PharmaDiagnostics Announces Three New Coupling Methods for its SoPRano™ Label-Free Platform

Brussels - PharmaDiagnostics NV, a company developing and marketing a broadly-enabling, label-free screening technology that uniquely does not require specialized equipment, announces today the launch of three new methods for coupling proteins to the gold nanoparticles used with PharmaDiagnostics’ SoPRanoTM technology. The new coupling methods will greatly expand the technology’s applicability in the key drug [...]

BioNanomatrix Secures $23.3 Million in Series B Financing

PHILADELPHIA - BioNanomatrix, Inc., a developer of nanoscale, single-molecule imaging and analysis platforms designed to dramatically reduce the time and cost needed to analyze the genome, has closed a $23.3-million Series B round of equity financing. Domain Associates, based in Princeton, N.J., and San Diego, Calif., led the round, with new investor Gund Investment Corporation [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches ARL PERFORM’X XRF for Advanced Materials Characterization at Pittcon 2011

ATLANTA, GA - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the new Thermo Scientific ARL PERFORM’X X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometer for advanced materials characterization at Pittcon 2011. The ARL PERFORM’X integrates bulk elemental analysis capabilities with mapping and small spot analysis to create a solution that offers unmatched versatility and [...]

Malvern Instruments joins SoftComp Consortium and European Soft Matter Infrastructure (ESMI) Project

Materials characterization specialist Malvern Instruments has joined two key European initiatives that aim to promote excellence in cross-disciplinary research and technique development in soft matter composites and complex fluids. These are: the SoftComp Consortium; and, the newly funded EU FP7 project, European SoftMatter Infrastructure (ESMI). SoftComp promotes networking and joint project development among the best [...]

Pall Corporation Elects Ronald L. Hoffman Chairman of the Board

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. - Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL) today announced that its board of directors has separated the roles of chairman of the board and chief executive officer and elected Ronald L. Hoffman, non-executive chairman. The change is effective today. Mr. Hoffman, a Pall director since 2008, succeeds Eric Krasnoff as chairman. Mr. Krasnoff, who recently [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Introduces New Software for Exactive Benchtop LC-MS

ATLANTA - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced new Thermo Scientific ExactFinder software for its Thermo Scientific Exactive benchtop LC-MS system powered by OrbitrapTM technology. The new software offers food and environmental safety, clinical research and forensic toxicology laboratories a single streamlined data processing, review and reporting workflow for [...]

Rigaku Introduces Low Cost Benchtop EDXRF at PittCon 2011

Austin, TX - Rigaku today introduced a new low cost benchtop Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence (EDXRF) spectrometer, the Rigaku NEX QC, at the 2011 Pittsburgh Conference (PittCon) in Atlanta, Georgia. On exhibit at Booth #4135, the compact NEX QC elemental analyzer delivers rapid quantitative determination of sodium (11Na) to uranium (92U) in solids, liquids, powders [...]

NextGen Sciences Launches Multiple Protein Plasma Oncology Biomarker Assay

ANN ARBOR, Michigan and LONDON - NextGen Group plc (AIM:NGG) is pleased to announce that its subsidiary NextGen Sciences Inc, a leader in biomarker discovery, measurement and qualification, has launched its first multiple protein (multiplex) assay, plasmadiscovery41, for oncology biomarker discovery and qualification. The assay simultaneously measures 41 human plasma proteins that are thought to [...]

Photon Machines Exclusively Licenses Proteomic Tagging Technology

Redmond, WA - Photon Machines, Inc. is pleased to announce an agreement with Delaware State University (DSU) to exclusively license new optical technology for multiplexed tagging of proteins. The method utilizes Photon Machines’ core LIBS technology in concert with multi-elemental nanoparticles to provide a tiny multi-element barcode that can be used to tag and identify [...]

Ascent Scientific Licenses Novel Dynamin Toolkits from Children’s Medical Research Institute and University of Newcastle

Bristol, UK, Sydney and Newcastle, Australia - Ascent Scientific together with Children’s Medical Research Institute and The University of Newcastle today announced that they have entered into a license, supply and distribution agreement for a range of small molecule dynamin inhibitors for research – these are novel tools for investigating cellular processes. The agreement was [...]

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