Thermo Fisher Scientific Presents $35,000 Distinguished Research Award to Dr. Judit Villen, University of Washington

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that it has presented Dr. Judit Villen of the University of Washington, Seattle, with the renowned American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) 2011 Research Award of $35,000. Sponsored by Thermo Fisher Scientific for more than 20 years and administered [...]

Public Health Care Authority Chooses Labvantage to Digitize Pathology Labs

Somerset, NJ. LABVANTAGE today announced that its C5-LIMS by SoftwarePoint has been chosen by a major regional public health care authority in Northern Europe. The goal of the project is to completely digitize and automate all of their pathology laboratories. The system will eventually become one of the largest such installations in the world and [...]

IONICON Announces New Distribution Partner for INDIA

IONICON Analytik, the world’s leading PTR-MS company, specialized in ultra-sensitive and high-resolution online mass spectrometry for trace gas analysis and MARS Bioanalytical Pvt Ltd a leading company in the field of analytical, biotech and environmental instruments in India are teaming up to target the Indian market. “The common goal is to offer the range of [...]

Chiral Technologies Expands Sales Coverage

WEST CHESTER, Pa. - Chiral Technologies, Inc. has appointed Louise Bernier as Account Manager, Western Region. Ms. Bernier will be responsible for laboratory product sales in the Western United States, including Alaska and Hawaii. Prior to joining Chiral Technologies, Bernier was a scientist at Pfizer’s R&D laboratory in San Diego, where she helped manage the [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Signs Agreement to Make its Biomarker Assays Available on Alere Triage Systems

WALTHAM, Mass. - Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE:TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced it has signed a long-term license agreement with Alere Inc. to integrate its novel Thermo Scientific B.R.A.H.M.S. biomarker assays on Alere’s leading point-of-care Triage® platform. Alere, formerly Inverness Medical Innovations, is a global leader in rapid point-of-care diagnostics. Increased availability [...]

5AM Solutions Announces Opening of Boston Office

Reston, VA - 5AM Solutions recently opened a Boston, Massachusetts office. The location addition will enhance 5AM's ability to deliver innovative software development services to current project partners there, and will also allow them to seek out additional business in the region. The new Northeast operation will initially be led by Will FitzHugh, Chief Science [...]

Neogen Launches Breakthrough NeoSEEK™ System for Rapid Genomic Detection and Identification of Emerging Pathogens

LANSING, Mich. - Neogen Corporation (Nasdaq: NEOG) has announced the development of a breakthrough pathogen detection and identification technology that provides next day, DNA-specific test results for seven pathogenic E. coli strains. The technology could be adapted to target almost any bacterium of concern in almost any food sample type. Neogen's new NeoSEEK™ pathogen DNA [...]

Roche’s xCELLigence RTCA Cardio Instrument Used to Estimate the Risk of Drug-induced Proarrhythmia in Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Cardiomyocytes

PENZBERG, Germany - Cardiotoxicity, which results when drugs adversely affect the heart, explains why roughly one third of new pharmaceuticals are withdrawn from the market and why many compounds fail in late-stage clinical testing. To address this, a research team led by Kyle Kolaja, PhD, in the Department of Early and Investigative Safety, Nonclinical Safety, [...]

Electronic Sensor Technology Inc. Announced Today That It Had Received an Order for 7 Instruments

NEWBURY PARK, CA - Electronic Sensor Technology Inc. (PINKSHEETS: ESNR), a leading provider of ultra-fast vapor analyzers, announced today that it had received an order for 7 instruments, 1 model 4500 and 6 model 4200 instruments from Beijing Research and Development Inc. Beijing China, the company's China distributor. "Beijing R&D has been promoting the zNOSE [...]

Agilent Technologies and A*STAR’s Experimental Therapeutics Centre Launch All-in-One Drug Screening Platform at Singapore Screening Centre

SINGAPORE – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and A*STAR’s Experimental Therapeutics Centre (ETC) today announced the launch of a drug screening platform within ETC’s new Singapore Screening Centre. This partnership will provide a full spectrum of state-of-the-art automation technologies to biomedical researchers, enabling highly efficient drug screening in one location. The Singapore Screening Centre conducts [...]

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