Torrance, CA - Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the research and manufacture of advanced technologies for the separation sciences, introduces the Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) Method Development Tool - a fast online resource. This tool develops methods across a variety of sample matrices and compounds, enabling users to improve analyte concentration and detector response. [...]

IRVINE, Calif. - CombiMatrix Corporation (Nasdaq:CBMX), a molecular diagnostics laboratory offering genetic array testing, a comprehensive profiling of chromosomes and genes used to classify and assist in the treatment of cancer and developmental disorders, announced today that it has closed its private placement, in which it sold $6.7 million of newly issued shares of its [...]

Sunnyvale, CA—Dionex Corporation is pleased to introduce a new reversed-phase HPLC column, the Acclaim® C30. This column is suited to a broad range of separations including hydrophobic, long chain, structural isomers (for example, carotenoids, steroids, and pharmaceuticals), lipids (for example, phospholipids, omega fatty acids, and cooking oils), and hydrophilic analytes (for example, water-soluble vitamins, and [...]

MONTREAL - At the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (CACMID), the companies i2A Canada and Bruker Ltd. announced together that they have met the relevant Health Products and Food Branch (HPFB) of Health Canada regulations for the Bruker IVD MALDI Biotyper, and that this product is now [...]

PRETORIA, South Africa - Today inqaba biotec, reseller of CLC bio's solutions in South Africa, announced that they have finalized a contract with the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) in South Africa, to install CLC bio's enterprise platform throughout the ARC, across several geographical locations. In order to address the ARC's key strategic areas of improving [...]

SEATTLE - Mapping a future of new behaviors for data sharing and building better medicines from the human genome has earned the co-founder of Sage Bionetworks election to Ashoka’s global fellowship of leading social entrepreneurs. Stephen Friend, M.D., Ph.D., launched Sage Bionetworks in 2009 to enable data-intensive genomics technology to be applied to human biology. [...]

Miniaturized columns for parallel screening in automated workflows GE Healthcare PreDictor™ RoboColumn™ units are miniaturized chromatographic columns prepacked with GE Healthcare BioProcess™ chromatography media to enable high-throughput process development (HTPD). PreDictor RoboColumn units support fully automated chromatographic separation workflows using robotic liquid handling workstations. The prepacked columns are available with a wide range of chromatography [...]

PRINCETON, NJ - Princeton Security Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: PSGY), which develops Radiation Isotope Identifiers, Area Monitors and High Purity Germanium detector technology for Nuclear Power plant applications, homeland security markets, National Research Laboratories, security OEM systems integrators, hospitals and overseas nuclear safety agencies, received multiple new orders earlier this week for its Handheld Radiation Detection [...]

PLEASANTON, CA - IntegenX Inc. and NuGEN Technologies, Inc. announced today a partnership to automate NuGEN's NGS Sample Preparation workflows on IntegenX's Apollo series next-generation sequencing library preparation instruments. NuGEN's Ovation® RNA-Seq System is the first kit to be automated under this agreement. By processing up to 32 samples from as little as 500 pg [...]

WASHINGTON - The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, completed its first science flight Wednesday, April 6, using the German Receiver for Astronomy at Terahertz Frequencies (GREAT) scientific instrument. GREAT is a high-resolution far-infrared spectrometer that finely divides and sorts light into component colors for detailed analysis. SOFIA is the only operational airborne observatory. [...]