Bodkin Design and Engineering Launches New Multiplex Immunoassay Platform

Newton, MA - Bodkin Design and Engineering LLC (BD&E), is an electro-optic systems and solutions research and design firm that develops innovative, cost effective optical sensing products for medical device, diagnostic, life science, and biotechnology industries. The prototype immunoassay platform was developed in collaboration with Boston University and Zoíray Technologies, Inc. The novel assay design [...]

Agilent Technologies Launches New Triple Quadrupole GC/MS

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today launched the 7000C Triple Quadrupole Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometer (GC/MS/MS). The system replaces the industry's best-selling GC/MS/MS, the 7000B, with new capabilities to enhance system performance, simplify method optimization and lower operating costs. The Agilent 7000C system integrates new ion-source technology that was introduced earlier [...]

Sartorius Stedim Biotech Signs Long-Term Syndicated Loan

Sartorius Stedim Biotech S.A. (SSB) (Paris:DIM), a leading global supplier for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, took out a long-term syndicated loan of 250 million euros for the next five years. The company signed the loan agreement with an international bank syndicate led by Commerzbank AG and Nord/LB. In addition, syndicate participants include BNP Paribas, [...]

Ardic Instruments announces a beta program for their disruptive $22,000 P100 Atomic Force Microscope

Ardic Instruments is officially launching their beta program today at SEMICON Taiwan and is calling for global AFM users to sign up. Beta program members can receive a P100 AFM at a 15% discount of the already disruptive $22,000 price. Beta program AFMs will be sent out to qualified users throughout the rest of the [...]

JPK reports on the studies of the nanomechanical properties of biomaterials at Nagoya Institute of Technology in Japan

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on how the Laboratory for Mechanobiology and Bioengineering at Nagoya Institute of Technology in Japan use the NanoWizard®3 AFM to investigate biomaterials. Professor Shinji Deguchi leads a research group at Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech). The Laboratory for [...]

Sigma Life Science Licenses CompoZr Zinc Finger Nuclease Technology to Horizon Discovery

ST. LOUIS -- Sigma-Aldrich® Corporation (Nasdaq: SIAL) today announced that Sigma® Life Science, its innovative biological products and services business, has entered a non-exclusive license agreement with Horizon Discovery for use of Sigma's CompoZr® Zinc Finger Nuclease (ZFN) technology. The agreement gives Horizon the commercial freedom to apply the technology alongside its proprietary rAAV technology [...]

AMRESCO Announces the Release of 26 New Biochemicals to Augment Their Comprehensive Line of Research Products

Solon, Ohio - As a leading manufacturer and supplier of biochemicals and innovative research reagents, AMRESCO’s ability to deliver a comprehensive array of products with guaranteed quality and value is integral to their continued success and business growth. The diversity in life science research is dependent upon access to myriad biochemicals for customized experimental conditions, [...]

Accelrys Acquires Environmental Health and Safety Leader ChemSW

SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL), a leading provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management software, today announced that it has acquired ChemSW, Inc., an Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) compliance solutions provider. This acquisition furthers Accelrys' scientific innovation lifecycle management strategy by providing solutions for managing and tracking the source, use and disposal [...]

PAC Releases Next Generation AC Analytical Controls® Reformulyzer M4

HOUSTON, TX - PAC, a leading global provider of advanced analytical instruments for laboratories and online process applications, today released the AC Analytical Controls® Reformulyzer M4 (M4), which provides fast group type analysis of gasoline and gasoline blend streams using multi-dimensional gas chromatography. "We are proud to announce the release of our next generation product, [...]

With the acquisition of BioFire, bioMérieux consolidates its position as a major player in infectious disease diagnostics

Marcy l'Etoile, France - bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, announces that it has entered into an agreement to acquire BioFire Diagnostics Inc., a privately held U.S.-based company specialized in molecular biology. BioFire invented, manufactures and commercializes its multiplex PCR FilmArray® system, a simple and rapid molecular biology solution dedicated [...]

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