March 15, 2011
Sunnyvale, CA - Freeslate, Inc., the leading provider of high-throughput solutions that enable step-change gains in R&D productivity and innovation, today announced it has successfully installed a high throughput workflow at China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec Corp.) to support research and development in the area of zeolite catalysts. This will support Sinopec’s ongoing research [...]
March 15, 2011
SAN DIEGO - TriLink BioTechnologies, Inc. (TriLink) was recently awarded a Phase I SBIR Grant of approximately $100,000 by the National Institutes of Health to develop a Hot Start approach for Ligase Chain Reaction (LCR). Hot Start LCR will employ chemically modified ligation components containing thermolabile protecting groups to eliminate common performance problems seen in [...]
March 15, 2011
ATLANTA - At Pittcon 2011, Bruker has significantly expanded its gas chromatography (GC) solutions with the release of Bruker GC CARE gas chromatography columns. These new highest quality GC columns offer Bruker’s GC and GC-MS customers a wide variety of column chemistries. The Bruker GC CARE columns and consumables are ideally designed for applications in [...]
March 15, 2011
Atlanta, GA, United Kingdom - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the opening of its Center of Excellence for persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Staffed with experts in POPs analysis, the new center will support laboratories that research, measure and monitor dioxins and other POPs found in food and the [...]
March 15, 2011
SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Cepheid CPHD today announced that Glenn Steele, Jr., MD, PhD, has been nominated for election to Cepheid's Board of Directors at the company's Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held on April 26, 2011. Dr. Steele has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Geisinger Health System, a physician-led health care system [...]
Enzo Biochem Unit Launches First-to-Market Survival Motor Neuron (SMN) Protein Immunoassay System
March 15, 2011
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. & NEW YORK - Enzo Biochem, Inc. and the Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Foundation today announced that Enzo’s wholly owned subsidiary, Enzo Life Sciences Inc., has launched a unique immunoassay (ELISA) system which can be used for the identification and detection of Survival Motor Neuron (SMN) protein. The kit is the result of [...]
March 15, 2011
FOSTER CITY, Calif. - AB SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, and Alturas Analytics Inc., a leading provider of LC/MS contract research services for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, today announced a collaboration to accelerate the adoption of dried blood spot (DBS) analysis for drug discovery & development. This analysis is designed [...]
Fluidigm Adds Patrick Jones to Its Board of Directors
March 15, 2011
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM) today announced that Patrick S. Jones has been appointed to Fluidigm’s Board of Directors. Mr. Jones fills the vacancy created by the resignation of Jeremy Loh, which was effective on March 10, 2011. Mr. Jones will also join and chair the Board’s audit committee. “We are excited [...]
March 15, 2011
FOSTER CITY, Calif. - To address the global need for improved methods in toxicology, food safety testing and environmental analysis, AB SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, today announced the expansion of its iMethod™ Application Center. This online resource provides a growing library of pre-configured, verified test methods to improve the analysis [...]
Exiqon Releases Additional 235 Pre-Validated qPCR Assays for Mouse and Rat microRNAs
March 15, 2011
COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Exiqon A/S (Copenhagen:EXQ - News), a leading supplier of high-value gene expression analysis products, today announced the launch of additional 235 pre-validated miRCURY LNATM Universal RT microRNA qPCR assays for sensitive and specific quantification of microRNAs. With the launch of the new assays, Exiqon now offers 1731 pre-validated qPCR assays for human, [...]

