Life Technologies Introduces New RNA/DNA Isolation Kits
August 4, 2011
Life Technologies now offers MagMAX™ FFPE Isolation Kits -- two new magnetic bead-based kits designed specifically for the isolation of both total RNA and DNA from Formalin Fixed Paraffin Embedded (FFPE) samples. MagMAX™ FFPE Isolation kits help scientists get to discovery – faster and safer than ever before. What’s unique about the MagMAX™ FFPE kits [...]
August 4, 2011
ETTLINGEN, Germany -- Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) today announced the launch of the TANGO, an innovative stand-alone FT-NIR (Fourier Transform Near Infrared) spectrometer, further expanding Bruker's existing industry-leading FT-NIR product range. TANGO is a robust, small footprint, very easy to use benchtop system with touch-screen operation for routine users. The new TANGO offers efficient and [...]
Cambridge Technology Company ionscope helps researchers make heart discovery
August 4, 2011
Cambridge UK – SICM, a high resolution microscopy technique, has been used by a team of researchers to identify a drug that could one day be used to prevent abnormal heart rhythms, or arrhythmia. The study, published in Hepatology[1] this week, was enabled by SICM, which is the result of 7 years of research and [...]
August 4, 2011
Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM) announced today a collaboration with BD Biosciences, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), to co-host a public seminar series on the isolation and analysis of single cells. Entitled A Powerful Technique for Single-Cell Analysis, the public seminar series will showcase cell isolation using the BD FACSAria ™ III Cell Sorter [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Expands Maybridge Ro3 Diversity Fragment Library
August 4, 2011
TINTAGEL, England – Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced that it has expanded its Maybridge Ro3 Diversity Fragment Library, to make it an even more powerful tool for structure-based drug discovery. The new library adds 1,000 Ro3 compliant molecules, complementing the 1,500 compounds introduced last year. This expansion increases the [...]
August 3, 2011
Berlin - JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, is pleased to report on the research work from the Chemical Physics group of Professor Robert Magerle of the Chemnitz University of Technology. The Chemical Physics Group is part of the Faculty of Natural Sciences. The main [...]
August 3, 2011
WILMINGTON, MA - Implant Sciences Corporation (OTCQB: IMSC) (PINKSHEETS: IMSC), a high technology supplier of systems and sensors for homeland security markets, today announced it is enhancing its Quantum Sniffer™ QS-H150 and QS-B220 explosives trace detection devices with an advanced performance logging and reporting system. This new software package, offered as an accessory, will be [...]
WEIDMANN Announces Hydrogen Sensing Monitor Supply Agreement With H2scan Corporation
August 3, 2011
HANOVER, NH - Today, WEIDMANN ELECTRICAL TECHNOLOGY INC., the global leader in transformer insulation products and services, announced that its subsidiary, WEIDMANN DIAGNOSTIC SOLUTIONS INC., has completed a five-year supply agreement with H2scan Corporation, designer and manufacturer of the most accurate, tolerant, and affordable hydrogen leak detection and process gas monitoring solutions for industrial markets. [...]
Illumina and University of Oxford to Sequence 500 Whole Human Genomes for Rare Disease Research
August 3, 2011
SAN DIEGO -- Illumina, Inc. today announced it will collaborate with the University of Oxford to sequence the whole genomes of 500 individuals afflicted with a range of life-threatening diseases that pose major challenges in diagnosis, treatment, and care. Illumina HiSeq(TM) 2000 systems will be used to generate sequence data for the 500 genomes. Clinicians [...]
August 3, 2011
ST. LOUIS -- Sigma Life Science, the innovative biological products and services research business of Sigma-Aldrich® (Nasdaq: SIAL), today announced a major breakthrough in the development of its proprietary CompoZr zinc finger nuclease (ZFN) technology with the release of more Knockout ZFNs covering the entire genomes of both mice and rats, while reducing the pricing [...]
