November 18, 2010
BILLERICA, Mass. - American Science and Engineering, Inc. ("AS&E") (NASDAQ: ASEI), a leading worldwide supplier of innovative X-ray detection solutions, announced today the receipt of an order for a Z Portal cargo and vehicle screening system. The Z Portal system will be used by law enforcement officials to scan vehicles and trucks entering a U.S.-based [...]
Phenomenex Introduces Sorbent for Extraction of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
November 18, 2010
Torrance, CA - Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the research and manufacture of advanced technologies for the separation sciences, announces Strata?-PAH, a new sorbent designed for the isolation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in environmental samples. Strata-PAH solid phase extraction (SPE) sorbents target these analytes while simultaneously removing humic acids that can interfere with [...]
PrecisionCells.com Offers Custom Manufacturing Services of Quartz Optical Products
November 18, 2010
PrecisionCells.com, a manufacturer and designer of quality cuvettes, offers custom manufacturing services of quartz optical products. PrecisionCells.com, the leading manufacturer and designer of high quality cuvettes, offers custom manufacturing services of quartz optical products. Being one of the few companies that can custom manufacturer quartz optical components, PrecisionCells.com offers a wide range of quartz cuvettes, [...]
AMSBIO Has Announced New Kits Improved Nucleic Acid Recovery from FFPE Samples
November 18, 2010
AMSBIO has announced new kits for the isolation of high quality RNA from Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded (FFPE) tissues and LCM samples that can be applied both to qRT-PCR and a variety of microarray platforms. When working with stored materials, researchers often need to isolate RNA from samples that have been stored as FFPE tissue blocks. These [...]
Oligo Manufacturer Standardizes On Ultravap for Sample Preparation
November 18, 2010
Porvair Sciences Ltd. has announced that a leading manufacturer of ready-made oligonucleotides, with bases in both North America and Europe, has standardized on their Ultravap™ Blowdown Station for careful drying of their production samples. Steve Knight - Sales & Marketing Manager at Porvair commented "This important life science customer has invested in 5 Ultravap™ systems [...]
Tecan and Covaris co-market Freedom EVO® with Adaptive Focused Acoustics™
November 18, 2010
Männedorf, Switzerland – Tecan is collaborating with Covaris, Inc., a rapidly growing company providing advanced sample preparation solutions for life and analytical science, to co¬promote the Freedom EVO® liquid handling platform with integrated Adaptive Focused Acoustics™ (AFA). This co-marketing agreement will allow customers to benefit from both the advanced capabilities of Tecan’s Freedom EVO systems [...]
Luminex Corporation Board of Directors Authorizes Share Repurchase Plan Through November 2011
November 18, 2010
AUSTIN, Texas - Luminex Corporation (Nasdaq: LMNX) today announced that the company's Board of Directors has authorized the purchase of up to 1,000,000 shares, but not more than $21 million in aggregate purchase price, of the company's common stock through November 2011. "We believe that the stock repurchase program announced today represents an appropriate and [...]
November 18, 2010
Sunnyvale, CA - Dionex is pleased to announce the release of the next-generation ProPac® SCX-20 column, providing exceptionally high resolution for characterization of protein variants. The ProPac SCX-20 column has a strong cationexchange surface chemistry on a unique nonporous pellicular resin, together providing exceptionally high resolving power, permitting the separation of protein variants that differ [...]
November 18, 2010
Sedgefield, UK. - Reinnervate, an innovative life sciences company driving the adoption of routine 3D cell culture, today announced the appointment of Classic Industries Europe for the commercial assembly & packaging of alvetex® plates for 3D cell culture applications. Reinnervate is currently gearing up for the first launch of alvetex® at the Cell-Based Assay conference [...]
November 17, 2010
MADISON, Wis. - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the launch of its new Calibration Validation Carousel (CVC) accessories for the Evolution series UV-Visible spectrophotometers enabling automated performance verification and adherence to pharmaceutical guidelines. Automated performance verification saves significant time and money by reducing the amount of hands-on time [...]