May 18, 2011
Ottawa, ON - DNA Genotek Inc., a leading provider of products for biological sample collection, stabilization and preparation, today launched OMNIgene™•DISCOVER, a new method to collect and stabilize microbial DNA. Academic and clinical researchers now have access to an easy-to-use and non-invasive method to collect and stabilize microbial DNA for molecular detection and analysis of [...]
May 18, 2011
BOULDER, COLO. - GE (NYSE: GE) today announced it has introduced a portable SieversTM 5310 C Total Organic Carbon (TOC) Analyzer as the company expands its technologies to help municipal water system operators more closely monitor and protect drinking water supplies. The Sievers 5310 C Portable TOC Analyzer is the first to be specifically designed [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Acquires Leading UK Provider of Laboratory Specialty Products
May 18, 2011
WALTHAM, Mass. - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE:TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced that it has acquired Sterilin, Ltd., a leading provider of single-use plastic products serving the microbiology, life sciences and clinical markets. Headquartered in South Wales, U.K., the company has approximately 270 employees and 2010 full year revenue of approximately [...]
Cepheid Appoints LABSCO as US Small Hospital Distributor
May 18, 2011
SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Cepheid (NASDAQ: CPHD) today announced it has entered into an agreement with LABSCO (www.labsco.com), the largest privately held distributor of clinical products in the United States, to become its US distribution partner for Cepheid's GeneXpert? Systems and tests. The agreement grants LABSCO exclusive US distribution rights to the acute care hospital market [...]
High Yield Cell Growth Microplates
May 17, 2011
BactiGrowth plates from Porvair Sciences provide an optimal microplate solution enabling high yield growth of bacteria, yeast, mammalian or insect cell lines. Every batch of BactiGrowth plates is rigorously tested to validate their contamination-free status ensuring reproducibility and maintaining customer confidence in the cells you grow. BactiGrowth plates are available in a choice of well [...]
Implant Sciences Corporation Announces $1.3 Million Order in China
May 17, 2011
WILMINGTON, MA - Continuing its growth in the Chinese market, Implant Sciences Corporation (OTCQB: IMSC) (PINKSHEETS: IMSC), a high technology supplier of systems and sensors for homeland security markets, today announced that it has received an order for its Quantum Sniffer(TM) QS-H150 explosives trace detector totaling $1.3 million. The Quantum Sniffer will be deployed for [...]
SAFC® Licences Proprietary Monomers in Agilent Technologies Agreement
May 17, 2011
St. Louis, MO. - SAFC®, part of the Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL), today announced a licensing agreement with Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) making SAFC a preferred partner of Agilent in the sale of Agilent’s new nucleic acids synthesis products and technologies. This additional range of products compliments well SAFC’s robust Proligo® Reagents portfolio. The [...]
William T. Boehm Joins Neogen’s Board of Directors
May 17, 2011
LANSING, Mich. - Neogen Corporation (Nasdaq: NEOG) announced today that William T. Boehm, a recently retired senior vice president of The Kroger Co. and former senior economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisors, was elected to Neogen's Board of Directors. "Since our founding in 1982, a strength of Neogen has been the quality of [...]
Fluidigm Launches Low-Cost Assays and Target-Specific Primers
May 17, 2011
Fluidigm Corporation has announced the availability of new assays and primers optimized for the company's integrated fluidic circuit technology. Fluidigm Assays and Target-specific Primers will provide customers with significantly lower costs than today's standard solutions, at volumes appropriate for microfluidics, and flexible chemistries so that customers can easily create highly multiplexed panels using off-the-shelf and [...]
May 17, 2011
SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Today, Molecular Devices, a leading provider of instruments, software, and consumables for drug discovery and life sciences research, announced that NanoRacks, LLC has chosen the SpectraMax® M5e Multi-Mode Microplate Reader for use in NASA's International Space Station; the M5e Reader will be the first microplate reader to be used in space. (Logo: [...]
