SANYO Offers Researchers Energy-Efficient, Space-saving Solutions for Biological Sample Preservation

Wood Dale, IL - SANYO North America Corporation (SANYO) Biomedical Solutions Division will begin a new program for the VIP® Series ultra-low temperature upright freezer line with industry-leading energy-efficiency at 15.1-kilowatt hours per day. Laboratories and research facilities that regularly store temperature-sensitive samples are invited to “Give your samples the VIP treatment,” highlighting consistent uniformity, [...]

FEI Introduces QEMSCAN WellSite Analysis Solution

Hillsboro, Ore. - The Natural Resources Business Unit of FEI Company announces the availability of the QEMSCAN? WellSite™ analysis solution that enables surface logging service providers to greatly enhance the quality, consistency and value of their mudlogging services for the oil & gas industry. The QEMSCAN WellSite system is rugged and portable?designed for and tested [...]

ITT Announces Final Results and Definitive Prices for Its Debt Tender Offer

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- ITT Corporation today announced the final results and definitive prices for its previously announced modified "Dutch Auction" cash tender offer (the "Offer") for up to $100 million aggregate principal amount (the "Tender Cap") of its 7.40% Debentures due 2025 (the "Debentures"). The Offer was conducted in connection with ITT's plan to [...]

Fluidigm Named One of the Fastest Growing Companies

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--Fluidigm Corporation, today announced it ranked 218 on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™ ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America. Fluidigm grew 425 percent during this period. Fluidigm President and Chief Executive Officer, Gajus Worthington attributes the ranking to life science researchers’ [...]

Endress+Hauser and Finesse Solutions Form Strategic Partnership – Swiss Process Automation Provider Invests in US Biotech Company

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Process automation specialist Endress+Hauser has acquired a stake in Finesse Solutions, a US company that develops, produces and distributes sensors, hardware and software for bioprocess engineering. Endress+Hauser intends to strengthen its position in the area of biotechnology through this cooperation. "Biotechnological procedures will play an increasingly important role in the future, [...]

NanoWorld AG Appoints Chief Operating Officer

Neuchatel, Switzerland - Daniel Guntli, formerly the Assistant General Management, has joined NanoWorld AG’s management team as the new Chief Operating Officer. “Dr Guntli is ideally positioned to take over the responsibility for our operations. He joined NanoWorld over three years ago and gained in-depth knowledge of NanoWorld’s global operational processes and has a track [...]

Promega Introduces GoTaq 1-Step RT-qPCR System for Quantitative Analysis of RNA

Madison, WI USA: Promega Corporation announced today that it has launched GoTaq® 1-Step RT-qPCR System for quantitative analysis of RNA. The reagent system gives a brighter signal for earlier quantification of low and high copy RNA targets, using a one-step reverse transcription-quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) protocol in a single tube format. The system incorporates BRYT Green® [...]

Ion Torrent CEO Jonathan Rothberg, Life Technologies Recognized by Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards for the Ion Personal Genome Machine

CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Life Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: LIFE) today announced that Jonathan Rothberg, CEO and founder of Ion Torrent, is a runner-up in this year's Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards for the Ion Personal Genome Machine (PGM™), which "promises to sequence DNA more quickly and at a lower cost than other sequencing technologies," the [...]

EMD Millipore Launches LentiBrite™ Lentiviral Biosensors for Real-Time Visualization of Proteins in Live Cells

Billerica, MA — EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA* of Germany, today launched a suite of LentiBrite™ lentiviral biosensors, pre-packaged lentiviral particles encoding proteins fluorescently tagged with green or red fluorescent protein (GFP or RFP). LentiBrite™ Lentiviral BiosensorsThe initial group of biosensors will encode proteins responsible for cell structure such as actin [...]

High quality flasks streamline cell culture workflow

Porvair Sciences has announced a new range of affordable, high quality cell culture flasks with design features to streamline your cell culture workflow. Combining the unrivalled optical purity of high-pressure molded 100% USP Class VI virgin crystal polystyrene with a patented low-pressure gas plasma surface treatment allows cells to adhere more efficiently to the surface [...]

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