BOSTON - HUPO 11th Annual World Congress – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced Thermo Scientific Proteome Discoverer software version 2.0 for analyzing qualitative and quantitative proteomics data. As part of the release, the company announced a non-exclusive agreement with Protein Metrics, Inc. to license the company’s Byonic™ database [...]

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa.-- TESCAN, a world leading manufacturer of scanning electron microscopes and focused ion beam workstations has delivered its 1000th VEGA-3 Variable Pressure Scanning Electron Microscope to the University of Montana geosciences department. Continuing a tradition of technical advancement and excellence, TESCAN offers unique and state of the art electron microscopy and focused ion [...]

SANTA BARBARA, California, -– Bruker today announced the release of its new Nanomechanics package, which significantly expands Bio-AFM applications in mechanobiology research. The package includes new analysis models in PeakForce QNM®, the new PeakForce Capture™ function, and the newly enhanced Quantitative Force-Volume Mapping mode. The new functionality in PeakForce QNM provides expanded support for a [...]

AMSBIO has expanded its range of products for cell growth and behaviour with a suite of Cell Adhesion Assays, designed to evaluate optimal cell attachment to extracellular matrices and assess factors that influence cell-matrix interactions. Cell adhesion assays measure adhesion between cells or between a cell and a surface or extracellular matrix; and have applications [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif., -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that it has entered into an exclusive supply agreement with LipoScience Inc. to provide nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) components for LipoScience's Vantera Clinical Analyzer. The analyzer is the first fully-automated NMR diagnostic platform designed specifically for the clinical laboratory and cleared by the U.S. [...]

HORIBA Scientific, global leader in Fluorescence spectroscopy systems, just launched their new Dual-FL, which combines the only CCD-based benchtop fluorometer with a built-in UV-VIS spectrophotometer. HORIBA Scientific addressed the need for speed when collecting spectral data and complete excitation-emission matrices (EEMs). Dual-FL features spectral rates as fast as 80,000 nm/s, and acquires EEMs up to [...]

Framingham, Mass. -AB Sciex Pte. Ltd, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, today announced a distribution agreement with Sigma-Aldrich® to resell the company's portfolio of mass spectrometry-based tagging chemistries called SCIEX iChemistryTM Solutions. This portfolio of advanced chemistries includes the industry-leading iTRAQ® reagents for proteomics and IDQuantTM standards for pesticide analysis. Sigma-Aldrich will [...]

Shanghai, China –– ShanghaiBio Corporation and Ingenuity® Systems have signed a collaboration agreement enabling ShanghaiBio Corporation to extend its current lab service offering to include Ingenuity solutions for downstream analysis and interpretation of genomics data. ShanghaiBio Corporation will complement their sequencing, genotyping and gene expression lab services by creating a bundled solution with Ingenuity’s applications, [...]

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., — A neutron detector developed for studies focused on life science, drug discovery and materials technology has been licensed by PartTec Ltd. The Indiana-based manufacturer of radiation detection technologies is moving the technology developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory toward the commercial marketplace. The Neutron-Sensitive Anger Camera [...]

CARLSBAD, Calif., -- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced another major advancement in the performance trajectory of its Ion AmpliSeq Technology. The new Torrent Suite Software v3.0 now consistently delivers 99.99+% consensus accuracy for both short and long homopolymer regions, and increases the frequency of correctly called insertions, deletions and homopolymer sequences by two-fold. [...]