RainDance Technologies and Integrated DNA Technologies to Develop Reagents and Consumables for Digital PCR

LEXINGTON, Mass. and CORALVILLE, IA – RainDance Technologies, Inc., the Digital Biology™ Company, and Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) Inc., the world leader in oligonucleotide synthesis, today announced a collaboration focused on consumables specifically tailored to perform the fast-growing application of digital PCR. Under the terms of the agreement, the companies will work together on the [...]

US Lab Supplier Macalaster Bicknell™ Announces New Owners, Technology And Products

NORTH HAVEN, CT – Two veteran laboratory supply executives have acquired Macalaster Bicknell of Connecticut, one of America’s original suppliers to the chemical, clinical, university, government, quality assurance and pharmaceutical markets. Tim Grogan and Chris Lope, both formerly in executive management at VWR International, LLC, have taken the helm as Co-Owners and Managing Partners of [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Features High Resolution Accurate Mass LC-MS Workflow at AAPS 2012

CHICAGO– AAPS – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, is featuring its latest tools for pharmaceutical and biopharma research and routine identification, quantitation and confirmation of small and large molecules at the 2012 AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition. “We address the entire pharmaceutical value chain, from research and drug discovery through [...]

Carl Zeiss Introduces Lightsheet Z.1 Light Sheet Microscope System

The Microscopy business group at Carl Zeiss is presenting a new microscopy technology at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. Lightsheet Z.1 provides biologists with a new method of imaging dynamic processes in living organisms. Observing life Biologists can use the new microscopy system to observe the development of entire organisms [...]

Bruker Releases New Benchmark 3D Optical Microscope System

TUCSON, AZ, – Bruker announced the launch today of the ContourGT-I 3D Optical Microscope to enhance R&D productivity and maximize manufacturing throughput for industrial applications. The ContourGT-I has been optimized to accelerate and simplify measurement setup and feature-tracking and is the world’s first bench top profiling system to incorporate Bruker’s proprietary tip/tilt head design, along [...]

Nikon Instruments Inc. Unveils The Third Generation Perfect Focus Systems at Neuroscience 2012

Nikon Instruments Inc., an innovator of advanced optical instruments, today announced the release of the third generation Perfect Focus System. This new generation, consisting of two new models will be debuting at Neuroscience 2012. The new models of the TI-ND6-PFS-S Perfect Focus Unit have been optimized for UV-Visible imaging and Visible-IR Imaging for multi-photon microscopy. [...]

Emerson Invests $25 Million in KSA Technology and Innovation Centre

ST. LOUIS, -- Emerson (NYSE: EMR) today underlined its commitment to the Middle East and Africa market with the announcement of a US$25 million investment to create a technology and innovation centre in partnership with the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Emerson has signed an agreement to [...]

BD and Lab21 Collaborate to Develop New Oncology Assays on the BD MAX™ Platform

Baltimore, MD and Cambridge, UK – BD Diagnostics, a segment of global medical technology company BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), and Lab21, a global leader in personalized healthcare diagnostics, announced today that they will collaborate to develop oncology assays for the BD MAX™ fully automated, bench-top molecular system. Under the terms of the [...]

Sigma® Life Science Begins Licensing Efflux Transporter Knockout Human Cell-Based Assays to CROs and Pharmaceutical Companies Performing ADME Studies

ST. LOUIS, -- Sigma-Aldrich® Corporation (Nasdaq: SIAL) today announced that Sigma Life Science, its innovative biological products and services business, initiated a licensing program aimed at contract research organizations (CROs) and pharmaceutical companies for its novel CompoZr® Transporter Knockout Cell Lines for preclinical ADME screening and safety studies. Complete functional knockouts of transporters in the [...]

International Stem Cell Corp’s Lifeline Cell Technology Products Being Added to Fisher Scientific’s Catalogs

CARLSBAD, CA -- International Stem Cell Corporation (OTCQB:ISCO) www.internationalstemcell.com) ("ISCO" or "the Company"), a California-based biotechnology company focused on therapeutic and research products, today announced that its subsidiary, Lifeline Cell Technology (LCT), will begin selling products through Fisher Scientific, Inc.'s ("Fisher Scientific") online catalogue as an Encompass Preferred Supplier. Typically large pharmaceutical companies buy research [...]

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