INTEGRA adds to reagent reservoir range
April 22, 2013
INTEGRA has announced an extension of its range of reagent reservoirs for 96-well and 384-well multichannel pipetting systems. Adopting a standard SBS / SLAS footprint - the extended range of reagent reservoirs (100ml and 300ml) are fully compatible with all liquid handling systems including INTEGRA's VIAFLO 96 and VIAFLO 384 Handheld Multichannel Electronic Pipettes. Individual [...]
April 22, 2013
NanoSight, leading manufacturers of unique nanoparticle characterization technology, are pleased to announce that the company has been selected to receive the Queen's Award for Enterprise - Innovation in 2013. Following on from their 2012 Queen's Award for Enterprise for International Trade, NanoSight is pleased to announce further recognition for their market-leading nanoparticle characterization technology. NanoSight [...]
Saskatchewan Research Council Announces New Service to Assist the Mining Industry
April 22, 2013
The Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) today announced a new QEMSCAN® service that will assist the mining industry by providing precise quantitative mineralogical analyses that are essential for proving resource deposits that lead to mine development. SRC will be the first QEMSCAN® service provider in Saskatchewan and one of only a handful in Canada. SRC has [...]
IDEX Reports Record First Quarter Results – EPS of 74 Cents, Up 12%
April 22, 2013
LAKE FOREST, Ill.-- IDEX Corporation (NYSE: IEX) today announced its financial results for the three month period ended March 31, 2013. Sales in the quarter totaled $494 million, 1 percent higher than the prior year period and down 1 percent on an organic basis. First quarter 2013 operating income was $95 million. This resulted in [...]
Illumina Names Charles Dadswell as Senior Vice President and General Counsel
April 22, 2013
SAN DIEGO -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced it has appointed Charles Dadswell as Senior Vice President and General Counsel. Dadswell will assume all functional responsibilities previously held byChristian Cabou, who has retired, and will have worldwide responsibility for all legal and intellectual property matters as well as being Secretary to Illumina’s Board of Directors. [...]
April 22, 2013
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Dr. Hashim M. Al-Hashimi at the University of Michigan has received an Agilent Thought Leader Award. The award supports his work in developing advanced nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy methods to characterize the form of DNA known as Hoogsteen base pairs, a work that could dramatically alter [...]
‘Mixcroscopy’: A New Correlative Microscope System
April 19, 2013
JEOL Ltd. (Gon-emon Kurihara, President) announced a new correlative microscope system, ‘Mixcroscopy’,that combines optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy, to be distributed in April 19, 2013. [Background] There has been an increasing demand in bio and material science for a system that combines information acquired in optical microscopy and in scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to [...]
BellBrook Labs Strengthens Ties with Cambio for Distribution of Transcreener HTS Assays in the UK
April 19, 2013
BellBrook Labs' Transcreener® HTS Assay products will be available exclusively from Cambio in the UK as of April 2013. The two companies initiated their business alliance in April of 2012, and Cambio’s rapid success in penetrating UK drug discovery laboratories with the Transcreener ADP Assay and related products prompted BellBrook to grant them exclusive distribution [...]
April 18, 2013
COLUMBIA, Md.,— Shimadzu Scientific Instruments has introduced the DSC-60Plus Series differential scanning calorimeters, indispensable thermal analyzers for materials characterization. The DSC-60Plus Series offers the high-sensitivity analysis and easy operation required for the development of high-functioning new materials in the food, polymer and pharmaceutical industries. As high-performance, general-purpose differential scanning calorimeters, the DSC-60Plus Series offers high [...]
April 18, 2013
SAN DIEGO & WUHAN, China -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) and Kindstar Global (Kindstar) today announced they are entering into a strategic collaboration whereby Kindstar will validate and implement molecular assays in their laboratories, leveraging Illumina’s TruSightTM content sets, Infinium® Dx CytoSNP-12 assay and NuPCRTM reagents. The collaboration will enable Kindstar to expand its esoteric [...]

