October 17, 2011
MADISON, Wis. – Cellular Dynamics International (CDI) today announced that it was named as the overall Gold winner in The Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards. The Wall Street Journal 2011 Technology Innovation Awards are determined by a panel of independent judges who evaluated significant innovations that occurred in 2010. Six hundred and five applicants [...]
October 17, 2011
GE Healthcare has added two new imagers to their family of biomolecular imaging systems, the Typhoon FLA 9500 for imaging of multifluorescent-, chemifluorescent-, radioisotope-labeled, and colorimetric samples and the Typhoon FLA 7000 IP for the dedicated study of radioisotope labeled samples. The Typhoon FLA 9500 is a versatile, high throughput, laser scanner ideally suited to [...]
October 17, 2011
SAN DIEGO -- Sequenom, Inc., a life sciences company providing innovative genetic analysis solutions, today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine (Sequenom CMM), launched its noninvasive proprietary MaterniT21 laboratory developed test (LDT). The MaterniT21 LDT detects a genetic chromosomal anomaly known as Trisomy 21, the most common cause of Down syndrome. [...]
GE Healthcare Life Sciences executes recombinant Protein L license from Affitech
October 17, 2011
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK and CHALFONT St. GILES, UK –- Affitech A/S and GE Healthcare Life Sciences announced today that GE Healthcare Life Sciences has executed an exclusive license for the worldwide marketing and sales of products containing recombinant Protein L, granted by Affitech in a patent and know-how license agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, [...]
NANOINK RETAINS LAZARD AS STRATEGIC ADVISOR
October 17, 2011
NanoInk,® Inc. announced today that it has initiated a process to evaluate the company's strategic alternatives with the assistance of its financial advisor, Lazard. NanoInk is the leader in next-generation nanolithography and has been developing and commercializing disruptive nanoscale products and applications for the life sciences and technology industries. In life sciences, the company's technology [...]
October 17, 2011
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.-- ITT Corporations water business will showcase its new products and new identity at the 84th annual Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference (WEFTEC), a leading water industry exhibition focused on water quality, to be held in Los Angeles from October 15-19. This event comes just before the spinoff of ITTs water [...]
BEECKEN PETTY O’KEEFE & COMPANY COMPLETES SALE OF REICHERT, INC.
October 17, 2011
CHICAGO –- Beecken Petty O'Keefe and Company (“BPOC”), a private equity firm focused exclusively on the health care industry, announced today that it has completed the sale of Reichert Technologies to AMETEK, Inc. Located in Depew, New York, Reichert is a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-quality diagnostic instruments and equipment for [...]
Fluidigm and Research Instruments Enter Distribution Deal for Singapore and Thailand
October 17, 2011
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. & BANGKOK & SINGAPORE--Fluidigm Corporation has appointed Research Instruments Pte Ltd/RI Technologies Ltd. as its distributor in Singapore and Thailand. Research Instruments will offer Fluidigm’s complete portfolio of BioMark™ HD, EP1™, and Access Array™ Systems, the complete line up of Dynamic Array™, Digital Array™ and Access Array IFCs for real-time PCR, [...]
SPECTRO LAUNCHES NEXT-GENERATION SPECTRO xSORT
October 17, 2011
KLEVE, GERMANY – SPECTRO Analytical Instruments, a leading supplier of analytical instruments for optical emission and XRF spectrometry, has introduced the next-generation SPECTRO xSORT handheld energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) spectrometer. The new instrument comes in a smaller, lightweight package that offers better analytical performance, and incorporates many exclusive new features. The new xSORT is [...]
The Revolutionary Science IncuCount Brings Low Cost Automatic Colony Counting to the ‘Rest of Us’
October 15, 2011
Shafer, Minnesota - Labor intensive, manual colony counting has long been the source of untold human error, delays, boredom, and frustration. Consequently, many labs have been driven to invest in automatic colony counters that can rapidly count colonies, create digital images, and record data, all at the click of a mouse. The bad news? Along [...]
