Magellan Biosciences Sells TREK Microbiology Business to Thermo Fisher Scientific
July 18, 2011
CHELMSFORD, Mass. Magellan Biosciences, a global manufacturer of products designed to make diagnostic testing easier, more cost-effective, and less labor intensive, announced that it has sold its microbiology business, TREK Diagnostic Systems, to Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE: TMO). The sale will enable Magellan to focus all its resources on its LeadCare® and Dynex® businesses, both [...]
Hach Unveils New Website for Improved User Experience
July 18, 2011
LOVELAND, Colo. - 2011—Hach Company (www.hach.com) launched a new Hach.com site on July 17. One of the key missions of Hach is to make water testing as simple as possible, and now the same applies to its website. The website features a more powerful search, a clear and easy step-by-step checkout process for both products [...]
Corning Announces New Compact Centrifuge
July 18, 2011
CORNING, N.Y. - Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) today announced the new Corning® LSE™ compact centrifuge for use in a variety of industrial and clinical applications, including sedimentation of urine and blood samples. The new model uses minimal benchtop space, offers variable speeds, and accommodates both 15 mL and 50 mL centrifuge tubes, blood tubes, and [...]
July 18, 2011
St. Pete Beach, Florida – At the 2011 Florida Pesticide Residue Workshop, Bruker today announced the release the SCION TQ™ triple quadrupole and the SCION SQ™ single quadrupole mass spectrometers for gas chromatography (GC) detection. Designed especially to enhance data quality and productivity for analysts working in routine testing and applied markets, these systems combine [...]
Beckman Coulter Genomics Launches Automated, High-Capacity, Target Capture Sequencing Service
July 18, 2011
DANVERS, MASS. - Beckman Coulter Genomics today announced a completely automated, high-capacity, target capture sequencing service that delivers quality sequencing data and streamlines sample preparation for targeted next generation sequencing. Utilizing Agilent SureSelect Target Enrichment technology with the Beckman Coulter SPRIworks Fragment Library System for automated library construction and the Biomek Laboratory Automation Workstation for [...]
July 18, 2011
MILFORD, Mass. - SeraCare Life Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: SRLS), a global life sciences company providing vital products and services to facilitate the discovery, development and production of human diagnostics and therapeutics, today announced that the Company has retained Lazard to provide advisory services to the Board of Directors. In addition, the Company announced that it [...]
Mayo Clinic Licenses Patent Rights for M. tuberculosis Complex Speciation
July 18, 2011
ROCHESTER, Minn. - Mayo Clinic has licensed patent rights from QIAGEN to enable Mayo Medical Laboratories to offer an M. tuberculosis complex speciation test. The test expands Mayo Medical Laboratories’ current offering for tuberculosis testing, which already includes M. tuberculosis complex culture, molecular identification and drug susceptibility testing. In addition, Mayo Medical Laboratories offers polymerase [...]
Shedding Light on Novel Cellular Pathways with TTP LabTech
July 18, 2011
Royston, UK – TTP LabTech today highlighted the use of the Acumen® eX3 laser scanning imaging cytometer to elucidate novel cellular pathways involved in the shedding of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). The application note entitled “The use of Acumen eX3 for the identification of the roles of Protein Kinase C (PKC) ? & [...]
Analytik Jena Acquires a Stake in Dutch-based Westburg B.V.
July 18, 2011
Jena, Germany - Analytik Jena AG has acquired a 20.0% stake in its Dutch sales partner Westburg B.V. worth EUR 150 thousand. An agreement to this effect was signed by the two companies today. Westburg B.V. is a sales company specializing in molecular diagnostics and primarily serves the markets of the Low Countries and Scandinavia. [...]
Nanolane Launches a Demo Centre in Suzhou, China
July 18, 2011
Nanolane, the French company that markets truly revolutionary microscope slides with the astounding property to make conventional optical microscopes capable of imaging nano-objects is proud to announce the launch of their new Asian Demo Centre in Suzhou, China. In 2008, China overtook the United States in the number of scientific publications in the domain of [...]
