August 28, 2012
SAN DIEGO, -- Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM), a life sciences company providing innovative diagnostic testing and genetic analysis solutions, today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, the Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine (Sequenom CMM), has completed several international distribution agreements that will expand access to the MaterniT21 PLUS testing service outside the United States. Agreements in [...]
SeraCare Expands HCV and HTLV Performance Panel Offerings
August 28, 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 and therapeutics, has expanded its performance panel product offerings. SeraCare’s third Worldwide HCV RNA Performance Panel and eighth Anti-HTLV I/II Mixed Titer Performance Panel are the latest additions to [...]
LGC is using Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis to characterize novel nanoscale reference materials.
August 28, 2012
Salisbury, UK,: NanoSight, leading manufacturers of unique nanoparticle characterization technology, reports on the work of Principal Scientist Dr Damian Marshall and his colleagues at LGC as they develop new methods for characterizing new nanoscale reference materials. LGC is the UK's designated National Measurement Institute for chemical and bioanalytical measurement, the National Reference Laboratory for a [...]
August 28, 2012
WALTHAM, Mass. – PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced that it has entered into a collaboration with Dr. John Iafrate and Dr. Long Le of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Pathology Department and Cancer Center to develop a sequencing informatics system for [...]
August 28, 2012
Biotage® (STO: BIOT), a leading global supplier of solutions and technology for analytical and medicinal chemistry, introduced EVOLUTE® EXPRESS, a novel family of 96-well plates that simplify polymer-based SPE by employing a streamlined 3-step protocol; Load-Wash-Elute. By using this novel approach and removing the conditioning and equilibration steps, necessary with traditional bio-analytical SPE procedures, processing [...]
BioTime Obtains Expanded License to HyStemR Technology
August 27, 2012
ALAMEDA, Calif -- BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT:BTX) announced that the company has amended its license from the University of Utah to expand the field of use for which BioTime is licensed to produce and market products covered by the core patents underlying HyStemR technology. Under the amended license, BioTime now is licensed worldwide for all [...]
BD Acquires Sirigen Group Limited
August 27, 2012
FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., -- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, announced today that it has acquired Sirigen Group Limited, a developer of unique polymer dyes that are used in flow cytometry and can be applied to other technologies. Sirigen's polymer technology is based on Nobel Prize-winning research in conductive plastics [...]
AirClean® Systems launches new Patriot™ ductless fume hoods
August 27, 2012
AirClean Systems, the North American leader in ductless containment since 1992, announces the introduction of its newest product line: Patriot Ductless Fume Hoods. Patriot ductless hoods incorporate much of the advanced technology of AirClean’s Independence fume hood with the cost effective backbone of AirClean’s AC4000 folding and sliding-sash ductless fume hoods. Patriot ductless fume hoods [...]
Life’s Great Adventure – Lab in a Mini on Tour
August 27, 2012
Life Technologies (NASDAQ: LIFE) announced the start of its Ion Torrent[TM] Mini Lab Tour across the UK featuring a fully functional benchtop Personal Genome Machine (PGM[TM]) DNA sequencer nestled in the boot of a Mini. Not so long ago, you needed a PhD and a lab full of equipment to sequence the DNA of a [...]
August 27, 2012
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it has acquired the assets of Aurora SFC Systems, Inc., a leading provider of supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) products for laboratory research and analysis. The acquisition includes the Aurora SFC Systems product line as well as intellectual property. Financial details were not disclosed. Aurora SFC Systems has been [...]
