New Powder-Coated Masterflex L/S Digital Process Drives from Cole-Parmer

Vernon Hills, IL -- Introducing the Masterflex® L/S® Digital Console Process Drives from Cole-Parmer, housed in powder-coat steel for a more economical price. These peristaltic pumps are ideal for fluid transfer, dispensing, and metering applications in laboratory, process, and washdown environments. The housings are completely sealed and IP66 and NEMA 4X rated. These precision tubing [...]

Secure Storage of Blood Fraction Samples

Biobank Uppsala, a leading Scandinavian biobank, has reported on its use of 2D-coded sample storage tubes, racks and caps from Micronic to provide traceable, high integrity storage of blood fraction samples (mainly serum and plasma). Uppsala Biobank began its operations in September 2008 and is a collaboration between Uppsala County Council, as represented by Uppsala [...]

Optimised Basement Membrane Extracts for Organoid Growth and Xenograft Models

AMSBIO announces the availability of two new formulations of Basement Membrane Extract (BME) known as Cultrex BME 2 (organoid growth matrix) and Cultrex BME 3 (xenograft / tumorgraft matrix). The new products have been developed to address the heterogeneous nature of tissue and organ microenvironments that not only arise from organ specific stromal cells, growth [...]

VWR International, LLC Acquires United Biochemicals Inc

RADNOR, PA,- VWR International, LLC, a global solutions provider of laboratory supplies, equipment and services, announced today that it has acquired United Biochemicals Inc. Based in Sanborn, New York and founded in 1996, United Biochemicals manufactures and supplies high purity buffers and biochemicals for research, development and manufacturing processes to biotech, pharmaceutical, cell culture media [...]

Optibrium and AstraZeneca Sign Agreement for Global License of StarDrop

CAMBRIDGE, UK, – Optibrium, a developer of software for drug discovery, today announced that AstraZeneca has signed an agreement to license Optibrium’s StarDrop™ software. The agreement will see the global deployment of StarDrop and the ADME-QSAR and Auto-Modeller™ modules to AstraZeneca’s researchers. StarDrop is a software suite that helps to deliver optimally balanced, effective drugs. [...]

Brooks Automation Names Robyn C. Davis to Its Board of Directors

CHELMSFORD, Mass., -- Brooks Automation, Inc. (Nasdaq:BRKS), a leading worldwide provider of automation, vacuum, and instrumentation solutions for multiple markets including semiconductor manufacturing, life sciences, and clean energy, today announced that Robyn C. Davis has been elected to its Board of Directors. Ms. Davis is Managing Director of AngelHealthcare Investors, an early-stage private equity investment [...]

Neogen acquires SyrVet Incorporated

LANSING, Mich., — Neogen Corporation (Nasdaq: NEOG) announced today that it has acquired the assets of SyrVet Incorporated, a veterinary instrument business based in Waukee, Iowa. Started in 1987 by Daniel Klein, SyrVet has become an important supplier to farmers, ranchers, and veterinarians in more than 30 countries worldwide. SyrVet’s product line ranges from animal [...]

AB SCIEX, Genedata & LECO Announce Partnership for New Cross-Platform Metabolomics Data Analysis Solution

Basel, Switzerland –– AB SCIEX, Genedata, and LECO announce a technology partnership that will deliver a collaborative software system, which will enable metabolomics researchers to comprehensively process and analyze experimental data across different GC/MS and LC/MS platforms. LECO Corporation, a global leader in accurate mass technologies and GC/MS instrumentation, is offering combined solutions with both [...]

The Simple Western is now cGMP Ready

SANTA CLARA, Calif., -- ProteinSimple today released version 2.4 of Compass Software, which runs its Simple Western instruments complete with CFR Title 21 Part 11 compliance tools. With this software release, not only has ProteinSimple fully redesigned the age-old traditional Western and replaced it with a fully automated, fully quantitative platform, it has now enabled [...]

FEI’s New Helios NanoLab 660 DualBeam Sets New Standard forImaging and Milling Performance

FEI will showcase its new Helios NanoLab™ 660 DualBeam™, at the upcoming Materials Research Society conference in Singapore. The Helios NanoLab 660 DualBeam system provides one of the highest imaging resolution and contrast SEMs, combined with one of the fastest and most precise FIB milling performances of any commercially-available focused ion beam/scanning electron microscope (FIB/SEM) [...]

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