AAIPharma Services Announces Compendial Testing Facility Expansion

WILMINGTON, N.C. - AAIPharma Services Corp., a leading provider of pharmaceutical product development and manufacturing services, has relocated its compendial raw materials testing group to a new purpose-built laboratory space located within the company's Wilmington, N.C., headquarters facility. The move follows a series of recent reinvestments into the company's core analytical testing business. The new [...]

Accelrys Extends Impact of Modeling and Simulation with New QSAR Workbench

SAN DIEGO - Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACCL), a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, today announced the release of Accelrys QSAR Workbench. Developed in a collaboration between the Accelrys Professional Services team and pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, the Accelrys QSAR Workbench is a commercially available, web-based solution that automates and accelerates the development, validation and [...]

Transgenomic Announces Discovery of a Novel Technique Which Enhances Analytic Sensitivity of Standard Sanger Sequencing to 1%

OMAHA, Neb. - Transgenomic, Inc. (OTC/BB: TBIO) today announced that it has discovered a novel sequencing technology, which the company has termed BLOCker-Sequencing (BLocking Oligonucleotides in Cycle sequencing), which enhances the limit of detection of standard Sanger Sequencing, enriches for direct sequencing of mutated DNA over wild-type (unmutated DNA) and can be run on standard [...]

Sigma-Aldrich Unveils Dynamic New Web Presence

ST. LOUIS - Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (Nasdaq: SIAL) announced the release of the first phase of its new website, www.sigma-aldrich.com. The new site has been redesigned to support and enhance scientific workflow in an effort to help researchers more easily find the information, tools, products and services they need to accelerate research and discovery. The Company [...]

Labcyte Introduces 1536-Well Tissue-Culture Treated Microplates

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Labcyte Inc. today launched a new 1536-well tissue-culture treated microplate for cell-based screening and discovery applications. By enabling cell culture directly in a high-density microplate, this new product expands cell-based assay miniaturization capabilities, such as direct PCR from cell cultures. The exacting rigidity and flatness specifications improve well-to-well reproducibility, resulting in better [...]

Sigma® Life Science Joins AMDeC’s Vendor Partnership Program, Further Enhancing Value to Academic Medical Research Centers

NEW YORK - AMDeC, LLC today announced continued expansion of its Vendor Partnership Program to include products offered by Sigma® Life Science, the innovative biological products and services business of Sigma-Aldrich® (Nasdaq: SIAL). AMDeC is a consortium of pre-eminent academic medical research institutions in the New York region that is focused on increasing efficiencies and [...]

Plexera Launches Plexarray™ HT System at SBS

Woodinville, Washington - Plexera®, LLC, a worldwide provider of label-free surface plasmon resonance (SPR) technology solutions for functional proteomics, announced today the official launch of its new PlexArray™ HT system will take place at the Society for Biomolecular Sciences 17th Annual Conference and Exhibition. The system is on display March 28-30 at booth 437 in [...]

DNA Genotek Reaches Exclusive Distribution Agreement with Abyntek Biopharma S.L. in Spain

Ottawa, ON - DNA Genotek Inc.,a leading provider of products for biological sample collection, stabilization and preparation, announced today that it has signed a distribution agreement permitting Abyntek Biopharma S.L., part of Progenika Group, to exclusively distribute DNA Genotek’s Oragene®•DNA family of products in Spain. Abyntek Biopharma is one of Spain’s leading distributors of biological [...]

New Picarro Instruments Radically Simplify Quantification of Man-Made Versus Naturally Occurring Greenhouse Gases

SUNNYVALE, California - Picarro, the maker of the world’s leading instruments for carbon and water cycle measurements announced today the launch of two new gas concentration analyzers designed to dramatically improve the ability of scientists to measure and trace greenhouse gases (GHGs) emanating from urban centers or biomass combustion. The G2401 and G2401-m models are [...]

Xradia Unveils New 3D X-ray Microscope with Industry’s Largest Working Distance at Highest Resolution

PLEASANTON, CA - Continuing to extend the reach of micro computed tomography (CT) with breakthrough 3D X-ray imaging solutions, Xradia announces the VersaXRM-500, a new system advancing industry and science with a versatile combination of world-leading resolution and contrast, sample flexibility and the large working distance required to address emerging research challenges. In establishing new [...]

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