July 11, 2013
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA – AirClean® Systems PowderSafe™ Type B Enclosures usher in a new era of powder weighing and containment technology. PowderSafe™ Type B enclosures provide a controlled negative pressure HEPA-filtered environment for professionals to work with and weigh powders. PowderSafe™ Type B is fabricated with polypropylene, which is a chemically resistant, high mass polymer. [...]
Artificial skin instead of animal testing
July 11, 2013
Frickenhausen, – ThinCert cell culture inserts from Greiner Bio-One, a technology partner for the diagnostic and pharmaceutical industry, offer a real alternative to animal testing. From 11 July 2013, trade in cosmetics tested on animals will be prohibited in EU member states under the EU Cosmetics Regulation. This applies to both end products and individual [...]
MO BIO introduces a new kit for extraction of pure protein from soil samples
July 10, 2013
Carlsbad, CA - MO BIO Laboratories, Inc., the leader in soil, plant, stool and other challenging microbial nucleic acid purification, recently launched the NoviPure™ Soil Protein Extraction Kit, for extraction of pure protein from all soil types. It is the first commercially available kit designed for extraction of extracellular and intracellular microbial protein from a [...]
DNAnexus Appoints Ken Kershner as Vice President of Engineering
July 10, 2013
DNAnexus, Inc., a pioneer in cloud-based DNA data management and analysis solutions, today announced the expansion of its senior leadership team with the appointment of Ken Kershner as Vice President of Engineering. Kershner, who has built software engineering teams at start-ups and large companies including Silicon Graphics and TiVo, will be responsible for leading the [...]
July 10, 2013
FRAMINGHAM, Mass - AB Sciex Pte. Ltd., a global leader in analytical technologies, today announced the combination of its chromatography business with the capillary electrophoresis (CE) business from Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, an innovator in life science research, to advance separations science. This move brings together Beckman Coulter's expertise in microscale separation with the expertise [...]
July 10, 2013
Salisbury, UK,: NanoSight reports on how Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, NTA, is being used in the Faculty of Chemistry of the Jagiellonian University for the characterization of catalytic materials used in environmental applications such as N2O decomposition and soot oxidation. Dr Pawel Stelmachowski is an assistant professor in the Materials and Surface Chemistry Group at the [...]
July 10, 2013
The need for physical property testing has increased significantly in a wide range of applications. To address this demand, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments has launched the EZ Test EZ-X Series compact tabletop testers, which provide the world’s highest levels of test force measurement precision, guaranteed range, control precision and test speed. The EZ-X Series consists of [...]
July 10, 2013
Trenton, New Jersey - Princeton Instruments is very pleased to announce the company’s IsoPlane SCT-320 spectrograph has been named as a recipient of the prestigious R&D 100 Award for 2013. Award entries are judged by experts chosen from professional consultants, university faculty, and industrial researchers with expertise and experience in the areas they are judging. [...]
July 10, 2013
FORT COLLINS, CO, – Carbo Analytics, developers of sugar analysis systems, today announced that it has been awarded a Department of Energy (DoE) grant for the development of a biofuels sugar analysis system. Selected from over 750 applicants, Carbo Analytics was awarded a $150,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant for FY 2013. Their application [...]
Cellular Dynamics International Announces Launch of Initial Public Offering
July 10, 2013
MADISON, WIS.,— Cellular Dynamics International, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of fully functioning human cells in industrial quantities to precise specifications, today announced that it has commenced an initial public offering of 3,846,000 shares of common stock pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-1 filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). In [...]
