June 6, 2012
SANTA CLARA, Calif -- Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX) today announced a research collaboration and licensing agreement with Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) to co-develop new cancer biomarker tests using the Affymetrix’ QuantiGene® ViewRNA Assay platform*, an in situ hybridization assay capable of single transcript in single-cell detection. As part of this agreement, Affymetrix has the rights to [...]
June 6, 2012
Middleboro, MA – Brookfield Engineering Laboratories offers the TA-CSF Circular Support Fixture for their CT3 Texture Analyzer. The Circular Support Fixture is designed to support irregular items like fresh fruit while texture tests are performed. In this example an apple is seated in the TA-CSF while a TA-MTP Magness-Taylor probe is used to measure firmness. [...]
June 6, 2012
SiliCycle Inc., the fine chemical manufacturer having its headquarters in the Quebec Metro High Tech Parc, known as a worldwide leader in the development, the manufacturing, and the commercialization of high value silica-based and specialty products for chromatography, analytical, and organic chemistry, announces the acquisition of Chromatography Sciences Company (CSC) Inc., from Ville Saint-Laurent, in [...]
MO BIO Laboratories, Inc. Launches the PowerMag™ Soil and Microbial DNA Isolation Kits
June 6, 2012
CARLSBAD, Calif.,-- MO BIO Laboratories, Inc., the leader in soil, water and microbial nucleic acid purification, announces the launch of the PowerMag™ Soil and Microbial DNA Isolation Kits, for automated purification of DNA from soil, stool, microbial and food cultures using the epMotion® and KingFisher® automated processing systems. MO BIO's novel MagnaClear™ technology, included in [...]
NEW First of its Kind Constant Pressure Fluid Delivery Syringe Pump
June 6, 2012
Harvard Apparatus, the world leader in syringe pumps, has just released the NEW PHD ULTRA™ CP Syringe Pump. This pump is the first of its kind to infuse fluids under Constant Pressure by automatically adjusting the flow rate. The PHD ULTRA™ CP will provide enhanced capabilities for many experiments and is ideal for a variety [...]
FE SEM image of Graphene, taken at 80V
June 6, 2012
JEOL is honoured to assist the university in the development of a cutting edge research center capable of the effective characterisation of delicate polymer based nanomaterials. The JSM-7800F installed in this unique research environment, connects the talents and resources available within the University of Queensland with the greater surrounding scientific community. "We are looking forward [...]
June 6, 2012
A partnership including researchers at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St Louis, MO, the National Crops Resources Research Institute in Uganda (NaCRRI) and the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI). VIRCA is a humanitarian effort to develop and deliver farmer-preferred cassava varieties enhanced to resist serious plant virus diseases that are greatly reducing crop [...]
Fluxion Biosciences and Rubicon Genomics to Collaborate on Circulating Tumor Cell Applications
June 6, 2012
Fluxion Biosciences, Inc. today announced an initial agreement to partner with Rubicon Genomics in a reagent supply and collaboration program. The collaboration will integrate enrichment methods for rare cells using Fluxion’s IsoFlux System with Rubicon’s technology for the preparation and amplification of rare cell DNA or RNA using the Rubicon NovaPLEX™ family of sample preparation [...]
Duzen Selects Bruker’s MALDI Biotyper for Mass Spectrometry-based Molecular Microbial Identification
June 6, 2012
ANKARA, Turkey --At the 7th National Molecular and Diagnostic Microbiology Congress in Ankara, Bruker announces an exclusive framework agreement with Duzen (https://www.duzen.com.tr) in the area of molecular microbial identification based on MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. Duzen is one of the leading private diagnostic laboratory groups in Turkey, and Bruker is the leading provider of mass spectrometry-based [...]
Gyros Expands Asian Distribution to Singapore
June 6, 2012
Uppsala, Sweden and Chalfont St Giles, UK: Gyros AB, a leader in utilization of microfluidic technologies to miniaturize and automate immunoassays, announced today that Bio Laboratories Pte Ltd (www.biolab.com.sg) has become sole distributor for the company’s nanoliter-scale immunoassay platform in Singapore. The Gyros platform (www.gyros.com) is used by major biopharmaceutical companies and their service providers [...]
