WALTHAM, Mass.–– PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced the availability of the HER2Sense™ preclinical imaging agent, to support breast cancer discovery research into personalized medicine. The HER2Sense agent is the first fluorescent, discovery research imaging agent to be based on a commercialized [...]

The Corning cellgro product line, combined with Corning’s disposable vessels and surfaces, provides researchers with a comprehensive portfolio of products for all stages of cell culture growth and scale-up, from sample preparation and separation through harvesting. Corning cellgro products are manufactured by Mediatech Inc., a subsidiary of Corning Incorporated. “Enhancing our cell culture and molecular [...]

ANTWERP, Belgium -- Bruker Corporation today announced that it has acquired all of the shares of SkyScan N.V., a scientific instruments company located near Antwerp, Belgium. Financial details were not disclosed. For the remainder for 2012, the acquisition of SkyScan is expected to add approximately $13 million to Bruker's revenue and to be accretive to [...]

GE Healthcare’s Capto Core 700 is a multimodal chromatography medium (resin) designed for intermediate purification and polishing of viruses and other large biomolecules. Capto Core 700 offers a range of performance advantages over a typical gel filtration step. Productivity is improved with up to 100-fold greater sample loadings and significantly higher flow rates. Optimization and [...]

LEXINGTON, Mass. AND CHICAGO, Ill.,– RainDance Technologies, Inc., the Digital Biology™ company, today announced the worldwide availability of its new panel for cancer mutation screening research using any next-generation sequencing (NGS) system. The RainDance Cancer Hotspot Panel enables researchers to simultaneously interrogate more than 13,000 cancer “hotspots” across 54 genes. Developed with researchers from the [...]

SALT LAKE CITY,-- Idaho Technology, Inc., a privately held biotechnology and clinical diagnostics company dedicated to providing the world's fastest, highest-quality instruments for pathogen identification and DNA analysis, today announced the European launch of its FilmArray Respiratory Panel (FilmArray RP), a multiplex clinical diagnostic product that simultaneously detects 21 respiratory pathogens in about one hour. [...]

LEXINGTON, Mass. AND CHICAGO, Ill.,– RainDance Technologies, Inc., the Digital Biology™ company, today introduced its new RainDrop™ Digital PCR System, which establishes new performance standards in sensitivity, multiplexing and absolute quantitation in PCR analysis. Capable of generating more than a billion reactions in a single day, the RainDrop System transforms the performance of molecular assays [...]

Santa Clara, CA,— ProteinSimple today introduced Sally as the next member of the revolutionary Simple Western product family. Sally eliminates a critical bottleneck in large-scale protein research and biopharmaceutical development — manual Western Blot analysis. With Sally, researchers can perform 96 Simple Westerns in a single automated experiment. For over 30 years, the Western Blot [...]

CARLSBAD, Calif.,-- Life Technologies Corporation today announced the expansion to its TaqMan® Mutation Detection Assays -- highly sensitive and novel molecular analysis research tools designed to detect an additional 241 of the most common mutations in 21 cancer genes. The TaqMan® Mutation Detection Assays can screen for extremely minute levels of mutations in heterogenous samples [...]

Uppsala, Sweden,-- Biotage® (STO: BIOT), a leading global supplier of solutions and technology for analytical and medicinal chemistry, introduced Isolera™ Spektra. The new Isolera™ Spektra expands the scope of application of Biotage’s market-leading Flash Chromatography product line by increasing efficiency with significant solvent and time saving capabilities as well as enabling purity assessment technology. The [...]