RURO Says SmartFreezer is Ready for Distribution

RURO, Inc., a developer of research software and inventory solutions announced today that it has successfully integrated its FreezerPro 2012 edition with Angelantoni’s SmartFreezer. The SmartFreezer is capable of reading both RFID and 2D barcodes. The SmartFreezer with be shown at numerous shows throughout the US and Europe in 2012. The fully integrated unit will [...]

New Mustard Tree Verifier™ Process System 1000 Brings Radical Change to In-Process Materials Testing

Research Triangle Park, N.C. - Mustard Tree Instruments®, continuing to lead the way in developing innovative solutions to evolving manufacturing challenges, has added to its game-changing toolset for pharmaceutical and chemical applications. Agile, sensitive chemical identification and composition testing of raw and blended materials can now be done online with the brand-new Verifier Process System [...]

Children’s Hospital Boston Launches CLARITY Challenge

BOSTON -- Children's Hospital Boston today announced the launch of the CLARITY Challenge, a $25,000 competition intended to advance standards for genomic analysis and interpretation and the reporting of clear, actionable results to clinicians and patients. The competition marks the first time a healthcare institution has sent out a broad call for the development of [...]

BioLife Solutions Adds Clinical and Commercialization Experts to Scientific Advisory Board

BOTHELL, Wash. -- BioLife Solutions, Inc. (OTCBB: BLFS), a leading developer, manufacturer, and marketer of proprietary hypothermic storage and cryopreservation freeze media for cells, tissues, and organs, today announced that three additional key opinion leaders in the biobanking, drug discovery, and regenerative medicine markets have joined the Company's Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). The new members [...]

deCODE Genetics, in Collaboration with Academic Colleagues, Discovers Three Variants in the Sequence of the Human Genome that Affect the Risk of Thyroid Cancer

REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Scientists at deCODE Genetics and academic collaborators from Iceland, the USA, The Netherlands and Spaintoday report the discovery of variants in the human genome that associate with levels of thyroid stimulating hormone and risk of thyroid cancer.The paper 'Discovery of common variants associated with low TSH levels and thyroid cancer risk' is [...]

ASD Inc. Announces 2011 Goetz Award Winners

Boulder, Colo. - ASD Inc. is proud to announce the Alexander Goetz Instrument Support Program award recipients for 2011. The annual program encourages novel, unconventional and/or fundamental research. The Goetz Program is co-sponsored by ASD Inc. and the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), a member organization of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers [...]

A*STAR, GE Global Research Join Forces to Develop Integrated Advanced Medical Imaging Technologies for Imporved Clinical Diagnosis

Singapore -- GE Global Research, the central technology development arm for GE Healthcare and all of GE's businesses, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Singapore's Agency of Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). This agreement will focus on advancing current medical imaging technologies and diagnostics to enable more accurate, earlier and faster clinical diagnoses [...]

NextGen Sciences Launches its 82 Protein Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) CNS Disease Biomarker Assay

London, UK and Ann Arbor, Michigan, US - NextGen Group plc (AIM:NGG) is pleased to announce that its US-subsidiary NextGen Sciences Inc, a leader in biomarker discovery, measurement and qualification, has launched an expanded cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) multiple protein (multiplex) assay, csfdiscovery82, for central nervous system (CNS) biomarker discovery and qualification. The new assay simultaneously [...]

Microtech Introduces three new products to be unveiled at SPIE BiOS/Photonics West

Eugene, OR, January 20th, 2012. Microtech Instruments, Inc. will introduce several new products at BiOS and Photonics West exhibits in San Francisco, opening on January 21st. All new products use ultrafast fiber laser technology to enable advanced solutions for a variety of applications including: laser micromachining, coherent Raman (CARS) and other multi-photon optical and THz [...]

Waters and NIBRT Complete Work on World’s First UPLC Glycan Database

MILFORD, Mass. -- Waters Corporation (WAT:NYSE) and Ireland's National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT) announced today the availability of the world's first database for glycan analysis by UltraPerformance Liquid Chromatography® (UPLC®). Developed by Professor Pauline Rudd's research team at NIBRT, the new GlycoBase 3+ Database is the first-of-its-kind repository of chromatographic retention positions [...]

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