world leader in providing genetic labs and clinicians with software-based workflow support for variant assessment, lab reporting, and integration of diagnostic knowledge-bases, today announced that more than 120 labs and clinics across three continents have now adopted and are relying on its Bench platform genetics diagnostics solution for use in daily [...]

Smiths Detection Management Change

Smiths Group plc today announces that Mal Maginnis, President of Smiths Detection, has decided to step down for personal reasons so that he can relocate back to Singapore and pursue other interests. He will be leaving the Group after a suitable transition period. The process to appoint a permanent replacement is underway. In the interim, [...]

Leica TCS SP8 STED 3X ? fast and direct 3D super-resolution

Mannheim, Germany. Leica Microsystems continues to extend the capabilities of confocal super-resolution with its new STED platform Leica TCS SP8 STED 3X. The first presentation to the public will be at the annual meetings of the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego, USA, and of the American Society for Cell Biology in New Orleans, USA, [...]

Major Food Ingredients Firm Chr. Hansen Installs TAP’s Automated Vial Processing System To Meet Increasing Demand for its High Quality Bacterial Starter Cultures

Cambridge, UK -- TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture and fermentation systems and consumables for life science applications, is delighted to announce its Fill-It™; automated benchtop vial filling system has been installed at Chr. Hansen, a global bioscience company that develops natural ingredients for the food and nutritional industries. The system, which [...]

Life Technologies Awards Digital PCR Innovation Grants to Five Research Labs

CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced five Innovation Grant recipients in the Digital PCR Applications Grant Program during the American Society for Human Genetics (ASHG) conference in Boston. Each will receive a QuantStudio 3D Digital PCR System for research projects that demonstrated innovative applications in digital PCR. Scientists from research labs [...]

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