February 6, 2012
LEXINGTON, Mass., and SALZBURG, Austria, RainDance Technologies, Inc., the Digital Biology™ Company, and Sony DADC Austria AG, today announced that the companies have further developed proprietary methods for the manufacture of microdroplet-based smart consumables for high-throughput targeted DNA sequencing applications. This collaboration enables RainDance to further leverage Sony DADC’s advanced microstructure engineering and high-volume manufacturing [...]
February 6, 2012
Tokyo, Japan – On January 25, 2012, a ceremony incorporating a number of scientific seminars was held at the University of Tokyo to celebrate the establishment of an Industry-Academia Collaboration between Rigaku Corporation and the University of Tokyo. The ceremony was originally scheduled to occur in August of 2011 but was postponed in the aftermath [...]
Transgenomic Announces $22.0 Million Private Placement Financing
February 3, 2012
OMAHA, Neb.- Transgenomic, Inc. today announced that it has entered into definitive agreements with institutional and other accredited investors to raise approximately $22.0 million in a private placement financing which includes an aggregate of $3.0 million in convertible notes issued in December to entities associated with Third Security, LLC, a leading life sciences investment firm, [...]
Diagnostic Device Becomes Mobile – The Handheld Flow Cytometer Lab-on-a-Chip Technology
February 3, 2012
Burlington, NC -- The advantages of the Diagnostic Chips’ handheld Flow Cytometer lab-on-a-chip technology are significant. The device cost is only a fraction of the conventional bench-top flow cytometers. Sample size and reagents consumption is greatly reduced to only 5~10 micro liters. The handheld weighs less than 1.5 lbs. It is quick and easy to [...]
February 3, 2012
Cambridge, UK: TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative automation and consumables for life science applications today announced it is launching a new RAFT System on Booth 815 at the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) Conference in San Diego, USA. The system comprises a new, custom RAFT microwell plate, reagents, plate heater and [...]
NEW Vibration Free Incubator Ideal for Protein Crystallography
February 3, 2012
Carlsbad CA - Torrey Pines Scientific announces the EchoTherm™ Vibration Free Bench Top Chilling Incubators with a range of 4.0°C to 70.0°C. These units are ideal for Protein Crystallography and other life science laboratory uses. Both incubators are Peltier-based for heating and chilling. As such, they have no compressors or CFCs and are vibration-free making [...]
IDEA Bio-Medical Sells HTS/HCS Cell Imaging System to The Medical University of South Carolina
February 2, 2012
Rehovot, Israel, and Charleston, South Carolina - IDEA Bio-Medical Ltd. and The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) announced today that they have completed the sale of IDEA Bio-Medical’s breakthrough Hermes WiScan® system to MUSC’s Center for Drug Discovery. Hermes WiScan® is a breakthrough biological cell imaging desktop system that enables researchers, at all levels, [...]
February 2, 2012
SKOKIE, IL -- NanoProfessor(R), a division of NanoInk(R), Inc. focused on nanotechnology education, announced today a partnership with City Colleges of Chicago in which two City Colleges students will complete a specially designed "Introduction to Nanotechnology" course followed by a paid summer internship program working in the Skokie-based NanoProfessor labs. It marks the first step [...]
February 2, 2012
LA JOLLA, Calif. and CORALVILLE, Iowa - Synthetic Genomics, Inc. (SGI), a privately held company commercializing and developing genomic-driven solutions to solve a variety of global needs, and Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc. (IDT), the world leader in production and supply of oligonucleotides, today jointly announced that they have entered into an agreement to manufacture, market, [...]
New Handheld Narcotics Analyzer Gives Edge to Law Enforcement in War on Drugs
February 2, 2012
WALTHAM, Mass.- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced Thermo Scientific TruNarc, a new handheld narcotics analyzer that gives local law enforcement a significant technology edge in the war on drugs. TruNarc® can replace more subjective presumptive field tests (color tests) used by law enforcement for decades. The core technology [...]
