Markes International GmbH opens in Frankfurt, Germany

Markes International (Llantrisant, UK) has announced that its worldwide thermal desorption and mass spectrometry business is set to expand into Germany. The German Technical Centre (Markes International GmbH) is located in Neu-Isenburg near Frankfurt and features a state-of-the-art laboratory for customer demonstrations and the development of new analytical procedures. There is also a conference room [...]

AXT to Distribute TTP Labtech Life Science Products in Australia and New Zealand

Sydney, Australia - AXT, Australia’s leading supplier of analytical and sample preparation equipment is pleased to announce that they have recently become the exclusive Australian and New Zealand agents for TTP Labtech’s life science product range. TTP Labtech, based in the UK have developed a strong reputation as an innovative developer and manufacturer of products [...]

Olympus 40x Silicone Oil Objective Offers Brighter, High-Resolution Live Cell and Time-Lapse Imaging; Works with Continuous Autofocus

CENTER VALLEY, Pa. – Olympus has introduced a 40x silicone oil microscope objective, its latest innovation in silicone immersion microscope optics. The new objective fills out the company’s full line of silicone oil optics, which already includes popular 30x and 60x objectives designed for live cell and time-lapse imaging. Olympus silicone oil objectives can markedly [...]

RFID Tag-Enabled Calibration Delivers Pipetting Precision

Oakland, California -- To support the pipette management efforts of researchers working in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries worldwide, METTLER TOLEDO has embedded RFID tags in all of its premium Rainin air displacement pipettes - including its recently-released E4 XLS electronic model. This addition helps labs establish advanced calibration schedules through heightened pipette tracking capabilities [...]

Ariosa Diagnostics and Fleury Group Announce Offering of the Highly Accurate Harmony™ Prenatal Test in Brazil to Assess Risk for Chromosome Conditions in Singleton and Twin Pregnancies

Sao Paulo, Brazil – Ariosa Diagnostics announced today that it has launched an important partnership with Fleury Medicina e Saúde (Fleury Group) to offer the Harmony™ Prenatal Test to obstetric healthcare providers throughout Brazil, a country with an annual birth rate of 2.99 million. With over 3,000 clinical laboratories and hospitals throughout the country, the [...]

Nanion Introduces New Product Family: CardioExcyte 96 for Cardiac Toxicity Profiling and Screening

Munich, Germany - The CardioExcyte 96 is a high resolution device recording contractility in intact cardiomyocyte networks utilizing non-invasive impedance measurements. The system allows cost-efficient, early compound safety profiling using stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes, freshly dissociated cardiomyocytes or beating 3D-cell clusters. Cardiac safety assessment is a vital part of drug development since late withdrawals of compound [...]

Labome: The Gateway to the Perfect Antibody — Labome Antibody Review Database Has Now Reached 10,000 Peer-Reviewed Formal Publications

Princeton, NJ -- Antibodies are an essential part of the laboratory toolkit, but their quality and applicability are highly variable. Identifying the best antibody for an experiment is critical for maximizing the chances of getting good results first time round, saving both time and money. But deciding which antibody to use on important samples can [...]

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 [...]

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