Hamilton Storage Technologies Opens 52,000-Square-Foot Facility in Franklin, Mass.

Franklin, Mass. – Hamilton Storage Technologies has opened a new Franklin, Mass. facility to accommodate growing business for its automated sample management and storage systems. The facility will serve as the Sample Management division's headquarters and the East Coast competence center for Hamilton Company, a global leader in the design and manufacture of liquid handling, [...]

MIDSCI Offers Bio-Assembler Kits for 3-D Cell Culture

St. Louis, Mo. —— Bio-Assembler Kits utilize magnetic levitation to culture cells in 3-D. Available in single, six and 24-well configurations, the kits supply magnetic drivers, low-binding dishes/plates, and Nanoshuttle-PL solution in quantities and volumes appropriate to kit size. Nanoshuttle-PL solution delivers magnetic nanoparticles to cells. The magnetic driver that nests on top of the [...]

PerkinElmer and Verinata Health Announce Collaboration to Expand Access to NonInvasive Prenatal Test for Down Syndrome and Other Chromosomal Abnormalities

WALTHAM, Mass. & REDWOOD CITY, Calif -- PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI) and Verinata Health, Inc., today announced a strategic agreement for expanding access to Verinata's verifi® test, the most comprehensive non-invasive prenatal test (NIPT) currently available for high-risk pregnancies. The verifi® test, which is performed at Verinata's CLIAcertified, California laboratory, uses a single maternal blood [...]

sparkV10 Chosen to Facilitate the Hit Optimization Process in ProMining Therapeutics

Welwyn Garden City, UK –– Cresset Group, innovative provider of chemistry software and services, announces that ProMining Therapeutics Ltd has chosen to license sparkV10 for assistance in its hit-to-lead optimization efforts. sparkV10 is Cresset’s desktop bioisostere software tool which is used by medicinal and computational chemists for drug design. “sparkV10 is an exciting and powerful [...]

MOCON Announces New Corporate, Subsidiary Branding to Support Growing Global Business

Minneapolis, Minn.- MOCON, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOCO), the world’s leading manufacturer of package integrity instrumentation, is introducing new corporate branding to better support its subsidiaries and global footprint. Over the past 15 years, MOCON has acquired multiple companies including Microanalytics, Round Rock, Tex.; Baseline, Lyons, Colo.; Lippke, Neuwied, Germany, and PBI-Dansensor, Ringsted, Denmark. The company has [...]

Performing Gas Liquid Chemistries in a Controlled Manner

Using a Uniqsis FlowSyn™ flow reactor system - Sygnature Discovery (Nottingham, UK), a leading provider of integrated drug discovery services to the pharmaceutical industry, has reported results demonstrating how the system allows them to perform traditionally hazardous chemistries in a controlled manner. For example, using the proprietary FlowSyn technology with a Uniqsis GAM IIgas-liquid reactor, [...]

Elsevier Acquires Aureus Sciences, Provider of Databases and Information Tools for Pharmaceutical and Biotech Companies

Amsterdam, - Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today the acquisition of Aureus Sciences, a Paris, France based privately held company that provides databases and information tools to pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Formed in 2002, Aureus Sciences gathers unique and high quality quantitative biological activity data for [...]

Akonni Pre-Clinical Results on Rapid, Low-cost Array Moves Company Closer to Commercialization for its Infectious Disease Test Portfolio

Frederick, MD —— Akonni Biosystems announced results today from three pre-clinical studies that contribute to the body of clinical evidence that verifies the efficacy of Akonni’s TruDiagnosis molecular diagnostics (MDx) platform. Akonni TruArray® Tests are designed to fulfill market needs for mid-multiplex molecular diagnostics (tens to hundreds of molecular markers) deployed in near point-of-care settings, [...]

World’s most Precise Nanolitre Microplate Dispenser on Show at SLAS2013

Bury St Edmunds, UK: Redd&Whyte, an expert supplier of liquid handling automation for drug discovery and life science research applications today announced it is showing its Preddator liquid handling system for dispensing even difficult to pipette liquids into microplates on Booth #231 at the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) 2013 Conference in Orlando, [...]

Handheld 96- & 384-Channel Pipetting System

Designed to enable labs to process samples simply and productively the INTEGRA VIAFLO 384 is a new handheld 384-channel electronic pipette that enables fast, precise and easy transfer of 384 samples simultaneously. Uniquely the VIAFLO 384 offers all the benefits of increased sample throughput as well as lower sample and reagent use without the expense [...]

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