August 9, 2011
Oxford Instruments NanoAnalysis, a world leader in microanalysis systems, has launched a new EBSD detector at M&M 2011. The new NordlysNano addresses the growing requirements of nanoscale applications: it is 60% more sensitive than the previous generation of EBSD detector, the NordlysS. Increased sensitivity offers a number of benefits. Firstly, accurate EBSD data can be [...]
Cepheid Announces Release of Updated Xpert BCR-ABL Monitor Test
August 9, 2011
SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Cepheid (CPHD) today announced the release of an updated Xpert® BCR-ABL Monitor test, now reporting results to the International Scale. The test is being released as a European CE IVD Mark product under the European Directive on In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices. The test, which runs on Cepheid's GeneXpert® System, detects the [...]
Eureka Genomics Lands a DHS Phase II Award for $750,000
August 9, 2011
HOUSTON--The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) have awarded Eureka Genomics Corporation a $750,000 Phase II SBIR for the detection of rare variants of Bacillus anthracis. After successfully completing a DHS Phase I contract, Eureka Genomics has been awarded a $750,000 Phase II SBIR from The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) [...]
Asylum Research Installs First Cypher™ AFM in China
August 9, 2011
Asylum Research, the technology leader in scanning probe/atomic force microscopy (AFM/SPM), announced today that it has installed the first Cypher AFM system in China at the South China Normal University in Guangzhou. Cypher, the world’s fastest and highest resolution AFM, was installed in the lab of Professor Xingsen Gao at the SCNU Institute for Advanced [...]
August 9, 2011
Santa Clara, CA – Picarro, Inc., the world’s leading provider of instruments for carbon and water cycle measurement, today announced a powerful new analyzer, which, for the first time, simultaneously measures isotope ratios of carbon and hydrogen from a single sample. The Picarro 13C+D CM-CRDS (Carbon-13 + Deuterium Combustion Module - Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy) Isotope [...]
August 8, 2011
SANTA CLARA, Calif., and DURHAM, N.C. - Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and Expression Analysis Inc. today announced that Expression Analysis has achieved Certified Service Provider status for the Agilent SureSelect Target Enrichment System. SureSelect has been shown to greatly increase the speed and cost-efficiency of next-generation sequencing by enabling researchers to focus experiments on [...]
CombiMatrix Receives New York State Clinical Laboratory Permit
August 8, 2011
IRVINE, Calif. -- CombiMatrix Corporation (Nasdaq:CBMX) announced today that it has received its Clinical Laboratory Permit from the New York State Department of Health. The permit allows the Company to immediately begin receiving specimens for DNAarray™ Postnatal Developmental Testing. The DNAarray tests are based on aCGH technology, which provides physicians with a comprehensive genomic evaluation [...]
August 8, 2011
Hillsboro, Ore. -- FEI Company, a leading instrumentation company providing electron microscope systems for applications in research and industry, today announced the release of its Titan™ G2 80-200 with ChemiSTEM™ Technology, a new member of the Titan G2 series of S/TEM (scanning / transmission electron microscopes). “By combining the Titan platform’s latest generation of electron [...]
China Medical Technologies and Leica Microsystems Announce Collaboration
August 8, 2011
Joint Sales, Research and DevelopmentBeijing, China / Wetzlar, Germany. China Medical Technologies, Inc. (CMED) (Nasdaq: CMED), a leading China-based advanced in-vitro diagnostic (“IVD”) company, and Leica Biosystems, a division of Leica Microsystems, a world leader in microscopes and scientific instruments, today announced that they have established a sales, research and development collaboration to co-develop and [...]
1ST DETECT AWARDED U.S. PATENT FOR CHEMICAL DETECTION TECHNOLOGY
August 8, 2011
AUSTIN, Texas -- 1st Detect Corporation, a subsidiary of Astrotech Corporation (Nasdaq:ASTC - News), announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a key patent for the company's unique method to drive a mass spectrometer ion trap used for chemical detection and identification. "We are extremely pleased that the USPTO [...]
