January 13, 2012
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-- Affymetrix, Inc. (AFFX), announced today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with BGI, the worlds largest genomics organization, to enter into a strategic co-development and co-marketing collaboration. The non-exclusive partnership will aim to develop and commercialize a portfolio of plant, crop, and livestock microarrays for genotyping analysis, spanning applications [...]
Life Technologies Announces Redemption of 1.5% Convertible Senior Notes Due 2024
January 13, 2012
CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) announced today that it has given notice of its intention to redeem all of the outstanding 1.5% Convertible Senior Notes due 2024 (the "2024 Convertible Notes") on February 15, 2012. As of December 31, 2011 there was $450,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of the 2024 Convertible Notes [...]
January 13, 2012
Munich - Light Lab, the first accompanying app for ZEN 2011 imaging software from Carl Zeiss, is now available for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Light Lab supplements the ZEN 2011 controlling and image processing software functions within the experimental lab workflow. The app supports the configuration of fluorescence experiments in both confocal and light [...]
January 13, 2012
Agilux Laboratories, a provider of pharmaceutical and biotech services, today announced that it has completed the validation and implementation of the Thermo Watson Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) for the company’s bioanalytical services. The Thermo Watson LIMS is the industry Gold Standard for managing bioanalytical data. It is a highly specialized protocol-driven Laboratory Information Management [...]
Promega Introduces Four New Proteases
January 12, 2012
Madison, WI USA: Promega Corporation announced today that it has launched four new proteases, Pepsin, Elastase, Sequencing Grade Arg-C, and Thermolysin. These high quality proteases are the latest addition to Promega’s market leading range of protein sample prep reagents, which includes Trypsin Gold. The new proteases are provided in a lyophilized format, enabling resuspension in [...]
MicroActive – Micromeritics New Innovative Interactive Data Analysis Software
January 12, 2012
Micromeritics’ new innovative MicroActive data analysis software allows users to interactively evaluate isotherm data from Micromeritics’ ASAP, TriStar, and Gemini gas adsorption instruments. Interaction with adsorption data is direct. Users can easily include or exclude data, fitting the desired range of experimentally acquired data points. Interactive data manipulation minimizes the use of dialog boxes to [...]
Appistry Opens New Corporate Headquarters in St. Louis
January 12, 2012
ST. LOUIS-- Appistry, Inc., the world’s best company at solving complex, data intensive problems, today announced the opening of its new corporate headquarters in The Art of Living Building—located in downtown St. Louis. The relocation signifies the growth and momentum achieved by Appistry in 2011 as the company focused new efforts on solving Big Data [...]
PerkinElmer Provides Reliable, High Performance Water Monitoring Solutions for South West Water, UK
January 12, 2012
WALTHAM, Mass--PerkinElmer Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, has provided South West Water, a UK-based water utility, its NexION® 300 ICP-MS platform to help ensure and deliver safe water to 1.6 million people and businesses in the south west of England through advanced analytical monitoring. South [...]
FEI Collaborates with NIH to Create New ‘Living Lab’ for Structural Biology Research
January 12, 2012
Hillsboro, Ore. - FEI (NASDAQ: FEIC) has entered into a Cooperative Research And Development Agreement (CRADA) with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), creating a “Living Lab Structural Biology Center” to promote structural biology research through the integration of cryo-electron microscopy (EM), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction (XRD) which may accelerate important [...]
Tecan’s Infinite® M1000 and a plate of live fish!
January 12, 2012
Tecan’s Infinite® M1000 multimode microplate reader has enabled scientists in the Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy at Georgia Health Sciences University (GHSU), USA, to develop a high throughput system for reporter-based drug screening assays in living zebrafish disease models1. Dr Jeff Mumm, Assistant Professor at GHSU, explained: “Quantitative microplate reader systems have revolutionized the [...]

