WaferGen Biosystems Awarded 1 Million Euro Grant by Luxembourg Government

FREMONT, Calif., — WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc. (OTCBB: WGBS) announced today the award of a 1 million Euro matching grant by the Luxembourg government to expand its European operations, headquartered in Luxembourg. The first tranche of 350,000 Euros is expected to be received this quarter and will defray start-up and personnel costs. WaferGen has started to [...]

Cap Strips Offer Targeted Area Microplate Sealing

Porvair Sciences has introduced a new range of cap strips that provide high integrity sealing of deep well plates (2ml, 1ml and 350ul square well) as well as its Microlute 96 well SPE/Protein Precipitation plates. The new caps come in strips of eight enabling the user to securely seal samples in just a selected area [...]

Entry Level Kit for Parallel Synthesis

The DrySyn™ Parallel Synthesis Kit from Asynt offers a low cost solution for chemists wishing to conduct simple synthetic reactions with temperature control and magnetic stirring in parallel, but without the complications of reflux or inerting. Compatible with tubes and vials of varying diameters and from different manufacturers the DrySyn™ Parallel Synthesis Kit is uniquely [...]

EMD Millipore Honored As Bronze Stevie® Award Winner In 2012 American Business Awards

Billerica, MA — EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, was presented with a Bronze Stevie® Award for its Milliflex® Quantum rapid microbial detection system in the New Product of the Year category at the 10th Annual American Business Awards last night. The Milliflex® Quantum system works faster than traditional testing [...]

Illumina Introduces TruSeq® Stranded mRNA and Total RNA Sequencing Sample Preparation Solutions

SAN DIEGO -- Illumina (NASDAQ:ILMN) today introduced TruSeq Stranded mRNA and Total RNA Sample Preparation Kits for RNA sequencing. The new reagent kits enable researchers to quickly and easily conduct gene expression studies that provide a complete view of the transcriptome, even from low-quality RNA samples, such as formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) samples. The Total RNA [...]

Accelrys Transforms Lab-to-Commercialization Process with New Integrated Accelrys Process Management and Compliance Suite

SAN DIEGO, -- Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL), a leading provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management software, today announced the new integrated Accelrys Process Management and Compliance Suite of software products designed specifically to enhance product and process insight, facilitate collaboration and streamline product development from research through late-stage quality control and manufacturing. By improving the [...]

TTP Labtech Previews New Tools for Confident Protein Crystallography Research at ICCBM

Cambridge, UK –- TTP Labtech, leading provider of liquid handling automation for crystallography, including the renowned mosquito® Crystal and mosquito LCP, will preview their latest innovation, the woodpecker® automated, non-contact screen optimiser, at ICCBM 14, 23rd - 28th September, Huntsville, Alabama, booth #20. The woodpecker®’s novel positive displacement pipetting technology will broaden the screen optimiser [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Adds Chemical Ionization Capability and Direct Probe Options to Newest Triple Quadrupole GC-MS System

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the addition of negative and positive ion chemical ionization (CI) capabilities to its new high-performance Thermo Scientific TSQ 8000 triple quadrupole GC-MS system. The addition of chemical ionization to the TSQ™ 8000 GC-MS/MS increases analytical options available to the [...]

EMD Millipore and VeriStem Technologies to Develop Purification Methods for Large-scale Stem Cell Products.

Darmstadt, Germany — EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck, and VeriStem™ Technologies Inc. today announced a collaboration to develop optimized technologies for the removal of undifferentiated stem cells from pluripotent stem cell cultures. The project will deliver scalable purification devices, validation methods and associated protocols for safe and effective delivery of large-scale stem [...]

Trinean included in the ISBER Proficiency testing program

Ghent, Belgium –- Trinean NV today announced to be included in the ISBER Biorepository Proficiency Testing Program 2012. The ISBER PT program is designed for biospecimen repositories to assess the accuracy of their quality control assays, including their DNA quantification methods. The recently launched proficiency testing program dedicated a specific category for the quantification and [...]

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