Dean of MIT School of Science Joins Bruker Board of Directors

BILLERICA, Mass., --Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) today announced the election of Dr. Marc Kastner to its Board of Directors, replacing Mr. Charles F. Wagner, Jr., who stepped down from the Board in the summer of 2012 in order to become Bruker’s new Chief Financial Officer. Dr. Kastner is Donner Professor of Physics and Dean of [...]

Advanced Technologies Bring Record Growth to Charm Sciences in Its 35th Year

As Charm Sciences celebrates its 35th year in business, its organic science continues to lead the world’s dairy and food processors in making the world a safer place to live. Charm—from its tests that detect antibiotics in milk to its hygiene verification test—provides the worldwide food processing industry with rapid and easy-to-use tests needed to [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches New Carbohydrate Capillary Column for Underderivatized Monosaccharide Analysis

Thermo Fisher Scientific is pleased to announce a new carbohydrate column, the Thermo Scientific™ CarboPac™ PA10 (0.4 x 50 mm) Capillary Column, optimized for the high sensitivity determination of amino, neutral, and acidic monosaccharides found in carbohydrate moieties of mammalian glycoproteins. The column is also ideal for the separation of alditols and sugars in matrices [...]

Agilent Technologies Introduces Expanded Mobile Measurement Portfolio for Multiple Field-Based Applications

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced an expanded line of analytical solutions designed for on-site field use, providing immediate laboratory-quality measurements of a wide variety of samples. The entire portfolio-a package of specially designed GC, GC/MS, FTIR and HPLC technologies-can be used in multiple environments, spanning the breadth of Agilent's chemical analysis platform. These [...]

GnuBIO Shipping Beta Systems April 1st 2013

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-- GnuBIO, Inc. (GnuBIO), www.gnubio.com a pioneer in the Desktop DNA sequencing market, announced today that it will begin shipments of its beta system, the world’s first fully-integrated DNA sequencing system, to beta sites on April 1, 2013. Unlike other sequencing instruments or “workflows” that require many days of sample preparation, or require large [...]

Untreated Microplates for Growing Cells in Suspension

Porvair Sciences has announced a new range of 12-, 24-, 48- and 96 well format untreated polystyrene culture microplates for growing cells in stationary suspension or other applications where reduced cell attachment is desired. Untreated polystyrene plates are the lab tool of choice for growing embryoid bodies and other cells where cell attachment needs to [...]

Bina Technologies Launches Platform Today, Delivering Breakthrough Big Data Solution for Genomic Analysis

Redwood City, CA -- Bina Technologies, the genomic big data science platform accelerating personalized medicine, today announced the commercial launch of the Bina Genomic Analysis Platform. The platform is a linearly scalable end-to-end solution for genomic analysis that is uniquely built to deliver improved data accuracy, reducing the time and improving the cost-effectiveness of processing [...]

NanoString Launches Its First Commercial Diagnostic Product in the European Union and Israel

SEATTLE – NanoString Technologies, Inc., a privately held provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced it has launched its first commercial in vitro diagnostic product, the Prosigna™ Breast Cancer Prognostic Gene Signature Assay for the nCounter® diagnostic system in the European Union (EU) and Israel. Based on the [...]

Cepheid And Oregon Health & Science University Collaborate To Develop Oncology Assays For GeneXpert® System

SUNNYVALE, Calif., --Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD) and the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) today announced a collaboration to develop a menu of advanced molecular diagnostics to be performed on the GeneXpert system. The collaboration will focus on the development of clinical oncology tests for the GeneXpert system and will establish a [...]

The National University Hospital in Seoul trusts in Leica’s progressive confocal technology and stunningly clear images

Mannheim, Germany -- the Seoul National University Hospital Biomedical Research Institute (SNUH) in Korea offers super-sensitive and super-resolution imaging with the advanced high-end imaging system Leica TCS SP8 STED to its more than 400 reseachers. For the wide range of applications from simple cell biology to reperfusion live experiments, the institute’s confocal microscopy core facility [...]

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