Berthold launches Apollo ELISA reader

Bad Wildbad, Germany, - Berthold Technologies, specializing in bioanalytical instruments for the research and the diagnostics markets, is happy to present again a dedicated absorbance reader: the Apollo 11. The instrument is characterized by a long-time proven and continuously optimized optics as well as a modern LED light source which has a principally endless lifetime. [...]

Waters Selects Metabolomics Laboratory at University of North Texas for Center of Innovation Program Honors

Milford, Mass. –– At a ceremony officiated by University of North Texas (UNT) Provost Warren Burggren, Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) welcomed UNT’s Metabolomics and Metabolic Signaling Pathway Research Laboratory into the Waters Centers of Innovation Program. The laboratory directed by Professor Vladimir Shulaev is known worldwide for research in the field of metabolomics, the study of [...]

IDEX Corporation Declares Regular Quarterly Cash Dividend

LAKE FOREST, Ill.-- IDEX CORPORATION (NYSE:IEX) today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.20 per common share. The next dividend will be paid October 31st, 2012 to shareholders of record as of October 15th, 2012. This dividend represents the company’s 72nd consecutive regular quarterly cash dividend payment. [...]

Bruker Announces European Launch of Toxtyper™, a Novel Clinical Mass Spectrometry Screening Solution for Toxicology

MANNHEIM, Germany -- At the annual conference of the DGKL (Deutsche Vereinte Gesellschaft für Klinische Chemie und Laboratoriumsmedizin –see www.dgkl.de), Bruker today announced the European launch of the novel, automated Toxtyper™ clinical mass spectrometry solution to meet the increasing demands for LC-MS/MS throughput and data quality in routine toxicology laboratories without the need for mass [...]

A&D Weighing Launches Compact Analytical Balances for Laboratory and Production Use

A & D Weighing announces the launch of the HR-A & HR-AZ Series of Compact Analytical Balances. The HR-A models are available in 3 capacities; 102 g, 152 g and 252 g, all with 0.1 mg readability (resolution). The HR-AZ models add automatic internal calibration for quicker, more accurate measurements. To increase measurement accuracy a [...]

Cepheid Announces Preliminary 2012 Third Quarter Revenue Results

SUNNYVALE, Calif., -- Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD) today announced preliminary revenue results for the 2012 Third Quarter, ending September 30, 2012. Based on current projections, Third Quarter revenue is expected to be in the range of $79 to $81 million, lower than targeted due primarily to intermittent interruptions in the supply of Xpert cartridge parts. The [...]

No One Likes Broken Lipstick!

Middleboro, MA – Brookfield Engineering Laboratories offers the TA-LC Lipstick Cantilever Fixture for their CT3 Texture Analyzer. The Lipstick Cantilever Test Fixture is designed to determine the breaking point of lipstick and other similar products. The rounded blade is used to simulate the pressures experienced during application. Brookfield offers a wide variety of test fixtures [...]

Chiral Technologies Introduces CHIRALPAK® ZWIX™

WEST CHESTER, Pa. — Chiral Technologies introduces two new immobilized zwitterionic chiral stationary phases, CHIRALPAK ZWIX(+) and CHIRALPAK ZWIX(-). These chiral phases can be used in high-performance liquid chromatography and have been developed specifically to exhibit stereoselectivity for zwitterionic molecules, notably for separations of underivatized amino acids and peptides. Methods can be developed on these [...]

National Cancer Institute Awards PrimeraDx Grant to Develop B-Cell Lymphoma Panel on ICEPlex System

Mansfield, MA,– PrimeraDx, Inc., a molecular diagnostics company, announced today that they were awarded a grant by the National Cancer Institute-sponsored Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies (IMAT) Program to develop an assay to rapidly detect diffuse large B-Cell lymphoma (DLBCL) subgroups. This single-tube gene expression profiling assay will be used for classifying DLBCL subgroups, thereby facilitating [...]

NSG Group Selects Bruker Dimension Icon Atomic Force Microscope

Bruker Nano Surfaces Division has shipped a Dimension Icon® Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) to the European Technical Centre (Lathom, UK) of the global glass manufacturer NSG Group. The Dimension Icon system is equipped with Bruker’s self-optimizing ScanAsyst® Imaging Mode and PeakForce TUNA™ module to enable unprecedented ease of use in conductivity mapping and other difficult [...]

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