BioTek Offers Peristaltic Pump Cassette Recalibration Options
February 24, 2011
BioTek now offers three options to customers requiring peristaltic pump cassette recalibration for MultiFlo™ Microplate Dispenser, EL406™ Combination Washer Dispenser and MicroFlo™ Select Microplate Dispenser. Option #1: Customers may send used cassettes to BioTek's Depot Service Center for refurbishment. Return forms may be requested at BioTek's online Customer Resource Center which can be accessed via [...]
February 24, 2011
WALTHAM, Mass. - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, announced today that it has signed definitive agreements to sell its Athena Diagnostics and Lancaster Laboratories businesses for a total of $940 million in cash. The company reached an agreement to sell Athena Diagnostics to Quest Diagnostics Incorporated for $740 [...]
Sherwood Scientific Commits to ‘Update and Automate’ Concept for all Model 410 Flame Photometers
February 24, 2011
Operators of all model 410 Flame Photometers can now retrofit a digital interface/lineariser module and benefit from the new 410 BlueNotes software package, illustrating Sherwood Scientific’s ‘update and automate’ policy for instruments up to twenty years old. The latest Industrial and Clinical 410s come with the new module already fitted. With an extensive worldwide installed [...]
AnaSpec Showcases Premium Quality of Fluorescent Nucleic Acid Probes
February 24, 2011
San Jose, CA - AnaSpec is pleased to showcase a variety of premium quality stains, including cell-impermeant and cell-permeant nucleic acid stains. The detection of nucleic acids is important for many life science research tasks, such as sequencing, cDNA synthesis and cloning, RNA transcription and transfection. Accurate detection of DNA/RNA is key to the success [...]
February 24, 2011
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Harvard Medical School has selected Agilent's 700-MHz Ultra-High Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometer for biomolecular research applications. The spectrometer will be used by the laboratories of Drs. Gerhard Wagner and James Chou of the Harvard Medical School to study protein structure and [...]
Caliper and Covaris Establish Co-Marketing Agreement to Simplify Next Generation Sequencing
February 23, 2011
HOPKINTON, Mass. - Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: CALP) and Covaris Inc., Woburn, Mass., today announced a co-marketing agreement which will leverage Covaris’ acoustic DNA shearing platforms and Caliper’s automation and microfluidics technologies to develop automated workflows for next generation sequencing experiments. Caliper has developed a complete suite of solutions for library construction, sample analysis, [...]
Affymetrix Director Paul Berg to Retire
February 23, 2011
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ: AFFX) today announced that Paul Berg, Ph.D. and Nobel Laureate will retire from the Affymetrix Board of Directors in May 2011. Dr. Berg has been a board member of the company since its inception in 1993. "On behalf of the Board of Directors and all of us at [...]
Accelrys Enters Next Generation Sequencing Market with NGS Collection for Pipeline Pilot
February 23, 2011
SAN DIEGO - Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACCL), the leading scientific informatics software and services company, today announced at the Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference its entrance in the rapidly growing next generation sequencing (NGS) market with the release of the NGS Collection for Pipeline Pilot. The NGS Collection, together with Accelrys' industry-leading Pipeline Pilot™ data pipelining software, provide [...]
Sherwood Scientific commits to ‘Update and Automate’ concept for all model 410 Flame Photometers
February 23, 2011
Operators of all model 410 Flame Photometers can now retrofit a digital interface/lineariser module and benefit from the new 410 BlueNotes software package, illustrating Sherwood Scientific’s ‘update and automate’ policy for instruments up to twenty years old. The latest Industrial and Clinical 410s come with the new module already fitted. With an extensive worldwide installed [...]
February 23, 2011
Avacta Group plc ("Avacta" or the "Company"), which provides innovative, high value proprietary technologies and services to the pharmaceutical and diagnostics markets, announces that it has signed a commercial agreement with Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL)("Pall"). As part of the agreement, Avacta and Pall will collaborate to develop and market products and advanced analytical services for the [...]
