March 4, 2011
Eppendorf North America announces that The Genome Center at Washington University has purchased and installed 10 additional epMotion® 5075 TMX PC systems for its next-generation sequencing (NGS) sample preparation needs on the Illumina GAIIx and HiSeq platforms The epMotion 5075 TMX PC easily automates the manual steps within the NGS workflow including end repair, A-tailing, [...]
Esco Appoints XQ Lin as CEO to Lead Next Phase of Development of the Business
March 4, 2011
As part of its succession planning, Esco is pleased to announce the appointment of XQ Lin, currently Vice President, to succeed Lim Lay Yew as Group CEO with immediate effect. Lim Lay Yew will continue to serve as SVP Human Capital Management/Intellectual Properties/Organizational Development, Esco Singapore General Manager and Esco Singapore/Bintan Facilities Manager. XQ has [...]
SP Industries Acquired by Graham Partners
March 3, 2011
Graham Partners has acquired SP Industries, a leading designer and manufacturer of medical equipment and components used in pharmaceutical development and production. SP's two primary product categories include laboratory and pharmaceutical research and production equipment as well as laboratory glassware and precision glass components. The Company's principal end markets include the pharmaceutical, educational, industrial, and [...]
Charles River Announces Agreement to Supply Pfizer’s Genetically Modified Research Models
March 3, 2011
WILMINGTON, Mass. - Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. (NYSE: CRL) today announced that it has entered into a marketing and distribution agreement with Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE), the world’s leading biopharmaceutical company, to provide certain Pfizer-developed genetically modified research models to the global biomedical research community. Under this agreement, Charles River will supply a number [...]
March 3, 2011
HOPKINTON, Mass. - Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALP) today announced that its licensee Wako Pure Chemical Industries, through its Wako Diagnostics division, has obtained 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its uTASWako(R) i30 Immunoanalyzer and AFP-L3 and DCP Assays, which are used to assess liver cancer risk in patients [...]
Striking Development Releases Accelerated Paracel Blast Plug-in for CLC bio’s Platform
March 3, 2011
AARHUS, Denmark & HOWELL, Michigan - Today, CLC bio and Striking Development announced the release of the highly accelerated Paracel BLAST plug-in for integration into CLC bio’s enterprise platform: CLC Genomics Server. Director of Consulting Solutions at CLC bio, Dr. Jannick D. Bendtsen, states, “With the increased amount of data generated in laboratories around the [...]
Custom Flow Cytometry Flow Cell Manufacturing
March 3, 2011
Farmingdale, NY - NSG Precision Cells has been manufacturing flow cells for flow cytometry, HPLC, life sciences, etc. for over 50 years. NSG started out back in the 1960s making cuvettes for spectrophotometers and has improved their technology to making highly precise micro flow cells. There are only a handful of manufacturers in the world [...]
Nanosurf and Zurich Instruments Join Forces and Profit from Complementary Strengths
March 3, 2011
Nanosurf, a leading provider of atomic force microscopes (AFM) and scanning tunneling microscopes (STM), and Zurich Instruments, technology leader for lock-in amplifiers and phase-locked loops (PLL), today announced a strategic technology partnership. The two companies have agreed to cooperate in the development of high-frequency, high-performance scanning probe microscopy (SPM) solutions, to provide mutual communication interfaces [...]
High-Sensitivity Impurity Quantitation System Developed Jointly with Eisai Co., Ltd.
March 3, 2011
Shimadzu has launched the Co-Sense for Impurities System for the quantitative analysis of impurities in drugs. This high-performance liquid chromatography application system achieves reliable separation of trace impurities and 20 times higher sensitivity than conventional liquid chromatography systems. It features online trapping to enhance sensitivity through automatic online concentration of the target impurities. Dedicated control [...]
Accelrys Speeds Time to Scientific Innovation with New Enterprise R&D Architecture
March 3, 2011
SAN DIEGO - Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL), a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, today announced the new Accelrys Enterprise R&D Architecture, enabling industries and organizations that rely on scientific innovation to bring new products from lab to market more quickly and efficiently through enhanced productivity, reduced costs and improved quality and compliance [...]
