Waters Selects Ireland’s NIBRT and Prof. Pauline Rudd for Center of Innovation Program Honors

Milford, Mass. – At a ceremony officiated by Minister Sean Sherlock TD, Irish Minister for Research and Innovation, Department of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation, Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) welcomed the Irish National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT) into its Centers of Innovation Program. Waters acknowledged NIBRT and the research team under the direction of [...]

Life Technologies Receives the First and Only PCR-based FDA Method Equivalency for Salmonella Enteritidis in Poultry Eggs and Environmental Samples

CARLSBAD, Calif.,-- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has extended its recent method equivalency finding of the Applied Biosystems TaqMan® Salmonella Enteritidis Detection Kit to test poultry eggs for additional use on environmental samples at production houses where the breakfast staple is handled and packaged. The kit [...]

Pressure BioSciences Common Stock to Begin Trading Today on the OTCQB™ Tier of the OTC Marketplace

South Easton, MA,– Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (OTCQB: PBIO) (“PBI” and the “Company”) today announced that its common stock will begin trading on the OTCQB tier of the OTC Marketplace (“OTCQB”) effective today, Thursday, April 5, 2012. The OTCQB is a market tier for OTCtraded companies that are registered and current in their reporting with the [...]

AB SCIEX and Phenomenex Develop Food Safety Solution for India

NEW DELHI -- AB SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, and Phenomenex, a global leader in separation science techniques, today announced a new workflow solution specifically tailored for laboratories in India to ensure the safety of spices, teas, fruits, vegetables and other food products for domestic and export markets. The new iMethod™ [...]

Linking and lightening: New partnership connects and reveals dark data

BioMed Central, a long supporter of data sharing and the open data movement has now partnered with LabArchives, LLC to shed further light on science’s “dark data”. Through this new collaboration, authors submitting articles to selected BioMed Central journals will be provided with complimentary subscriptions to an enhanced version of the popular LabArchives Electronic Laboratory [...]

Illumina’s Board Unanimously Rejects Roche’s Revised Unsolicited Offer

SAN DIEGO -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN), a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of life science tools and integrated systems for the analysis of genetic variation and function, today announced that its Board of Directors has, after careful review and consideration together with its financial and legal advisors, unanimously rejected Roche’s revised offer to acquire Illumina [...]

Abcam Launches Potent, Novel Dynamin Inhibitor Licensed from the University of Newcastle and Children’s Medical Research Institute

Bristol, UK, Sydney and Newcastle, Australia -- Abcam, together with The University of Newcastle and the Children's Medical Research Institute, have today announced the expansion of their range of small molecule dynamin inhibitors for research. These are novel tools for investigating clathrin-mediated endocytosis and synaptic vesicle recycling and are available in the Abcam Biochemicals range. [...]

Life Technologies to Accelerate Adoption of Next-Generation Sequencing in HLA Through Key Partnerships

CARLSBAD, Calif.,-- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced that it is working with several partners to develop applications for its Ion Personal Genome Machine (PGM™) system in HLA (human leukocyte antigen) analysis. HLAs are found on the surfaces of all cells in the body, and individuals vary widely in the combination of HLA sub-types [...]

Winner of the WITec Paper Award 2011 Announced

The winner of the WITec Paper Award 2011 has been announced. This year the award goes to Diedrich A. Schmidt, North Carolina A&T State University, USA, Taisuke Ohta and Thomas E. Beechem both from the Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA for their paper: “Strain and charge carrier coupling in epitaxial graphene”, Phys. Rev. [...]

New WITec Product Overview Catalog

WITec has released a new product overview catalog highlighting the entire WITec portfolio. On 46 pages the potential applications and modularity of the alpha300 and alpha500 series and their accessories are illustrated with a completely new look. It is the ideal guide to Confocal Raman Imaging and Scanning Probe Microscopy solutions. The format and arrangement [...]

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