Affymetrix Announces Federal Court Affirms Dismissal of Illumina Patent Infringement Lawsuits
August 19, 2011
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Affymetrix, Inc. today announced that the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has affirmed the dismissal of the patent infringement lawsuits brought against the Company by Illumina regarding U.S. Patent Nos. 7,510,841 and 7,612,020. “We are pleased that the Federal Circuit has affirmed the District Court’s prior rulings that Affymetrix [...]
Newport Spectra-Physics® Granted Key Patent for Multiphoton Imaging
August 19, 2011
Santa Clara, CA –– Spectra-Physics®, a division of Newport Corporation, announces the issuance of U.S. patent 7,962,046 for its DeepSee technology for multiphoton imaging. Used in both the industry-leading Mai Tai® DeepSee and the recently announced InSight™ DeepSee products, the pioneering technology enables automated, deep 3-D imaging of live tissue in neuroscience, cell biology, and [...]
Advanced Photonix, Inc. Announces Hiring of Jeffrey Anderson as Chief Financial Officer
August 19, 2011
ANN ARBOR, Mich.--Advanced Photonix® company, announced today that it has hired Jeffrey Anderson, as the Chief Financial Officer, effective August 29, 2011. Richard (Rick) Kurtz President and CEO of Advanced Photonix, Inc, stated, “Jeff has over 30 years of business experience, starting in public accounting and moving into a number of high technology companies with [...]
Quanterix Digital ELISA Measures Low Abundance Biomarkers of Inflammation in Crohn’s Disease
August 19, 2011
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Quanterix Corporation, a company enabling a new generation of molecular diagnostic tests based on its revolutionary Single Molecule Array (SiMoA™) technology, today announced results of a pilot study to measure biomarkers of inflammation from patients with Crohn's disease. The precise measurement of low abundance cytokines, which was possible using Quanterix's high sensitivity [...]
August 18, 2011
NEWARK, Del.--SDIX™, a leading supplier of rapid detection solutions to the $1 billion food pathogen testing market, today announced the publication of a scientific paper entitled “RapidChek® SELECT™ Salmonella Enteritidis Test System for the Detection of Salmonella Enteritidis in Poultry House Drag Swabs, Shell Egg Pools, and Chicken Carcass Rinsates”. The publication was released by [...]
August 18, 2011
Roche and PerkinElmer today announced a new supply agreement for distribution of the NimbleGen CGX microarray workflow, for use in constitutional disease research. Under this agreement, effective January 2012, PerkinElmer will assume responsibility from Roche for sales, service, and support of the CGX array workflow for most countries outside of the U.S. Roche will continue [...]
Leica Microsystems and Visiopharm Announce Software Integration for Digital Pathology Image Analysis
August 18, 2011
Wetzlar, Germany / Hørsholm, Denmark. Leica Microsystems, world-leading providers of Total Digital Pathology solutions, and Visiopharm the leading provider of Histoinformatics Solutions for Life-Sciences, today announce the completed integration of Leica’s SlidePath Digital Image Hub with Visiopharm’s Whole-Slide InformaticsTM solutions for Digital Pathology. Users can now take advantage of superior image capture and management from [...]
August 18, 2011
MARBLEHEAD, Mass. and AMSTERDAM--Medicinal Genomics, a pioneer in the genomics of medicinal plants, today announced that the company has sequenced the entire genome of Cannabis sativa and Cannabis indica, assembling the largest known gene collection of this therapeutic plant. The DNA purification was performed at the company’s research facility in Amsterdam, and the sequencing was [...]
August 18, 2011
BILLERICA, Mass.--American Science and Engineering, Inc., a leading worldwide supplier of innovative X-ray detection solutions, announced today the receipt of a $31.8 million service and maintenance renewal order from an undisclosed client to support its fleet of AS&E® detection systems. “We are proud to support our valued client’s strategic mission with outstanding service in the [...]
August 18, 2011
Madison, WI. – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the launch of two new complete solutions featuring the Antaris II Fourier-Transform Near-Infrared (FT-NIR) analyzer, for feed and ingredient analysis in agriculture, and flour and milling analysis in the food processing industry. The solutions set an industry standard for laboratory-based [...]
