Michael Fitzpatrick joins Personalis as Vice President Worldwide Sales
April 29, 2013
Menlo Park, CA – Personalis today announced the appointment of Michael Fitzpatrick as Vice President Worldwide Sales. Mr. Fitzpatrick brings substantial experience in sales and sales operations in the life science industry, specifically related to DNA sequencing. In this newly created position, Mr. Fitzpatrick will be instrumental in helping drive the next phase of the [...]
April 29, 2013
DELRAY BEACH, Fla.-- PositiveID Corporation ("PositiveID" or "Company") (OTCBB:PSIDD), a developer of biological detection and diagnostics solutions, today announced it has launched the development of the Firefly Dx detection system ("Firefly"), a portable, hand-held, point-of-need molecular diagnostic system, which is being designed to provide test results from sample input through reporting of results in less [...]
April 29, 2013
Hilden, Germany, and Redwood City, California — QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced the acquisition of Ingenuity Systems, Inc., the leading provider of software solutions to efficiently and accurately analyze and interpret the biological meaning of genomic data. Ingenuity, a privately-held U.S. company based in California’s Silicon Valley, has created the [...]
Bruker Expands Capabilities of MALDI Biotyper Platform for Microbiology
April 29, 2013
BERLIN -- At the 23rd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Bruker shows new capabilities of the MALDI Biotyper™ platform. The MALDI Biotyper (MBT) is the market-leading system for microbial identification based on MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. It is widely used in clinical microbiology, industrial microbiology, animal health and food safety and has [...]
NEW Variable Start-Stop Dispensing
April 29, 2013
Aalborg® Instruments’ TPV RP Adjustable RPM with Dispensing Peristaltic Pumps can be timer relay set to start dispensing liquids for a selected time period and to stop dispensing for another selected time period. Seven time intervals are possible. Easily accessible controls enable Priming, dynamic Braking, RPM setting, and Flow direction reversing. The adjustable pump handle [...]
QIAGEN proposes changes to members of Supervisory Board
April 29, 2013
Venlo, the Netherlands — QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced proposals for changes in the membership of the Supervisory Board that will be put forward for approval by shareholders at the next Annual General Meeting scheduled for June 26, 2013. The proposals for the composition of the Supervisory Board, who are [...]
Pall Corporation Opens Office in Saudi Arabia
April 28, 2013
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. - Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL), a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, today inaugurated a new office in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Located in Al Khobar, the office is Pall’s second in the Middle East. Pall opened its regional headquarters in Dubai (UAE) in October of 2010. The company has [...]
BD Diagnostics Advances Commitment to a Fully Integrated Microbiology Solution with New Agreement
April 27, 2013
Sparks, MD – BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), announced today an international distributor agreement with Bruker Daltonics Inc. to sell and provide front-line technical support for the co-labeled BD™ Bruker MALDI Biotyper™ System. Microbial identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing is the end-point of the majority of work a microbiology lab [...]
Low-Temperature Benchtop Chillers Provide Robust Cooling for Laboratory Equipment
April 27, 2013
Nile, IL -- A line of compact, powerful, and highly affordable low-temperature chillers are available from PolyScience. Designed to maximize bench space, LS-Series / LM-Series / MM-Series Chillers provide up to 1290 watts of cooling at 20°C, making them ideal for use with rotary evaporators, jacketed incubators, small reaction vessels, spectrophotometers, chromatography columns, condensers, and [...]
April 26, 2013
Waters EmpowerTM chromatography data systems can now be used to control the new Shimadzu SPD-M30A photodiode array detector in Nexera X2 series systems. This means EmpowerTM Software can now be used to control a wider range of Shimadzu HPLC and UHPLC products, including Prominence, LC-2010, and even Nexera X2 series products*. The Nexera X2 series, [...]

