GeneTex Antibody Company to Launch a Line of New Zebrafish Primary Antibodies
June 28, 2011
IRVINE, Calif. - GeneTex, a leading manufacturer of high quality antibodies, is pleased to announce that they will be launching a full line of zebrafish antibodies. Zebrafish have been increasingly utilized as a model organism for scientific research. Due to their short lifecycles and relatively large clutch sizes, they are a useful model for genetic [...]
Cytocentrics Launches the CytoPatch™ Instrument, an Automated Patch Clamp Device
June 28, 2011
Rostock, Germany - Cytocentrics, specializing in automated patch clamp and ion channel screening services, proudly announces the launch of the CytoPatch™ Instrument, a fully automated device for gigaseal patch clamp measurements in the whole cell configuration. Major innovations of the device include the true patch pipette resembling the manual patch clamp, a unique perfusion system [...]
Start of Clinical Validation Study of Trisomy 21 Diagnostic Test
June 28, 2011
Constance, Germany – In conjunction with several Central European prenatal centers, scientists at GATC Biotech AG and LifeCodexx AG have begun the clinical validation study of a non-invasive, prenatal diagnostic test based on next generation sequencing. The test detects fetal trisomy 21 (Down’s syndrome) and is based on the sequencing cell-free fetal DNA from maternal [...]
June 28, 2011
IRVINE, Calif. - Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. ("Shrink") (OTC Markets: INKN), an innovative high technology innovation and development company announced today, that this week it will unveil and begin commercial sales of its first commercial product – the StemDisc 450, a unique cell culture product for the development and study of spheroid cells and tissues. Priced [...]
QIAGEN Added to Russell 1000 and Russell 3000 Indexes
June 28, 2011
VENLO, The Netherlands - QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt, Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that its common shares were added to the U.S. large-cap Russell 1000 Index and the broad-market Russell 3000 Index. This change came into effect when Russell Investments reconstituted its equity indexes after the close of markets on June 24, 2011. The [...]
June 28, 2011
KLEVE, GERMANY - SPECTRO Analytical Instruments (www.spectro.com) unveiled the updated version of its SPECTROLAB metal analyzer at the GIFA foundry trade show (Dusseldorf, Germany, June 28-July 2, 2011). The latest version of the versatile metal analyzer incorporates a number of improvements, and, in several instances, achieves better detection limits than its predecessor version, e.g. trace [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Donates First Instrument to Seeding Labs
June 28, 2011
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Nina Dudnik watched as used but still useful lab equipment piled up in the hallways of a U.S.-based research institution. Meanwhile, halfway around the world, scientists in developing countries were in desperate need of some of the same lab equipment that was lying idle and considered obsolete. “We knew that the unused [...]
TTP LabTech’s comPOUND® Celebrates 10 Years
June 28, 2011
Royston, UK – TTP LabTech is celebrating the 10th year of comPOUND®, the world’s first automated, modular microtube store, for the secure storage of chemical and biological compound libraries. Using pneumatic technology and specialist sample processing software, comPOUND® has the ability to cherry pick individual tubes, providing extremely rapid access to a range of library [...]
AnaSpec, Inc. Expands SensoLyte(R) MMP Assay Kits
June 28, 2011
Fremont CA - Since its introduction, AnaSpec, EGT Group’s product line of SensoLyte® 520 MMP Assay Kits has become the new standard in MMP assay sensitivity. These fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based assay kits utilizing the 5-FAM/QXL™ 520 are some of the most sensitive and brightest lines of MMP assay kits in the world. AnaSpec [...]
New Instrument Literature Available from LECO Corporation
June 28, 2011
St. Joseph, Mich.—LECO Corporation recently released literature on the CHN628 Series: Elemental Analysis by Combustion. Designed for fast results in organic matrices from food to fuels, this new instrument is available in flexible configurations—nitrogen/protein, carbon/nitrogen, and carbon/hydrogen/nitrogen. An optional sulfur module allows for independent sulfur determination of macro samples up to 350 mg in less [...]
