US Launch of TAP’s Tube Dispensing System at LabAutomation

The Automation Partnership (TAP), a world leading supplier of innovative automation for life science applications today announced the new Fill-It™ 48-way benchtop automated dispensing system will be premiered on Booth 572 at LabAutomation on January 29th – February 2nd 2011. TAP’s experts will be on stand to explain how the new Fill-It 48 way system [...]

Cell Biolabs Increases Infectivity of In Vitro and In Vivo Samples With Two New AAV Helper Free Systems

SAN DIEGO, CA - Cell Biolabs, Inc., a leader in life science products and research has introduced two new additions to its line of AAV Helper Free Systems: AAV-DJ and AAV-DJ/8. The first, AAV-DJ, was engineered via DNA family shuffling technology from 8 different native AAV serotypes to create a hybrid capsid. The resulting vector [...]

Uniquely Versatile Tube Storage of Light Sensitive Samples from Micronic Europe

Micronic Europe has announced a new 1.4ml amber polypropylene storage tube that, used in conjunction with a secure screw cap, ensures the integrity of light sensitive biological samples even over long-term storage periods. Replacing Micronic's popular 1.4ml black polypropylene storage tube - the new amber storage tube uniquely safeguards light sensitive samples while still usefully [...]

NuGEN Advances Microbial Transcriptome Analysis with the Ovation® Prokaryotic RNA-Seq System

San Carlos, Calif. - NuGEN Technologies, Inc., a leader in genomics sample preparation, expands the utility of next-generation sequencing (NGS) for the analysis of microbial species and microbiome samples with its Ovation Prokaryotic RNA-Seq System. The core technology used in this product enriches for mRNA in NGS libraries, and can be applied to transcriptomes extracted [...]

Hamilton Installs Integrated, Automated Compound Storage and Screening System at UNC

Hopkinton, Mass. - Hamilton Robotics and Storage Technologies announces the delivery of a large, integrated system for compound storage and screening to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Program at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. The system, for the NIMH Psychoactive Drug Screening Program, was delivered to the UNC Department [...]

Simulations Plus to Collaborate with FDA to Develop Predictive Toxicity Models

LANCASTER, Calif. - Simulations Plus, Inc. (NASDAQ: SLP), a leading provider of software for pharmaceutical discovery and development, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Simulations Plus have signed a five-year research collaboration agreement (RCA) to work together to develop Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) toxicity models for FDA regulatory and research applications. [...]

CAMECA Unveils New Semiconductor Tool for B:SiGe and HKMG

GENNEVILLIERS, France - CAMECA, a world leader in scientific instrumentation and metrology solutions for semiconductor labs and fabs, has unveiled the latest addition to its line of high-end metrology systems—the EX-300 metrology tool targeted for front-end process control of 22 nm technology nodes and beyond. ?CAMECA is very proud to introduce the EX-300,? notes Dr. [...]

Department of Energy Funds SRI to Enhance Bioinformatics Tools for Renewable Energy Research

Menlo Park, Calif. - SRI International, an independent nonprofit research and development organization, announced today it has been awarded a grant by the Department of Energy (DOE) to expand its MetaCyc database and enhance its Pathway Tools software. This project will give SRI's bioinformatics tools even greater utility in the emerging area of bioenergy, or [...]

Avantra Biosciences Launches Multiplex System for Faster, Easier Quantification of Cancer Protein Biomarkers

WOBURN, MA - Avantra? Biosciences, a leading innovator in protein diagnostics, announced today their first shipments of the new Q400 Biomarker Workstation and the innovative Angio QxTM BioChip Immunoassay. The system provides quantitative protein biomarker results for ten analytes in less than an hour, requiring less than five minutes for sample preparation. Multiplex protein assays [...]

Applied BioCode Granted 2 Patents for its Barcoded Magnetic Beads Used in Highly Multiplexed MDx Testing

SANTA FE SPRINGS, Calif. - Applied BioCode, Inc. today announced that the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office has issued US Patents #7,858,307 (Dec 28, 2010) and 7,871,770 (Jan 18, 2011), "Light Transmitted Assay Beads", describe the method of use and the manufacturing of its multiplex Barcoded Magnetic Beads products. “The polymer-based Barcoded Magnetic Beads [...]

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