July 18, 2011
MILFORD, Mass. - SeraCare Life Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: SRLS), a global life sciences company providing vital products and services to facilitate the discovery, development and production of human diagnostics and therapeutics, today announced that the Company has retained Lazard to provide advisory services to the Board of Directors. In addition, the Company announced that it [...]
Mayo Clinic Licenses Patent Rights for M. tuberculosis Complex Speciation
July 18, 2011
ROCHESTER, Minn. - Mayo Clinic has licensed patent rights from QIAGEN to enable Mayo Medical Laboratories to offer an M. tuberculosis complex speciation test. The test expands Mayo Medical Laboratories’ current offering for tuberculosis testing, which already includes M. tuberculosis complex culture, molecular identification and drug susceptibility testing. In addition, Mayo Medical Laboratories offers polymerase [...]
Shedding Light on Novel Cellular Pathways with TTP LabTech
July 18, 2011
Royston, UK – TTP LabTech today highlighted the use of the Acumen® eX3 laser scanning imaging cytometer to elucidate novel cellular pathways involved in the shedding of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). The application note entitled “The use of Acumen eX3 for the identification of the roles of Protein Kinase C (PKC) ? & [...]
Analytik Jena Acquires a Stake in Dutch-based Westburg B.V.
July 18, 2011
Jena, Germany - Analytik Jena AG has acquired a 20.0% stake in its Dutch sales partner Westburg B.V. worth EUR 150 thousand. An agreement to this effect was signed by the two companies today. Westburg B.V. is a sales company specializing in molecular diagnostics and primarily serves the markets of the Low Countries and Scandinavia. [...]
Nanolane Launches a Demo Centre in Suzhou, China
July 18, 2011
Nanolane, the French company that markets truly revolutionary microscope slides with the astounding property to make conventional optical microscopes capable of imaging nano-objects is proud to announce the launch of their new Asian Demo Centre in Suzhou, China. In 2008, China overtook the United States in the number of scientific publications in the domain of [...]
Cell Biosciences Changes Name to ProteinSimple
July 18, 2011
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Cell Biosciences, Inc. today announced that it has changed its name to ProteinSimple to clearly reflect the Company's core mission in protein research. The Company's goal is simply to help researchers gain a better understanding of proteins and their role in disease. ProteinSimple's strategy is to power protein research by making [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Acquires TREK Diagnostic Systems
July 18, 2011
WALTHAM, Mass. - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE:TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced that it has acquired TREK Diagnostic Systems, a global provider of microbiology solutions, including blood culture, microorganism identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) products, from Magellan Biosciences. Based near Cleveland, Ohio, the company had full year revenue in 2010 [...]
NT-MDT Has Doubled the Sales of SPMs in the First Half-Year of 2011
July 18, 2011
The first half-year 2011 has passed and after adding up the results of its activity, NT-MDT can announce that it was a very successful period for the company. The sales volume for SPM equipment almost doubled as compared to the same period of the previous year. The impressive growth was achieved in all main regions [...]
New Agreement between Amerinet and LABSCO to Benefit Members
July 15, 2011
St. Louis – Amerinet Inc, a leading national healthcare solutions organization, announces a new agreement with LABSCO for a wide variety of clinical laboratory and medical-surgical products. Effective July 1, 2011, through June 30, 2014, the contract offers significant savings to Amerinet members on an extensive inventory of LABSCO diagnostic instrumentation and laboratory supply merchandise, [...]
Artel Launches Learning Center Initiative to Improve Pipetting Knowledge and Skills in the Lab
July 15, 2011
Westbrook, ME – At this year’s American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) Annual Meeting and Clinical Lab Expo (July 24 - 28 in Atlanta, Georgia), Artel, the worldwide leader in liquid handling quality assurance, will unveil the Artel Learning Center, featuring webinars aimed at laboratory professionals dealing with liquid handling. Artel is already well-known for [...]
