A. Blaine Bowman Joins Altera Board of Directors
July 30, 2012
San Jose, Calif., — Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) announced that Arthur Blaine Bowman has joined the company’s board of directors, effective July 30, 2012. Mr. Bowman has served as president, CEO and chairman of the board of directors for Dionex Corporation, a maker of chromatography separation technologies acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific in 2011. He [...]
GQ-Dx Becomes the First HIPAA-Compliant Genomic Decision Support System
July 30, 2012
WESTBOROUGH, Mass., — GenomeQuest Inc., a global provider of large-scale genomic software applications, today announced that its GQ-Dx genomic decision support system for the production of clinical-grade diagnostic reports from next-generation sequencing (NGS) runs now meets Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) security and privacy standards. HIPAA rules protect the privacy of individually identifiable [...]
RURO Introduces Version 5.3 of FreezerPro Software
July 29, 2012
Freederick MD -- RURO, Inc., a developer of software and inventory solutions introduces FreezerPro, version 5.3. Here are the new features which have been added to the product: • New Software Section, “Staging & Receiving Area”, has been added to FreezerPro. The users can create records for samples and vials without locations. This is a [...]
Scanning Electron Microscope Acquired By Saint Vinicent College For Student Research
July 27, 2012
A Hitachi Variable Pressure Scanning Electron Microscope (VP SEM) has been acquired by the Herbert W. Boyer School of Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Computing at Saint Vincent College for student research in the instrument laboratory of the Sis and Herman Dupré Science Pavilion. Hitachi High Technologies America, Inc. (HTA), whose Nanotechnology Systems Division (NSD) distributes [...]
July 27, 2012
Westlake Village, CA —— Cynvenio Biosystems, Inc., a developer of rare cell isolation systems for biomedical research, personalized medicine and molecular diagnosis of cancer, today announced the ability to enable next generation sequencing of rare cell populations without the need for additional amplification steps. Cynvenio’s automated LiquidBiopsy™ cell isolation platform recovers circulating tumor cells (CTCs) [...]
Manifold Optimises Fume Cupboard Water Use
July 27, 2012
The new Asynt water manifold converts the flow from a single tap into 3 streams enabling optimal use of your fume cupboard water supply. The water manifold is equally effective linked to Liebig or Vigreux condensers as it is to a recirculating chiller and avoids "daisy chaining" multiple condensers. After passing through condensers / chillers [...]
Asynt ReactoMate improves efficiency at PhosphonicsS
July 27, 2012
Using a specially adapted Asynt 20-litre ReactoMate™ reactor system - PhosphonicS Ltd. (Abingdon, UK) has improved turnaround time and batch-to-batch efficiency for scaling-up production of its range of functionalised silicas. Using proprietary immobilisation technology, PhosphonicS Ltd. has developed a range of functionalised silicas for pharmaceutical purification and heterogeneous catalysis operations. The materials enable metal residue [...]
Thomas M. Montgomery Named Vice President – Planning & Analysis
July 27, 2012
Berwyn, PA, -- AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE:AME) today announced the appointment of Thomas M. Montgomery as Vice President – Planning & Analysis. He most recently has served as Director, Financial Planning & Analysis in AMETEK’s Corporate Office. “I am pleased to announce Tom’s well deserved promotion to Vice President,” notes Frank S. Hermance, AMETEK Chairman and [...]
Precise Temperature Control of Impact Specimens
July 27, 2012
SP Scientific has introduced the CharpyCool - a low temperature bath that provides metallurgists and testing laboratories a wider range of precise temperature control for impact specimens cooling, with one of the smallest footprints on the market. The new CharpyCool is a mechanically refrigerated bench top bath that eliminates the need for costly consumables such [...]
Teledyne Technologies Appoints Ruth E. Bruch to Board of Directors
July 27, 2012
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. –– Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY) announced today the appointment of Ruth E. Bruch, retired senior vice president and chief information officer of Kellogg Company, to the company’s board of directors, effective August 1, 2012. The addition of Bruch raises the number of board members to ten. She will also become a member [...]
