Diagnostic Device Becomes Mobile – The Handheld Flow Cytometer Lab-on-a-Chip Technology
February 3, 2012
Burlington, NC -- The advantages of the Diagnostic Chips’ handheld Flow Cytometer lab-on-a-chip technology are significant. The device cost is only a fraction of the conventional bench-top flow cytometers. Sample size and reagents consumption is greatly reduced to only 5~10 micro liters. The handheld weighs less than 1.5 lbs. It is quick and easy to [...]
February 3, 2012
Cambridge, UK: TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative automation and consumables for life science applications today announced it is launching a new RAFT System on Booth 815 at the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) Conference in San Diego, USA. The system comprises a new, custom RAFT microwell plate, reagents, plate heater and [...]
NEW Vibration Free Incubator Ideal for Protein Crystallography
February 3, 2012
Carlsbad CA - Torrey Pines Scientific announces the EchoTherm™ Vibration Free Bench Top Chilling Incubators with a range of 4.0°C to 70.0°C. These units are ideal for Protein Crystallography and other life science laboratory uses. Both incubators are Peltier-based for heating and chilling. As such, they have no compressors or CFCs and are vibration-free making [...]
IDEA Bio-Medical Sells HTS/HCS Cell Imaging System to The Medical University of South Carolina
February 2, 2012
Rehovot, Israel, and Charleston, South Carolina - IDEA Bio-Medical Ltd. and The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) announced today that they have completed the sale of IDEA Bio-Medical’s breakthrough Hermes WiScan® system to MUSC’s Center for Drug Discovery. Hermes WiScan® is a breakthrough biological cell imaging desktop system that enables researchers, at all levels, [...]
February 2, 2012
SKOKIE, IL -- NanoProfessor(R), a division of NanoInk(R), Inc. focused on nanotechnology education, announced today a partnership with City Colleges of Chicago in which two City Colleges students will complete a specially designed "Introduction to Nanotechnology" course followed by a paid summer internship program working in the Skokie-based NanoProfessor labs. It marks the first step [...]
February 2, 2012
LA JOLLA, Calif. and CORALVILLE, Iowa - Synthetic Genomics, Inc. (SGI), a privately held company commercializing and developing genomic-driven solutions to solve a variety of global needs, and Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc. (IDT), the world leader in production and supply of oligonucleotides, today jointly announced that they have entered into an agreement to manufacture, market, [...]
New Handheld Narcotics Analyzer Gives Edge to Law Enforcement in War on Drugs
February 2, 2012
WALTHAM, Mass.- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced Thermo Scientific TruNarc, a new handheld narcotics analyzer that gives local law enforcement a significant technology edge in the war on drugs. TruNarc® can replace more subjective presumptive field tests (color tests) used by law enforcement for decades. The core technology [...]
February 2, 2012
SAN DIEGO, Sequenom, Inc. today announced that a new publication of an independent multi-center study on Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine's MaterniT21™ laboratory-developed test (LDT) appears today in the online issue of Genetics in Medicine. The study demonstrated the LDT can detect fetal trisomy 21, 18 and 13 with high accuracy from a maternal blood [...]
PerkinElmer Announces Financial Results for the Fourth Quarter of 2011
February 2, 2012
WALTHAM, Mass. - PerkinElmer, Inc. PKI -0.57% , a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter ended January 1, 2012. The Company reported a GAAP loss per share from continuing operations of $0.75, as compared to earnings per share of [...]
SPRIworks HT from Beckman Coulter Automates Sample Preparation for Next Generation Sequencing,
February 2, 2012
BREA, CALIF.- Beckman Coulter Life Sciences will launch SPRIworks HT*, a high-throughput solution for fragment library preparation on Illumina next generation sequencers, at SLAS2012, which convenes Feb. 4-8 in San Diego. The system, which will be displayed at the conference in booth 619, allows researchers to process libraries with greater speed and sample reproducibility and [...]

