Introducing Thermo Scientific Orion Star A100 Meters from Cole-Parmer
October 13, 2011
Vernon Hills, IL - Simplicity meets accuracy in the new Thermo Scientific Orion Star A100 Meters—an excellent choice for environmental testing, water and wastewater treatment, quality control in food and beverage testing, and education. Affordable yet reliably effective, the meters feature a large LCD, simple button layout, and on-screen messages. Informative displays indicate measurement along [...]
Rigaku acquires handheld Raman products from BaySpec
October 13, 2011
San Jose, California - BaySpec, Inc. is pleased to announce the acquisition of the handheld Raman technology and product lines by Rigaku Americas Corporation, which will now be formed into a new division, Rigaku Raman Technologies Inc., for R&D, engineering, production, marketing and distribution. Rigaku's new handheld Raman instruments combine patented optics and proven spectral [...]
Bruker Completes Acquisition of Center for Tribology, Inc.
October 13, 2011
BILLERICA, Mass.--Bruker Corporation today announced the closing of its acquisition of Center for Tribology, Inc. (CETR) for $13 million in cash as an initial purchase price, with potential additional earn-out payments of up to $4 million in cash, depending on growth and profitability of the CETR-business within Bruker in 2012 and 2013. CETR, a privately [...]
Streamlining Sample Storage for Donor Organizations and Tissue Banks
October 13, 2011
Micronic Europe BV has launched a traceable sample management system for donor organisations and banks looking to streamline the storage of blood, bone, allograft and tissue bank materials. For tissue, bone, blood and allograft organizations, the integrity and handling of each sample is critical. Drawing upon over 25 years experience of supplying sample storage and [...]
October 13, 2011
OpGen, Inc. announced today the launch of Genome-Builder, a high performance software module that provides new, powerful capabilities for precision sequence assembly and significantly decreases the time and labor required for human, animal and plant genome sequence assembly. OpGen presented initial studies using Genome-Builder this week with its collaborators at the Sanger Institute during a [...]
October 13, 2011
Ann Arbor, MI - 3D Biomatrix, a leader in the development of three-dimensional (3D) cell culture products, and their collaborators have formed cellular spheroids from more than 20 cell lines utilizing Perfecta3D(TM) Hanging Drop Plates. The formation of spheroids from cell lines from several mammals (human, mouse, monkey) demonstrates that the versatility of the Hanging [...]
DNAnexus Secures $15 Million Funding Led by Google Ventures and TPG Biotech
October 12, 2011
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- DNAnexus, a DNA data management and analysis platform, today announced that it has secured $15 million in second-round funding, led by Google Ventures and TPG Biotech. Additional participants in this round of financing include institutional investors First Round Capital, SoftTech VC, K9 Ventures, and Felicis Ventures. The new capital will help [...]
October 12, 2011
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) and the Agilent Technologies Foundation today announced that Steven Carr, Ph.D, who directs the Proteomics Platform at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, has been selected for an Agilent Thought Leader Award supporting his work developing new technology for analyzing proteins and peptides. Carr’s goal is to produce [...]
Complete Genomics Launches Comprehensive Cancer Sequencing Service at ICHG/ASHG 2011
October 12, 2011
New service aimed at producing high-quality sequencing data from cancer genomes MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., and MONTRÉAL, Canada — Oct. 12, 2011 — Complete Genomics Inc. (NASDAQ: GNOM), the whole human genome sequencing company, introduced its new Cancer Sequencing Service today at the International Congress of Human Genetics (ICHG) and American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) [...]
Ion Torrent Gets Better Faster With 4th Qtr New Product Releases
October 12, 2011
CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Life Technologies Corporation today announced eight innovative new research products, including the Ion Sequencing 200 Kit, which enables 200 base pair reads. The Ion Personal Genome Machine™ sequencer is now the only next-generation sequencer that can deliver millions of highly accurate long reads in a single day. "Nine months after our launch, [...]
