Wulf Fischer-Knuppertz appointed new CEO of BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG
June 1, 2013
(Innsbruck, -- For more than 25 years, Dr Fischer-Knuppertz has held various leading positions in the diagnostics and pharmaceutical industries. Most recently, 56-year-old FischerKnuppertz, who holds a PhD in veterinary medicine, was General Manager with Fisher Scientific and before that had held leading positions at Roche Diagnostics. In the field of iagnostics, FischerKnuppertz brings not [...]
Julabo USA Inc. Expands Its Line of Compact and Economic Cooling Circulators
May 31, 2013
Allentown, PA -- The F series of Compact-Recirculating coolers by JULABO are ideal for simple cooling tasks. The smallest recirculating cooler of this new family – the F250 – was technically up-graded to provide a wider temperature range from -10 °C to +40 °C with 250 W of cooling at 20 °C. The new F500 [...]
High-throughput Manual Pipetting System Plays Key Genomics Role
May 31, 2013
Oakland, California — As part of the International Barcode of Life Project, the largest biodiversity genomics initiative ever undertaken, the Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding (CCDB) has chosen METTLER TOLEDO and its Rainin Liquidator 96 to fulfill fundamental roles in numerous liquid handling procedures required to process DNA samples. Manual control of aspiration and dispensing, [...]
Simply Read the Result with the SPECTROTEST APP
May 31, 2013
Kleve, Germany, — Working with the SPECTROTEST mobile metal analyzer has just gotten easier. SPECTRO Analytical Instruments, a unit of AMETEK, Inc., now offers SPECTRO MMA, a free readout App for the Apple iPhone, iPad and iPad touch, that works with the latest version of the high-performance SPECTROTEST mobile metal analyzer. SPECTRO initially designed the [...]
Umetrics announces the release of SIMCA®-online 13.1
May 31, 2013
Malmö, Sweden, — Umetrics announces a new version of SIMCA-online 13.1, a state of the art, off-the-shelf, Windows based software solution, providing multivariate process monitoring for continuous and batch processes. A key feature of SIMCA-online 13.1 is the ability to centralize multivariate analysis of process data in one off-the-shelf solution. SIMCA-online 13.1 has a robust [...]
May 31, 2013
HILDEN, Germany, and MARSEILLE, France, - QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced two agreements adding promising new biomarkers involving glioblastoma, lymphoma and other cancers to QIAGEN's expanding portfolio of potential companion diagnostics that is being developed to help doctors use a patient's genomic information to guide treatment decisions. In the glioblastoma [...]
Trajan Completes Acquisition of SGE Business.
May 31, 2013
Trajan Scientific and Medical, “Trajan” has completed its acquisition of the Chromatography and Liquid Handling businesses of SGE Analytical Science, “SGE”. SGE was founded by Ern Dawes in Melbourne Australia in 1961 and has remained in the Dawes family for over 50 years. Its business, focussed on components and consumables used in scientific analysis has [...]
May 31, 2013
RENO, Nev -- Hamilton Robotics, as part of its co-marketing partnership with Illumina, is developing automated solutions for NGS sample preparation that reduce hands-on time, minimize operational variability, and deliver consistent results. Illumina is providing input on the protocols and assay performance. Solutions will include an NGS workstation and methods for Illumina's sample prep kits. [...]
New technology for onsite ‘lab analysis’
May 31, 2013
Torion Technologies (USA) has appointed Milton Keynes based Quantitech to distribute a unique portable gas chromatograph toroidal ion trap mass spectrometer (GC-TMS), in the UK and Ireland. The TRIDION™-9 is the world’s fastest and most portable GC-MS. Combining a high speed GC with a miniaturised TMS in a lightweight, field-portable instrument, the TRIDION™-9 is designed [...]
May 31, 2013
PRINCETON, NJ, – GE Healthcare today announced at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology its plans for the commercialization of MultiOmyx™, a ground-breaking new pathology platform, using proprietary methodology to analyze multiple proteins at a single-cell level. Traditional pathology uses multiple slices from paraffin-fixed tumor samples and examines them slide [...]
