Hoefer Announces New Partnership with VWR International

Holliston MA, -- Hoefer, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard Bioscience, Inc. (HBIO), announced its partnership with VWR International to sell its premium line of electrophoresis products across Europe. This new partnership leverages Hoefer’s strong brand recognition and world-renowned reputation as an innovative supplier of premium electrophoresis equipment and accessories with VWR’s pan-European sales [...]

IntegenX Launches First RapidHIT Human DNA Identification System in Europe

PLEASANTON, Calif., USA and THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS – IntegenX Inc., a leading developer of rapid human DNA identification technology, today launched its RapidHIT™ Human DNA Identification System to the European law enforcement and forensic communities at the 6th European Academy of Forensic Science (EAFS) Conference in The Hague, The Netherlands. Representatives from IntegenX are [...]

Agilent Technologies Secures Patent for Market-Leading CGH Assays

SANTA CLARA, Calif., -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that it was awarded a significant patent for comparative genomic hybridization methods. CGH methods help researchers study genetics and cancer in both basic and clinical research. The U.S. patent (No. 8,232,055) has claims for measuring copy number changes in genomic DNA, covering both one-color [...]

VWR Funding, Inc. Announces Tender Offer of Existing Pik Toggle Notes

RADNOR, PA, -- VWR Funding, Inc. (the "Company"), the parent company of VWR International, LLC, a leading global laboratory supply and distribution company, announced today that it is commencing a tender offer to purchase any and all of its outstanding 10.25%/11.25% Senior PIK Toggle Notes due 2015 (the "Notes") through a cash tender offer (the [...]

Cresset Announces Appointment of David Bardsley as Sales Director

Welwyn Garden City – Cresset BioMolecular Discovery is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr David Bardsley to the newly created role of Sales Director at Cresset Group. David joins Cresset from Synergy Health Plc where, as Sales Director of the Healthcare Solutions division, he was responsible for the organisation delivering product solutions to healthcare [...]

Hitachi High-Tech and FEI Company Settle Patent Dispute

HILLSBORO, Ore., -- FEI Company (Nasdaq:FEIC) announced today that it has reached a mutually acceptable agreement with Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation ("HHT") to settle an ongoing dispute regarding certain HHT patents relating to focused ion beam ("FIB") systems. In exchange for HHT's agreement to dismiss all currently pending claims and to grant future license rights to [...]

New England Biolabs Reports Significant Process Improvements Using IDT’s gBlocks™

CORALVILLE, IA –– The latest issue of Integrated DNA Technologies’ (IDT’s) DECODED newsletter highlights how New England Biolabs (NEB) researchers were able to expe¬dite the cloning of a 2.1 kb gene into a linearized pET21-a bacterial expression vector using 5 gBlocks™ Gene Fragments that spanned the entire 2.1 kb sequence. Cloning, sequencing, and characteriza¬tion of [...]

JH Technologies Announces Partnership with Pacific Microsystems

Fremont, CA -- On August 10, 2012, JH Technologies, a distributor of optical and digital imaging systems, and Pacific Microsystems, a service and technical sales company, have announced a partnership designed to provide a higher level of service to customers in the Pacific Northwest. Pacific Microsystems is a new organization with an experienced staff that [...]

Speed, Simplify Nucleic Acid Size Selection for Fragment

INDIANAPOLIS, IND. –– SPRIselect from Beckman Coulter Life Sciences utilizes SPRI (Solid Phase Reversible Immobilization)-based chemistry to speed and simplify genomic DNA size selection for next generation sequencing fragment library preparation. Following shearing, the library construction process requires size selection to produce uniform distribution of fragments. SPRIselect allows size distribution to be adjusted between 150 [...]

FreezerPro Adds Support for FluidX XTR Line of Whole-rack 2D Barcode Scanners

Frederick, MD - RURO, Inc., a developer of innovative research productivity tools, announces direct support for FluidX XTR 96, FluidX XTR FLEX, FluidX XTR RACK LF and FluidX XTR RACK CRYO flatbed 2D barcode scanners for general laboratory use. FluidX XTR completes the line of whole-rack scanners directly supported in FreezerPro software. The device joins [...]

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