Molecular Devices to Distribute FCS Express 4 Image Cytometry Software
May 9, 2011
De Novo Software™, a leading provider of flow and image cytometry data analysis solutions, and Molecular Devices, a provider of premiere bioresearch and drug discovery systems, announced today a licensing agreement enabling Molecular Devices to distribute De Novo Software's flagship product, FCS Express 4 Software. This supports full compatibility with the ImageXpress Velos® Cytometer (formerly [...]
Shimadzu’s Nexera UHPLC Achieves 4×4 Solvent Delivery with New Low-Pressure Gradient Unit
May 9, 2011
COLUMBIA, Md. — Shimadzu has integrated an optional low-pressure gradient (LPGE) unit to its Nexera ultra high-performance liquid chromatograph, allowing users to switch automatically between four mobile phases with respective solvent delivery units. By adding the LPGE unit, a 130 MPa high-pressure resistant gradient system can be configured with a single solvent delivery unit, which [...]
Illumina Reduces Price of Whole Human Genome Sequencing Through Illumina Genome Network
May 9, 2011
SAN DIEGO - Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced that it is significantly reducing the price for sequencing whole human genomes through the Illumina Genome Network (IGN). The new list price for the service is $5,000 per genome for projects of ten samples or more, and $4,000 for projects of fifty samples or more. IGN is [...]
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 [...]
