Beckman Coulter Introduces the 1.6-liter Allegra X-30 Series Benchtop Centrifuge

BREA, CALIF. - The medium capacity Allegra X-30 Series Benchtop Centrifuge from Beckman Coulter, Inc. is a versatile instrument that is being introduced for general research use and clinical sample preparation in booth # 603 at the 2011 AACC/ASCLS Annual Meeting and Clinical Lab Expo in Atlanta, Ga., July 24-28. The compact, 18-inch-wide instrument is [...]

iGenix Announces CLIA Approval of Diagnostic Assay on BeadXpress

Seattle, WA - iGenix today announced it has received CLIA approval for its first diagnostic assay created to run on the Illumina BeadXpress, a high-throughput genomic analysis platform manufactured by Illumina Inc. The pharmacogenomics assay certified was built as a “proof-of-principle” test for CLIA certification, and is one of several in the iGenix R&D pipeline. [...]

Brooks Automation Announces Purchase of Nexus Biosystems, Inc.

CHELMSFORD, Mass. - Brooks Automation, Inc. (Nasdaq:BRKS) announced today that it had completed the acquisition of Nexus Biosystems, Inc. ("Nexus") the Poway, California based global market leader in automated compound and sample management solutions for life sciences. The net cash purchase price was $79 million. Additionally, the Company paid approximately $6.7 million for the value [...]

SERS Substrate for Raman Systems Now Available from API Technologies

ORLANDO, FL - API Technologies Corp. , a provider of electronic systems, subsystems, RF, and secure systems for defense, aerospace, and commercial applications, announced today the availability of its newest technology aimed at improving the repeatability and sensitivity of Raman spectroscopy analysis . The product, Solas™, is currently offered as a "Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering" [...]

Exonhit and BGI Announce Successful Completion of a Promising Next-Generation Sequencing Project

PARIS - Exonhit (Paris:ALEHT), a biotech company focused on personalized medicine, and BGI, the world’s largest genome organization, are pleased to announce the successful completion of a project dedicated to expanding Exonhit’s Genome-Wide SpliceArrayTM to an additional strategic preclinical animal model species. To answer the need for a comprehensive understanding of gene deregulation and the [...]

Roka Bioscience Participates in the International Association for Food Protection Conference

WARREN, N.J. - Roka Bioscience announced today that it will be participating in the 2011 International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) Conference. The conference will be held at the Frontier Airlines Convention Center, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from July 31 through August 3, 2011. Roka will be located at booth #821. At the conference, the company [...]

Clearbridge BioLoc Unveils Innovative Lab-on-Card Analysis Platform for Point-of-Care Testing at World’s Largest Clinical Lab Conference

ATLANTA - Singapore-based medical device company, Clearbridge BioLoc, today unveiled the prototype of its flagship product, AssayQuest™. This is a fully-automated, portable analysis platform that can perform complex and cost effective point-of-care testing from a finger-prick blood sample. It potentially enables clinicians and healthcare workers to conduct professional, laboratory-quality tests at the point-of-care, receiving the [...]

Waters Showcases ACQUITY UltraPerformance LC and Mass Spectrometry (UPLC/MS) Tools for Increasing Laboratory Efficiency at the American Association for Clinical Chemistry Annual Meeting

Atlanta - Waters Corporation (WAT:NYSE) today unveiled new technology solutions for increasing clinical laboratory efficiencies including the first CE Marked LC/MS/MS integrated solution for the quantification of everolimus (Certican®). Being displayed in Waters booth #3136 are these exciting new products. • MassTrak™ Online Solid Phase Extraction Analyzer providing automated sample clean-up, concentration, and extraction complemented [...]

Genedata Selector Will Support Integrated Phenotype-Genotype Platform for Biotech Production Strain Development

New Orleans, LA - Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for industrial biotechnology, life science, and drug discovery research, today announced its participation in the Integrated Phenotype-Genotype (IPG) project. IPG is an industry-led research consortium of companies in the biotechnology industry, including Evonik Industries and GATC, as well as the Bielefeld University Center [...]

OriGene Pioneers High-Density Protein Microarray Chip for Optimal Validation of Antibody Specificity

ROCKVILLE, Md. - OriGene Technologies, Inc., a gene-centric life sciences company known for its development of cDNA clones, human full length proteins, antibodies, and other molecular tools for multiplex research introduces its major breakthrough technology High-Density Protein Microarray Chip for the quality control of its (TrueMAB™) monoclonal antibodies. The new chip enables OriGene to screen [...]

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