METTLER TOLEDO Presents Information Toolboxes for Testing Labs
June 20, 2013
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ever feel like you have to process more and more samples every day and costs are spiraling upwards? Increased productivity and ease-of-use can often be achieved by knowing your laboratory instruments inside out, and by having access to additional how-to information, tips & tricks and application notes and white papers. Exclusively for [...]
New Reaction Calorimeter Speeds and Streamlines Optimization
June 20, 2013
Greifensee, Switzerland —— METTLER TOLEDO is pleased to launch OptiMax HFCal. This newly-designed heat flow calorimeter is the latest addition to the reaction calorimeter product line. OptiMax HFCal offers highly intuitive operation so users can run experiments faster for significant resource savings. Quick, reliable heating and cooling add to the unit’s time-saving nature, making OptiMax [...]
Entelos Closes Funding Round for Growth
June 20, 2013
San Mateo, CA -- Entelos, a premier provider of physiological systems modeling and services that help pharmaceutical and consumer product companies predict better paths to success, today announced that it has received additional financing from its current investors Clearlake Capital Partners (Clearlake) and Michaelson Capital Partners (Michaelson). The financing will support the company’s expansion and [...]
ChemiDoc-ItTS2 Imager for Genomics and Proteomics Research
June 20, 2013
UVP, LLC now offers the ChemiDoc-It®TS2 Imager software with multiple language options. English is the standard language format of the software and users can select from Chinese (simplified), Turkish, Japanese, Spanish, Korean and Russian for all screen text and buttons. "The language offerings will assist researchers in expediting and simplifying the image acquisition capabilities of [...]
WITec’s RayShield Coupler makes accessible Raman data at low wavenumbers
June 20, 2013
WITec's RayShield Coupler is now available for the alpha300 and alpha500 microscope series. It allows the acquisition of Raman spectra at wavenumbers down to below 10 rel. cm-1. This high-transmission coupler system includes a specialized narrow-band filter set which is optimally aligned to detect Raman lines extremely close to the Rayleigh line while maintaining ideal [...]
Atossa Genetics Signs Distribution Agreement With Fisher HealthCare
June 20, 2013
SEATTLE, WA -- Atossa Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATOS), The Breast Health Company™, has signed an agreement with Fisher HealthCare Inc., part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, for distribution of Atossa's ForeCYTE Breast Health devices, which consist of the patented MASCT pump and ForeCYTE patient collection kits. Atossa's MASCT system is used by physicians and nurses to [...]
Syntrix Biosystems Wins Final Judgment of $115 Million in Patent Case against Illumina, Inc.
June 20, 2013
AUBURN, Wash.-- Syntrix Biosystems, Inc., is pleased to announce that a federal court in Tacoma, Washington, has granted the company a final judgment of $115 million in a patent infringement case it filed against Illumina, Inc., a San Diego-based biotechnology firm. The Court’s judgment was filed on June 19, 2013, and follows a $96 million [...]
Recipients of microRNA Research Grant Announced by Firefly BioWorks
June 19, 2013
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-- The Firefly Frontiers Grant is a $10,000 award towards Firefly BioWorks products for scientists engaged in cutting-edge microRNA research. The awards encourage large-scale validation studies, thereby increasing the breadth and robustness of traditional exploratory studies. The current round of recipients is involved in translational microRN A research, and Firefly’s flagship product, FirePlex® miRSelect, [...]
June 19, 2013
CARLSBAD, Calif., -- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announces a licensing agreement granting Suzhou Ribo Life Sciences (Ribo) the exclusive rights to develop and manufacture siRNA therapeutics in China using Life's Invivofectamine® Rx delivery technology. Ribo will formulate proprietary siRNA molecules in combination with Invivofectamine® Rx to create a new platform designed to address [...]
Novel Microplate Design Eliminates Well-to-Well Crosstalk
June 19, 2013
To address performance limiting well-to-well crosstalk inherent in most assay plates – Porvair Sciences has developed the Krystal 2000 microplate range. Incorporating unique individual clear cups molded into either a black or white polypropylene matrix – crosstalk is eliminated and the sensitivity, photometric accuracy and repeatability of your bottom reading absorbance, fluorescence and luminescence measurements [...]
