SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today introduced Agilent SurePrint G3 Gene Expression Microarrays, providing up to one million features per standard 1-by-3-inch slide for added throughput, unique coverage which includes both coding and non-coding RNA, and cost effectiveness. “In addition, users can run eight whole-genome experiments per slide, increasing throughput and reducing costs for [...]

ANN ARBOR, Mich.--Essen BioScience Inc., a global provider of life science research tools and discovery services, today announced the launch of its CellPlayer™ Cell Migration 96-well assay kit for the IncuCyte™ Live-Cell Imaging System. The expanding line of kinetic CellPlayer assays for the IncuCyte also includes a co-culture assay for Angiogenesis. The CellPlayer Cell Migration [...]

Spark Holland Inc. Becomes iChrom Solutions Inc.   Emmen, NL -- Spark Holland B.V. (http://www.sparkholland.com), a leading supplier of analytical instrumentation, announced it has sold its fully owned North American subsidiary, Spark Holland Inc., to a private equity group. Transaction terms were not disclosed. The newly named company, iChrom Solutions Incorporated (http://www.ichrom.com), will transition to a Premium Partner of Spark Holland’s and be managed by John Crutchfield, who served as general manager of Spark Holland Inc.   As a Premium Partner and one of Spark’s largest distribution partners, iChrom will be fully certified by Spark Holland to provide all sales and support services for end?user customers in North America. iChrom Solutions will focus on improving sales, marketing, and support activities for all Spark products, including Symbiosis Online Sample Preparation Systems, UHPLC systems, Autosamplers, Pumps, and other front?end sample handling systems.    “This is a valuable move to improve our commitment to our local end?user market,” said Sebastiaan Portier, director of sales and marketing for Spark Holland. “Our strategy is to get local market and technical support through our Partners, like iChrom, who will be trained and certified by Spark. Our Partners will provide us with essential input as we continue investing to remain a front?runner in liquid handling and sample preparation technology.”   “iChrom will help clients master some of the most difficult and challenging analyses, working with innovative and integrated applications for Spark Holland’s high quality instruments,” said Crutchfield, named president and general manager of iChrom. “In addition, our new online shop is slated to open June 1, 2010, allowing customers to check pricing, purchase parts and consumables, and get shipping information. Given these changes, we believe we have all the essential ingredients to make our clients very successful at reaching their laboratory goals.”   About Spark Holland B.V. Spark Holland (http://www.sparkholland.com) is a leading supplier of autosamplers, UHPLC pumps and systems, Online Solid Phase Extraction components and systems for OEM and end?user solutions. Spark Holland is a privately held firm with operations based in Emmen, The Netherlands. Please visit our booth 137 at ASMS in Salt Lake City Utah http://www.asms.org , May 23 – 27.   About iChrom Solutions Inc. iChrom Solutions (http://www.ichrom.com) is a Value?Added Services organization focusing on providing innovative, integrated applications, instruments, and support to customers in the analytical industry. iChrom Solutions is a privately held firm with operations in Brick, New Jersey. Please visit our booth 165 at ASMS in Salt Lake City Utah http://www.asms.org , May 23 – 27.

Advanced HGVI LINX Software Enables Real-time Data Feeds Transmitted Out Of Danger Zones DANBURY, Conn.--Smiths Detection today launches HGVI LINX™, a pioneering software system to help emergency responders in a central command center view and assess real-time chemical sensor data from deployed Handheld Gas & Vapor Identifier (HGVI) units. The software increases the effectiveness of [...]

Previous Versions Upgradable To Maximize Utility and Cost Effectiveness of Current HazMatID Systems DANBURY, Conn.--Smiths Detection today launches HazMatID 360, the latest version of its portable and rugged HazMatID chemical identification system, providing fast and comprehensive in-field analysis of unknown solids, gels and liquids to emergency responders, military personnel and other users. The HazMatID 360 [...]

AUSTIN, Texas, and TUCSON, Arizona, May 19 -- Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ:LMNX) , the worldwide leader in multiplexed solutions, and High Throughput Genomics, Inc. (HTG), provider of the quantitative Nuclease Protection Assay (qNPA(TM)), today launched a new custom gene expression product, the qBead Gene Expression Assay (qBead Assay). The companies co-developed the product and have signed [...]

SAN DIEGO--Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) market clearance for the VeraCode® Genotyping Test for Factor V (Leiden) and Factor II (Prothrombin). The VeraCode Genotyping Test is comprised of the company’s VeraCode digital microbead technology and proprietary assay chemistry. The BeadXpress® System, which received a [...]

STOCKHOLM & OULU, Finland--KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm and Biotechnology start-up BioSilta Oy of Oulu Finland have been collaborating over the last year to optimise protein screening in a range of microwell plate formats. The technique utilises EnBase Flo the newly developed Enzymatic Release media technology from BioSilta. EnBase® shall be implemented in the [...]

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 it reached an agreement to sell its RapidTrace(R) solid phase extraction and TurboVap(R) evaporation product lines to Biotage AB for $16.5 million in cash. "Divesting these product lines is [...]

The METTLER TOLEDO ReactIR™ 15 is a Fourier Transform Infrared Monitoring (FTIR) instrument that is ideally suited for general, in situ reaction analysis understanding. The ReactIR™ 15 can be used effortlessly by any chemist, whether skilled in spectroscopy or not. (PRWEB) -- METTLER TOLEDO announced the release of the ReactIR™ 15 reaction analysis and reaction [...]