Spectris plc, the productivity-enhancing instrumentation and controls company, today announces that it has signed an agreement to acquire the Omega Engineering business. The purchase consideration of US$475 million (approximately £290 million), on a debt and cash-free basis, will be met from cash and new bank facilities and is subject to routine balance sheet adjustments. Omega [...]

Hercules, CA —— Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.'s new iScript Advanced cDNA synthesis kit for RT-qPCR allows researchers to generate more real-time PCR data from a single 20 µl reverse transcription reaction for their gene expression analyses. iScript Advanced The iScript Advanced cDNA synthesis kit for RT-qPCR generates more real-time PCR data from a single reverse transcription [...]

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Bruker today launched the Dimension EdgeTM PSS Atomic Force Microscope (AFM), a production-environment AFM specifically tailored for patterned sapphire substrate (PSS) metrology in high brightness light-emitting diode (HB-LED) manufacturing. The Dimension Edge PSS is an easy-to-operate AFM that delivers resolution far beyond traditional optical techniques while at the same time providing [...]

GE Healthcare Life Sciences new Whatman Indicating FTA™ DMPK Cards enable simple and effective collection of colorless biosample fluids, such as plasma, urine and CSF, for use in pharmacokinetic and toxicokinetic studies. These new cards enable room temperature storage of dried biosample spots and only require a low sample volume (10-20 µl), making them ideal [...]

Hercules, CA —— Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.'s new SsoAdvanced™ SYBR® Green supermix helps researchers generate reproducible, high quality qPCR data with even the most difficult templates and samples. At the heart of the SsoAdvanced™ SYBR® Green supermix lies Bio-Rad's proprietary Sso7d-fusion polymerase, engineered for enhanced qPCR performance. In addition to increasing enzyme processivity and delivering run [...]

Reno, Nevada - Hamilton Company, world leader in fluid measurement, introduces a new line of syringes for GC (gas chromatography) headspace autosamplers. Designed to work with PAL* COMBI-xt GC headspace autosamplers, which are sold under many brand names, the new syringes feature a unique spring-in-plunger design for leak-free operation. The spring keeps the PTFE plunger [...]

AMBRIDGE, England, and SANTA CLARA, Calif. - The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) and Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that CrysAlisPro users can now perform pre-experiment reduced cell checks directly from within the popular crystallography data collection and processing software package. CellCheckCSD, developed for automated use through CrysAlisPro, enables users to check their [...]

ROCKVILLE, Maryland and SEOUL, Korea -- Seegene today announced the publication of an independent retrospective study evaluating the Seeplex® Diarrhea-V ACE (Seeplex® DV) assay. The study was published online on July 20 ahead of printingby the Journal of Clinical Microbiology (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21775550). The assay was found to be sensitive, specific, convenient and reliable for the direct [...]

BILLERICA, Mass. – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the launch of the Thermo Scientific Niton XL2 precious metal analyzer, an instrument that combines point-and-shoot simplicity with lab-quality analysis to provide exact metal content in seconds. These instruments deliver improved performance over previous comparable models, providing accurate analysis in [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced the SureScan Microarray Scanner, the latest innovation in scanner technology and the foundation of Agilent's complete microarray solution for both gene expression and CGH/cytogenetics research applications. The new SureScan system delivers the highest sensitivity, widest dynamic range and exceptional resolution, providing researchers with the [...]