January 10, 2012
Nanowerk News) CRAIC Technologies, the worlds leading innovator of UV-visible-NIR microspectroscopy solutions, is proud to announce the addition of kinetic spectroscopy capabilities to its flagship product: the 20/20 Perfect Vision™ UV-visible-NIR microspectrophotometer. With the kinetic spectroscopy package, this system is able to monitor the full range spectra of a microscopic sample area over time and [...]
Molecular Devices Awarded Patent for Population Patch Clamp Recording Technique
January 10, 2012
Sunnyvale, CA - Molecular Devices, LLC., today announced it has been awarded a US patent for its parallel recording technique (PPC), which measures ionic currents from a population of cells, rather than single cells, on planar patch clamp systems. The technique enhances ion channel assay success rates to near 100%. The PPC technique measures a [...]
January 10, 2012
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced a collaboration with De Novo Software (Los Angeles, CA, USA) to provide users of the popular FCS Express software access to data generated by Thermo Scientific high-content platforms. With the increasing adoption of high-content/image cytometry from basic cell biology through drug discovery, toxicology [...]
CLC bio and SciEngines collaborate on 188x acceleration of BLAST
January 10, 2012
KIEL, Germany & AARHUS, Denmark--Today, CLC bio and German high performance computing experts, SciEngines, announced a collaboration to completely integrate CLC bio's server- and desktop-based sequence analysis software with SciEngines' FPGA-based RIVYERA platform for massively parallel computing. Initially, the system will feature implementations of nucleotide-nucleotide BLAST (BLASTn), protein-protein BLAST (BLASTp), and Smith-Waterman. More algorithms will [...]
January 10, 2012
Guildford, UK, and Burlington, Mass. – Governor Deval Patrick and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center today joined officials from IDBS to open the company’s Healthcare Center of Excellence and to celebrate the expansion of the IDBS business in Massachusetts. The events stemmed from a meeting between UK-based IDBS, Governor Patrick, the Center and other Massachusetts [...]
Abcam Biochemicals Is Launched; the New Name for Ascent Scientific Products
January 10, 2012
Abcam Biochemicals is the new name for the Ascent Scientific range of exceptional quality, high performance biochemicals. The rebranding follows Abcam plc’s recent acquisition of the company in September 2011. The acquisition has extended Abcam's product portfolio into small molecules and is in line with the Company's vision of becoming the world's leading supplier of [...]
January 10, 2012
SANTA FE SPRINGS, Calif.--Applied BioCode, Inc. today announced that it has signed a License and Supply Agreement (Agreement) with Hologic, Inc., a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of premium diagnostics products, medical imaging systems and surgical products. Hologic is headquartered in Bedford, MA. Under the Agreement Hologic may purchase Barcoded Magnetic Beads with digital multiplex [...]
January 9, 2012
LEXINGTON, Mass.-- RainDance Technologies, Inc., the Digital Biology™ Company, today announced that it is collaborating with the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris, France and BGI in China, the world’s largest genomics institute, to discover new variants and confirm findings from a Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) study conducted by researchers at the Hôpital Saint-Louis. The collaboration will utilize [...]
Avista Capital Partners Agrees to Sell BioReliance to Sigma-Aldrich Corporation
January 9, 2012
OCKVILLE, Md. -- BioReliance, a leading provider of global biopharmaceutical testing services, announced today that it has agreed to be acquired by Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL). Avista Capital Partners, the majority owner of BioReliance Holdings, Inc., agreed to sell the company for $350 million in cash. The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions, including [...]
Sigma-Aldrich Extends Laboratory Chemicals Contract with Honeywell
January 9, 2012
St. Louis, Mo. - Sigma-Aldrich® Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL) announced today it has signed a five-year contract extension with Honeywell for the manufacture and supply of Riedel-de Haën® high purity solvents, Karl Fischer reagents and other laboratory chemicals produced at Honeywell's Seelze, Germany, manufacturing site. The contract extends an existing supply agreement, in place since 1999, [...]
