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 [...]

BioScale, Inc. a life science company that develops ultrasensitive protein analysis technology, presented findings of recently completed research studies on phospho-protein analysis of the activation state of the MAP kinase pathway at the 103rd Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), held at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois, March 31 - April [...]

CARLSBAD, Calif.,-- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) will exhibit products across the spectrum of basic, translational and clinical cancer research during the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2012, taking place March 31 – April 4, in Chicago, Illinois. In addition, several of Life's customers and collaborators will present research findings. "From basic [...]