July 23, 2012
Roka Bioscience introduced the Atlas on Tour vehicle at the 2012 International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) Meeting in Providence, Rhode Island. The custom-built 40-foot vehicle features a working Atlas System and provides an informational forum for food safety laboratories. The vehicle offers food safety professionals the opportunity to experience a full demonstration of the [...]
Private Equity Firm Acquires Sensiq Techniologies From Flir Systems
July 23, 2012
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK, -- SensiQ Technologies, Inc. has been acquired by private equity firm TechVen Partners, and will seek to aggressively expand the market reach of its Label-Free Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) devices for biomolecular interaction analysis. “We’re ready to shake things up. With new resources, we are set to expand promotion of SensiQ’s innovative [...]
New Portable Kit Combines Fluid Viscosity and Direct Infrared Spectroscopy Technologies
July 23, 2012
LITTLETON, MA – Spectro, Inc., a leader in analytical instrumentation and software for machine condition monitoring, has created a portable, solvent free, field toolkit that combines both kinematic fluid viscosity and direct infrared spectroscopy solutions. The portability of the combo kit enables immediate decision making by bringing the functionality of powerful analytical tools from the [...]
July 23, 2012
Portland, Maine, – EnviroLogix announced today that it has signed a collaborative agreement with Douglas Scientific to develop and optimize solutions for high throughput real time and endpoint nucleic acid analysis. The companies will leverage and build upon EnviroLogix’ revolutionary isothermal DNAble v2.0 chemistry and Douglas Scientific’s disruptive Array Tape Platform. The DNAble isothermal amplification [...]
Illumina Countersues IBS and Qiagen for Patent Infringement
July 23, 2012
SAN DIEGO -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced that the company has sought leave to file counterclaims against Intelligent Bio-Systems, Inc. (IBS) and Qiagen NV, which recently acquired IBS, in response to the patent lawsuit brought by Columbia University and IBS on March 26, 2012 in U.S. District Court in Wilmington, Delaware. In its [...]
Illumina Introduces Universal Real-Time PCR Reagent Portfolio
July 23, 2012
SAN DIEGO -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today launched its real-time PCR reagent portfolio, including a novel, probe-based chemistry for gene expression analysis called N?PCR™. In addition to the NuPCR Reagents, Illumina announced qPCR DNA Binding Dye (DBD) Assays for Gene Expression Analysis and qPCR High Resolution Melting (HRM) Assays for genotyping studies, providing researchers with [...]
Carl Zeiss Microscopes on World Tour
July 23, 2012
ZEISS on Your Campus (ZOYC) by Carl Zeiss is a traveling tour bringing free microscopy workshops to universities and institutes throughout the world and has attracted more than 2000 attendees since. The tour was launched in 2009 in the United States and, starting in March 2012, was expanded to Europe, Asia, Latin and South America. [...]
Pacific Biosciences Names David Botstein, Ph.D. to Its Board of Directors
July 23, 2012
MENLO PARK, Calif., -- Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB), provider of the PacBio® RS High Resolution Genetic Analyzer, today announced the appointment of David Botstein, Ph.D., Director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and Anthony B. Evnin Professor of Genomics at Princeton University, to its Board of Directors. Dr. Botstein has served in [...]
ATCC Now Offers The “BIG SIX” E. Coli Strains For Food Safety Testing
July 23, 2012
ATCC, the premier biological materials resource and standards organization, announced that it is now offering strains from each of the six non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) serotypes to the food safety community. The strains referred to as the “Big Six” have been linked to a growing number of foodborne illnesses prompting the U.S. Department [...]
ISO recognition for Quality Management Systems at Malvern Instruments US headquarters
July 23, 2012
The Quality Management Systems in place at the Westborough MA headquarters of Malvern Instruments Inc., Malvern’s US subsidiary, have been awarded ISO9001:2008 certification. This certification recognizes the US company’s supply, support and installation of materials characterization systems and associated equipment, and extends to the provision of associated services for sample analysis, application, advice and customer [...]
