ProteinSimple Charges Ahead with the Simple Western
September 12, 2012
Santa Clara, CA, — ProteinSimple today introduced Peggy as the next member of the Simple Western product family. Peggy is the first Simple Western product to not only replace the traditional slow, inconsistent Western Blot, but to enable further in-depth characterization of proteins via charge-based separation. The Simple Western is a Western with none of [...]
September 12, 2012
Yarmouth, ME: Water quality instrumentation manufacturer Fluid Imaging Technologies, Yarmouth, Maine (www.fluidimaging.com) has contracted with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the sale of the company’s automated FlowCAM® particle imaging and analysis system. To be deployed in the Huntington District, Huntington, West Virginia, the FlowCAM is to speed the detection and identification of Cyanobacteria [...]
Brooks’ Single-use REMP tubes support optimization of automated serum and plasma storage
September 12, 2012
Poway, CA, Brooks Life Science Systems, a division of Brooks Automation, Inc. (Nasdaq: BRKS), a leading worldwide provider of automation solutions for compound and biological sample storage and management, announced today that Karolinska Institute Biobank (KI Biobank) is successfully using Brooks’ REMP single-use heat sealed sample tubes to secure the long-term storage of plasma, serum [...]
USDA issues letter of no objection for Neogen’s NeoSEEK™ STEC detection system
September 12, 2012
LANSING, Mich., — Neogen Corporation (Nasdaq: NEOG) has announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued a letter of no objection for the use of Neogen’s NeoSEEK™ pathogen DNA detection method to detect Shiga toxin-producing strains of E. coli (STECs). The letter of no objection allows the use of [...]
Sartorius officially opens production facility for bioreactors in Guxhagen, Germany
September 12, 2012
Goettingen | Guxhagen, Germany, – Today on Wednesday, Sartorius, the Goettingen-based laboratory and pharmaceutical supplier, formally opened its new plant in Guxhagen in northern Hesse for the manufacture of bioreactors. After approximately one year of construction, the new building was officially dedicated in the presence of the prime minister of the state government of Hesse, [...]
PrimeraDx Receives CE Marks for the ICEPlex System and C. difficile Detection Assay
September 12, 2012
MANSFIELD, Mass. -- PrimeraDx, a molecular diagnostics company, announced today that the ICEPlex system, a quantitative multiplex PCR system, and their C. difficile detection assay both received the CE mark. "Obtaining the CE mark on our instrument and assay is an important step in the process of global commercialization of our extensive pipeline of molecular [...]
September 12, 2012
Frederick, MD —— Akonni Biosystems today announced the availability of a new family of “smart tip” extraction products for rapidly purifying human genomic deoxyribonucleic acid (gDNA) on the Hamilton Microlab® STAR line of robotic liquid handling workstations. Starting from fresh or frozen blood, buffy coat, and soon tissue or cells, these new TruTip kits extract [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Introduces New Innovatively Designed Pipetting System
September 12, 2012
MILFORD, Mass.-- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced the new Thermo Scientific F1-ClipTip pipetting system, enabling users to deliver consistent, reproducible pipetting with higher-quality results. Its revolutionary ClipTip interlocking technology locks tips securely into place to deliver an airtight seal on every channel. “Researchers are constantly challenged with pipette [...]
September 11, 2012
SAN DIEGO & BOSTON -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) and Partners HealthCare today announced a strategic alliance to offer medical geneticists and pathologists infrastructure and networking tools to support the interpretation and reporting process for genetic sequencing data. The tools will integrate the functionality of Illumina’s MiSeq® sequencing system and Partners GeneInsight Suite®, an IT platform [...]
September 11, 2012
San Diego, CA – Daylight Solutions, Inc., a leading manufacturer of molecular detection and imaging solutions in the mid-infrared, announced today that the company has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The grant will be used to advance and commercialize Daylight’s infrared microscope platform. [...]
