SAW Instruments to Unveil New High-End Biosensor

Bonn, Germany – SAW Instruments GmbH, has announced that the official European launch of its new sam®X biosensor will take place at MipTec 2011, Basel, Switzerland (20-22nd September). This high-end system is the latest addition to the SAW biosensor product family, providing several new workflow-driven key features which further expand the number of channels to [...]

An Independent Study Documents the Benefits of Exiqon’s qPCR System for microRNA Profiling of Blood Samples (Plasma and Serum)

Exiqon A/S, a leading supplier of high-value gene expression analysis products, today announced that an independent scientific benchmark study demonstrates the superior sensitivity and linearity of the miRCURY LNA™ Universal RT microRNA PCR product line. The benchmark study was performed by a research group at Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Denmark, and was published today in [...]

Gyros and GE Healthcare Life Sciences expand Asian distribution relationship to China, Taiwan and Hong Kong

Uppsala, Sweden and Chalfont St Giles, UK: Gyros AB, a leader in utilization of microfluidic technologies to miniaturize and automate immunoassays, announced today that GE Healthcare Life Sciences has become sole distributor for the company’s nanoliter-scale immunoassay platform in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The Gyros platform (www.gyros.com) is used by major biopharmaceutical companies and [...]

Center for Proteomics at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) Selected as Waters Center of Innovation

MILFORD, Mass. —— Waters Corporation today recognized the Center for Proteomics at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) as a Waters Center of Innovation. In particular, Waters recognized Dr. Konstantinos Petritis, Head of TGen’s Center for Proteomics, and his team for their leadership in the research of proteomics and biomarker discovery and verification. In a [...]

Robert Yates to Lead EMD Millipore Division

BILLERICA, Mass.--EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA of Germany, today announced that Robert Yates will become President of the EMD Millipore division as of September 1, 2011. He will report to Bernd Reckmann, Member of the Executive Board of Merck and responsible for the Chemicals business sector, which includes EMD Millipore and [...]

BioSpec Global Solutions opens negotiations with distributors in U.K., and China

NEW YORK and MONTREAL - ICBS Ltd., announced today that partner BioSpec Global Solutions Inc. has opened talks with a U.K. , and Chinese distributors for the TOGS product lines. "We have opened up negotiations with U.K. and Chinese distributor who are interested in representing the TOGS 3000 and 9000 models for the European and [...]

MTS NAMES WILLIAM V. MURRAY AS INTERIM CEO AND DAVID J. ANDERSON AS NON-EXECUTIVE CHAIR OF BOARD

Eden Prairie, Minn. – MTS Systems Corporation (NASDAQ: MTSC) a leading global supplier of test systems and industrial position sensors, today announced that the Company has named William V. Murray as interim chief executive officer and David J. Anderson as non-executive chair of the Board. The company said that the two directors are replacing Laura [...]

Meridian Bioscience Provides Sales and Earnings Guidance for Fiscal 2012 and Comments on Fiscal 2011 Guidance

Bioscience, Inc. today provided the financial community with guidance regarding the Company's fiscal 2012 sales and earnings estimates. Based on the Company's business planning and budgeting activities for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2012, management expects net sales to be in the range of $183 to $192 million and per share diluted earnings to [...]

DNA2.0 Transforms Protein Engineering

Menlo Park, CA - DNA2.0, the leading provider of bioengineering solutions, today announced that the company has obtained a patent for ProteinGPS™, the company’s radically different protein engineering system, which enables bioengineers to design proteins directly for function in the final application. With ProteinGPS, researchers can save years of time and millions of dollars by [...]

Nanosurf to strengthen its position in China

Liestal, Switzerland / Suzhou, China — Nanosurf, a leading provider of atomic force microscopes (AFM) and scanning tunneling microscopes (STM), and Suzhou Haizisi (Hzs) Nano Technology Co. Ltd., a high-tech company specialized in system solutions for nanodetection, nanofabrication and nanometrology, today announced the founding of a Sino-foreign Joint Venture, Hzs-Nanosurf (full name: Suzhou Hzs Nanosurf [...]

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