October 2, 2012
Bishops Stortford, United Kingdom, Dotmatics Limited, a leading provider of informatics services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, today announced they have released the latest version of Vortex, their premium data analysis and visualization tool, designed for scientists working in the areas of Chemistry, Biology and Engineering. Vortex provides researchers with the ability to load [...]
EMD Millipore Provides Grant to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation
October 2, 2012
Billerica, MA — EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, today announced the company is providing The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) with a four-year, $500,000 grant to support leading scientists focused on promising areas of breast cancer research. The fund will be in the form of two grants of $250,000 [...]
Extended Length Pipette Tips Improve Labware Access
October 2, 2012
INTEGRA has introduced a new extended length GripTip pipette tip available in non-sterile, sterile, filter and GREEN CHOICE configurations. The LONG GripTip pipette tip is designed to work with single, eight, twelve and sixteen channel VIAFLO electronic pipettes and VOYAGER eight and twelve channel adjustable spacing electronic pipettes. The extended length design enables easy access [...]
October 2, 2012
TAP Biosystems (Cambridge, UK), a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems and consumables for life science applications, today announced it has appointed Government Scientific Source (GSS), the veteran owned, premier US supplier of equipment and consumables to US government laboratories, to assist scientists purchasing TAP products on a US Government Spending Account (GSA). Three [...]
October 2, 2012
Frederick, MD —— Akonni Biosystems, a life science tools/molecular diagnostics company, has been awarded a $280,784 grant by NIH to develop a fully automated sample preparation workstation for isolating nucleic acids from lysis-resistant targets. The system will initially be used for general research, and eventually in clinical settings. This award enables Akonni to develop a [...]
Sterlitech Corporation Unveils EZgrip™ Carboy System, Revolutionizing Fluid Storage and Transfer
October 2, 2012
KENT, Wash.,-- The EZgrip™ Carboy is a pioneering fluid storage and transfer system now offered by Sterlitech Corporation. These carboys combine an ergonomic, space-efficient design with a series of interchangeable caps and spigots to make it ideally suited for a variety of laboratory settings. "The EZgrip addresses the shortcomings of previous generations of carboys," declares [...]
Neogen acquires Macleod Pharmaceuticals
October 2, 2012
LANSING, Mich., – Neogen Corporation (Nasdaq: NEOG) announced today that it has acquired the stock of Macleod Pharmaceuticals, an animal health company headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado. The family-owned business is the original manufacturer of Uniprim®, a popular antibiotic for horses. Macleod has been involved in veterinary pharmaceutical research, development, and manufacturing since 1989. Uniprim [...]
Tecan and JPT Peptide Technologies Announce Cooperation Agreement
October 2, 2012
Männedorf, Switzerland, – Salzburg, Austria and Berlin, Germany, October 2, 2012 – Tecan and JPT Peptide Technologies GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of BIONTECH AG, today announced a collaborative agreement between the two specialist companies. Within the scope of the agreement, the parties agree to co-promote JPT’s wide range of catalog peptide arrays and profiling capabilities [...]
A fast, trouble-free alternative to SPE cartridges
October 2, 2012
The Microlute™ SPE sample preparation system from Porvair Sciences provides a faster, trouble-free alternative to cartridges for high throughput sample clean-up. Handling samples as small as 150ul the Microlute™ SPE sample preparation system helps you increase your assay sensitivity by providing pre-injection clean-up and concentration you can trust. As a complete package, including filter plate, [...]
Sigma-Aldrich® Recognized By Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) for Climate Change Disclosure
October 1, 2012
ST. LOUIS, -- Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (Nasdaq: SIAL) was recently recognized by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), an independent not-for-profit organization working to drive greenhouse gas emissions reduction and sustainable water use worldwide, for its innovative approach to the disclosure of climate change information. "Sigma-Aldrich recognizes that the sustainability of our business depends on making smart [...]
