Thermo Fisher Scientific Implements and Extends LIMS Solution for Eastman Chemical Company
May 16, 2011
PHILADELPHIA - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that Eastman Chemical Company, a large global manufacturer of chemicals, fibers and plastics, has expanded its deployment of Thermo Scientific SampleManager LIMS (laboratory information management system), which it has used since 2000 in its manufacturing quality control laboratories, to its Corporate [...]
May 16, 2011
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it has presented the 2011 Manfred Donike Award for scientific excellence in sports-doping testing to Simon Beuck and Nicolas Leuenberger. Agilent sponsors this annual award to recognize distinguished scientific contributions in doping analysis. Award winners are scientists who exemplify the spirit and scientific leadership [...]
Amnis Introduces New FlowSight Imaging Flow Cytometer
May 13, 2011
SEATTLE, WA - Amnis Corporation, a manufacturer of advanced cell imaging systems, today announced the launch of the new FlowSight imaging flow cytometer. The FlowSight is a compact and affordable 12-channel flow cytometer with unrivalled fluorescence sensitivity and the breakthrough ability to produce imagery of every cell. The modular FlowSight can be upgraded in the [...]
Smiths Detection Buys Its Brazilian Distributor
May 13, 2011
Watford, UK - Smiths Detection has purchased its Brazilian distributor from EBCO Systems Limited to take direct control over sales of its advanced security and detection products in one of the world’s fastest-growing economies. EBCO, based in Sao Paulo, has been the exclusive distributor for Smiths Detection in Brazil since 1994, selling and servicing a [...]
May 13, 2011
Needham Heights, MA - Polestar Technologies, a leading provider of sensor systems for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical (biopharma) industries and Harvard Bioscience, Inc. a global developer, manufacturer and marketer of tools for life science research and regenerative medicine, have formed a partnership to bring new biosensing technologies to the regenerative medicine and tissue engineering marketplace. [...]
Thirteen proteomics service and product providers have formed the Proteomics Innovation Network.
May 12, 2011
The mission of the Proteomics Innovation Network is to generate “from sample to discovery” solutions in all facets of proteomics, including expression, identification, characterization, interaction and function. Each member organization has complementary expertise, core technologies, and infrastructure to address critical unmet needs in biomarker and drug target discovery, personalized medicine, drug profiling, and selective reaction [...]
CLC Genomics Workbench Goes Hand in Hand with Ion Torrent Data
May 12, 2011
AARHUS, Denmark - This week, in an independent experiment, Dr. Nick Loman from the University of Birmingham, looked at de novo assembly of E.coli data from a single run with approximately 10x coverage from Ion Torrent's Personal Genome Machine (PGM™). The experiment compares several commercial and open source de novo assemblers, and in this experiment [...]
Miltenyi Biotec, TeutoCell to Advance Cell Culture Techniques
May 12, 2011
BERGISCH GLADBACH, Germany - Miltenyi Biotec, the only company to offer a seamless experimental integration path from sample preparation through cell separation, culture, and analysis for primary cells, today entered into a strategic alliance with TeutoCell, a provider of cutting edge cell culture technology. The new partnership will broaden that experimental integration path to include [...]
China Awards Patent to ThalesNano’s Revolutionary Lab Ozonolysis System, the O-CubeTM
May 12, 2011
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY and PRINCETON, NJ and LONDON - ThalesNano today reported that the China Patent and Trademark Office (CPO) has granted a patent for its flow ozonolysis instrument, the O-Cube™, including several aspects of its proprietary underlying technology. Ozonolysis is a fundamentally important oxidation reaction, which has never been fully adopted due to the safety [...]
SeraCare Enhances Reagent Grade HSA Offering by Bringing Manufacturing In-House
May 12, 2011
Milford, Mass. – SeraCare Life Sciences (Nasdaq: SRLS), a global life sciences company providing vital products and services to facilitate the discovery, development and production of human diagnostics and therapeutics, today announced it has added lyophilization capabilities to produce high-purity reagent grade HSA (human serum albumin) in powder form. SeraCare has provided powder-form HSA for [...]
