BEECKEN PETTY O’KEEFE & COMPANY COMPLETES SALE OF REICHERT, INC.

CHICAGO –- Beecken Petty O'Keefe and Company (“BPOC”), a private equity firm focused exclusively on the health care industry, announced today that it has completed the sale of Reichert Technologies to AMETEK, Inc. Located in Depew, New York, Reichert is a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-quality diagnostic instruments and equipment for [...]

Fluidigm and Research Instruments Enter Distribution Deal for Singapore and Thailand

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. & BANGKOK & SINGAPORE--Fluidigm Corporation has appointed Research Instruments Pte Ltd/RI Technologies Ltd. as its distributor in Singapore and Thailand. Research Instruments will offer Fluidigm’s complete portfolio of BioMark™ HD, EP1™, and Access Array™ Systems, the complete line up of Dynamic Array™, Digital Array™ and Access Array IFCs for real-time PCR, [...]

SPECTRO LAUNCHES NEXT-GENERATION SPECTRO xSORT

KLEVE, GERMANY – SPECTRO Analytical Instruments, a leading supplier of analytical instruments for optical emission and XRF spectrometry, has introduced the next-generation SPECTRO xSORT handheld energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) spectrometer. The new instrument comes in a smaller, lightweight package that offers better analytical performance, and incorporates many exclusive new features. The new xSORT is [...]

The Revolutionary Science IncuCount Brings Low Cost Automatic Colony Counting to the ‘Rest of Us’

Shafer, Minnesota - Labor intensive, manual colony counting has long been the source of untold human error, delays, boredom, and frustration. Consequently, many labs have been driven to invest in automatic colony counters that can rapidly count colonies, create digital images, and record data, all at the click of a mouse. The bad news? Along [...]

Shimadzu Corporation and Shimane University Sign Joint Research Agreement for Neonatal Mass Screening Using Tandem Mass Spectrometry

Shimadzu Corporation (President: Akira Nakamoto, situated in Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan) and Shimane University (President: Hiroki Yamamoto, situated in Matsue City, Shimane, Japan) have signed a joint research agreement for neonatal mass screening using tandem mass spectrometry. (Research period: October 15, 2011 to March 31, 2013.) In neonatal mass screening, blood sampled from newborn babies is [...]

Bruker’s high performance SCION SQ and TQ GC-MS unveiled in Japan

Bruker Chemical and Applied Markets, US: At the recent 49th JAIMA EXPO in Chiba, Japan, organizers estimated that visitors numbers in the region of 30,000 attended. It was at this event that Bruker demonstrated its innovative ‘lens-free’ elliptical ion path of the recently launched SCION™ single quadrupole (SQ) and SCION™ triple quadrupole (TQ) gas chromatography-mass [...]

Drug Safety, Efficacy, and Potential New Cancer Biomarker Predicted by NextBio

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--New research presented this week highlights the ability of NextBio to help life scientists and clinicians investigate publicly available genomic data to assess biological mechanisms underlying drug toxicity, as well as discover prospective cancer biomarkers for further validation. The unique capabilities of NextBio to search and make discoveries, not possible by other methods, [...]

Cytonome/ST, LLC Announces High-Speed Rare Event Detection Milestone

BOSTON -- Cytonome/ST, LLC, a developer and manufacturer of advanced cell cytometry and sorting systems, today announced a milestone in the high-speed detection of rare events. Cytonome/ST researchers have demonstrated robust identification of extremely rare target particles. Using Cytonome/ST's existing parallel detection technology and cross contamination-free sample system, the researchers were able to reliably identify [...]

Perten presents the Inframatic 9500 – the most modern NIT wholegrain analyzer

The IM 9500 NIT Grain Analyzer is based on industry standard scanning grating transmittance technology, incorporating the latest advances in technology and usability. Grain analyzers have not changed in many years, until now. With modern electronics and signal amplification for unsurpassed accuracy, and a large color touch screen to meet today’s expectations of easy handling, [...]

PREMIER Biosoft today announced the successful delivery of OligoArchitect™ Online v2.0 to Sigma-Aldrich.

Palo Alto, California -- PREMIER Biosoft, as a part of its contract software development services, has delivered OligoArchitect™ Online v2.0 to Sigma Life Science, the innovative biological products and services research business of Sigma-Aldrich. Sigma-Aldrich, with operations in over 40 countries, is a life science and high technology company. Its chemical and biochemical products are [...]

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