Bel-Art Products’ New Vacuum Desiccator Holds Vacuum for 72 Hours

Wayne, NJ - A family of vacuum desiccators that hold a 29in.-Hg vacuum for over 72 hours at room temperature is now available from Bel-Art Products. Scienceware® Lab Companion™ Vacuum Desiccators are available in an innovative cabinet style, offering a swing open door for convenient access and internal storage capacity up to 45 liters, as [...]

Cepheid and American Lung Association Partner for Tuberculosis Awareness in U.S.

SUNNYVALE, Calif., - Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD) and the American Lung Association (www.Lung.org) today announced a partnership to promote tuberculosis-related awareness in the U.S. and the need for improved TB (tuberculosis) diagnostics. Details of the planned program will be announced at the American Association of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Lab Expo show in Houston, Texas. The [...]

Hybrid-AQ” Scalable from UHPLC to prep

The use of 100% water eluent has been a challenge in HPLC analysis for decades. Conventional C18 materials suffer from unacceptable short lifetime, because the ligands collapse and this worsens the separation performance drastically. As a pioneer in this field, YMC has offered a product since 80’s, which presents a synonym for stability under aqueous [...]

Caprotec Bioanalytics and Bayer CropScience AG Announce Second Collaborative Research Agreement

caprotec bioanalytics GmbH and Bayer CropScience announced today that they have entered a second research collaboration to identify and elucidate a tractable agrochemical target using caprotec’s proprietary Capture Compound Mass Spectrometry technology (CCMS). “We have decided to progress a second target with the team at caprotec and benefit from the close working relationships established over [...]

DNASTAR Awarded Clinical Research Software Phase II SBIR Grant

MADISON, Wisconsin –– DNASTAR® announced that it received a Phase II SBIR grant award from the National Institutes of Health entitled, “Association Analysis Software for Mining Clinical Next-Gen Sequencing Data”. This is the second phase of a project initially funded in 2012 to support the company’s research and development aimed at expanding its industry-leading sequence [...]

100K Genome Project unveils 20 more foodborne pathogen genomes

The 100K Genome Project, led by the University of California, Davis, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, and Agilent Technologies, today announced that it has added 20 newly completed genome sequences of foodborne disease-causing microorganisms to its public database at the National Center for Biotechnology Information. The genomes [...]

R&D 100 Award 2013 for ZEISS Lightsheet Z.1

Lightsheet Z.1 from ZEISS is one of the winners of the 51st R&D 100 Award. An independent jury and the publisher of the R&D Magazine recognize and celebrate the top 100 technology products every year. The official award ceremony will take place on 7 November in Orlando, Florida, as part of a gala event. As [...]

Bruker Announces AVANCE™-IVDr as a Standardized NMR Platform for Clinical Screening and In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) Discovery and Validation

KARLSRUHE, Germany –– Bruker today announces a standardized nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy platform for its clinical and diagnostics partners that enables cost-effective, high-performance NMR clinical screening and IVD-by-NMR discovery, development and validation of novel NMR assays. The new AVANCE-IVDr system, presently for research use only, is a complete, proven and standardized platform for NMR [...]

Urine-based Cancer Detection Technology Validated

SAN DIEGO, -- Trovagene, Inc. (NASDAQ: TROV) announces that results emerging from ongoing clinical studies have confirmed the broad applicability of Trovagene technology across a variety of cancer types, and the successful development of a molecular diagnostic test capable of detecting and quantifying oncogene mutations from a simple urine specimen. The ability to regularly detect [...]

Lumora Signs Supply Agreement with Promega for Ultra-Glo Luciferase, to be used in Lumora’s BART Molecular Diagnostics Technology

Cambridgeshire, UK ,-- Lumora, a provider of state-of-the-art molecular diagnostic products for the clinical and industrial market, and Promega, a leader in providing innovative solutions and technical support to the life sciences industry, have signed a supply agreement for the use of Promega's Ultra-Glo™ luciferase in Lumora's BART (Bioluminescent Assay in Real-Time) molecular diagnostics technology. [...]

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