Pacific Biosciences Announces Uniscience as its Exclusive Brazilian Distributor for the PacBio® II

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc., (NASDAQ:PACB) today announced the appointment of Uniscience do Brasil as its exclusive Brazilian distributor for the PacBio® RS II —its new Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT®) DNA Sequencing System that provides the industry’s highest consensus accuracy and longest read lengths. Uniscience is the first distributor for PacBio [...]

AB SCIEX Announces In Vitro Diagnostic Devices CE Marked for Europe

AB SCIEX, a global leader in analytical technologies, today announced the launch of the 3200MD CE-IVDD series for general in vitro diagnostic use in Europe. Meeting regulatory requirements to obtain the CE-IVDD mark for the new AB SCIEX API 3200MD™ and 3200MD QTRAP® LC/MS/MS systems* will provide European hospitals and clinical diagnostic laboratories the confidence [...]

NanoString Technologies Files Registration Statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an Initial Public Offering

SEATTLE – NanoString Technologies, Inc., a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced that it has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its common stock. The number of shares to be sold and the price range [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Releases New Small Benchtop Centrifuge

MILFORD, Mass.-- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has launched the new Thermo Scientific small benchtop centrifuge, delivering, in a compact footprint, the flexibility to adapt to evolving clinical and research needs alike, including clinical chemistry, cell culture, microbiology and hematology. Featuring innovative Thermo Scientific technologies, the small benchtop centrifuge is [...]

Elsevier Launches Genomics Data App in Collaboration with Illumina

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, medical and technical products and services, announces the launch of the Genomics Data app in collaboration with Illumina, a sequencing and array-based solutions provider for genetics research. The app allows researchers to share large data sets in Illumina's BaseSpace cloud, where they can easily be reviewed and included in [...]

Hamilton Scientific Awarded Interior Laboratory Equipment and Casework Project for George Washington University’s New Science and Engineering Hall

De Pere, WI - Hamilton Scientific of De Pere, Wisconsin, along with their dealer, Dancker, Sellew & Douglas, has been selected to provide custom laboratory bench systems for the innovative Science and Engineering Hall at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. As part of GW’s green-building initiative, Hamilton Scientific was successful in meeting the product [...]

Brooks Automation Announces Selection by Tohoku Medical Mega Bank, Sendai, Japan for Multiple Automated Sample Management Systems

CHELMSFORD, Mass., -- Brooks Automation, Inc.(Nasdaq:BRKS) announced that it had been elected by the Tohoku Medical Mega Bank at Tohoku University to provide multiple Automated Sample Management Systems. As part of a competitive bid process, Tohoku Medical Mega Bank selected Brooks BioStore(TM) II systems to store up to 4 million samples of DNA, serum and [...]

Hitachi High-Technologies Introduces the Ultimate Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope: The SU8200 Series

Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (TOKYO: 8036, Hitachi High-Tech) announces the development and worldwide release of the new SU8200 series Field Emission-Scanning Electron Microscopes (FE-SEMs) employing a novel cold field emission (CFE) gun for improved imaging and analytical performance. The newly designed Hitachi CFE gun complements the inherent high resolution and brightness of conventional CFE with increased [...]

TAL-effector nuclease: Issuance by the USPTO of Two New Patents

New Brighton, – Cellectis (NYSE PA: ALCLS), the global genome engineering specialist, announced the issuance by the USPTO on May 14th, 2013 of two new US patents (US 8,440,431 and US 8,440,432) directed to TAL-effector nucleases. As a leader in the genome engineering industry, the molecules produced by Cellectis have been distributed to prestigious laboratories [...]

North American Microplate Catalog

Porvair Sciences has announced the first North American edition* of its internationally trusted ‘Catalog of Microplates and Microplate Equipment’. Many scientists around the world have come to rely upon the Porvair Sciences catalog as a trusted source of information that enables them to choose the optimum microplate, microplate evaporator or sealer for their application. This [...]

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