Dr. Adrian Guckian to Lead Ocean Optics’ Sensors Business Unit
September 11, 2012
Dunedin, FL – Ocean Optics has appointed Adrian Guckian, Ph.D., Director of its Sensors business unit. As Director of the Sensors business unit Guckian will lead the company’s global sensors team in developing new products, such as high-volume, low-cost sensor platforms for a number of new markets. An alternative to traditional chemical sensing, Ocean Optics’ [...]
Scienion to partner with Maine Manufacturing for marketing of FAST® Slide products
September 10, 2012
Scienion AG and Maine Manufacturing, LLC, today announced an agreement on Scienion’s marketing of Maine Manufacturing’s FAST® protein array products. The non-exclusive distribution arrangement includes the worldwide marketing of the complete FAST® Slide product line. Dortmund and Berlin, Germany, September 10, 2012: The FAST® Slide product line is built around the nitrocellulose coated FAST Slide [...]
Sequenom Announces Proposed Offering Of $100 Million Of Convertible Senior Notes
September 10, 2012
SAN DIEGO, -- Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM) today announced that it intends to offer, subject to market and other considerations, $100.0 million aggregate principal amount of Convertible Senior Notes due 2017 (the "Convertible Notes") in a private offering. Sequenom also intends to grant to the initial purchasers of the Convertible Notes a 30-day option to [...]
VWR International, LLC Acquires Klen International
September 10, 2012
RADNOR, PA,- VWR International, LLC, a global leader in distributing laboratory supplies and services, announced today the acquisition of KLEN International's mining supply business. Based in Perth, Australia and dating back to 1974, KLEN is a diversified chemical manufacturer and distributor with businesses that provide a wide range of products to industrial customers. VWR is [...]
Illumina Names Paul Bianchi as Senior Vice President of Human Resources
September 10, 2012
SAN DIEGO -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced it has appointed Paul Bianchi as Senior Vice President of Human Resources. In this executive management position, Bianchi will oversee Illumina’s global HR strategy and programs including talent and leadership development, employee engagement and communications, and rewards and recognition. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he [...]
Bruker Announces New Quantitative Proteomics Capabilities with Skyline Software
September 10, 2012
BOSTON -- At the 11th HUPO Annual World Congress the MacCoss lab of Biological Mass Spectrometry at the University of Washington in Seattle introduces a new version of Skyline Software, now supporting Bruker maXis™ series ultra-high resolution ESI-Qq-TOF mass spectrometers. Skyline is a widely used, open source proteomics software platform for building Selected Reaction Monitoring [...]
September 10, 2012
BOSTON – HUPO 11th Annual World Congress -– Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced a new data-independent acquisition (DIA) proteomics capability for the Thermo Scientific Q Exactive high performance quadrupole-Orbitrap LC-MS/MS. The new DIA feature allows the Q ExactiveTM mass spectrometer to collect MS/MS spectra on virtually all ions [...]
Luminex Corporation Hosts 10th Annual Planet xMAP Symposium in Monaco
September 10, 2012
AUSTIN, Texas, -- Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX), today announced that it will host Planet xMAP Europe 2012, its annual European multiplexing technology symposium, October 10-11, 2012 at the Grimaldi Forum in the Principality of Monaco. Luminex anticipates attendance of over 500 scientists and more than 40 scientific presentations to be addressed during the 10th anniversary [...]
Combipack Lowers Cost of Protein Precipitation Sample Preparation
September 10, 2012
The Combipack™ is Porvair Sciences economic response to the growing use of protein precipitation separation techniques in chromatography labs. Comprising four Porvair p3 protein precipitation plates and four 1ml deep well collection plates (colour coded in red or blue polypropylene) the Combipack provides all the elements you require to undertake protein precipitation separations at a [...]
ALLCELLS Introduces Autoimmune Diseased Cells and Tissue Products
September 10, 2012
AllCells, LLC, a leading provider of healthy & diseased hematopoietic tissues, primary cell types, and related services to the global life science industry has announced the release of new autoimmune diseased cells and tissue products. The specimens may be used in preclinical research, drug discovery, drug toxicity, diagnostic related assays, and other life science research [...]

