Rapid Micro Biosystems Partners with Life Technologies Corporation on Automated Microbial Detection– Growth Direct™ System

BEDFORD, Mass. - Rapid Micro Biosystems, a leading provider of automated, non-destructive, rapid microbial detection, today announced a sales and marketing agreement with Life Technologies Corporation, a provider of innovative life science solutions. For quality control microbiology customers, the agreement combines best in class automated microbial detection and enumeration with gold-standard microbial identification. The agreement [...]

Lonza and California Stemm Cell, Inc. Introduce Motorplate™ Human Esx-Derived Motor Neuron Progenitors

Walkersville, MD. - Lonza and California Stem Cell, Inc. are pleased to announce the first commercially available source of motor neuron progenitors derived from human embryonic stem cells. The MotorPlate™ Human ESC-derived Motor Neuron Progenitor products are functional, adherent motor neuron progenitors seeded in 96-well plates and shipped to customers fresh and ready-to-use with optimized [...]

AB Sciex and GeneBio Team Up to Improve Interactive Library Searching for Mass Spectrometry

GENEVA, Switzerland and TORONTO, Canada - AB SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, and Geneva Bioinformatics (GeneBio) SA today announced that they will co-market joint solutions to improve the ability of scientists to conduct rapid screening of large sets of molecules. GeneBio's SmileMS software provides advanced library searching capabilities that can be [...]

Highly Sensitive & Specific Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP) Assay Kit

Porvair Filtration Group, a leading innovator in the fields of filtration and separation, has developed a new technology that has particular relevance to the rapidly expanding Epigenetics market and will be unveiling it at the Epigenetics World Congress in Boston in April 2011. Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP) is the key experimental technique used to investigate the [...]

Honeywell Forms New Advanced Solutions Business

ORLANDO, Fla. - Honeywell (NYSE:HON) today announced that it has formed a new business focused on providing advanced open software and services to the process industries. By integrating the leading open connectivity and broad platform capability of its Matrikon acquisition with its fast-growing applications and solutions business, Honeywell’s new Advanced Solutions business can deliver a [...]

InVitria Announces Lysobac is Now Available as a cGMP Grade Cell Lysis Reagent

Fort Collins, CO, USA - InVitria announces that its Lysobac cell lysing reagent is manufactured at the Company’s Junction City, Kansas facility under cGMP (Current Good Manufacturing Practice) standards. Lysobac is a completely animal component free reagent that is substantially more effective and consistent than hen egg white lysozyme and complies with global regulatory standards [...]

Hamilton Extends Monitoring Technology to 96-Channel Pipetting Head

Reno, Nevada - Hamilton Robotics introduces the TADM 96 Multi-Channel Pipetting Head, with aspiration and dispense monitoring technology in every channel. The new head is compatible with Hamilton’s MICROLAB® STARline of automated liquid handling platform and incorporates the company’s Total Aspiration and Dispense Monitoring (TADM) technology. Air pressure sensors are built into each channel, which [...]

Omixon Release SOLiD Variant Detection Plug-in for CLC bio’s Platform

AARHUS, Denmark & BUDAPEST, Hungary - Today, CLC bio and Omixon announced the release of the Omixon Gapped SOLiD Alignment plug-in for full integration into CLC Genomics Workbench. CLC bio is a leader in algorithm performance and provides an integrated solution for high-throughput sequencing data analysis, and Omixon is a leader in variant detection accuracy [...]

Kenneth C. Weirman Named Vice President and Chief Information Officer

BERWYN, Pa. - AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE: AME) today announced the appointment of Kenneth C. Weirman as Vice President and Chief Information Officer. He replaces William P. Lawson, who retires after 20 years with the Company. "We are very pleased that Ken has joined AMETEK. He is a seasoned IT executive with extensive experience in manufacturing [...]

Automated UV-visible-NIR Spectroscopy of Microscopic Features: the 20/20 PV™ from CRAIC Technologies

CRAIC Technologies, the worlds leading innovator of UV-visible-NIR microspectroscopy solutions, is proud to introduce the automated version of its flagship product: the 20/20 Perfect Vision™ UV-visible-NIR microspectrophotometer. This system is designed to be fully programmable with touchscreen controls so that it can automatically analyze microscopic samples with UV-visible-NIR spectroscopy and microscopy. Imaging and spectroscopic a [...]

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