Agilent Technologies and BGI to Collaborate on Next-Generation Super Array for Disease and Drug Research

SANTA CLARA, Calif., and SHENZHEN, China, Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and BGI today announced a collaborative effort to develop methodologies designated for next-generation genome-wide association studies. The methodologies will assist scientists pursuing disease and drug research. The goal of the collaboration is to create a next-generation super exome, using Agilent's SureSelect technology. The super [...]

XOS Changes Landscape of Elemental Analysis by Introducing HD Mobile Portable HDXRF Analyzer at ICPHSO Annual Meeting

ORLANDO, FL - XOS, leading global provider of mission-critical material analysis solutions for industries and regulators, is pleased to announce HD Mobile, the newest addition to its line of High Definition X Ray Fluorescence (HDXRF) Analyzers. This game-changing portable analyzer will be demonstrated for the first time at the 2012 International Consumer Product Health and [...]

Aviation Security in China Continues to Purchase Implant Sciences’ Explosives Trace Detection Devices

WILMINGTON, MA - Implant Sciences Corporation, a high technology supplier of systems and sensors for homeland security markets, announced today it sold seven Quantum Sniffer(TM) QS-H150 portable explosives trace detectors to an airport in China. Implant Sciences continues to penetrate the China security market, having sold several million dollars worth of its QS-H150 there since [...]

EMD Millipore Launches MILLIPLEX® MAP EpiQuant™ Receptor Signaling Pathway Panel

Billerica, MA — EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA* of Darmstadt, Germany, today launched a MILLIPLEX® MAP panel for assessing the functional states of cells by profiling a range of receptor signaling pathway proteins. The Luminex®-based approach enables the profiling of 26 analytes including total and phosphorylated receptor tyrosine kinases, non-receptor tyrosine [...]

ETH Zurich Purchases NanoInk’s DPN 5000 to Open Pathways for Sustainable Materials Development

CHICAGO – NanoInk’s NanoFabrication Systems Division is pleased to announce that the Laboratory for Nanometallurgy in the Department of Materials at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zurich) in Switzerland purchased a DPN 5000 System – a dedicated, versatile instrument capable of patterning a variety of materials with nanoscale accuracy and precision. ETH Zurich intends [...]

Meridian Life Science® Successfully Manufactures Rhinovirus Challenge Stock

CINCINNATI-- Meridian Life Science, Inc., (MLS) of Memphis, Tennessee, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Meridian Bioscience, Inc., recently completed the manufacture of a human rhinovirus Type 16 challenge stock. MLS manufactured the rhinovirus challenge stock under contract and according to the appropriate current Good Manufacturing Procedures (cGMPs) for use in early-phase human clinical trials while simultaneously [...]

Symbion Systems Announces Symbion-EX Process Analytical Software for Continuous Process Control

TUSTIN, Calif., February 28, 2012 – Symbion Systems, Inc., a leader in providing analytical instrument control, analysis, and connectivity software, today announced the release of Symbion-EX, Version 2.5 Chemical Process Analytical Deployment Software for continuous on-line monitoring. The new software package provides a secure environment for the locked down deployment of analytical instruments for use [...]

Kewaunee Scientific Announces Results for Third Quarter

STATESVILLE, N.C. - Kewaunee Scientific Corporation (Nasdaq: KEQU) today announced the financial results for its third quarter ended January 31, 2012. Sales for the quarter were $21,574,000, down 4% from sales of $22,568,000 in the third quarter last year. Additional sales of $720,000 for products manufactured late in the quarter were not recorded as a [...]

Molecular Devices Introduces PatchXpress Plus with Action Potential Measurement Functionality

Sunnyvale, CA - Molecular Devices, LLC, has introduced a current-clamp upgrade kit, PatchXpress® Plus, for its PatchXpress 7000A automated patch clamp system. The kit enables analysis of cardiac and neuronal cell excitability through measurement of action potentials. PatchXpress Plus allows ion channel safety labs to perform automated action potential prolongation assays, to test the effects [...]

Illumina Comments on Roche’s Unsolicited Tender Offer Extension

SAN DIEGO -Illumina, Inc., a leading developer, manufacturer, and marketer of life science tools and integrated systems for the analysis of genetic variation and function, today issued the following statement regarding Roche’s decision to extend its unsolicited tender offer to acquire all outstanding shares of Illumina for $44.50 in cash per common share: “The extension [...]

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