May 9, 2011
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM) today announced the availability of 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 [...]
May 8, 2011
HILDEN, Germany and GERMANTOWN, Maryland - QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced a milestone with the delivery of more than 75 million digene HPV tests worldwide - the gold standard in screening women for human papillomavirus, which is the primary cause of cervical cancer - since the first U.S. regulatory approval [...]
May 8, 2011
Sterling, Virginia - Food Technology Corporation (FTC) is launching its new texture analyzer, the TMS-Touch, at the Institute of Food Technologists Exhibition (IFT) at New Orleans Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana this June. (Booth #3835) The TMS-Touch allows fast and easy texture evaluation to reduce off spec production costs and product waste. Since [...]
May 8, 2011
MILANO - At the 21st Annual Meeting of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (www.congrex.ch/ECCMID2011), Bruker announced the successful completion of an integrated workflow using the Bruker MALDI Biotyper for microbial identification (ID) from cultures, and the BD Phoenix(TM) system for antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST). The ID and AST systems are integrated [...]
Biotix Relocating to Accomodate Growth
May 7, 2011
San Diego, CA - In a move to accomodate its growing business, laboratory consumables manufacturer Biotix Inc. announced today that it has entered into a lease agreement to relocate the company's corporate headquarters to a larger facility in San Diego. The new facility, located at 9880 Mesa Rim Road, will enable Biotix to combine their [...]
May 7, 2011
MILANO, Italy - At the 21st Annual Meeting of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (www.congrex.ch/ECCMID2011), Bruker introduces single-use MALDI BiotargetTM sample plates for the mass spectrometry-based MALDI Biotyper workflow for microbial identification of a wide range of microbial species by means of specific proteomic fingerprints. Due to its very fast result [...]
LI-COR Builds Upon Successful Collaboration with BellBrook Labs
May 6, 2011
Lincoln, Nebraska: LI-COR is working with BellBrook Labs to create competitive immunoassay kits for high-throughput screening (HTS). Building upon the success of prior incorporation of LI-COR's IRDye® QC-1 quencher conjugate into its Transcreener® ADP2 FI Assay, BellBrook Labs has chosen to use the same quencher conjugate in its Transcreener GDP FI Assay. The Transcreener GDP [...]
May 6, 2011
IRVINE, Calif. - Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. ("Shrink") (OTC Markets: INKN), an innovative high technology innovation and development company announced today that it has signed a multi-phase joint development agreement with one of the world's largest industrial and consumer electronics and optics companies, headquartered in Japan, and with offices for its biological components group in Salzburg, [...]
May 6, 2011
BERLIN & SEATTLE, Wash. - Epigenomics AG (Frankfurt Prime Standard: ECX), the cancer molecular diagnosis company, today announced the signing of a supply agreement with Life Technologies Corporation, a global provider of innovative life science solutions. As the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Life Technologies will supply its Dynabeads® MyOne™ SILANE and buffers for Epigenomics’ Epi [...]
May 6, 2011
Milan, Italy – BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE:BDX), today announced the European launch of the BD MAX™ Open System for molecular testing, which will enable laboratories to run both laboratory and BD-developed assays and offer enhanced testing services that elevate the standards of care at their institutions. BD made [...]
