iChemLabs Announces ChemDoodle 4

Piscataway, NJ - iChemLabs, a developer of chemical software for professionals and students, announces that ChemDoodle 4 is now available. ChemDoodle has quickly become one of the most popular applications for chemical drawing and publishing, used by thousands of institutions in over 50 countries. ChemDoodle is the only chemical publishing software application that works on [...]

QIAGEN Completes Acquisition of Cellestis Limited

VENLO, The Netherlands and MELBOURNE, Australia, QIAGEN N.V. today announced that its acquisition of all the ordinary shares in Cellestis Limited ("Cellestis") by a way of a scheme of arrangement ("Scheme") has been implemented. The closing of the transaction follows the official approval of Cellestis' shareholders and Australian courts. QIAGEN had announced the initial proposal [...]

Gentel Announces Agreement With Oregon Health & Science University

Gentel Biosciences, a provider of animal health research products, announces today an agreement with Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) to license viral antigens for use in Gentel's Colony Surveillance Assays (CSA). Gentel licensed the viral antigens from OHSU for worldwide commercial use. These antigens were developed at the molecular virology core at OHSU's Oregon [...]

HTG Molecular Diagnostics Launches New Version of MicroRNA Screening Product

TUCSON, Ariz.––HTG Molecular Diagnostics today announced the availability of the qDiscovery miRNA Whole Transcriptome Array (WTA) Version 16, a complete solution for microRNA (miRNA) analysis on any sample type or size. This array is an update to the previous Version 11 which measures all known human, rat and mouse miRNA in a single sample well [...]

Save Time and Improve Cell Viability when Producing Cell Isolates

Pequannock, NJ - Researchers can quickly and easily disaggregate multiple tissue samples to produce isolated cell suspensions for flow cytometry analysis or cell culture with the Scienceware® 12-Well Tissue Disaggregator by Bel-Art Products. This patent pending, multi-well device mates with standard 12-well culture plates enabling processing of tissues directly into culture plate wells. Twelve wells [...]

SAW Instruments to Unveil New High-End Biosensor

Bonn, Germany – SAW Instruments GmbH, has announced that the official European launch of its new sam®X biosensor will take place at MipTec 2011, Basel, Switzerland (20-22nd September). This high-end system is the latest addition to the SAW biosensor product family, providing several new workflow-driven key features which further expand the number of channels to [...]

An Independent Study Documents the Benefits of Exiqon’s qPCR System for microRNA Profiling of Blood Samples (Plasma and Serum)

Exiqon A/S, a leading supplier of high-value gene expression analysis products, today announced that an independent scientific benchmark study demonstrates the superior sensitivity and linearity of the miRCURY LNA™ Universal RT microRNA PCR product line. The benchmark study was performed by a research group at Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Denmark, and was published today in [...]

Gyros and GE Healthcare Life Sciences expand Asian distribution relationship to China, Taiwan and Hong Kong

Uppsala, Sweden and Chalfont St Giles, UK: Gyros AB, a leader in utilization of microfluidic technologies to miniaturize and automate immunoassays, announced today that GE Healthcare Life Sciences has become sole distributor for the company’s nanoliter-scale immunoassay platform in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The Gyros platform (www.gyros.com) is used by major biopharmaceutical companies and [...]

Center for Proteomics at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) Selected as Waters Center of Innovation

MILFORD, Mass. —— Waters Corporation today recognized the Center for Proteomics at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) as a Waters Center of Innovation. In particular, Waters recognized Dr. Konstantinos Petritis, Head of TGen’s Center for Proteomics, and his team for their leadership in the research of proteomics and biomarker discovery and verification. In a [...]

Robert Yates to Lead EMD Millipore Division

BILLERICA, Mass.--EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA of Germany, today announced that Robert Yates will become President of the EMD Millipore division as of September 1, 2011. He will report to Bernd Reckmann, Member of the Executive Board of Merck and responsible for the Chemicals business sector, which includes EMD Millipore and [...]

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