Lucigen Corporation Awarded $2.8M SBIR Grant for Point of Care Diagnostics

Lucigen Corporation announced today that it has recently been awarded its largest SBIR Phase II grant to date to fund research and development of a point of care diagnostic test for influenza. The National Institutes of Health has awarded Lucigen a total of $2.8M in a Small Business Innovation Research grant to be used to [...]

RUSNANO Board of Directors Approves Company’s First Exit from Investment Project

RUSNANO’s Board of Directors has approved the company's first exit from a previously-invested company. RUSNANO sells its 27.6 percent equity stake in Advanced Technologies Center, a leading producer of scanning probe microscopes and atomic scales. The sale to the project applicant, NPP CPT will generate IRR of 29.5 percent on RUSNANO’s investment. RUSNANO’s co-financing enabled [...]

Contur ELN from Accelrys Powers UK’s Largest Trial of Academic Electronic Lab Notebooks

SAN DIEGO, -- Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL), a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, today announced it is enabling up to 400 scientists at 16 leading universities in the UK to evaluate the low-cost, easy-to-deploy and use Contur Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) offered by Accelrys' Contur Software subsidiary. The program, which runs through [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Announces New SO3 System to Manage Sulfur Trioxide in Tough

FRANKLIN, Mass. – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the new Thermo Scientific® Arke™ SO3 System, designed to help plants control SO3 levels through continuously monitoring. The Arke SO3 System is ideal for users looking to minimize operational costs or improve efficiencies in industrial processes. Continuous monitoring of SO3 [...]

FEI Launches ‘Living Lab’ for Structural Biology Research at NIH

Hillsboro, Ore ? FEI (NASDAQ: FEIC), a scientific instruments company, marked the official launch of the new Living Lab for Structural Biology during an event on the NIH campus today. “This event commences the FEI-NIH Living Lab joint scientific projects. FEI has installed the Titan Krios™ transmission electron microscope (TEM), the world’s most powerful commercially-available [...]

Cepheid Announces European Release of Xpert CT/NG and Xpert CT, Delivering Rapid Detection and Differentiation of Chlamydia and Gonorrhoeae

SUNNYVALE, Calif.,-- Cepheid (NASDAQ: CPHD) today announced that both Xpert CT/NG and Xpert CT have received CE marking, with shipments expected to begin immediately. Running on Cepheid's GeneXpert System, the products are qualitative in vitro molecular diagnostic tests for the rapid detection and differentiation of Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG). With results in [...]

LA-ICP-MS Industry Leader To Introduce Two New Geoscience Products at Goldschmidt Conference

NASHUA, N.H.,-- Resonetics, LLC, manufacturer of 193 nm excimer laser ablation equipment designed specifically for LA-ICP-MS, will introduce two new products at the upcoming 22nd Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference in Montreal. Resonetics is expanding its highly successful RESOlution geological product line with the new RESOchron double-dating instrument. Partnering with Australian Scientific Instruments, Pty., Ltd. (ASI), the [...]

AbD Serotec to Launch Panel of HuCAL Anti-Drug Antibodies Supporting the Development of Novel Antibody Therapeutics

MorphoSys AG (FSE: MOR; Prime Standard Segment, TecDAX) announced today that its division for research and diagnostic antibodies, AbD Serotec, will launch a series of novel anti-drug antibodies (ADAs) to strengthen its position as a leading provider of diagnostic reagents. Starting with the recent launch of fully human, recombinant antibodies binding Rituximab (Rituxan®) and Trastuzumab [...]

BioTime and Subsidiary LifeMap Sciences, Inc. Announce Release of GeneCards® Version 3.08

ALAMEDA, Calif. & CAMBRIDGE, Mass -- XenneX, a Division of LifeMap Sciences, Inc. and BioTime, Inc. (NYSE Amex:BTX), announced today the release of GeneCards®, Version 3.08, on May 20, 2012. The new release is available at www.genecards.org. The new GeneCards® release includes more than 94,500 gene entries. One of the important enhancements is the display [...]

AgileBio releases LabCollector LSM: collaborative application for core facilities and lab services management

Paris, France, - AgileBio, an IT solutions specialist providing web-based software for life sciences for over 10 years, announces today the release of Lab Services Manager (LSM), a complementary application for its LIMS, LabCollector. The LSM provides a dedicated interface to manage laboratory jobs/analysis in pharma or biotech industries as well as core facilities among [...]

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