Promega New PowerPlex® Y23 STR System Reveals More Y-STR Loci in Half the Time
July 12, 2012
Promega Corporation announces the newest addition to the PowerPlex® STR Systems family, the PowerPlex® Y23 System—a rapid human identification Y-Short Tandem Repeat (Y-STR) assay for forensic casework, offender databasing and relationship testing. Thermal cycling time is cut roughly in half, and the system detects substantially more Y-STR loci than current systems. The multiplex system uses [...]
July 12, 2012
SOUTH EASTON, Mass., -- Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (OTCQB: PBIO) ("PBI" or the "Company") today announced a continuation in the growth of its global sales reach by entering into distribution agreements with three companies having combined sales coverage in six new countries. This brings to eleven the number of additional countries over the past seven months [...]
Hiden CATLAB Integrated Micro-reactor Sizes Up
July 12, 2012
The CATLAB integrated micro-reactor/mass spectrometer system is specifically optimised for continuous quantitative real-time analysis of catalytic activity and reaction components. The closecoupled mass spectrometer samples directly from the reactor zone for fastest response and precise process characterisation, providing overall response times of less than 0.5 seconds and with data accumulation rates at up to 500 [...]
July 12, 2012
SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA - Wyatt Technology Corporation, the world leader in absolute macromolecular characterization instrumentation and software, today announced that it will be hosting its 23rd Annual International Light Scattering Colloquium (ILSC) on October 22-23, 2012. At this year’s ILSC Wyatt plans to celebrate its 30th year with its valued customers and ILSC guests. Wyatt [...]
Carl Zeiss Licences Digital Pathology from Olympus
July 12, 2012
JENA/Germany,- Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH and Olympus America Inc. CENTER VALLEY, Pa. have signed a nonexclusive worldwide licensing agreement allowing Carl Zeiss to access an extensive portfolio of patents held by Olympus in the field of digital pathology and virtual microscopy. The patents included in the licensing deal cover methods and equipment for creating, storing [...]
Ethical Corporation Names Life Technologies’ First CSO Sustainability Executive of the Year
July 11, 2012
CARLSBAD, Calif., -- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced that its newly appointed Chief Sustainability Officer, Cristina Amorim, has been named Sustainability Executive of the Year at the Ethical Corporation's annual Responsible Business Forum awards ceremony. She received the honor in recognition for her strategic role in Life's emergence as a Corporate Social Responsibility [...]
Personalized genomic medicine faces many hurdles
July 11, 2012
When the human genome project was completed in 2003, some expected it to herald a new age of personalized genomic medicine, but the resulting single "reference" sequence has significant shortcomings for these applications and does not account for the actual variability in the human population, as reported in a study published July 11 in the [...]
Anton Paar USA Launches Petrotest Products, Expands Capabilities
July 11, 2012
Ashland, VA -- Effective July 1, 2012, Anton Paar USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Anton Paar GmbH, officially launches the recently acquired Petrotest product line. Anton Paar USA will provide all sales, support and service related activities to customers in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean. The Petrotest Group, which is based in [...]
Courtagen Releases Most Comprehensive Rapid DNA Test Targeting Mito Exome
July 11, 2012
WOBURN, Mass., -- Courtagen Life Sciences, Inc., a privately held life sciences company that provides innovative proteomic and genomic products and services to the life sciences industry, today announced the expansion of their genetic test menu. The new genetic test, nucSEEKPDx™, will sequence approximately 1,100 nuclear genes constituting the mitochondrial exome, which encodes the vast [...]
Emerson automates Jubilant Life Sciences plants in India
July 11, 2012
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Pharmaceutical company Jubilant Life Sciences has chosen process automation technologies and services from Emerson Process Management, a global business of Emerson (NYSE: EMR),to help increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve efficiency at three manufacturing plants in Gujarat state, India. “We are setting up world-class manufacturing facilities,” said MukulDixit, Senior Vice President, Projects [...]
