Luminex Corporation Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 Results
February 6, 2012
AUSTIN, Texas, Luminex Corporation today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2011. Financial and operating highlights include the following: • Consolidated fourth quarter 2011 revenue was $47.9 million, a 16 percent increase over the fourth quarter of 2010; full-year 2011 revenue was $184.3 million, a 30 percent increase over [...]
February 6, 2012
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it has expanded its family of sub-2 µm particle 300 Angstrom pore columns for reversed-phase liquid chromatography with rapid-resolution, high-definition ZORBAX 300SB-C3 and 300-Diphenyl 1.8 µm columns. The columns extend the benefits of reversed-phase biomolecule separations to ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC). The C3 phase broadens [...]
TTP Labtech Showcases the New mosquito® HV at SLAS 2012
February 6, 2012
Cambridge, UK, TTP Labtech’s new mosquito® HV, launched today at SLAS 2012, has been developed to allow scientists to accurately handle low volume serial dilutions and assay plate preparations, across the 500nL to 5µL range. In addition, the mosquito HV can rapidly perform serial dilutions in the 2-8µL final volume range, and can stamp from [...]
February 6, 2012
LEXINGTON, Mass., and SALZBURG, Austria, RainDance Technologies, Inc., the Digital Biology™ Company, and Sony DADC Austria AG, today announced that the companies have further developed proprietary methods for the manufacture of microdroplet-based smart consumables for high-throughput targeted DNA sequencing applications. This collaboration enables RainDance to further leverage Sony DADC’s advanced microstructure engineering and high-volume manufacturing [...]
February 6, 2012
Tokyo, Japan – On January 25, 2012, a ceremony incorporating a number of scientific seminars was held at the University of Tokyo to celebrate the establishment of an Industry-Academia Collaboration between Rigaku Corporation and the University of Tokyo. The ceremony was originally scheduled to occur in August of 2011 but was postponed in the aftermath [...]
Transgenomic Announces $22.0 Million Private Placement Financing
February 3, 2012
OMAHA, Neb.- Transgenomic, Inc. today announced that it has entered into definitive agreements with institutional and other accredited investors to raise approximately $22.0 million in a private placement financing which includes an aggregate of $3.0 million in convertible notes issued in December to entities associated with Third Security, LLC, a leading life sciences investment firm, [...]
Diagnostic Device Becomes Mobile – The Handheld Flow Cytometer Lab-on-a-Chip Technology
February 3, 2012
Burlington, NC -- The advantages of the Diagnostic Chips’ handheld Flow Cytometer lab-on-a-chip technology are significant. The device cost is only a fraction of the conventional bench-top flow cytometers. Sample size and reagents consumption is greatly reduced to only 5~10 micro liters. The handheld weighs less than 1.5 lbs. It is quick and easy to [...]
February 3, 2012
Cambridge, UK: TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative automation and consumables for life science applications today announced it is launching a new RAFT System on Booth 815 at the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) Conference in San Diego, USA. The system comprises a new, custom RAFT microwell plate, reagents, plate heater and [...]
NEW Vibration Free Incubator Ideal for Protein Crystallography
February 3, 2012
Carlsbad CA - Torrey Pines Scientific announces the EchoTherm™ Vibration Free Bench Top Chilling Incubators with a range of 4.0°C to 70.0°C. These units are ideal for Protein Crystallography and other life science laboratory uses. Both incubators are Peltier-based for heating and chilling. As such, they have no compressors or CFCs and are vibration-free making [...]
IDEA Bio-Medical Sells HTS/HCS Cell Imaging System to The Medical University of South Carolina
February 2, 2012
Rehovot, Israel, and Charleston, South Carolina - IDEA Bio-Medical Ltd. and The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) announced today that they have completed the sale of IDEA Bio-Medical’s breakthrough Hermes WiScan® system to MUSC’s Center for Drug Discovery. Hermes WiScan® is a breakthrough biological cell imaging desktop system that enables researchers, at all levels, [...]

