Biotix Relocating to Accomodate Growth

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 [...]

Bruker Introduces New Consumable MALDI BiotargetTMfor the MALDI BiotyperTM Workflow Using Proteomic Microbial Identification

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

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 [...]

Shrink Nanotechnologies Signs Joint Development Agreement with Major Japanese Electronics and Optics Company to Commercialize Patented Corning Modular Microfluidic System

IRVINE, Calif. - Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. ("Shrink") (OTC Markets: INKN), an innovative high technology innovation and development company announced today that it has signed a multi-phase joint development agreement with one of the world's largest industrial and consumer electronics and optics companies, headquartered in Japan, and with offices for its biological components group in Salzburg, [...]

Epigenomics AG: Life Technologies to Supply Crucial Components for Second-Generation Colorectal Cancer Blood Test

BERLIN & SEATTLE, Wash. - Epigenomics AG (Frankfurt Prime Standard: ECX), the cancer molecular diagnosis company, today announced the signing of a supply agreement with Life Technologies Corporation, a global provider of innovative life science solutions. As the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Life Technologies will supply its Dynabeads® MyOne™ SILANE and buffers for Epigenomics’ Epi [...]

BD Launches BD MAX(TM) Open System in Europe and Reveals Strategy to Build Broad Menu of Assays that Provide Timely, Accurate Information to Laboratories and Clinicians

Milan, Italy – BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE:BDX), today announced the European launch of the BD MAX™ Open System for molecular testing, which will enable laboratories to run both laboratory and BD-developed assays and offer enhanced testing services that elevate the standards of care at their institutions. BD made [...]

OSI Systems Awarded Multimillion Dollar Contract for Installation of High Speed Rail Inspection Solution in Eastern Europe

HAWTHORNE, Calif. - OSI Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSIS), a vertically-integrated provider of specialized electronics and services, today announced that its Security division, Rapiscan Systems, has been awarded a multimillion dollar contract to provide the Eagle® R60 Rail scanner and associated installation and operator training services to an Eastern European country. OSI Systems CEO, Deepak Chopra, [...]

PerkinElmer Announces Acquisition of Geospiza

WALTHAM, Mass. – PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced that it has acquired Geospiza, Inc., a leading developer of software systems for the management of genetic analysis and laboratory workflows delivered through a Web-based secure cloud computing environment. The acquisition of Geospiza supports [...]

DVS Sciences, Inc.: Science Publication Describes Novel Biology Discovered through the Use of the CyTOF® Mass Cytometer and Massively Multi-parametric Single Cell Analysis

TORONTO - DVS Sciences announced today the publication in Science of a milestone study describing the use of the CyTOF® Mass Cytometer to reveal unique, system wide insights into the complex hematopoietic cell populations and their drug-induced intracellular signaling. The paper entitled Single-cell Mass Cytometry of Differential Immune and Drug Responses Across a Human Hematopoietic [...]

Fluidigm Delivers More Than One Billion Microscopic NanoFlex™ Valves

SINGAPORE - Fluidigm today announced that its Singapore factory has manufactured and shipped more than 1 billion microscopic NanoFlex™ valves. Each NanoFlex valve is so small that it takes 10 to span the width of a human hair. The billion valves built into Fluidigm’s integrated fluidic circuits (IFCs) are equivalent to the number of valves [...]

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