EMD Millipore Introduces Unique Lab Water E-Solution: Millitrack® Compliance

Billerica, MA — EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, today announced the introduction of Millitrack® Compliance, a novel e-solution designed to enable regulatory compliance for lab water purification system users. This unique fully-embedded water purification system software has been developed especially for the pharmaceutical, biotech and contract labs that follow [...]

JPK reports on the research in the Marseille INSERM/CNRS laboratories where the NanoWizard AFM system is being used for cell studies.

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the use of the NanoWizard® AFM system at the INSERM/CNRS Laboratories in Marseille, France. The Laboratory of Cell Adhesion and Inflammation is located in Marseille as part of the INSERM/CNRS complex on the Luminy campus. It is [...]

Ompact Device Achieves Ultra-Low Dectection Limits at a Compelling Price

San Francisco, CA – Caught between shrinking margins and shrinking geometries, today’s semiconductor fabricators and their suppliers have reason to rejoice, at least when it comes to gas analysis. At this week’s Semicon West show, Tiger Optics LLC, known for its innovative laser-based analyzers, is unveiling an affordable new tool that can detect traces of [...]

Morpho Detection Receives TSA Service Order for Deployed Itemiser DX Explosives Trace Detectors

Morpho Detection, Inc. (MDI), the explosives and narcotics detection business of Morpho, Safran group's security unit, today announced it has received an order from the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for maintenance of its deployed Itemiser® DX desktop explosives trace detection (ETD) units. Under terms of the order, which extends the two-year original equipment manufacturer [...]

Abbott Announces New Test for the Management of Patients with Diabetes

Abbott Park, Illinois (NYSE: ABT) — More than 346 million people worldwide are living with diabetes, and the World Diabetes Foundation estimates that number will increase by nearly 27 percent by 2030. In order to help physicians appropriately monitor treatment efficacy for these patients, Abbott announced today CE Marking (Conformité Européenne) for the Abbott ARCHITECT [...]

Technical cooperation agreement between IEMN and Digital Surf relating to nanoscale surface characterization

Lille and Besançon, France IEMN (Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology), one of the largest technological facilities in France, and Digital Surf, provider of software solutions for surface imaging and metrology based on its Mountains Technology®, confirm that they have entered into a technical cooperation agreement. IEMN has joined Digital Surf's Mount Shasta technical cooperation [...]

Wheaton Industries Expands Product Line with Acquisition of CELLine

PITTSBURGH,- Incline Equity Partners and portfolio company Wheaton Industries Inc. (“Wheaton”) announced today the acquisition of CELLine, a division of Wilson Wolf Manufacturing Corporation that manufactures disposable cell culture flasks. This is the second add-on acquisition for Wheaton Industries since Incline’s initial investment in June 2010. In February 2011, Wheaton acquired Laboratory Sales Limited (LSL) [...]

Luminex Corporation Announces Agreement to Acquire GenturaDx

AUSTIN, Texas, -- Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held, GenturaDx, a molecular diagnostics company focused on making nucleic acid testing both affordable and practical for any laboratory. GenturaDx is in late stage development of a fully integrated, highly automated, real-time PCR system that employs a single-use cassette for true [...]

FEI Buys the Assets of Its Korean Agent

HILLSBORO, Ore., -- FEI Company (Nasdaq:FEIC), a leading instrumentation company providing imaging and analysis systems for research and industry, today announced that it has purchased certain assets of AP Tech of Suwon, South Korea for $12 million. AP Tech has over 40 employees primarily engaged in sales and service and has been FEI's agent in [...]

New Perfinity Integrated Digestion Platform Simplifies Protein Sample Preparation

COLUMBIA, Md., — In partnership with Perfinity Biosciences, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments has released the Perfinity Integrated Digestion Platform (IDP). Based on the Perfinity Workstation, the Perfinity IDP system automates key proteomics workflow steps to significantly reduce sample preparation times and enhance reproducibility. Traditionally, manual sample preparation techniques involving 18-hour tryptic digestion to reverse-phase HPLC and [...]

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