Illumina’s Board Unanimously Rejects Roche’s Revised Unsolicited Offer
April 4, 2012
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 [...]
April 4, 2012
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. [...]
April 4, 2012
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
April 4, 2012
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
April 4, 2012
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 [...]
Arrayit Diagnostics, Inc. Reports Results of Research Study for Ovarian Cancer Diagnostic Test
April 4, 2012
SUNNYVALE, Calif.,-- Arrayit Corporation (OTCBB: ARYC) and Arrayit Diagnostics, Inc. ("AD") report significant results from a 257 patient research study on its pre-symptomatic ovarian cancer molecular diagnostic test in development, OvaDx(R). In this study, OvaDx® recorded sensitivity of 79.7%, correctly identifying patients known to have cancer, and specificity approaching 100%, correctly identifying the healthy controls, [...]
TTP Labtech Ltd Managing Director Succession
April 4, 2012
Peter Taylor, TTP Group plc CEO, today announced the appointment of Jas Sangera as Managing Director of TTP Labtech Ltd – a TTP Group subsidiary. The announcement follows the retirement of TTP Labtech Managing Director Philip Blenkinsop. Jas is a twenty-five year veteran of TTP, and a founding member of TTP Labtech. He has held [...]
Portable, Cost Effective Flexible Film Isolator
April 4, 2012
Air Science provides containment solutions to meet any analytical need. The NEW Purair Flex provides numerous performance advantages over the competition, including: More Volume. The Purair Flex Film Isolator features an innovative curved film design that provides more working volume than any other Glove Bag on the market. Versatile Tapered Sleeve / Glove Options. Unlike [...]
B&W Tek is Awarded Patent for Mounting Fiber Spectroscopic Probes on to Microscope
April 4, 2012
B&W Tek, Inc., an advanced instrumentation company producing optical spectroscopy and laser systems is pleased to announce its 18th patent since the company’s establishment in 1997. The newest patent has been awarded for the design of a spectroscopic probe that mounts directly to a standard microscope in order to add spectroscopic function to the microscope [...]
DataApex announces German localization of Clarity
April 4, 2012
DataApex is pleased to announce that Clarity Chromatography Software has been localized to German language. The Clarity German version will be for the first time displayed at Analytica 2012 Exhibition in Munich. The Clarity German version is planned to be officially released with Clarity version 4.0 in Q2/2012. The Clarity German version has been developed [...]

