October 26, 2011
Biohit Oyj and Sartorius Lab Holding GmbH have concluded an agreement for the sale of Biohit’s liquid handling business to Sartorius. As a result, Biohit will change its financial guidance. The liquid handling business develops, manufactures, and markets laboratory equipment and accessories for the pharmaceutical, food, and other industries. Biohit's products are also used in [...]
Firefly BioWorks, Inc. Announces the Closing of a $2M Financing for Expanded Commercial Development
October 26, 2011
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Firefly BioWorks, Inc., a developer of instrument-independent multiplexed assays, announced today the closing of a $2M private placement offering. Proceeds from this financing will be used to execute the company's commercial strategy, by launching an early access program with leading academic and industrial partners. "We are very pleased that our offering was so well [...]
October 26, 2011
Goettingen – Sartorius, a leading international process and laboratory technology provider, today signed an agreement to acquire the liquid handling business of the Finnish laboratory supplier Biohit Oyj. With its liquid handling segment, Biohit is one of the global market leaders for mechanical and electronic pipettes, as well as for the associated consumables. The segment, [...]
Patented QS2 Terahertz Systems are on sale until the end of the year
October 26, 2011
Eugene, OR - Microtech Instruments, Inc., is pleased to announce that it received a US patent for high efficiency QS2 THz sources combined with frequency multipliers. As a promotion of this technology, Microtech will offer a 20% discount to all QS2 based products until December 31, 2011. QS2 systems are now available with a bolometer [...]
New Liquid Crystal-Based Technology Rapidly Detects Multiple Pathogens in Food
October 26, 2011
KENT, Ohio--Each year, food-borne pathogens cause an estimated 48 million illnesses (affecting one in six people), 128,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Variant E. coli strains in ground beef and lettuce, Salmonella in turkey and chicken, and Listeria in cantaloupe and romaine lettuce have sparked widespread recalls [...]
New Hiden QIC Biostream Monitor
October 26, 2011
The Hiden QIC-series gas analyser range is boosted by the introduction of the QIC Biostream system specifically configured for real-time, continuous multi-stream analysis of both headspace and dissolved species evolving from and within varied bio reaction processes. All gaseous species with molecular weights below 300 amu can be measured. Systems are available with a choice [...]
Implant Sciences Explosives Detection Technology Protects Major European Bank
October 26, 2011
Implant Sciences Corporation, a high technology supplier of systems and sensors for homeland security markets, today announced sales of its Quantum Sniffer™ QS-H150 portable explosives trace detection devices to two new customers in Europe. Units have been sold for deployment in the protection of a major European bank and for use in training at an [...]
New Soundproof Enclosures Reduce Observed Hazardous Laboratory Noise by 75%
October 26, 2011
Evans Mills NY and Gananoque, ON - FarHawk Marketing Services announced today that all soundproof enclosures and mass spectrometer furniture manufactured by MS Noise will have a guaranteed sound reduction of 15 decibels (dbA) from a previous specification of 12 dbA, an improvement of 25% from previous models. These new, quieter soundproof enclosures reduce noise [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Introduces System to Double Cryogenic Storage Capacity
October 25, 2011
ROCHESTER, N.Y – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced the Thermo Scientific Dense Storage system for low-temperature storage of biological samples and solutions. The system combines 1 mL Thermo Scientific Nunc CryoBank tubes with the new 13 x 13 tube dividers and Nunc™ CryoBoxes. This novel Dense Storage format [...]
ProteinSimple Automates Aggregation Analysis
October 25, 2011
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- ProteinSimple today announced the launch of the Bot1 High Throughput Autosampler for its MFI 5000 Micro-Flow Imaging platforms. Bot1 automates analysis of protein aggregates and particles by Micro-Flow imaging. Bot1 will be unveiled at the IBC's 11th Annual Formulation Strategy for Protein Therapeutics conference, November 1-3, 2011, in Long Beach, CA. [...]
