ep Dualfilter TIPS® and Pipette.com’s Tips for Rainin LTS® Pipettes Now Available at Pipette.com

San Diego, CA -- With recent budget cuts in the life science community, Pipette.com continues to support the sciences by offering premium and reliable liquid handling consumables. Consumables which guarantee accurate results and prevent re-purchasing of them because they lack precise results due to product quality. Labs actively seeking to save money on pipette tips [...]

Victor Technologies Acquires Gas-Arc Group Ltd – A Leader in Gas Control Solutions

ST. LOUIS — Victor Technologies today announced it has acquired Gas-Arc Group Ltd, a privately held manufacturer of gas control equipment based in the United Kingdom, for approximately $40 million in cash, subject to post-closing adjustments. Gas-Arc's portfolio includes branded gas control products that meet specialty gas application requirements as well as cutting and welding [...]

SQI Diagnostics Announces Agreement with Isis Pharmaceuticals

TORONTO -- SQI Diagnostics Inc. (TSX-V: SQD), a life sciences and diagnostics company that develops and commercializes proprietary technologies and products for advanced microarray diagnostics (“SQI”) today announced that they have entered into a method development agreement with Isis Pharmaceuticals (Isis) to develop a multiplexed assay that will utilize SQI’s Ig_PLEX™ multiplexing immunogenicity technology. “SQI [...]

TECHNE CORPORATION DECLARES DIVIDEND

Minneapolis - Techne Corporation (NASDAQ:TECH) announced that its Board of Directors has decided to pay a dividend of $0.31 per share for the quarter ended December 31, 2013. The quarterly dividend will be payable February 28, 2014 to all common shareholders of record on February 14, 2014. Future cash dividends will be considered by the [...]

Tute Genomics Launches at 2013 ASHG Conference

Salt Lake City, UT -- Tute Genomics made their public debut last week at the 2013 American Society for Human Genetics (ASHG) conference in Boston, MA. Tute, founded in 2012, is a cloud-based, professional grade clinical genome interpretation engine that has the ability to analyze and annotate entire human genomes in a rapid and cost-effective [...]

PerkinElmer’s DairyGuard™ is the First Analyzer to Add Screening for Unknown Adulterants in Milk Powder

WALTHAM, Mass.--- PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader in improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today introduced the DairyGuard™ milk powder analyzer, a near infrared (NIR) spectrometer specifically developed for food suppliers and manufacturers. DairyGuard is the only system available that tests for unknown adulterants as well as known compounds, such as [...]

Meridian Life Science Awarded SBIR by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to Develop Rotavirus Vaccine

MEMPHIS, Tenn.---- Meridian Life Science, Inc., (MLS) of Memphis, Tennessee, a wholly-owned subsidiary ofMeridian Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIVO), has been selected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop a process for manufacture of a rotavirus vaccine. Funding for this activity will be provided through a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract. Process [...]

Arrayit Corporation Receives Contract Award From the Department of Veterans Affairs

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Arrayit Corporation (OTCBB:ARYC), a life sciences and molecular diagnostics leader, announces today a $39,590 contract award from the United States Department of Veteran Affairs (VA). The VA Healthcare System provides some of the world's finest medicine and cutting-edge technology, as well as a teaching hospital, a full range of patient care services [...]

Illumina Announces Organizational Changes and Exits PCR Market

Washington, DC 10/16/13; San Diego, CA 10/21/13—Illumina had made two announcements about its future. On its third quarter conference call, the company said it is exiting the qPCR market. The company provides the Eco qPCR instrument and NuPCR assays. “This decision was due in part to our belief that sequencing delivers advantages over qPCR technology [...]

AirClean® Systems microprocessor-controlled PCR workstations reduce risk of sample contamination during DNA/RNA amplification

CREEDMOOR, NORTH CAROLINA – AirClean® Systems microprocessor-controlled PCR workstations reduce risk of sample contamination during DNA/RNA amplification. AirClean® Systems AC600 Series PCR workstations are designed as application solutions for the manipulation and amplification of DNA and RNA. These PCR workstations are available in 24’’, 32’’, and 48’’ widths. Additional features include built-in 254 nm ultraviolet [...]

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