Kenneth C. Weirman Named Vice President and Chief Information Officer
February 8, 2011
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
February 8, 2011
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 [...]
February 8, 2011
SAN JOSE, Calif. -Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the initial findings of stroke research conducted by its Biomarker Research Initiatives in Mass Spectrometry (BRIMS) Center in collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Harvard University. Strokes are the leading cause of serious long-term disability in the U.S. The research, [...]
OpGen Announces Argus Optical Mapping System Purchase by BGI
February 8, 2011
Gaithersburg, Md. - OpGen, Inc., a genomics and DNA analysis company and exclusive provider of optical mapping technology, today announced that BGI, the largest genomics organization in the world, purchased an Argus™ Optical Mapping System. BGI plans on incorporating the Argus system into its current sequencing platform for microbial genome sequence finishing and sequence validation. [...]
SwitchGear Genomics Announces Distribution Agreement With BioCat GmbH
February 8, 2011
MENLO PARK, Calif. - SwitchGear Genomics Inc., a leading provider of products for studying the regulatory elements in the human genome, today announced that the company signed an agreement for BioCat GmbH to distribute the innovative LightSwitch Luciferase Assay System(TM) in Europe. The system consists of a full reporter assay solution including a genome-wide collection [...]
Chiral Technologies Promotes Lisa Cole Newton to National Accounts Manager
February 8, 2011
WEST CHESTER, Pa. - Chiral Technologies, Inc. (CTI) has named Lisa Cole Newton as the new National Accounts Manager, Separation Services for North America. In this newly-created position, Newton will have responsibility for strengthening CTI’s separation services activity in North America, focusing company resources to more effectively meet the unique requirements of this business segment. [...]
February 8, 2011
Pequannock, NJ - Portable, compact and convenient, the Scienceware® Vacuum Aspirator Collection System from Bel-Art Products is a self contained system perfect for fluid collection from tissue and cell cultures, Petri dishes, plates, flasks, tubes and more, whenever in house vacuum lines are not readily available. Each unit comes complete with one gallon collection bottle, [...]
February 8, 2011
BILLERICA, MA, (February 8, 2011) – Aushon BioSystems, Inc., a leading provider of multiplex immunoassay products and services announced that it has signed a letter of intent to enter into a diagnostic development collaboration with Peking University Cancer Hospital ("PUCH"), Beijing, China. The primary goal for the collaboration is to develop predictive diagnostic markers for [...]
Danaher to Acquire Beckman Coulter, Inc.
February 7, 2011
ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. - Beckman Coulter, Inc. (NYSE: BEC), a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of products that simplify, automate and innovate complex biomedical testing, and Danaher, a diversified technology leader that designs, manufactures, and markets innovative products and services to professional, medical, industrial, and commercial customers, announced today that they have entered into a [...]
Abbott’s Ibis Technology Identified Fatal Disease Organism in Afghanistan
February 7, 2011
WASHINGTON - Today, at the American Society for Microbiology Conference on Biodefense and Emerging Diseases, scientists from Abbott Molecular presented data showing the unique power of the company's Ibis technology to identify and further characterize unknown disease-causing pathogens to help aid in the bioforensic analysis of pandemic outbreaks. In a presentation at the conference, Tim [...]
