Cambridge, UK: TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems and consumables for life science applications, today introduced a new microplate hotel for use with its CompacT SelecT™ automated cell culture system. The new plate hotel is compatible with LiCONiC plate incubators and allows users to transfer entire stacks of plates between the [...]

INDIANAPOLIS AND EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - Synpromics, the synthetic promoter company, announces an important collaboration with Dow AgroSciences, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW), to develop Synpromics’ proprietary technology for application in plant science. An initial proof of concept project with Dow AgroSciences has commenced to demonstrate the application of Synpromics’ [...]

ALBANY, N.Y. –– SEMATECH, the global consortium of chipmakers, announced today that Bruker Nano Surfaces, a division of Bruker Corporation, has joined SEMATECH to develop new semiconductor defect characterization solutions for advanced materials development. The collaboration will generate the first-ever detailed information database that allows Bruker’s patented PeakForce QNM® mechanical force data to be correlated [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today launched new Agilent J&W gas chromatography columns designed for energy and chemical exploration, processing and distribution applications. The columns include extensions to the PLOT PT product line with aluminum oxide and molecular sieve stationary phases, as well as DB-sulfur SCD (sulfur chemiluminesence detection) columns that [...]

WINOOSKI VT, USA — BioTek’s Cytation™3 Cell Imaging Multi-Mode Reader was recently honored with the first annual New Product Innovation Award, given by MipTec organizers at the 2013 MipTec Conference & Exhibition in Basel, Switzerland. Cytation3 was one of three winning products announced at the exhibition on September 25, 2013. Cytation3 combines automated digital microscopy [...]

BILLERICA, Mass. –– RainDance Technologies, Inc today announced that it has added one-step single molecule RNA detection capabilities to its RainDrop™ Digital PCR System. The new workflow provides researchers with a simple method of counting individual RNA target molecules. Available immediately to all current and future RainDrop customers, the new capabilities are compatible with existing [...]

London, UK -- MRC Technology, a technology transfer organisation, announced today it has entered into collaboration with Renishaw Diagnostics Ltd (RDL), developer of the RenDx® multiplex assay system, to identify and design novel clinical diagnostic tests for infectious disease. The agreement will benefit from the combination of RDL’s proprietary multiplex screening technology and expertise in [...]

THOUSAND OAKS, California -- Teledyne Technologies Incorporated announced today that its subsidiary, Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc., in Huntsville, Ala., signed a memorandum of agreement with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) for DLR to develop an instrument for Teledyne's digital imaging platform, the Multi-User System for Earth Sensing (MUSES) which will be mounted on the International [...]

BELLSHILL, SCOTLAND - Link Technologies Ltd, a specialist manufacturer of oligonucleotide reagents, is launching its high-end Link+ range at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Oligonucleotide Therapeutic Society (OTS), which takes place in Naples, Italy, from 6-8 October. Manufactured to the highest available industry specification, Link+ will offer customers a collection of premium phosphoramidites to [...]

Montreal -- Canadian startup Synbiota Inc., launched today its revolutionary web based collaborative biotech development platform, bringing increased security, transparency, and efficiency to life science research. Built on cutting edge web technologies and embracing open source, Synbiota hopes to radically accelerate life science research by providing both open science, and secure research tools. A key [...]