Implant Sciences Wins Contract for Seven Quantum Sniffers to Africa

WILMINGTON, MA -- Implant Sciences Corporation (OTCQB: IMSC), a high technology supplier of systems and sensors for homeland security and defense markets, today announced it has sold seven Quantum Sniffer™ QS-H150 handheld explosives trace detectors to a new customer in Africa. The units are to be deployed for security screening at court buildings and facilities. [...]

Agilent Technologies and Chungnam National University Announce Glycomics Research Initiatives

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and Chungnam National University announced new initiatives to further research in glycomics, the study of complex sugars, in order to develop biomarkers and new therapeutic antibodies to combat diseases such as cancer. Building on an earlier collaboration, Agilent and the university's Graduate School of Analytical Science and Technology (GRAST) will [...]

Automated RNA Sequencing Service from Beckman Coulter Genomics Provides Fast, High Quality Results

DANVERS –– High throughput end-to-end RNA-Seq Service from Beckman Coulter Genomics includes customized project design, automated Illumina* TruSeq* RNA-Seq library construction and flexible, multiplexed sequencing on the Illumina HiSeq platform. Downstream bioinformatics analysis options include primary data analysis, differential gene expression, splice variant analysis, gene fusion identi?cation and rare transcript identi?cation. The new automated library [...]

Enter to Win a Free 405 Touch Microplate Washer with Verify Technology!

WINOOSKI VT, USA — The only thing better than our 405™ Touch Microplate Washer with Verify™ Technology is winning a FREE one! Enter to win from April 1 to June 30, 2013 by visiting www.biotek.com/405touchgiveaway. Only one entry per person will be accepted, and the winner will be randomly drawn from all global entries. The [...]

Cellular Dynamics International Opens Facility in California, Leasing Space from the Buck Institute to Derive and Bank Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

MADISON, WIS., – Cellular Dynamics International (CDI) today announced that the company is opening a facility in Novato, Calif, leasing space from the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. This opening of a second CDI facility is in response to the company receiving a $16 million grant award from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine [...]

Finesse Solutions Introduces SmartParts for Intelligent Universal Controllers

Santa Clara, California – Finesse Solutions, Inc., a manufacturer of measurement and control solutions for life sciences process applications, announced the launch of its new SmartParts™ family of intelligent transmitters and actuators. SmartParts are the building blocks for Finesse’s next generation of bioreactor controller systems that are intelligent and universal. In this context intelligent and [...]

Pall Corporation Names Akhil Johri Chief Financial Officer

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y., - Pall Corporation (NYSE: PLL) today announced that its board of directors will appoint Akhil Johri as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective May 1, 2013. Mr. Johri, 51, is currently Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer for United Technologies Corporation’s (UTC) Propulsion & Aerospace Systems group, a $27 billion unit [...]

Certara Launches Drug Development Consulting Services for Asia

ST. LOUIS, MO – Certara™ (headquartered in St. Louis, MO; Location of Japan office: Minato-ku, Tokyo), leading provider of software and scientific consulting services to improve productivity and decision-making from drug discovery through clinical development, today welcomed Hidefumi Kasai to lead the Pacific Rim division of Pharsight Consulting Services. “The expansion of Pharsight Consulting Services [...]

Asuragen awarded $6.8 million commercialization award from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas

Austin, Texas – Asuragen, Inc. announced today that the Company received notice of a $6.8 million commercialization award to pursue Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) applications from the State of Texas through the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (“CPRIT”). CPRIT was established to expedite innovation and commercialization in the area of cancer research and [...]

Raman Analyzer Company, DeltaNu Purchased by SciAps, Inc.

SciAps, a Woburn, MA based portable analytical instrumentation company, is pleased to announce that it has acquired DeltaNu, located in Laramie, WY and formerly a business unit of Intevac Photonics. DeltaNu develops and manufactures a range of Raman-based analyzers applicable for pharmaceutical, law enforcement, and many general analytical spectroscopy applications. The combined companies fuse SciAps’ [...]

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