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 [...]
Newport Introduces OptoFlash™ – Optical Engines for Detecting Light Energy at Multiple Wavelengths
January 12, 2012
Irvine, CA – Newport Corporation, a worldwide leader in lasers and photonics solutions that Make, Manage and Measure Light®, announces the OptoFlash™, a miniature, multi-channel, spectrometer engine for applications requiring the detection of light energy at multiple wavelengths. This new, demultiplexing optical engine is easy to customize and configure with as many as 10 wavelength [...]
B&W Tek to Introduce Micro Lensed Fiber-Optic Raman Probe at SPIE’s BiOS & Photonics West Exhibits
January 12, 2012
Newark, DE, B&W Tek, Inc., an advanced instrumentation company producing optical spectroscopy and laser systems, is proud to introduce the BAC200, the first fiber optic Raman probe capable of delivering the performance of a larger Raman probe in an extremely small diameter of less than 4mm with enhanced optical collection power. The BAC200’s design enables [...]
Biotage is Subject to Extended Patent Litigation in the US
January 12, 2012
UPPSALA, Sweden -- Biotage AB (STO:BIOTA) has together with its subsidiaries Biotage GB Ltd and Biotage LLC (collectively “Biotage”) been sued for patent infringement of the US patents no 8,066,875 B2 and 8,070,957 in the U.S. District court for the Southern District of California. The lawsuit has been filed by Scientific Plastic Products, Inc. These [...]
January 12, 2012
A new type of lab has been created to utilize near-atomic resolution microscopy and other structural biology technologies to help accelerate important medical discoveries relating to global health challenges, such as cancer and HIV/AIDS. The Living Lab Structural Biology Center was formed through a cooperative research and development agreement between the National Institutes of Health [...]
January 12, 2012
MADISON, Wisconsin - Hereditary hearing loss is the most common sensory disorder in humans. A German research team led by Ingo Kurth from the Institute of Human Genetics at the University Hospital Jena, Germany, used a number of different methods, including Roche's NimbleGen Custom Sequence Capture 385K array to identify the gene mutated in the [...]
January 11, 2012
SOUTH EASTON, Mass. -- Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq:PBIO) ("PBI") and Digilab, Inc. ("Digilab") (together "the companies") today announced that they have entered into a co-marketing/selling and research and development agreement. The companies intend to co-market and sell their respective product lines worldwide, including in industry publications, at scientific meetings, on each company's website, through common [...]
January 11, 2012
Jena (Germany) — Management Board and Supervisory Board of CyBio AG (Deutsche Börse, General Standard, ISIN DE005412308) today decided to submit the proposal to the Shareholder’s Meeting on April 27, 2012, to authorize the Management Board to apply for withdrawing from the listing of CyBio AG shares on the Regulated Market at Frankfurt Stock Exchange [...]
