LECO and Berkeley Lab Partner for Metabolomics Advancements
October 2, 2012
St. Joseph, Mich.—LECO Corporation has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) for the development of metabolomic applications and tools. Berkeley Lab’s Life Sciences Division will receive access to the LECO Citius™ LC-HRT (High Resolution TOFMS) for applied research in metabolomics. Designed for complex sample analysis, [...]
October 2, 2012
COLOGNE, Germany---- Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies, Inc. (BEST) today announced the receipt of three contracts from Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) valued at $5.5 million for beamline components for the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS-II) under construction in New York, as well as four other contracts for beamline experimental stations from customers in Korea, Taiwan, [...]
SeraCare Receives NIH Grant for Recent HIV Infection Rapid Test and Incidence Panels
October 2, 2012
Milford, Mass.,– SeraCare Life Sciences, a global life sciences company providing vital products and services to facilitate the discovery, development and production of human diagnostics, has received a $299,771 Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, an agency of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The [...]
High Efficiency Electrocompetent Cells
October 2, 2012
AMSBIO announces the introduction of CloneCatcher™ Gold DH5G Electrocompent E. coli cells - a new product that exhibits extremely high electroporation efficiencies that approach the theoretical maximum of 3.4 x 1011 cfu/µg pUC19 DNA. Transferring exogenous DNA into E. coli is a standard laboratory method for cloning genes and constructing cDNA, genomic and epitope libraries. [...]
October 2, 2012
MILFORD, Mass.--Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced its Thermo Scientific Mass Spectrometric Immunoassay (MSIA) pipette tips, a collection of immunoaffinity sample preparation products. Robust MSIA™ technology delivers a simplified way to enrich target proteins for downstream mass spectrometric analysis. “Our new MSIA pipette tips provide scientists with an easier [...]
October 2, 2012
Pompey, France, - Novasep, a leading provider of purification-based manufacturing solutions for life science molecules, today announces the appointment of Roger-Marc Nicoud, founder and CEO, as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board, effective on October 1st, 2012. Bolstered by its new shareholder structure since the completion of its refinancing, Novasep is now in a position to [...]
October 2, 2012
Roche announced today the launch and immediate availability of multiple new SeqCap EZ Library target enrichment products. SeqCap EZ Library is a method that enables the enrichment of the whole exome or custom regions of interest prior to next-generation sequencing. The new products are designed to enhance genetic variant discovery and detection in basic and [...]
Versatile Electric Capper Enhances Sample Storage Process
October 2, 2012
Designed to work with all sample storage 96-format tube and rack combinations, without use of adapters, the Micronic Univo Electric Capper CP480 sets a new benchmark for ease of use, versatility and speed of operation. Operating as a stand-alone benchtop unit the compact Univo Electric Capper is able to uniformly cap a complete rack of [...]
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 [...]

