Life Technologies Consortium to Create New Frontline Diagnostic Utilising DNA Sequencing for Cancer Patients in the U.K.

PAISLEY, U.K. - Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced that the company has led a successful consortium bid for a Technology Strategy Board grant, in partnership with the Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, AstraZeneca, and Ortho Biotech Oncology Research & Development unit of Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, L.L.C. (ORD). The grant [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Announces ICP-MS Solution to Address Serious Concerns Regarding Chromium VI in Drinking Water

CAMBRIDGE, UK - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced a highly sensitive ICP-MS solution for chromium measurement in drinking water, including the potentially carcinogenic hexavalent chromium (chromium VI). The Thermo Scientific XSERIES 2 ICP-MS is able to detect levels of chromium VI at less than 0.01 parts per billion [...]

Solvent Recovery Gains Acceptance in U.S. University Labs

Columbus, OH - Solvent recovery is becoming a key issue for academic laboratories across the country, as funding cuts and increased environmental regulations affect the facilities from two different directions. Fortunately, portable solvent recovery units can play an important role in how academic laboratories deal with both funding and environmental issues by enabling labs to [...]

Source BioScience Launches World’s Largest Clone and Antibody Resource for Researchers

Source BioScience (LSE: SBS), the international diagnostics and genetic analysis business, announces the launch of the largest publicly available clone and antibody resource portfolio for research purposes in the world in conjunction with an innovative, intelligent search engine to provide ready access for researchers. Researchers will be able to access over 20 million clones, representing [...]

Waters Unveils iPad Application at HPLC Conference to Aid Customer Selection of Key Consumables

MILFORD, Mass. - Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) today unveiled a suite of capabilities within one Apple iPad application that ensures customers can quickly and easily choose the most appropriate Waters® ACQUITY UPLC® sample plates, vials and filters in a matter of seconds. “We are very excited to leverage the mobile communication technology that is becoming [...]

bioMérieux Launches Groundbreaking Salmonella Detection Technology to Improve Food Safety

MARCY L’ETOILE, France - bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, today announced the launch of a new, innovative food safety testing method, VIDAS® UP Salmonella (SPT). This new food safety solution utilizes recombinant bacteriophage (phage) proteins, which offer best-in-class specificity and sensitivity for the targeted capture and detection of Salmonella [...]

American Micro Detection Systems, Inc. and Badger Meter, Inc. Sign Multi-Country Distributor Agreement for REX Instrument

Stockton, Ca. - American Micro Detection Systems, Inc. (AMDS,Inc.), is pleased to announce a major Multi-Country Product Distribution Agreement today with Badger Meter, Inc. (NYSE: BMI) for it’s REX Dissolved Metal Analysis Instrument. Badger Meter, Inc. a noted worldwide leader in the manufacturing and marketing of liquid flow measurement and control technology products will provide [...]

Jeffrey N. Peterson Joins Pressure BioSciences, Inc. Board; Release of Second Tranche Brings Private Placement Receipts to Over $1.1 M

SOUTH EASTON, Mass. - Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq:PBIO) ("PBI" or the "Company") today announced that Mr. Jeffrey N. Peterson, CEO of Target Discovery, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA), was elected to the Company's Board of Directors effective Tuesday, June 21, 2011. The Company also announced that it has received gross proceeds of approximately $275,000 from the [...]

NextGen Sciences launches multiple protein cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) CNS disease biomarker assay

London, UK and Ann Arbor, Michigan, US - NextGen Group plc (AIM:NGG) is pleased to announce that its US-subsidiary NextGen Sciences Inc, a leader in biomarker discovery, measurement and qualification, has launched its first cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) multiple protein (multiplex) assay, csfdiscovery43, for central nervous system (CNS) biomarker discovery and qualification. The assay simultaneously measures [...]

CIFL Elects New Chairman

At its General Meeting held on June 21, 2011, the French Interprofessional Committee of Laboratory Suppliers (CIFL) elected its new chairman, a member of the Board of Directors : Patrice PASQUIER – General Manager, PROMEGA France. With its 160 member companies, the CIFL is an Association of manufacturers and distributors of instrumentation, products and services [...]

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