ATLANTA, GA. - ITT Corporation (NYSE:ITT) announced that its AADI brand has teamed up with the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill to develop two new multi-sensor arrays to detect light hydrocarbons and oxygen depletion associated with oil and gas releases such as recent occurrences in the northern Gulf of Mexico. This research [...]

Menlo Park, Calif. – Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (NASDAQ: PACB) today announced it is now shipping commercial PacBio RS systems. The release of the first “third generation” sequencing product is expected to immediately expand the applications of DNA sequencing in fields such as cancer research, pathogen detection, and agriculture. These commercial shipments are following [...]

MADISON, Wis. - Gentel Biosciences, a leader in proteomics profiling tools, announces today the introduction and use of the SilverQuant trademark for its protein array technology platform. Gentel acquired the SilverQuant trademark from Eppendorf AG, Hamburg Germany for worldwide commercial use. The acquisition was completed on March 31, 2011. According to Dan Clutter, Gentel’s Vice [...]

ATCC (American Type Culture Collection), the world’s largest and most diverse bioresource center, now offers a complete solution to successfully grow normal human primary mesenchymal stem cells derived from human umbilical cord matrices (Wharton’s Jelly) — invaluable tools used for research studies that include developmental biology, regenerative medicine, cell therapy, and tissue engineering. Human Wharton’s [...]

Scientific instrument manufacturers, Biochrom (Cambridge, UK) is pleased to announce the opening of their India Liaison Office in New Delhi this April, 2011. Customers throughout the region will now benefit from local supplier representation to enhance and compliment the established distributor network in the supply of Biochrom spectrophotometers, amino acid analyzers and microplate instrumentation, as [...]

HAWTHORNE, Calif. - OSI Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:OSIS), a vertically-integrated provider of specialized electronic products for critical applications in the Security and Healthcare industries, today announced that its security division, Rapiscan Systems, has been awarded a pan-European contract valued at approximately $12 million by DHL, one of the world’s leading logistics and air cargo companies. The [...]

Bridgewater, NJ - LABVANTAGE today announced that a global contract research organization (CRO) has selected LABVANTAGE Risk Free BioBanking Solution to support its research and development service operations. Under this agreement, LABVANTAGE will implement its out-of-the-box BioBanking Solution within a guaranteed, definite duration and fixed costs. The CRO is headquartered in the United States with [...]

Phillipsburg, New Jersey - AvantorT Performance Materials announced a definitive agreement to acquire POCH S.A. from Kulczyk. Completion of the sale is dependent on obtaining the necessary clearance from the Polish competition authority, and is subject to customary closing conditions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Avantor Performance Materials, formerly Mallinckrodt Baker, manufactures and [...]

MILFORD, Mass. - SeraCare Life Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: SRLS) announced today the addition of differentiated Cryo-M Human Monocytes to their AccuCell™ peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) portfolio. SeraCare’s Cryo-M cells provide researchers with a high quality, specialized and unstimulated cell line to study gene expression, immune and inflammatory responses. This product is manufactured from standardized, [...]

WOLFENBÜTTEL, Germany & BEVERLY, Mass. - BIOBASE announced its launch of a new custom annotation tool designed to aid in functional annotation of next generation sequences from uncharacterized genomes. The BioKnowledge Transfer (BKT) tool, part of the PROTEOMETM product, enables researchers to input novel protein sequences and easily extract functional information based on those sequences. [...]