Brookfield Names Hebert to Product Manager – Powder Flow Tester
March 20, 2012
Middleboro, MA – Brookfield Engineering Laboratories is pleased to announce the appointment of Vincent Hebert to the position of Product Manager - Powder Flow Tester (PFT). Vinnie will assume responsibility for sales of the PFT in the Americas and will coordinate worldwide sales with Brookfield’s international offices. Vinnie has been the lead sales engineering specialist [...]
March 20, 2012
SUNNYVALE, Calif., -- Cepheid today announced that, together with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), it has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop sample processing and amplification methods for highly-sensitive detection of bloodstream bacteria using nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) on the GeneXpert System. The $1.3 [...]
March 20, 2012
NEWARK, Calif.,-- StemCells, Inc. (Nasdaq:STEM) and genOway (NYSE:ALGEN) announced today that they have entered into a license agreement under which StemCells has granted genOway a worldwide, exclusive license to StemCells' Internal Ribosome Entry Site (IRES) technology for use in the development and commercialization of genetically engineered mice. Financial conditions were not disclosed. The IRES technology [...]
March 19, 2012
SOUTH EASTON, Mass. and MILPITAS, Calif., — Pressure BioSciences, Inc., a leading sample preparation tools company for the research market and Sage-N Research, Inc. (“Sage-N”), a world leader in computational proteomics, today announced a collaboration to develop software applications on Sage-N’s SORCERER™ Integrated Data Appliance platform. The new software will be designed to work with [...]
March 19, 2012
Irvine, CA -- Quantiscientifics LLC, an Irvine, California company has selected BioDot Inc to co-market and sell their A2® MicroArray System. The A2® (pronounced “A-Squared”) product, originally developed out of Beckman Coulter allows for multiplexing in a proprietary 96-well plate format. To reduce complexity, the technology utilizes DNA attached to the plate surface to link [...]
New Perfinity Integrated Digestion Platform Simplifies Protein Sample Preparation
March 19, 2012
In partnership with Perfinity Biosciences, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments has released the Perfinity Integrated Digestion Platform (IDP). Based on the Perfinity Workstation, the Perfinity IDP system automates key proteomics workflow steps to significantly reduce sample preparation times and enhance reproducibility. Traditionally, manual sample preparation techniques involving 18-hour tryptic digestion to reverse-phase HPLC and mass spec detection [...]
GE Healthcare and BAC collaborate to launch new bioprocess affinity resin
March 19, 2012
Chalfont St Giles, UK and Naarden, – GE Healthcare, the healthcare business of GE and BAC BV, the leading provider of antibody-based affinity purification technology, announced today that, following a successful collaboration between the two companies, GE Healthcare Life Sciences has added a new and innovative affinity resin to its portfolio of technologies for the [...]
Celsis Rapid Detection Launches New RapiScreen Soy Beverage Kit
March 19, 2012
Celsis Rapid Detection announces today the launch of a new RapiScreen Soy Beverage kit, specifically designed for the detection of microbial contamination in soy and nut milks and similar beverage products. The RapiScreen Soy Beverage kit provides beverage manufacturers with test results in as few as 48 hours, compared to 4-14 days with traditional methods, [...]
Shimadzu’s New LabSolutions DB Provides Secure, Efficient Data Management for LC/GC Laboratories
March 19, 2012
As more industries begin to comply with guidelines and regulations set forth by governing bodies like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the efficient management of liquid and gas chromatography (LC/GC) instruments and analytical data is essential. LabSolutions DB Software from Shimadzu Scientific Instruments offers LC/GC laboratories fast and secure management for their LC/GC data. [...]
Illumina Files Definitive Proxy Materials and Sends Letter to Stockholders
March 19, 2012
SAN DIEGO-- Illumina, Inc., a leading developer, manufacturer, and marketer of life science tools and integrated systems for the analysis of genetic variation and function, announced today that it filed definitive proxy materials with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in connection with its 2012 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, to be held on April 18, [...]
