SAW Instruments Launches the sam®5 GREEN Acoustic Biosensor and Reaches Into the US Market
May 9, 2011
Boston, MA – SAW Instruments GmbH, today announced the launch of the sam®5 GREEN acoustic biosensor, and the availability of its family of sam®5 acoustic biosensors in the US market. Founded on SAW’s proprietary Surface Acoustic Wave technology, sam®5 offers precise, real-time, label-free measurement of biomolecular interactions. Building on the success of the existing sam®5 [...]
caprotec bioanalytics Increases Series B Financing in Second Closing to EUR 5 Million
May 9, 2011
BERLIN and BURLINGTON, Mass. - caprotec bioanalytics GmbH, a privately held biopharmaceutical company offering the proprietary Capture Compound Mass Spectrometry (CCMS) platform technology for the analysis of small molecule – protein interactions, today announced a second closing of EUR 1 million ($1.4 M) to its Series B financing, increasing total equity for the round to [...]
Akonni and Seegene Enter into Licensing Agreement
May 9, 2011
FREDERICK, MD. and SEOUL, KOREA - Akonni Biosystems and Seegene Inc. today announced that they have entered into a non-exclusive licensing agreement to develop both point-of-care and ultra-high throughput diagnostic screening assays capable of simultaneously detecting, from a single patient sample, a wide variety of infectious pathogens known to cause respiratory disease. The agreement brings [...]
May 9, 2011
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM) today announced the availability of 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 [...]
May 8, 2011
HILDEN, Germany and GERMANTOWN, Maryland - QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced a milestone with the delivery of more than 75 million digene HPV tests worldwide - the gold standard in screening women for human papillomavirus, which is the primary cause of cervical cancer - since the first U.S. regulatory approval [...]
May 8, 2011
Sterling, Virginia - Food Technology Corporation (FTC) is launching its new texture analyzer, the TMS-Touch, at the Institute of Food Technologists Exhibition (IFT) at New Orleans Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana this June. (Booth #3835) The TMS-Touch allows fast and easy texture evaluation to reduce off spec production costs and product waste. Since [...]
May 8, 2011
MILANO - At the 21st Annual Meeting of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (www.congrex.ch/ECCMID2011), Bruker announced the successful completion of an integrated workflow using the Bruker MALDI Biotyper for microbial identification (ID) from cultures, and the BD Phoenix(TM) system for antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST). The ID and AST systems are integrated [...]
Biotix Relocating to Accomodate Growth
May 7, 2011
San Diego, CA - In a move to accomodate its growing business, laboratory consumables manufacturer Biotix Inc. announced today that it has entered into a lease agreement to relocate the company's corporate headquarters to a larger facility in San Diego. The new facility, located at 9880 Mesa Rim Road, will enable Biotix to combine their [...]
May 7, 2011
MILANO, Italy - At the 21st Annual Meeting of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (www.congrex.ch/ECCMID2011), Bruker introduces single-use MALDI BiotargetTM sample plates for the mass spectrometry-based MALDI Biotyper workflow for microbial identification of a wide range of microbial species by means of specific proteomic fingerprints. Due to its very fast result [...]
LI-COR Builds Upon Successful Collaboration with BellBrook Labs
May 6, 2011
Lincoln, Nebraska: LI-COR is working with BellBrook Labs to create competitive immunoassay kits for high-throughput screening (HTS). Building upon the success of prior incorporation of LI-COR's IRDye® QC-1 quencher conjugate into its Transcreener® ADP2 FI Assay, BellBrook Labs has chosen to use the same quencher conjugate in its Transcreener GDP FI Assay. The Transcreener GDP [...]
