Tecan and SciRobotics Offer Integrated Colony Picking for Molecular Biology

Männedorf, Switzerland - Tecan and SciRobotics today announced the launch of the integrated Pickolo colony-picker for the Freedom EVO® liquid handling platforms, providing customers with a complete solution for automation of molecular biology workflows, from cloning to PCR sequencing or cell-based screening. SciRobotics developed Pickolo specifically for Freedom EVO. This application enables fully automated colony [...]

BlueGnome Announces First 24sure Shipments to China

BlueGnome used this weekend’s conference of the Chinese Society of Reproductive Medicine in Chongqing to announce the availability of its 24sure and CytoChip platforms in China. Both 24sure and CytoChip combine advanced microarray technology with sophisticated signal processing software in order to inform investigation of genetic disorders from cancer to infertility. The application of 24sure [...]

GE Healthcare Appoints Kieran Murphy as Life Sciences CEO, Successor to Peter Ehrenheim

Chalfont St.Giles - GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) announced today that on 1 April 2011, Kieran Murphy will be promoted to succeed current Life Sciences President and CEO Peter Ehrenheim who will retire from GE after a transition period on July 31 2011. Kieran is currently GE Healthcare’s Head of Global [...]

Simulations Plus (“SLP”) Launches MedChem Designer

LANCASTER, Calif. - Simulations Plus, Inc. (NASDAQ: SLP), a leading provider of simulation and modeling software for pharmaceutical discovery and development, announced today the launch of a new freely available software product called MedChem Designer™ to complement its MedChem Studio™ and ADMET Predictor™ offerings for the design of pharmaceutical and other new molecular structures. Unique [...]

Sigma(R) Life Science Adds Oligoarchitect(TM) for QPCR to Online Portfolio of Scientific Tools

St. Louis, Mo. - Sigma Life Science, the innovative biological products and services research business of Sigma-Aldrich® (Nasdaq: SIAL), today announced the release of OligoArchitect™, an online primer and probe design tool. This freely available tool offers automated design of probes and primers for real-time qPCR assays, powered by the industry standard Beacon Designer™ platform [...]

Ad Huijser Named as Director at FEI Company

HILLSBORO, Ore. - FEI Company (Nasdaq:FEIC) today announced that Dr. Ad Huijser has joined the company's board of directors. Dr. Huijser was executive vice president, chief technology officer and member of the Board of Management of Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., until his retirement in 2006. During his 36-year career with Philips he held various senior [...]

CIT and Stemina Biomarker Discovery Announce Partnership in Europe for Stem Cell Based Toxicology Testing

MADISON, WISCONSIN AND EVREUX, FRANCE - Safety and Health Research Laboratories and Stemina Biomarker Discovery, Inc. announced today that CIT and Stemina have entered into a strategic partnership. Under the arrangement, CIT will distribute Stemina’s devTOX(TM) assay in Europe and will work with Stemina to validate the test for use under the REACH (Registration, Evaluation, [...]

AnaSpec Offers ? & ?-Synuclein Recombinant Proteins

Fremont, CA, United States - AnaSpec, Eurogentec Group, is pleased to offer two recombinant proteins for use in Neurodegenerative Disease Research, ?-synuclein (SNCA) and ?-synuclein (SNCB). Both ?-synuclein and ?-synuclein are expressed and purified from E. coli. ?-Synuclein is a 140-amino acid long recombinant protein (GenBank Accession # NP_000336) and ?-synuclein is 134-amino acid long [...]

IDBS Results for the Year Ended 31 December 2010

Guildford, UK - IDBS, a global provider of innovative enterprise data management, analytics and modeling solutions, announces strong growth in revenue and profitability during the year ended 31 December 2010. This record performance continues the accelerating momentum of recent years and underscores the leading position of IDBS in a growing global market. Financial Highlights (unaudited) [...]

In silico Cloning and BLAST Made Easier with New Release from CLC bio

Aarhus, Denmark - Today, CLC bio announced the release of several desktop software packages for analyzing biological sequence data including the popular products such as the CLC Main Workbench 6.0 and CLC DNA Workbench 6.0. This update offers large improvements to two of the most important bioinformatics tools used by biomedical researchers everywhere, namely in [...]

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