BD Celebrates Grand Opening of North American Professional Service Center in San Antonio, Texas
June 3, 2011
San Antonio, TX, United States - BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, today celebrated the grand opening of its new North American Professional Service Center in San Antonio, Texas. The site currently employs 125 BD associates and is expected to bring a total of nearly 300 new jobs to the [...]
June 3, 2011
Saugus, MA - IonSense, Inc. today introduced the ID CUBE Source with OpenSpot Sample Card to speed the analysis of new materials being created by synthetic and medicinal chemists in universities and in pharmaceutical companies. The easy sample preparation and near-instantaneous analysis of this open-access platform allows chemists to directly analyze their own samples and [...]
ReactIR™ 247 Certified for Class 1, Division 1 Hazardous Use
June 3, 2011
Columbia, MD. – METTLER TOLEDO announced today that the ReactIR™ 247 has been certified for safe use in Class I, Division 1 hazardous manufacturing environments and is ready for shipment. Effective immediately, a broader range of manufacturers can take advantage of ReactIR 247’s next-generation Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) analysis to characterize a nearly limitless array [...]
BioTime Receives NIH Approval for Two GMP Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines
June 3, 2011
ALAMEDA, Calif. - BioTime, Inc. (NYSE Amex:BTX), a biotechnology company that develops and markets products in the field of regenerative medicine, today announced that two human embryonic stem (hES) cell lines, ESI-014 and ESI-017, developed by a BioTime subsidiary have been approved by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for inclusion in the NIH Human [...]
June 3, 2011
SANTA ANA, Calif. - AquaStar Holdings, Inc. (Pink Sheets: RPPR) is pleased to announce that the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, SUTIMCo, Inc., has retained the services of Mr. Ed Ellsworth as Vice President of Business Development. Mr. Ellsworth will assist with the development and positioning of the numerous University conceived technologies that SUTIMCo manages. Mr. Ellsworth, [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Debuts Fastest, More Sensitive Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer at ASMS 2011
June 3, 2011
DENVER, CO - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced fundamentally redefined ion trap mass spectrometer capabilities with the introduction of its new dual-pressure linear ion trap system, the Thermo Scientific Velos Pro. With improved quantitative performance, faster scanning, Trap-Higher Energy Collision Dissociation (HCD) and enhanced robustness, the Velos Pro* [...]
June 2, 2011
FREMONT, Calif. - DiscoveRx announced today the successful expansion of its industry leading KINOMEscan™ kinase assay panel for kinase inhibitor profiling and screening services. Now with 451 kinase assays in the scanMAX™ assay panel, which will be available for global customers by mid-June 2011, DiscoveRx continues to maintain its leadership position by offering the largest [...]
June 2, 2011
AUSTIN, Texas - Asuragen, Inc., a leader in the development of molecular diagnostics, announced today that it has received a Notice of Allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) for claims related to the use of miRNAs as normalizers in gene expression studies. Data normalization is necessary to control for sample variability [...]
Axion BioSystems and the EPA Announce Joint Research Project
June 2, 2011
Atlanta, GA - Axion BioSystems (Axion) is pleased to announce a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Research and Development (ORD). This CRADA was established to evaluate the neurotoxic effects of chemicals using Axion’s Maestro, the first high-throughput [...]
Silicon Kinetics Appoints Dr. John Ervin as President
June 2, 2011
San Diego, CA - Silicon Kinetics Inc., the innovative proteomics tool company which introduced the world’s first 3D biosensor surface for label-free biomolecular interaction analysis, announced that Dr. John Ervin has been appointed President. Dr. Ervin previously served as Director of R&D and Engineering for the Company. “John will lead the commercial as well as [...]
