JEOL ASEAN Technical Center to Open at Thailand Science Park (TSP)
November 2, 2011
JEOL Ltd. (Gon’emon Kurihara, President) announced that their proposal to open a technical center, JEOL ASEAN Technical Center, in Thailand has been approved by the country's National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA). Since 2004, the Thai government has stepped up their effort in developing technologies under the National Science and Technology Strategic Plan 2004-2013. [...]
SiMPore Awarded NIH Grant to Develop Next-generation Cell Culture System
November 2, 2011
SiMPore Inc. has been awarded a phase 1 SBIR grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a microarray cell culture system. SiMPore will examine methods to create micro-patterned walls in order to expand SiMPore's ultrathin membrane offerings from 4-wells, currently available in CytoVu® imaging slides, into a microarray format of 96 or [...]
LI-COR Introduces the Odyssey® CLx Infrared Imaging System
November 2, 2011
LINCOLN, Neb.--LI-COR® Biosciences announces the release of its Odyssey CLx Infrared Imaging System as the latest addition to its line of imaging systems. The Odyssey CLx features a new autoscan function that saves time and removes the need to re-image data to find the correct intensity. This new function eliminates image saturation and offers a [...]
MOCON Announces Record Sales and Earnings for the Third Quarter 2011
November 2, 2011
MOCON, Inc. (NasdaqGM:MOCO) today reported its operating results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2011. Net sales for the third quarter 2011 were $9,463,000, a new record for the Company, and an increase of 22 percent compared to $7,749,000 for the third quarter 2010. Operating income increased 45 percent to $2,249,000 for the third [...]
FEI and GEOLOG Enter into Joint Development Program
November 2, 2011
Hillsboro, Ore., USA and Milan, Italy - The Natural Resources Business Unit of FEI Company (NASDAQ: FEIC) and GEOLOG International BV (“GEOLOG”) have entered into a joint development program (“JDP”) to conduct field tests of the QEMSCAN® WellSite™ analysis solution. GEOLOG, an independent oil field services company, provides advanced surface logging capabilities used by drilling [...]
November 2, 2011
WILMINGTON, MA, Implant Sciences Corporation (OTCQB: IMSC) (PINKSHEETS: IMSC), a high technology supplier of systems and sensors for homeland security markets, today announced that its Quantum Sniffer™ QS-B220 benchtop explosives trace detector has been approved to partner with the developmental test and evaluation group of the Transportation Security Laboratory (TSL) in order to optimize the [...]
November 2, 2011
MUNICH, Nov. - Abbott's PLEX-ID system provides reliable and rapid results for key microbial biothreat agents and should be considered as a first line analytical tool for biodefense, biosecurity and microbial forensics programs, according to research presented at the 13th Medical Biodefense Conference in Munich. The meeting is a global congress for civilian and military [...]
Caliper Launches New Platform for Drug Safety Prediction and Oncology Research
November 2, 2011
HOPKINTON, Mass., Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: CALP), a leading provider of tools and services for drug discovery and life sciences research, today announced that its Caliper Discovery Alliances and Services (CDAS) unit has launched a new services offering based on a panel of cellular assays that measure the effects of drug candidates on functional [...]
November 2, 2011
ODENSE, Denmark, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. the world leader in serving science, today announced that the Center for Experimental Bioinformatics (CEBI) at the University of Southern Denmark is using Thermo Scientific nano-ultra high performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) technology to accelerate productivity and improve efficiencies during its proteomics research. Implementation of the Thermo Scientific EASY-nLC 1000 [...]
November 1, 2011
Billerica, MA, EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA of Darmstadt, Germany, today announced that the company will be the initial distributor of HepaRG(TM) human hepatic cells from Biopredic. HepaRG cells, derived from a hepatocellular carcinoma, are supplied as cryopreserved, terminally differentiated cells and express major liver specific functions including Cytochrome P450 enzymes [...]

