President Barack Obama Sees Atoms on FEI TEM

Hillsboro, Ore. - President Barack Obama finally got to see his atoms, courtesy of Intel and FEI's Titan transmission electron microscope. The President visited Intel Hillsboro's Ronler Acres facility as part of a West Coast technology tour wrapping Friday, February 18. During his visit to the TEM lab, the President made his way through photographers [...]

Sheffield Bio-Science and Wockhardt Announce Worldwide Exclusive Partnership to Supply Recombinant Insulin to Cell Culture Market

BELOIT, Wis. - Sheffield Bio-Science, a Kerry Group Business, has formed a strategic global sales, marketing and development alliance with Wockhardt Ltd. Under this partnership, Sheffield Bio-Science will be the Exclusive Global Sales and Distribution Partner for recombinant insulin manufactured by global Indian biotech Wockhardt. According to estimates, the potential in cell culture markets is [...]

Syrris Launches New Flow Chemistry Systems

Royston, UK - Leading chemistry automation product innovator, Syrris will launch its new Asia range of modular flow chemistry systems in America at Scientific Update OPRD, Florida from 28th February – 2nd March 2011. The European launch will subsequently occur at the 1st International Conference of the Flow Chemistry Society in Munich, Germany, from 28 [...]

Hitachi High-Technologies Releases new HPLC system, Chromaster

Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (TOKYO: 8036, Hitachi High-Tech) announces today the global release of the Chromaster High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) system with enhanced performance, ease-of-use, and robustness. HPLC is an analytical tool for qualitative and quantitative measurements of liquid soluble substances with a high degree of accuracy. A key design specification for the Chromaster is [...]

Tecan and SciRobotics Offer Integrated Colony Picking for Molecular Biology

Männedorf, Switzerland - Tecan and SciRobotics today announced the launch of the integrated Pickolo colony-picker for the Freedom EVO® liquid handling platforms, providing customers with a complete solution for automation of molecular biology workflows, from cloning to PCR sequencing or cell-based screening. SciRobotics developed Pickolo specifically for Freedom EVO. This application enables fully automated colony [...]

BlueGnome Announces First 24sure Shipments to China

BlueGnome used this weekend’s conference of the Chinese Society of Reproductive Medicine in Chongqing to announce the availability of its 24sure and CytoChip platforms in China. Both 24sure and CytoChip combine advanced microarray technology with sophisticated signal processing software in order to inform investigation of genetic disorders from cancer to infertility. The application of 24sure [...]

GE Healthcare Appoints Kieran Murphy as Life Sciences CEO, Successor to Peter Ehrenheim

Chalfont St.Giles - GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) announced today that on 1 April 2011, Kieran Murphy will be promoted to succeed current Life Sciences President and CEO Peter Ehrenheim who will retire from GE after a transition period on July 31 2011. Kieran is currently GE Healthcare’s Head of Global [...]

Simulations Plus (“SLP”) Launches MedChem Designer

LANCASTER, Calif. - Simulations Plus, Inc. (NASDAQ: SLP), a leading provider of simulation and modeling software for pharmaceutical discovery and development, announced today the launch of a new freely available software product called MedChem Designer™ to complement its MedChem Studio™ and ADMET Predictor™ offerings for the design of pharmaceutical and other new molecular structures. Unique [...]

Sigma(R) Life Science Adds Oligoarchitect(TM) for QPCR to Online Portfolio of Scientific Tools

St. Louis, Mo. - Sigma Life Science, the innovative biological products and services research business of Sigma-Aldrich® (Nasdaq: SIAL), today announced the release of OligoArchitect™, an online primer and probe design tool. This freely available tool offers automated design of probes and primers for real-time qPCR assays, powered by the industry standard Beacon Designer™ platform [...]

Ad Huijser Named as Director at FEI Company

HILLSBORO, Ore. - FEI Company (Nasdaq:FEIC) today announced that Dr. Ad Huijser has joined the company's board of directors. Dr. Huijser was executive vice president, chief technology officer and member of the Board of Management of Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., until his retirement in 2006. During his 36-year career with Philips he held various senior [...]

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