Bruker Announces New Website and Online Store for AFM Probes

SANTA BARBARA, CA – The Bruker Nano Surfaces division has launched a brand new website for atomic force microscopy (AFM) probes at www.brukerAFMprobes.com. Bruker, the company that has recently brought you Dimension FastScanTM, the world’s fastest AFM, and ScanAsystTM, the first self-optimizing AFM, now has created a new website enabling the AFM community to easily [...]

IDEX Corporation Names Andrew Silvernail as New Chief Executive Officer

LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- IDEX Corporation today announced the promotion of Andrew Silvernail to the position of Chief Executive Officer, effective August 10, 2011, succeeding Larry Kingsley who indicated his plans to leave IDEX to assume the position of Chief Executive Officer of Pall Corporation. Mr. Silvernail was also appointed to the company's board of [...]

Carestream and Caliper Settle Lawsuits

ROCHESTER, N.Y.--Carestream Health today announced it has favorably settled two lawsuits with Caliper Life Sciences. In the first lawsuit, filed in February, 2010, Caliper, its wholly owned subsidiary, Xenogen, and Stanford University alleged that Carestream’s marketing and sales of its instrument systems induced infringement of seven imaging patents that are exclusively licensed to Xenogen by [...]

FEI Announces New Versa 3D DualBeam Imaging & Analysis System

Hillsboro, Ore. - FEI Company, a leading instrumentation company providing electron microscope systems for applications in research and industry, today announced the release of its new Versa 3D™ DualBeam™ system, which provides high-resolution, three-dimensional (3D) imaging and analysis on a wide range of sample types. The Versa 3D’s highly configurable platform allows customers to adapt [...]

Pall Corporation Names Lawrence D. Kingsley President and Chief Executive Officer

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y.- Pall Corporation’s (NYSE: PLL) board of directors today announced that Larry Kingsley has been unanimously elected president and chief executive officer, effective October 3, 2011. He will also be elected a director after he joins the company. Mr. Kingsley, 48, currently chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of IDEX [...]

Horizon Technology Introduces the SmartPrep Extractor™

Salem, NH - Horizon Technology is proud to introduce the brand new SmartPrep Extractor. This system delivers unprecedented versatility and intelligent sample preparation capabilities for cartridge based automated SPE. SmartPrep is the first ever automated, small footprint, extraction system designed specifically for scalable cartridge based SPE of a wide range of contaminants in clean aqueous [...]

QIAGEN Completes Second U.S.Submission for Companion Diagnostic to Guide Treatment Decisions in Colorectal Cancer

GERMANTOWN, Maryland and HILDEN, Germany - QIAGEN today announced it has completed its second U.S. submission of the therascreen® KRAS RGQ PCR Kit for use as a companion diagnostic paired with Erbitux® (cetuximab), a leading drug for treatment of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC). Erbitux is marketed in the United States by Bristol-Myers Squibb [...]

PREMIER Biosoft Completes Acquisition of Redasoft

Palo Alto, California – PREMIER Biosoft, a leading provider of software solutions for life science research, today announced the complete acquisition of Redasoft, a privately held company incorporated in California, USA and marketer of Visual Cloning, a popular sequence analysis software. PREMIER Biosoft expects this strategic acquisition to accelerate its growth in life science software [...]

Firefly BioWorks, Inc. Announces the Award of a $2M Grant from the National Institutes of Health for microRNA Profiling in Cancer Diagnostics

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Firefly BioWorks, Inc., a manufacturer of universally compatible multiplex assays, announced today it was awarded a $2M Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Cancer Institute for microRNA profiling. MicroRNAs are an emerging class of biomarkers that are proving to be important indicators for early diagnosis of cancer and other [...]

Analytik Jena AG launches new HR-CS AAS instrument

Jena – Analytik Jena AG, a leading manufacturer of analysis measuring technology, today launched its new atomic absorption spectrometer contrAA® 600. The device complements the contrAA® product family and optimizes the advantages of high resolution continuum source atomic absorption spectrometry (HR-CS AAS) specifically for the graphite furnace technique. "With the development of the contrAA® 600 [...]

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