QuantaLife, Inc. Closes $17.2M Series B Financing
December 10, 2010
Accelerate Application Development for Its Droplet Digital™ PCR Platform and Establish Commercial Operations by 2011 PLEASANTON, Calif. - QuantaLife, Inc. announced today that it has closed a $17.2M Series B financing. The majority of the proceeds will be used to establish commercial operations for introduction of its first product, the Droplet Digital™ PCR platform, into [...]
Cresset Introduces Newest Cloud Computing Enabled Application with FieldAlign V3.0
December 10, 2010
Welwyn Garden City - Cresset today announced that it has released a major new version of its FieldAlign package. FieldAlign V3.0 is the latest in Cresset’s new generation of “cloud enabled” applications, which support parallel, distributed computing by default. It can be deployed both as a traditional desktop application and as a command-line application distributed [...]
Applikon Biotechnology Announces an Agreement With InDevR to Distribute the ViroCytTM Virus Counter®
December 10, 2010
Applikon Biotechnology has established an agreement with InDevR, Inc. to distribute the ViroCyt™ Virus Counter®, a novel, easy-to-use instrument for rapid quantification of virus samples. The Virus Counter provides a direct measurement of virus particle concentration within minutes. Unlike conventional plaque titer assays, which take days to complete, the Virus Counter provides accurate and quantitative [...]
Cognis QTA Test Method Passes ASTM Subcommittee Ballot for Inclusion in Biodiesel Specification
December 10, 2010
Total glycerin, free glycerin and cloud point capabilities proceed to next step of balloting to Main committee D2. Cincinnati, OH - ASTM Subcommittee D02.E0 passed three ballots this week for the inclusion of the AOCS standard procedure Ck 2-09, the QTA System method, as an approved method within the biodiesel B100 specification D6751, for the [...]
December 9, 2010
Teledyne Water Quality Group represents six of Teledyne's market-leading companies. THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY) announced the formation of the Teledyne Water Quality Group. This group represents six of Teledyne's market-leading companies who are focused on providing measurement and analytical solutions for water and water-related markets. The official launch of this group [...]
AnaSpecs Offers Dyes for labeling Amine- and Thiol-Modified Oligos
December 9, 2010
AnaSpec is pleased to highlight our own proprietary HiLyte Fluor dyes for labeling amine and thiol modified oligonucleotides from AnaSpec’s wide collection of amine and thiol reactive 6-isomeric dyes of fluoresceins and rhodamines. Fluorescent dye-labeled oligos are widely used as primers for sequencing and PCR reactions, and also as probes for fluorescence in situ hybridization [...]
December 9, 2010
Second Task Order Received Under U.S. Government ID/IQ Award Valued Up to $67.0 Million BILLERICA, Mass. - American Science and Engineering, Inc. ("AS&E") (NASDAQ:ASEI), a leader in X-ray detection technology, announced that the Company has been awarded an additional order valued at $4.9 million under the indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract from the U.S. [...]
Hamilton Thorne Launches Groundbreaking Stiletto™ laser system
December 9, 2010
Reduces Manual Laboratory Research Processes from Hours to Seconds; Saving Significant Time and Money BEVERLY, MA and TORONTO, Ontario - Hamilton Thorne Ltd. (TSX-V: HTL), a leading provider of advanced laser systems for the regenerative medicine and stem cell research markets, today announced the launch of its new Stiletto™ laser system. The Stiletto™ laser system [...]
WaferGen Expands Scientific Advisory Board with Appointment of Industry Leader Dr. Timothy J. Triche
December 9, 2010
Fremont, Calif. - WaferGen Biosystems, Inc. (OTCBB:WGBS), a leading developer of state-of-the-art genomic analysis systems, today announced that it has named industry leader Timothy J. Triche, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Pediatrics at the University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine, as a member of the company’s Scientific Advisory Board. “Dr. Triche, [...]
Fitch Rates Life Technologies’ Proposed Unsecured Notes ‘BBB-‘; Outlook Stable
December 9, 2010
NEW YORK - Fitch Ratings has assigned a 'BBB-' rating to Life Technology Corp.'s proposed $600 million unsecured notes. Fitch anticipates that proceeds of the notes offering will be used to refinance existing debt as well as for other general corporate purposes. Fitch currently rates Life Technologies as follows: --Issuer Default Rating (IDR) 'BBB-'; --Senior [...]

