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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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: [...]

SAN DIEGO - Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL), a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, today announced its Enterprise Lab Management (ELM) Suite, a key pillar of the Accelrys Enterprise R&D Architecture, which enables organizations to transform their scientific laboratories from a collection of point solutions to an integrated information environment. The Enterprise Lab [...]

Schwerzenbach, Switzerland - METTLER TOLEDO has introduced OptiMax™, a powerful synthesis workstation optimized for pharmaceutical, fine-chemical and specialty-chemical development. The unique design and intuitive interface improve the organic synthesis process and maximize time-to-result in product development in increasingly competitive markets. The compact workstation requires little to no training to operate and allows experiments to run [...]

Schwerzenbach, Switzerland. - METTLER TOLEDO has introduced OptiMax™, a powerful synthesis workstation optimized for pharmaceutical, fine-chemical and specialty-chemical development. The unique design and intuitive interface improve the organic synthesis process and maximize time-to-result in product development in increasingly competitive markets. The compact workstation requires little to no training to operate and allows experiments to run [...]