FluimediX Appoints Accomplished Microfluidics Entrepreneur Ove Öhman to its Board of Directors
January 5, 2011
TAASTRUP, Denmark - FluimediX, a point-of-care diagnostic company, announced today that PhD HC Ove Öhman has joined the Company’s Board of Directors as a non-executive Director. Mr. Öhman played an instrumental role in the founding and development of Åmic AB, a Swedish diagnostic company. He led Åmic as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Vice President [...]
MOCON Installs Permeation Units in High-Altitude Tibetan Pharmaceutical Lab
January 5, 2011
Minneapolis, MN - MOCON, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOCO) recently installed oxygen and water vapor permeation units in a Lhasa, Tibet pharmaceutical testing laboratory. Located at 11,450 feet (3490 meters), the two-mile plus, above sea-level location, represents MOCON’s highest altitude installation. The units will be used to measure package permeation for traditional Tibetan herbal remedies and conventional [...]
January 5, 2011
The agreement completes Transgene’s biomarker strategy for the development of TG4010 in Phase IIb/III clinical trials Parc d’Innovation, Illkirch (France) – Transgene (NYSE-Euronext: TNG) announced today that the company has signed an agreement with Beckman Coulter, Inc. (NYSE: BEC), under which Beckman Coulter will develop for Transgene a companion test that measures the level of [...]
January 5, 2011
SAN RAMON, Calif. - Odyssey Thera, Inc. announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted U.S. Patent No. 7,855,167. The invention describes technologies and high-throughput methods for identifying bimolecular interactions in vivo based on protein-fragment complementation assays (PCA). The patent, the eighteenth assigned to Odyssey Thera, further protects assays utilizing fragments of [...]
B&W Tek, Inc Announces Sol™ 2.6 Fiber Coupled InGaAs Spectrometer
January 5, 2011
Newark, DE - B&W Tek, Inc., an advanced instrumentation company producing optical spectroscopy and laser systems announces the Sol™ 2.6 Fiber Coupled NIR Spectrometer. The Sol™ 2.6 is a high performance linear InGaAs array spectrometer featuring 256 pixels and providing high throughput and large dynamic range with TE Cooling down to -15°C and a standard [...]
FEI Wins Multi-System Order from CANMET Materials Technology Laboratory
January 5, 2011
Hillsboro, Ore. FEI Company (NASDAQ: FEIC), a leading instrumentation company providing electron microscope systems for applications in research and industry, today announced that the CANMET Materials Technology Laboratory (CANMET-MTL), a research center funded by the Canadian government, has selected three of FEI’s latest electron microscope systems for its new facility at the McMaster Innovation Park, [...]
Merck KGaA Acquires Supplier to Biopharma Industry in China
January 5, 2011
Darmstadt, Germany – Merck KGaA announced today that it has acquired 100% of the share capital of Beijing Skywing Technology Co., Ltd., a leading supplier of cell-culture media products, related technical services and bioreactors for the Chinese biopharmaceutical industry. The company is headquartered in the Changping district of Beijing and currently employs 80 people. The [...]
A New MEMS-Based Paradigm for Liquid Flow Management
January 5, 2011
Rapid Viscosity Measurements with µVISC™ RheoSense, Inc. is proud to announce the release of µVISC (micro VISC), the newest viscometer utilizing VROC® technology. This instrument provides a very high level of accuracy and repeatability in viscosity measurement, yet is competitively priced. The µVISC is fast, easy to use, and can satisfy industry’s growing demand for [...]
ATCC Introduces Normal Human Primary Corneal Epithelial Cells
January 5, 2011
ATCC (American Type Culture Collection) offers normal human primary corneal epithelial cells, a perfect alternative test method platform for toxicological assays, which can also be used in research related to gene regulation, tissue development, wound healing, cell-matrix interactions, and drug development. Manassas, VA - Growth performance is assured when cultured with optimized cell-specific medium, growth [...]
Wyatt Technology MALS Detectors Used in Breakthrough Virus Research
January 5, 2011
SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA - Wyatt Technology Corporation, the world leader in absolute macromolecular characterization instrumentation and software, announces that its instruments were used in a recent landmark study that transforms the previous scientific understanding of immunity to viral diseases like the common cold, 'winter vomiting' and gastroenteritis. The breakthrough research carried out by the United [...]
