Carl Zeiss Microscopes on World Tour
July 23, 2012
ZEISS on Your Campus (ZOYC) by Carl Zeiss is a traveling tour bringing free microscopy workshops to universities and institutes throughout the world and has attracted more than 2000 attendees since. The tour was launched in 2009 in the United States and, starting in March 2012, was expanded to Europe, Asia, Latin and South America. [...]
Pacific Biosciences Names David Botstein, Ph.D. to Its Board of Directors
July 23, 2012
MENLO PARK, Calif., -- Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB), provider of the PacBio® RS High Resolution Genetic Analyzer, today announced the appointment of David Botstein, Ph.D., Director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and Anthony B. Evnin Professor of Genomics at Princeton University, to its Board of Directors. Dr. Botstein has served in [...]
ATCC Now Offers The “BIG SIX” E. Coli Strains For Food Safety Testing
July 23, 2012
ATCC, the premier biological materials resource and standards organization, announced that it is now offering strains from each of the six non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) serotypes to the food safety community. The strains referred to as the “Big Six” have been linked to a growing number of foodborne illnesses prompting the U.S. Department [...]
ISO recognition for Quality Management Systems at Malvern Instruments US headquarters
July 23, 2012
The Quality Management Systems in place at the Westborough MA headquarters of Malvern Instruments Inc., Malvern’s US subsidiary, have been awarded ISO9001:2008 certification. This certification recognizes the US company’s supply, support and installation of materials characterization systems and associated equipment, and extends to the provision of associated services for sample analysis, application, advice and customer [...]
July 23, 2012
BOTHELL, Wash., -- BioLife Solutions, Inc. (OTCBB: BLFS), a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of proprietary clinical grade hypothermic storage and cryopreservation freeze media for cells and tissues, and contract media manufacturer, today announced that it has completed the expansion of its corporate office and operations workspace and also the build-out of its second current [...]
July 22, 2012
bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, today announced the launch of the new Smasher™ XL large capacity blender and homogenizer. The Smasher XL prepares samples up to 375g and can process one four-liter bag or two two-liter bags simultaneously. It combines the capability to efficiently process large volumes up to [...]
Prozess Technologie Repositions for Continued Growth and Expansion
July 20, 2012
The future could not be brighter for St. Louis based Prozess Technologie, LLC. In the last three months, the industry leader in custom spectroscopic solutions for the manufacturing sector has quietly laid the foundation for growth and expansion. Today the Company boasts a new name, substantial balance sheet, is debt free and has moved to [...]
Quanterix Appoints Paul Chapman as President and Chief Executive Officer
July 20, 2012
LEXINGTON, Mass., -- Quanterix Corporation, developer of the Single Molecule Array (Simoa) technology, announced today that it has appointed Paul Chapman as its new President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Chapman joins the company at a pivotal time, as it moves from development to commercialization of its revolutionary digital ELISA platform that improves conventional immunoassay [...]
July 19, 2012
CARLSBAD, Calif., -- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced it has signed a collaborative partnership with the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC), and several groups of leading expert scientists in antibody technology at the Universities of Chicago and Toronto, to generate a first-ever master set of quality epigenetic recombinant antibodies for use in disease-related research. [...]
July 19, 2012
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) researchers have partnered with two companies to build and market undersea technology developed at WHOI: the Imaging FlowCytobot, an automated underwater microscope, and BlueComm, an underwater communications system that uses light to provide wireless transmission of data, including video imagery, in real or near-real time. WHOI biologists Robert Olson and [...]
