Cisbio adds three cellular kinase assays to its kinase screening platform
May 10, 2012
Codolet, France, - Cisbio Bioassays (www.cisbio.com), global developer of products, technologies and services used for assay development and drug screening and for in vitro diagnostics, has added three kinase assays to its growing cell-based kinase screening platform. The assays, all based on the company’s powerful HTRF® technology, were designed to provide new, easy and rapid [...]
3D Culture Cell Harvesting Kit
May 10, 2012
The AMSBIO Cultrex® 3D Culture Cell Harvesting Kit is based on a non-enzymatic approach that prevents biochemical degradation during processing and overcomes the problems associated with extracting cells from 3D culture in BME or Laminin I. The quality of the harvested cells is ideal for Western blotting and RNA and DNA analysis. In 3D culture, [...]
GE Healthcare Life Sciences completes acquisition of Xcellerex, Inc.
May 10, 2012
Chalfont St Giles, UK – GE Healthcare, the healthcare business of GE (NYSE: GE) announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Xcellerex, Inc., a supplier of innovative manufacturing technologies for the fast-growing biopharmaceutical industry. The acquisition expands GE Healthcare’s offering of technologies and services for the manufacture of biopharmaceuticals such as recombinant proteins, [...]
Anton Paar Releases Adsorption Package for SurPASS Electrokinetic Analyzer
May 10, 2012
The SurPASS measures the streaming potential, or alternatively the streaming current, to monitor adsorption or desorption from a sample surface. The measurement takes place on the actual surface, rather than model surfaces, incorporating a high fluid volume exchange rate similar to real processes. The SurPASS also calculates the zeta potential of solid surfaces from the [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches Interactive Laboratory Consumables Catalog
May 10, 2012
ROCHESTER, N.Y -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the release of its Thermo Scientific Laboratory Consumables Catalog, an interactive, online resource that provides customers with a broad portfolio of products used in laboratories every day. Encompassing one of the most comprehensive product offerings in the industry, the interactive [...]
LaserGen names Dr. Mimi Healy as CEO
May 10, 2012
HOUSTON, May 10, 2012 -- Emerging biotechnology company LaserGen, Inc., focused on commercializing novel technologies for next-generation sequencing (NGS), announced the appointment of Mimi Healy, Ph.D. as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and to the LaserGen Board of Directors. Dr. Healy brings more than two decades of molecular diagnostics, healthcare and biotechnology experience in both US [...]
UPLC Heating Block System Helps CRO Improve Stability Studies
May 9, 2012
Asynt has supplied a leading European Contract Research Organisation (CRO) with a custom heating block system to assist chemists analysing the thermal stability of multiple samples being prepared for its commercial compound libraries. Traditionally the CRO had used an offline heating source to heat samples coming from its UPLC system - the process was highly [...]
Hach WIMSTM, Version 7.3 Now Available
May 9, 2012
Loveland, Colo.– A new version of Hach (www.Hach.com) Water Information Management SolutionsTM (WIMSTM), Version 7.3, was released on May 1st, 2012. Hach WIMSTM is a software platform specifically designed for water and wastewater utilities, providing easy access and visibility to data from many disparate sources for reporting, analysis and monitoring. Hach WIMSTM, Version 7.3 introduces [...]
Agilent Technologies Introduces Preclinical MRI System
May 9, 2012
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today launched the nScope eMRI preclinical imaging system at the annual meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. With its new nScope eMRI system, Agilent is transforming how researchers view disease. The latest addition to Agilent’s MRI product line, the nScope eMRI system features an [...]
May 9, 2012
454 Life Sciences, a Roche Company, and SoftGenetics announced today that the two firms have entered into a co-promotion agreement designed to provide users of 454 Sequencing Systems the broad range of next-generation sequencing data analysis options provided by SoftGenetics NextGENe(R) software. NextGENe(R) software is a free standing biologist-friendly software multi-package that is fully compatibility [...]
