Illumina Names Charles Dadswell as Senior Vice President and General Counsel

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. [...]

Agilent Technologies Supports University of Michigan Professor’s Work Developing Transformative NMR Applications for Structural Biology

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

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

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 [...]

New DSC-60 Plus Series Differential Scanning Calorimeters Offer High-Sensitivity Analysis in Polymer, Food and Pharmaceutical Applications

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 [...]

Illumina and Kindstar Global Announce Strategic Collaboration to Facilitate Clinical Adoption of Illumina Technologies in Asia

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 [...]

Reagent Reservoirs for 96 and 384 Well Pipetting Systems

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 [...]

New Gastrointestinal Tract Infections Assays Launch in Europe

Baltimore, Maryland and Liege, Belgium – BD Diagnostics, a segment of global medical technology company BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), and Diagenode SA, an international biotech company based in Belgium, announced today the availability of the CE-marked Diagenode Enteric Viral Panel primers and probes kit that is used with the BD MAX™ RNA extraction kit [...]

Amphora Research Systems welcomes Advanced Polymer Monitoring Technologies

Amphora Research Systems welcomes Advanced Polymer Monitoring Technologies (APMT) as its’ newest client. Rob Swan, Sales Director at Amphora, explains: “ We are delighted to welcome APMT as our newest client. We believe that their choice of PatentSafe for their electronic laboratory notebook requirements reflects the forward thinking attitude of this innovative company. I look [...]

Life Technologies Partners with Ridom and Releases SeqSphere+ Software to Speed and Simplify Bacterial Typing

CARLSBAD, Calif., -- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) announced today that it is partnering with Ridom GmbH (Munster, Germany) to make SeqSphere+ whole genome bacterial typing software available for Ion Torrent users. This software enables any lab to perform fast, affordable, and automated high-resolution bacterial typing on the Ion Personal Genome Machine® (PGM™) sequencer. Up [...]

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