Tiger Optics Hails Selections Of Crds For New Industry Standard
August 20, 2013
Warrington, PA – As laser-based methods achieve greater acceptance, they are replacing incumbent methods as standards in a host of industries. Tiger Optics LLC today said it was honored to participate in the process tied to the revision of a key semiconductor industry standard for monitoring moisture dry-down characteristics of gas delivery systems. The new [...]
Biodesix Receives Patent for System That Validates Mass Spectrometer Performance
August 20, 2013
BOULDER, Colo.-- Biodesix, Inc., a fully integrated molecular diagnostic company dedicated to personalizing medicine, today announced that the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has granted the company a patent for a new method and system of validating the performance of matrix-assisted, laser desorption ionization-time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometer machines. Mass spectrometry is central to the proprietary [...]
CU professor to use new mobile technology to test for agricultural pathogens in Africa
August 20, 2013
A University of Colorado Boulder faculty member will travel to Africa later this month to test a mobile smartphone technology developed by his team to rapidly detect and track natural carcinogens, including aflatoxin, which is estimated to contaminate up to 25 percent of the global food supply and cause severe illnesses in humans and animals. [...]
Highly Affordable Lab Safety Shield
August 20, 2013
Asynt's Lab Safety Shield has been designed to neatly fit around popular brands of stirrer hotplate to provide protection for chemists from draughts, splashes, aerosols and spills. Ideal for use where fumehood space is at a premium, the compact and highly affordable Asynt Lab Safety Shield provides additional protection to chemists undertaking applications such as [...]
PendoTECH Launches New In-line Single Use Conductivity Sensors for Critical Bioprocess Operations
August 20, 2013
PRINCETON, N.J., -- Princeton, NJ - There is an increasing trend in the biopharmaceutical manufacturing industry toward the use of disposables (e.g., flexible tubing and disposable bioprocess containers) in both clinical and commercial production to about the 1,000L process scale. PendoTECH is launching its line of Single Use Conductivity Sensors (patent pending) to compliment the [...]
August 20, 2013
PORTAGE, Mich.-- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that its Thermo Scientific ImmunoCAP Peanut Component Tests are now available through Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), the world’s leading provider of diagnostic information services. Quest Diagnostics is the first national diagnostic information services provider to broadly offer diagnostic services based on [...]
Raman-AFM: Agreement between HORIBA Scientific with AIST-NT.
August 20, 2013
HORIBA Jobin Yvon S.A.S. (Palaiseau, France), operating worldwide under the name of HORIBA Scientific, is pleased to announce its recent agreement with AIST-NT (Novato, CA, USA) to distribute their Scanning Probe Microscope (SPM) product line in most of Europe, China and South America. AIST-NT is a manufacturer of advanced SPM systems designed specifically for integration [...]
Integrated DNA Technologies Enhances its qPCR Probe Portfolio
August 20, 2013
CORALVILLE, IA –– Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), the world leader in oligonucleotide synthesis, has further expanded its portfolio of PrimeTime® qPCR products with the launch of two new probes. The PrimeTime Eco Probe and PrimeTime Mini LNA Probe complete the existing offering, providing new options for customers performing gene expression and genotyping experiments. Developed to [...]
August 19, 2013
Uppsala, Sweden, – GE Healthcare Life Sciences today announced a joint program with Osaka University to offer students access to GE Healthcare’s cutting-edge expertise in training and technologies for biopharmaceutical research and manufacturing, to help support future growth of the sector in Japan. The program, Interdisciplinary Program for Biomedical Sciences (IPBS), is Osaka University’s government-funded [...]
Illumina Launches New Reagent Kits for the MiSeq® System
August 19, 2013
SAN DIEGO -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced the availability of its newest reagent kits for the MiSeq, the industry's most accurate and easiest-to-use benchtop sequencer. The improved chemistry doubles sequencing output to 15 gigabases (Gb) by increasing the number of sequencing reads (up to 25 million reads) and overall read length (up to 2x300 [...]
