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 [...]
June 19, 2013
LARKSPUR, Calif., -- BioCision, a leader in advanced products to improve sample standardization and handling in many areas of medical and scientific research, announced today the issuance of new patents by the U.S. Patent Office that apply to two of the company's thermo-conductive products developed to standardize sample handling to ensure the consistency of test [...]
New NEXTflex Rapid DNA-Seq Kit Offers Two-Hour NGS Library Construction from 1 ng of DNA
June 19, 2013
Austin, TX, - Bioo Scientific’s NEXTflex™ Rapid DNA-Seq Kit allows researchers to build sequencing-ready libraries for sequencing on Illumina’s sequencing platforms from as little as 1 ng of DNA in two hours or less. This kit is ideal for use with genomic DNA, as well as FFPE samples, ChIP DNA and clinical samples. The NEXTflex [...]
June 19, 2013
Hyderabad, India –– GVK Biosciences (GVK BIO) today announced that it has licensed its popular SAR, PK and Toxicity Database (GOSTAR) to the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA). The Material Transfer Agreement forms the basis of collaboration in Drug Repositioning, wherein the initial focus will be to identify alternative therapeutic indications of marketed compounds [...]
Morpho Detection Awarded Brazil Airport Contract for Desktop Explosives Trace Detectors
June 19, 2013
Morpho (Safran), through its subsidiary Morpho Detection, Inc., today announced that Infraero, Brazil's national airport operator, has purchased 45 Itemiser® DX desktop explosives trace detection (ETD) systems. A lightweight, portable desktop system, Itemiser DX can detect residue from explosives on skin, clothing, parcels, bags, cargo, vehicles and other surfaces. Under terms of the contract, all [...]
