October 2, 2012
CARLSBAD, Calif., -- Life Technologies Corporation — (NASDAQ: LIFE) the world's leader in human identification solutions, today launched GlobalFiler™ and GlobalFiler™ Express, two new DNA kits that will revolutionize how crime labs perform forensic testing around the world -- making it faster, easier and cheaper to process DNA samples. By increasing the number of genetic [...]
October 2, 2012
SAN JOSE, Calif.–– Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announces a joint marketing initiative with METTLER TOLEDO for combined Titration/Ion Chromatography (IC) system designed to provide a fast, accurate and integrated solution for fully-automated water analysis for laboratories testing the quality of drinking, surface or ground water. The new Titration/IC system [...]
Limited Volume Inserts with Bottom and Top Springs by J.G. Finneran Associates
October 2, 2012
J.G. Finneran Associates designed Limited Volume Inserts with Bottom and Top Springs to ensure that autosamplers extract even the smallest sample volumes every time, without damaging injection needles or breaking sample containers. The inserts are preassembled with polymer bottom springs or the patented Top Spring™, which act as shock absorbers to protect sample needles from [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific and bioMérieux Renew Partnership for Improved Detection of Sepsis
October 2, 2012
Marcy l'Etoile, France and Hennigsdorf, Germany – bioMérieux and Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced they have renewed their non-exclusive, long-term, royalty-bearing agreement for Procalcitonin (PCT) testing. This agreement extends a long-standing relationship between the companies for biomarker testing using Thermo Fisher’s PCT product on bioMérieux’s VIDAS® and mini [...]
October 2, 2012
Paris, France,- Cellectis (Alternext: ALCLS), the French genome engineering specialist, announces in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, one of the most respected scientific journals in the world, the publication of a new approach regarding the targeted modification of DNA. The manuscript unmasks novel perspectives and broadens the scope of TALENs TM technology to new therapeutic [...]
LECO and Berkeley Lab Partner for Metabolomics Advancements
October 2, 2012
St. Joseph, Mich.—LECO Corporation has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) for the development of metabolomic applications and tools. Berkeley Lab’s Life Sciences Division will receive access to the LECO Citius™ LC-HRT (High Resolution TOFMS) for applied research in metabolomics. Designed for complex sample analysis, [...]
October 2, 2012
COLOGNE, Germany---- Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies, Inc. (BEST) today announced the receipt of three contracts from Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) valued at $5.5 million for beamline components for the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS-II) under construction in New York, as well as four other contracts for beamline experimental stations from customers in Korea, Taiwan, [...]
SeraCare Receives NIH Grant for Recent HIV Infection Rapid Test and Incidence Panels
October 2, 2012
Milford, Mass.,– SeraCare Life Sciences, a global life sciences company providing vital products and services to facilitate the discovery, development and production of human diagnostics, has received a $299,771 Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, an agency of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The [...]
High Efficiency Electrocompetent Cells
October 2, 2012
AMSBIO announces the introduction of CloneCatcher™ Gold DH5G Electrocompent E. coli cells - a new product that exhibits extremely high electroporation efficiencies that approach the theoretical maximum of 3.4 x 1011 cfu/µg pUC19 DNA. Transferring exogenous DNA into E. coli is a standard laboratory method for cloning genes and constructing cDNA, genomic and epitope libraries. [...]
October 2, 2012
MILFORD, Mass.--Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced its Thermo Scientific Mass Spectrometric Immunoassay (MSIA) pipette tips, a collection of immunoaffinity sample preparation products. Robust MSIA™ technology delivers a simplified way to enrich target proteins for downstream mass spectrometric analysis. “Our new MSIA pipette tips provide scientists with an easier [...]

