Sartorius appoints international life sciences leader to its top management team
January 3, 2011
Goettingen - Effective January 1, 2011, the former Millipore executive, Dominique Baly, has assumed cross-divisional management of marketing, sales and service for the Sartorius laboratory business as President of Sartorius Group Laboratory Business. In this newly created position, he reports to the CEO and is a member of the Group Executive Committee. Sartorius Group highest-level [...]
BioTek Releases EL406 Vacuum Filtration Module
January 3, 2011
BioTek’s unique and popular EL406™ Microplate Washer Dispenser may now be used for automated vacuum filtration processes with the new EL406 vacuum filtration module. BioTek’s complete line of microplate washers can now be used for automated washing of polystyrene- and magnetic bead-based assays such as the Luminex xMAP® assay platforms. Each BioTek washer and washer/dispenser [...]
New Amplified Molecular Tests Promise to Help Improve Diagnosis and Treatment of Herpes Patients
January 3, 2011
DURHAM, N.C. - Clinicians may soon have a new tool in the diagnosis and treatment of Herpes Simplex Viruses (HSV) – one of the most common sexually transmitted infections in the world. BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), announced today that it filed for U.S. Food and Drug Administration [...]
CoalPro II™: Fast and Accurate Energy Grading of Coal, Kerogen & Petroleum Source Rock from CRAIC
January 3, 2011
Coal, kerogens and petroleum source rock are vital in our search for sources of energy. The CoalPro II™ is the newest system from CRAIC Technologies for the optical analysis of vitrinite and other macerals commonly found in coal, kerogen and source rock. The CoalPro II™ is designed to determine the energy grade of these potential [...]
Medline Industries, Inc. Acquires the Assets of O’Mara Scientific
January 3, 2011
Medline Industries, Inc., the nation's largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of healthcare supplies, announced today that it has acquired the assets of O'Mara Scientific, based in Grandville, MI. O'Mara distributes personal protective equipment, lab supplies and other safety related products to the pharmaceutical, life science, biotech, and healthcare industries. O'Mara operates facilities in Michigan, [...]
Sigma-Aldrich Acquires Cerilliant Corporation to Strengthen its Analytical Chemistry Portfolio
December 30, 2010
ST. LOUIS-- Sigma-Aldrich® Corporation (Nasdaq: SIAL) announced today it has acquired all outstanding shares of Cerilliant Corporation of Round Rock, Texas to strengthen the Company's analytical chemistry product portfolio and to continue to deliver on its strategic growth plans. Cerilliant, a leading supplier of high quality reference standards and materials, provides products that support the [...]
AnaSpec Expands Anti-GFP Collection – mAb & Chicken Polyclonal Antibodies
December 30, 2010
San Jose, CA, (PR.com)-- AnaSpec is pleased to expand their GFP antibodies offerings. The new GFP antibodies include two monoclonals raised in mouse and a third, a polyclonal raised in chicken. Purified green-fluorescent protein (GFP) was used as antigen. Antibody reactivity was confirmed by ELISA and specificity was confirmed by Western Blot using GFP protein. [...]
Changes in the diagnostics business of Biohit
December 30, 2010
Biohit Oyj has decided to withdraw from its plans to spin off the diagnostics business until further notice. The company seeks to increase operational efficiency by merging the management of diagnostics and liquid handling sales and marketing. In the future, Jukka-Pekka Haapalahti, MSc (biochem), who was appointed Director of Liquid handling Sales and Marketing in [...]
December 29, 2010
VISALIA, Calif. - Teamsters Joint Council 7 and Visalia resident Kevin Long have filed suit in California Superior Court against Madison Dearborn's laboratory supply company VWR International, the City of Visalia and others, to stop the unlawful construction of a 500,000 square foot distribution center that will generate up to 10,000 truck trips daily. These [...]
ASTM Petroleum Committee at Work on Proposed Ethyl Tertiary-Butyl Ether Test Method
December 29, 2010
The eventual approval of a proposed new test method currently being developed by ASTM International Committee D02 on Petroleum Products and Lubricants will allow a recently approved D02 specification to attain full compliance with Form and Style for ASTM Standards. The proposed new standard, ASTM WK30961, Test Method for Analysis of Ethyl Tertiary-Butyl Ether (ETBE) [...]

