Meridian Bioscience Launches ImmunoCard® C. difficile GDH Assay in Europe
August 9, 2011
CINCINNATI--Meridian Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIVO) is pleased to announce the launch of a new Clostridium difficile rapid test, ImmunoCard C. difficile GDH. This assay detects the common antigen, Glutamate dehydrogenase, produced by toxigenic and non-toxigenic strains of Clostridium difficile. Toxigenic strains of Clostridium difficile are frequently associated with hospital and community acquired diarrhea and can lead [...]
Smiths Detection Wins Major German Contract for Advanced X-Ray Scanners
August 9, 2011
Wiesbaden, Germany - Smiths Detection today announces a contract to provide about 50 Advanced Threat Identification X-ray (aTiX) systems for security checkpoints at Frankfurt International Airport (FRA). The value of the contract was not disclosed. The order from the German Interior Ministry comprises HI-SCAN 6040 aTiX and HI-SCAN 7555 aTiX systems, combined with re-inspection components, [...]
SALVE Project Enters Second Phase
August 9, 2011
Oberkochen/Germany. Nashville/Tennessee - Following the successful completion of a two-year evaluation phase, the University of Ulm, the Heidelberg-based company CEOS GmbH and Carl Zeiss Nano Technology Systems have signed an agreement to embark on the next phase of the SALVE project. SALVE – which stands for Sub-Angstrom Low Voltage Electron Microscope – is one of [...]
NanoString Introduces Rat miRNA Expression Assays
August 9, 2011
SEATTLE, Wash. – NanoString Technologies, Inc., a privately held provider of life science tools for translational research and developer of molecular diagnostics, today announced the availability of the nCounter® Rat miRNA Expression Assay Kit for use on its nCounter Analysis System. The nCounter Rat miRNA Expression Assay Kit enables researchers to perform direct digital detection [...]
Indianapolis Museum of Art Uses New Microscope Technology to Improve Art Analysis
August 9, 2011
OBERKOCHEN, Germany / NASHVILLE, TN - Carl Zeiss today announced that the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) is using a Carl Zeiss “Shuttle & Find” Correlative Microscopy package in the museum’s new state-of-the-art conservation science laboratory funded by Lilly Endowment Inc. The package facilitates direct communication between ZEISS electron microscopes and ZEISS light microscopes, thus [...]
August 9, 2011
Oxford Instruments NanoAnalysis, a world leader in microanalysis systems, has launched a new EBSD detector at M&M 2011. The new NordlysNano addresses the growing requirements of nanoscale applications: it is 60% more sensitive than the previous generation of EBSD detector, the NordlysS. Increased sensitivity offers a number of benefits. Firstly, accurate EBSD data can be [...]
Cepheid Announces Release of Updated Xpert BCR-ABL Monitor Test
August 9, 2011
SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Cepheid (CPHD) today announced the release of an updated Xpert® BCR-ABL Monitor test, now reporting results to the International Scale. The test is being released as a European CE IVD Mark product under the European Directive on In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices. The test, which runs on Cepheid's GeneXpert® System, detects the [...]
Eureka Genomics Lands a DHS Phase II Award for $750,000
August 9, 2011
HOUSTON--The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) have awarded Eureka Genomics Corporation a $750,000 Phase II SBIR for the detection of rare variants of Bacillus anthracis. After successfully completing a DHS Phase I contract, Eureka Genomics has been awarded a $750,000 Phase II SBIR from The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) [...]
Asylum Research Installs First Cypher™ AFM in China
August 9, 2011
Asylum Research, the technology leader in scanning probe/atomic force microscopy (AFM/SPM), announced today that it has installed the first Cypher AFM system in China at the South China Normal University in Guangzhou. Cypher, the world’s fastest and highest resolution AFM, was installed in the lab of Professor Xingsen Gao at the SCNU Institute for Advanced [...]
August 9, 2011
Santa Clara, CA – Picarro, Inc., the world’s leading provider of instruments for carbon and water cycle measurement, today announced a powerful new analyzer, which, for the first time, simultaneously measures isotope ratios of carbon and hydrogen from a single sample. The Picarro 13C+D CM-CRDS (Carbon-13 + Deuterium Combustion Module - Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy) Isotope [...]
