ZEISS Invests in UK Operations through Expansion of Cambridge Site
February 27, 2013
The UK manufacturing and sales divisions of Carl Zeiss have cemented their roots in Cambridge with an expansion of their existing production site and the construction of new application laboratories, sales and service offices and customer facilities. Coldhams Lane in Cambridge has been home to Carl Zeiss Microscopy Ltd for some years. Due to the [...]
February 27, 2013
BIOCRATES Life Sciences announces the launch of a new edition of its well-established research kit, AbsoluteIDQ® p150. The kit, which has been available for use with AB Sciex and Waters mass spectrometry systems, has now been designed to also run on Thermo Scientific’s TSQ Vantage Triple Stage Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer, enabling even more research labs [...]
Winners of GE Healthcare 2012 Cell Imaging Competition announced
February 27, 2013
Chalfont St Giles, UK –– GE Healthcare Life Sciences today announced Jane Stout, from the United States, Anushree Balachandran from Australia and Markus Posch from the UK as the winners of the GE Healthcare 2012 Cell Imaging Competition. With over 15,000 votes cast in a public vote, the winners can now look forward to seeing [...]
Bruker Opens Two New Centers of Excellence in Mumbai and Bengaluru
February 27, 2013
MUMBAI and BENGALURU, India -– Bruker, a leading provider of high-performance scientific instruments for molecular and materials research, as well as for industrial, clinical and applied analysis, celebrates the grand openings of its new Mumbai and Bengaluru Centers of Excellence (CoE) this week. For over three decades, Bruker has grown its presence in India, with [...]
Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. Will Offer Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) From Natera
February 27, 2013
ELMWOOD PARK, N.J., -- Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. (Nasdaq:BRLI) announced today that the Company and Natera have entered into a definitive agreement to commercialize the Panorama™ non-invasive prenatal screening test developed by Natera. The Panorama test will be sold by the GenPath business unit of Bioreference. Panorama is a simple blood test that uses cutting-edge genotyping [...]
Pfizer Senior Director of Scientific Software Development Joins Core Informatics
February 27, 2013
BRANFORD, Conn., -- Core Informatics, a leading provider of laboratory data management software, is pleased to announce a Senior Director of Scientific Development and Director of Business Operations from Pfizer has joined the Core team. Doug Phillips , after having worked at Pfizer as both a chemist and IT professional since 1982, has accepted the [...]
Swift Biosciences Introduces Accel-NGS™ DNA Library Kit
February 27, 2013
wift Biosciences, Inc. today announced the launch of the Accel-NGS™ DNA Library Kit, the first product in a new line of kits for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) sample preparation. NGS users can now produce PCR-free libraries with as little as 5 ng of input DNA. The highly efficient Swift adaptation technology eliminates the need for [...]
February 27, 2013
BUFFALO, NY, – Reichert Technologies, a unit of AMETEK Ultra Precision Technologies, has named Christopher A. Thatcher as Division Vice President and Business Unit Manager. Mr. Thatcher will be based at Reichert’s Buffalo, NY, headquarters and have responsibility for Reichert’s global businesses. “I am very pleased to have Chris Thatcher join AMETEK and lead our [...]
Visit Malvern Instruments at Powtech: new material characterization products and expert advice
February 27, 2013
Leading technologists from Malvern Instruments, the materials characterization experts, will be presenting at Powtech (23-25 April, Nürnberg, Germany). Dr Alan Rawle, a highly-respected figure in the field of light scattering will present “Attrition of FCC catalysts studied by pressure size titration (PST) in laser diffraction dry dispersion” while Dr Debbie Huck, an authority on imaging, [...]
February 27, 2013
CARLSBAD, Calif., -- MO BIO Laboratories, Inc., the leader in plant, soil, stool and microbial nucleic acid purification, announces the launch of the PowerMag™ Seed and PowerPlant ® Pro-htp 96 Well DNA Isolation Kits, for high-throughput purification of nucleic acids from seeds and plants. The PowerMag™ Seed DNA Isolation Kit is the latest kit in [...]
