February 22, 2012
SEATTLE – Integrated Diagnostics (InDi®), an emerging leader in molecular diagnostics, today announced that the company has made substantial progress in its diagnostic programs, triggering a $10 million third tranche of its Series A financing. The company will use the funds to complete clinical development of its in vitro proteomic-based diagnostics programs and prepare for [...]
February 22, 2012
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) announced that it will be hosting the Agilent Science and Technology Symposium 2012 in multiple phases. ASTS will include an online symposium on Feb. 29, followed by a mobile trade show, March 20-June 12. The mobile trade show will visit 16 cities in North America and six [...]
TATAA Biocenter Expands Offerings using Roche´s RealTime ready Custom qPCR Assays and Panels
February 22, 2012
PENZBERG, Germany, TATAA Biocenter, Europe's leading provider of genomic services using quantitative real-time polymerase PCR (qPCR), is expanding its offerings to high-throughput gene expression profiling using Roche's RealTime ready Custom qPCR Assays and Panels. TATAA Biocenter's laboratories provide contract research for a full range of real-time qPCR services, including primer and probe design, validation, data [...]
Roche and Life Technologies Corporation Sign New PCR IVD Licenses
February 22, 2012
PLEASANTON, Calif., Roche and Life Technologies Corporation (LTC) announced today that they have entered into two license agreements to allow LTC to expand its PCR offerings for diagnostics applications. Under these two agreements, Roche has granted LTC an in vitro diagnostics product license to all of Roche's patents for real-time PCR (polymerase chain reaction) as [...]
Sartorius Stedim Biotech signs Private Label Agreement with Trace Analytics
February 22, 2012
Goettingen, Braunschweig – Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), a leading international provider for the biotech and pharmaceutical industries, concluded a private label agreement with Trace Analytics, a leading provider of analyzing systems for online monitoring of biotech cultivation processes. This contract grants SSB exclusive global rights to market, distribute and service BioPAT Trace, the new online [...]
Samples perfectly protected by ULTRA.GUARDTM
February 21, 2012
With the introduction of ULTRA.GUARDTM technology, the ultra low temperature freezers from BINDER open a new dimension in safety and reliability, making them particularly suitable for use in laboratories and hospitals. At the same time, the high-end units have a high degree of user-friendliness second to none in the field. Developers have even thought about [...]
Nanolane revolutionizes conventional microscopes with Sarfus Mapping Lite
February 21, 2012
Nanolane of France, a specialist in the development and commercialization of optical solutions for characterizing nanomaterial systems, has launched Sarfus Mapping Lite — an innovative measurement solution that fits with any optical microscope set-up functioning with reflected light. French-based Nanolane has recently created easy-to-use Sarfus Mapping Lite, a plug-in piece of apparatus, the main components [...]
New Promega QuantiFluor RNA System for Sensitive, Easy Quantitation
February 21, 2012
Madison, WI USA: Promega Corporation announces the launch of QuantiFluor™ RNA System for highly sensitive, easy RNA quantitation. The QuantiFluor RNA dye enables quantitation of small amounts (as little as 100pg) of RNA in solution; a critical step in many biological applications, particularly in standard molecular biology techniques. The new system provides significantly increased sensitivity [...]
Kitware Introduces Visomics for Bioinformatics
February 21, 2012
Kitware is pleased to introduce “Visomics,” an open-source application for performing biological research pertaining to genomics, protemomics, transcriptomics and metabolomics. Visomics is built on top of Kitware’s powerful open-source toolkits and is easily configured to support underlying ‘omics applications, which can be customized to meet the particular needs of researchers. Currently in alpha/beta mode, Visomics [...]
State In Carbon Nanotube Research
February 21, 2012
Edinburgh Instruments, Photonics Division, Livingston, UK, Researchers at Duke University1 have utilised the LP920 laser flash photolysis spectrometer from Edinburgh Instruments to experimentally observe excited triplet states of individualised single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) for the first time. These SWNT triplet excitons have lifetimes of the order of microseconds, differing vastly the picosecond lifetimes characteristic of [...]
