June 30, 2011
Tokyo, Japan - Today CLC bio Japan announced that they're expanding their Japanese outreach program in collaboration with RIKEN Omics Science Center to deliver free licenses for CLC Main Workbench to all academic organizations in the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami disaster area. Yoshihide Hayashizaki, Director of the OSC, explained the motivation for the project "Compared [...]
June 30, 2011
Chata is a leading supplier of custom solutions and instruments to the pharmaceutical analytical laboratory industry and pilot plants, specializing in HPLC media, IC media, dissolution solutions, buffer solutions and HPLC water. Cody Yarborough, Boval President, stated, “We are in the middle of building a really dynamic company with a diversified portfolio of offerings for [...]
June 30, 2011
Phillipsburg, New Jersey – Avantor™ Performance Materials has completed its acquisition of POCH S.A. from Kulczyk Holding S.A. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The POCH acquisition complements Avantor’s strategy of growing into new markets and geographies, both organically and through acquisition. Avantor announced its intent to acquire POCH S.A. in April, 2011. Avantor, [...]
ConfoMap® Surface Analysis Software for ZEISS Microscopes
June 29, 2011
Jena, Germany / Besançon, France - Carl Zeiss and Digital Surf announce the signing of an agreement enabling Carl Zeiss to provide ConfoMap® software. ConfoMap® is a surface imaging and analysis software for confocal microscopes and compound microscopes for topographical research. “Carl Zeiss confocal microscopes provide strong support for the development of new materials and [...]
Nanoscience Instruments Announces a New Integrated AFM & Optical Profiler System
June 29, 2011
Phoenix, AZ - Nanoscience Instruments announces an integrated 3D optical microscope and atomic force microscope (AFM) system. The new system combines a compact Nanosurf LensAFM with an advanced Zeta Instruments optical profiler. This unique pairing provides an extremely wide range of metrology capabilities, unmatched by any other instrument. The LensAFM builds on Nanosurf’s long history [...]
Stuart® Shakes up Microtitre Plate Incubation
June 29, 2011
Stuart® announces the SI505, a combined incubator shaker specially designed to reduce sample evaporation and provide fast, optimised mixing of very small sample volumes in microtitre plates and microfuge tubes. The chamber of the Stuart® SI505 can accommodate up to four standard microtitre or deep-well plates, or two racks holding 0.2, 0.5 or 1.5ml micro [...]
Cellectis and Pregenen Sign Collaboration Agreement for the Development of Meganucleases
June 29, 2011
PARIS and SEATTLE - Cellectis (Alternext: ALCLS), the French genome engineering specialist, announced today the signing of a collaboration agreement with Pregenen, an American biotechnology start-up company dedicated to the creation of innovative tools for genome engineering. Pregenen is a spinoff from the Northwest Genome Engineering Consortium, a group that brings in renowned international researchers [...]
University of Washington Department of Genome Sciences Joins Illumina Genome Network
June 29, 2011
SAN DIEGO - Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced that the University of Washington (UW) Department of Genome Sciences has joined the Illumina Genome Network (IGN). IGN is a global partnership designed to link researchers seeking large-scale whole human genome sequencing services with leading institutions that provide such services using Illumina’s sequencing technology. Recent advancements in [...]
MS Noise(TM) Expanded Product Line Increases Lab Productivity by Significantly Reducing Noise
June 29, 2011
EVANS MILLS, N.Y. and GANANOQUE, Ontario - 2011 ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry -- MS Noise (https://www.msnoise.com) of Sens, France, recently introduced an extensive range of soundproofing products for the analytical laboratory. The company has been delivering soundproof enclosures for vacuum pumps since 2004. Typical sound reduction is 12 dbA or more, or 50-75% reduction [...]
June 29, 2011
Austin, Texas – Asuragen, Inc. announces results from an evaluation of a breakthrough PCR technology that determines the methylation status of the fragile X gene. The study was published in collaboration with researchers at the University of California Davis M.I.N.D. Institute in the June issue of Genetics in Medicine, the official journal of the American [...]
