June 7, 2011
BETHESDA, Md. - Media Cybernetics announces the release of Gel-Pro Analyzer Version 6.3 image analysis software. Designed for molecular biologists, this software extracts valuable qualitative and quantitative information from electrophoretic gels, blots and colonies. This latest version of Gel-Pro Analyzer includes support for 32- and 64-bit Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems. Gel-Pro Analyzer [...]
June 7, 2011
TORONTO - SQI Diagnostics Inc. (the "Company", "SQI Diagnostics" or "SQI") (TSX-V: SQD), a life sciences company that develops and commercializes proprietary technologies and products for advanced microarray diagnostics, today announced that it has received notice that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Company's automated SQiDworks(TM) diagnostics platform and its [...]
June 7, 2011
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and SHENZHEN, China - Scientists worldwide have been working on the publicly available genomic sequences of the deadly E. coli O104 strain, which is causing the current health crisis in Germany and now spreading throughout Europe. To continue to speed the ongoing international efforts of researchers to assess and halt this growing epidemic, [...]
June 7, 2011
Berlin - JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the work from the Pharmaceutical Sciences Department of the Medical School at the University of Nebraska. The Department have selected the JPK ForceRobot® 300 system to extend their studies applying atomic force microscopy, AFM, in [...]
E. coli O104 Outbreak Highlights Need for Rapid, Accurate Testing Options
June 7, 2011
Cincinnati - The recent E. coli outbreak making headlines in Europe and the United States has been identified as a rare and unique strain, E. coli O104:H4. The outbreak strain is a Shiga toxin 2 type producing E. coli, and is of concern because initial lab findings have revealed various characteristics that make it more [...]
Assay Depot Secures Financing to Expand Cloud-Based Pharmaceutical Research Platform
June 7, 2011
SAN DIEGO - Assay Depot announced today that it raised $1.7 million from private investors. The funds will be used to expand the company’s cloud-based pharmaceutical research platform. “We’ve brought together the capabilities of the most popular consumer websites to create a web-based research platform that helps scientists innovate,” said Kevin Lustig, President and CEO [...]
Pf?nex Inc. Announces Strategic Agreement with SAFC
June 7, 2011
San Diego, California - Pf?nex Inc., an industry leader in protein expression through the Pf?nex Expression Technology™ platform, announced today that it has entered into a non-exclusive strategic partnership with SAFC®, a unit of the Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ:SIAL) and a global leader in biopharmaceutical contract manufacturing. Under the agreement, Pf?nex Inc. will engineer production strains [...]
Release of the New SPM-9700 Scanning Probe Microscope
June 6, 2011
SPM-9700 Scanning Probe Microscope With the release of a new scanning probe microscope (SPM-9700) featuring new software that sets a new standard for easy operation, Shimadzu Corporation has launched a market offensive in the field of scanning probe microscopes. From observation to data analysis, operations are easier, while providing high quality data. Scanning probe microscopes [...]
FDA Clears Idaho Technology-Developed Q Fever Test
June 6, 2011
SALT LAKE CITY - This week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared the first nucleic acid amplification In vitro diagnostic (IVD) test that detects Coxiella burnetii, the bacteria that causes Q fever. The test developed by Idaho Technology, Inc. (ITI) will be used to test military personnel suspected of contracting the disease and run [...]
ALMSCO International Highlights Its BenchTOF-dx for Improved Sensitivity at ASMS 2011
June 6, 2011
Llantrisant, UK - ALMSCO International, a division of Markes International Ltd., today announces that it is showcasing its state-of-the-art bench-top time of flight (TOF) mass spectrometer, BenchTOF-dx at ASMS 2011. The instrument is specially designed to generate truly classical electron impact ionization (EI) spectra for gas chromatography (GC) and comprehensive GC/GC applications. It enables users [...]
