From Macroscopic Scale to Tiniest Detail – Tailor-Made Cleanliness Analysis
August 26, 2013
Wetzlar, Germany – Leica Microsystems’ software module Leica Application Suite (LAS) Cleanliness Expert is now available for a broader range of microscopes. More users with a wider range of requirements will benefit from the precise measurements this tool offers to the industrial sector. Leica Cleanliness Expert performs cleanliness analysis and measurements of residual dirt as [...]
August 26, 2013
The waveScan USB is a distinctive spectrometer providing high spectral resolution over a total wavelength range from 200 nm ... 2600 nm. Its features make the waveScan USB a very useful tool for spectral analysis of laser systems and in applications where a wide spectral range as well as good spectral resolution is essential. The [...]
August 26, 2013
Shimadzu has launched the GC/MS Metabolite Database Ver. 2, which supports metabolomic analysis (metabolomics) using a Shimadzu Triple Quadrupole Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer (GC/MS/MS) or Quadrupole Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer (GC/MS). It is based on joint research with the Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Kobe University School of Medicine, and Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences [...]
Emory Genetics Laboratory offers new non-invasive prenatal test
August 26, 2013
Emory Genetics Laboratory, through a partnership with Verinata Health, an Illumina company, will begin providing the verifi® prenatal test for patients desiring non-invasive prenatal testing. All pregnant women within the Emory Genetics Laboratory network determined to be high-risk by their physicians will be offered the option of the verifi prenatal test. The verifi prenatal test [...]
Agilent Technologies Launches New AssayMAP Peptide Sample-Prep Solution
August 26, 2013
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the launch of its new AssayMAP peptide sample-prep solution, which offers automated protein digestion, peptide cleanup and fractionation in preparation for mass-spectrometry analysis. As more scientists adopt LC/MS analysis for biomarker discovery, the bottleneck shifts to sample preparation. As these types of studies involve much larger numbers of [...]
Life Technologies Expands Food Testing Portfolio to Global Brewing and Beverage Industry
August 26, 2013
CARLSBAD, Calif., -- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced the expansion of its food safety portfolio by partnering with PIKA Weihenstephan to provide molecular testing solutions for the detection of spoilage organisms in the brewing and beverage market. Life Technologies is now the only supplier to provide both enrichment media and PCR kits designed [...]
August 26, 2013
Vienna, Europe, -- and CeMM, the Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, today announced that they are making available their large collection of human cell lines that are deficient for single genes, which they have been building over the past three years as part of a public The partnership, through Haplogen, [...]
SQI Diagnostics Reports Third Quarter Financial Results
August 26, 2013
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, today announced its financial and operational results for the third quarter-ended June 30, 2013. Highlights of Commercial Progress During the quarter the company executed two master services agreements with two [...]
Roche introduces the first globally-available HbA1c test for diagnosing diabetes
August 26, 2013
Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) today announced the worldwide commercial availability of the Tina-quant HbA1cDx Gen.2 laboratory test, which aids healthcare professionals in diagnosing and monitoring diabetes in addition to identifying at-risk patients. Thanks to this new test, which will be commercially available in the third quarter of 2013 as part of the COBAS [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Announces STEM Scholarship Program
August 26, 2013
The company has established a competitive program to provide financial assistance to students who are pursuing an undergraduate degree or equivalent in a STEM field (science, technology, engineering and math) at five premier institutions globally: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of Wisconsin-Madison; University of California-Berkeley; Imperial College London and Fudan University in Shanghai. These schools [...]

