Stefan Grote joins the Gerresheimer AG Management Board
February 8, 2012
Düsseldorf, Stefan Grote is joining the Gerresheimer AG Management Board on April 1, 2012. He will be responsible for the Tubular Glass and Life Science Research Divisions and takes over from Dr. Max Raster, who is leaving the company. The Supervisory Board has appointed Stefan Grote (42) to the Gerresheimer AG Management Board as of [...]
February 8, 2012
BRANFORD, Connecticut, Roche and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Washington, DC announced today a collaboration agreement to use Roche's GS Junior benchtop sequencing system for research in SCBI's Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics. SCBI's state-of-the-art genetics laboratory, based at the National Zoo in Washington, DC, will house the next-generation sequencing instrument and will [...]
Roche disappointed by the actions of Illumina, Inc.’s Board of Directors
February 8, 2012
Basel, Roche released the following statement in response to the announcement by Illumina, Inc. that its Board of Directors has recommended that shareholders not tender their shares to Roche. On January 27, 2012, Roche commenced a tender offer to purchase all outstanding shares of Illumina for $44.50 per share in cash, or an aggregate of [...]
Turbo Mode Enhances High Throughput Petri Dish Filling
February 8, 2012
Media preparation labs can now benefit from the introduction by INTEGRA of a new Turbo mode option which significantly accelerates the filling rates of its MEDIAJET Automated Petri Dish Filling System and results in time-savings of more than 40%. With this option, the MEDIAJET sets new filling rate standards for high throughput Petri dish filling. [...]
Agilent Technologies Announces Launch of Next-Generation Pharmaceutical Compliance Service
February 8, 2012
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the latest generation of its Automated Compliance Engine for Agilent Enterprise Edition compliance services. The updated software enables delivery of even more reliable, secure and cost-efficient analytical instrument qualification services to the pharmaceutical industry. As a result, Agilent Enterprise Edition is able to get systems [...]
Mesenchymal Stem Cells Have New Cell Culture Environment
February 8, 2012
Billerica, MA, BD Biosciences, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), announced today the availability of the new BD Mosaic™ Mesenchymal Stem Cell Serum-Free (hMSC SF), a complete cell culture environment for human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) derived from bone marrow. The BD Mosaic hMSC cell culture environment is designed to provide cell expansion [...]
3D Biomatrix™ Signs Distribution Agreements in the United States and Europe
February 8, 2012
Ann Arbor, MI, 3D Biomatrix, a leader in the development of three-dimensional (3D) cell culture products, has signed distribution agreements with five prominent life science research product distributors in the US and Europe to market and sell the company’s Perfecta3D[TM] Hanging Drop Plates. The Hanging Drop Plates are now available from Dot Scientific, Inc. in [...]
Chiral Technologies, Inc. Advances Innovative Solutions at InformexUSA 2012
February 8, 2012
WEST CHESTER, Pa. As Chiral Technologies, Inc. (CTI) continues its advancements in enantiomeric separation science, the company remains focused on expanding the R3 Advantage family of immobilized chiral stationary phases (CSPs) by introducing a number of new immobilized phases. The R3 — Robust, Reliable, Reproducible — CSPs, offer throughput advantages for laboratories, thus minimizing expenses. [...]
February 8, 2012
SUNNYVALE, CA, Thermo Fisher Scientific is pleased to announce a new version of its web-based ProteinCenter software which includes more than 223 million protein-protein interactions in its database and direct support for the popular Cytoscape open source platform. (Cytoscape is used to visualize complex networks in proteomics data.) This new version of ProteinCenter includes plug-ins [...]
February 8, 2012
SAN DIEGO--At the 1st annual Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening Conference in San Diego (Booth #711), PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, will be showcasing several new drug discovery technologies and applications – including innovative products based on the Company’s ALPHA technology and [...]
