Silicon Kinetics® Ramps Commercial Efforts for Affinity Capture-Mass-Spectrometry (AC-MS)

San Diego, CA -- Silicon Kinetics Inc. (SKI®), the innovative proteomics tool company which introduced the world’s first 3D biosensor surface for label-free biomolecular interaction analysis and more recently the first to apply this to In-Line AC-MS, announced that Jay Smith has been appointed CEO. Jay was previously COO at Plexera LLC, VP of Sales [...]

Enthought Canopy Helps FEI Revolutionize Transmission Electron Microscopy

Austin, TX -- Enthought Inc. is pleased to announce that FEI (Nasdaq: FEIC), a leading global supplier of scientific instruments for nanoscale applications and solutions for industry and science, has launched its new Velox™ software product line developed jointly with Enthought and based on Enthought’s Canopy® scientific computing platform. The Canopy platform provides FEI with [...]

Quattroflow™ Single-Use Quaternary Diaphragm Pumps Help Optimize Radial Flow Chromatography In Biopharm Applications

Kamp-Lintfort, Germany — Quattroflow™, a leading brand of positive displacement quaternary diaphragm pumps, is offering a full line of single-use quaternary diaphragm pumps that make them ideal for incorporation into Radial Flow Chromatography (RFC) systems that are used to adsorb and purify Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) during the “downstream” stage of biopharmaceutical production. Typical chromatography-column [...]

Leica Microsystems Offers More Accessories, Tipps and Tricks Around Their Digital Microscope System Without Eyepieces

Heerbrugg, Switzerland. After launching the Leica DMS300, a digital microscope system without eyepieces, in March 2013, Leica Microsystems now adds to its accessories and gives more hands-on advice. The Leica DMS300 is now available with an incident light base in addition to a boom stand outfit, so users now have a choice of two bases [...]

Cole-Parmer Introduces Electrothermal Electromantle Extraction Heaters and Heater/Stirrers

Vernon Hills, IL -- A versatile choice for organic chemists and lab technicians, this multi-position mantle can be used for distillation and extraction. The Electrothermal Electromantle Extraction Heaters and Heater/Stirrers from Cole-Parmer offer a unique vented airflow which ensures that the case remains cool to the touch. Users can stir or heat solutions simultaneously in [...]

Bruker Announces Acquisition of Prairie Technologies

BILLERICA, Mass. -- Bruker Corporation today announced that it has acquired Prairie Technologies, Inc. (Prairie), a provider of life science fluorescence microscopy products. The acquisition strengthens Bruker’s position in life science markets, adding to the Bruker Nano Surfaces Division’s existing life science atomic force microscopy (Bio-AFM) systems. Headquartered near Madison, Wisconsin, privately-held Prairie pioneered the [...]

Meso Scale Discovery Launches V-PLEX™ Multiplex Biomarker Immunoassays

Rockville, MD -- There is a significant unmet need for accurate and precise biomarker tests for clinical trials, drug development and medical research. V-PLEX simultaneously measures multiple biomarkers using assays that are grouped into panels for optimal and consistent performance. The V-PLEX immunoassay menu focuses on emerging biomarkers that are generally not available on traditional [...]

TerraSep Achieves First Data from Centrifugal Liquid Chromatography Separation Process

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- In the first formal laboratory test of its process separation technology, TerraSep LLC has confirmed that its multi-column Preparative/Process scale Centrifugal Liquid Chromatograph (P-CLC) achieved a level of separation efficiency that is orders of magnitude higher than current industry standard processes. “This demonstration of the TerraSep system's efficiency in identifying and separating [...]

SeaChange releases SEAware™, software for predictive matching of drugs with disease and toxicity targets

San Francisco — SeaChange Pharmaceuticals Inc., a privately held platform and products pharmaceuticals company, is pleased to announce the immediate availability of SEAware™, its proprietary Similarity Ensemble Approach (SEA) software, that allows analysis and visualization tools for prediction of drug and other small molecule activity and toxicity against biological targets. Three levels of software are [...]

Natera Partners With LifeLabs Medical Laboratory Services to Distribute Non-Invasive Prenatal Test Panorama(TM) in Canada

SAN CARLOS, CALIFORNIA and TORONTO, ONTARIO -- Natera, a leading innovator in prenatal genetic testing, and LifeLabs Medical Laboratory Services (LifeLabs), a Canadian company with over 50 years' experience in laboratory testing and management, today announced a distribution partnership for Natera's non-invasive prenatal screening test, Panorama(TM). Panorama was launched in March 2013 for the detection [...]

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