AMSBIO Has Announced New Kits Improved Nucleic Acid Recovery from FFPE Samples
November 18, 2010
AMSBIO has announced new kits for the isolation of high quality RNA from Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded (FFPE) tissues and LCM samples that can be applied both to qRT-PCR and a variety of microarray platforms. When working with stored materials, researchers often need to isolate RNA from samples that have been stored as FFPE tissue blocks. These [...]
Oligo Manufacturer Standardizes On Ultravap for Sample Preparation
November 18, 2010
Porvair Sciences Ltd. has announced that a leading manufacturer of ready-made oligonucleotides, with bases in both North America and Europe, has standardized on their Ultravap™ Blowdown Station for careful drying of their production samples. Steve Knight - Sales & Marketing Manager at Porvair commented "This important life science customer has invested in 5 Ultravap™ systems [...]
Tecan and Covaris co-market Freedom EVO® with Adaptive Focused Acoustics™
November 18, 2010
Männedorf, Switzerland – Tecan is collaborating with Covaris, Inc., a rapidly growing company providing advanced sample preparation solutions for life and analytical science, to co¬promote the Freedom EVO® liquid handling platform with integrated Adaptive Focused Acoustics™ (AFA). This co-marketing agreement will allow customers to benefit from both the advanced capabilities of Tecan’s Freedom EVO systems [...]
Luminex Corporation Board of Directors Authorizes Share Repurchase Plan Through November 2011
November 18, 2010
AUSTIN, Texas - Luminex Corporation (Nasdaq: LMNX) today announced that the company's Board of Directors has authorized the purchase of up to 1,000,000 shares, but not more than $21 million in aggregate purchase price, of the company's common stock through November 2011. "We believe that the stock repurchase program announced today represents an appropriate and [...]
November 18, 2010
Sunnyvale, CA - Dionex is pleased to announce the release of the next-generation ProPac® SCX-20 column, providing exceptionally high resolution for characterization of protein variants. The ProPac SCX-20 column has a strong cationexchange surface chemistry on a unique nonporous pellicular resin, together providing exceptionally high resolving power, permitting the separation of protein variants that differ [...]
November 18, 2010
Sedgefield, UK. - Reinnervate, an innovative life sciences company driving the adoption of routine 3D cell culture, today announced the appointment of Classic Industries Europe for the commercial assembly & packaging of alvetex® plates for 3D cell culture applications. Reinnervate is currently gearing up for the first launch of alvetex® at the Cell-Based Assay conference [...]
November 17, 2010
MADISON, Wis. - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the launch of its new Calibration Validation Carousel (CVC) accessories for the Evolution series UV-Visible spectrophotometers enabling automated performance verification and adherence to pharmaceutical guidelines. Automated performance verification saves significant time and money by reducing the amount of hands-on time [...]
Bio-Rad Introduces Criterion™ TGX Stain-Free™ Precast Gels
November 17, 2010
The New Gels Deliver Protein Separation and Visualization in 25 Minutes Hercules, CA - Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. has launched Criterion TGX (Tris-Glycine eXtended) Stain-Free precast gels which, when combined with Bio-Rad’s Gel Doc™ EZ imager, provide researchers with the fastest protein separation and visualization available using the standard Laemmli system. Handcast and precast gels currently [...]
Life Technologies Launches EZValidation(TM) Online Tool for Clinical Laboratory Market
November 17, 2010
CARLSBAD, Calif. - Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE), a provider of innovative life science solutions, today announced the launch of the EZValidation Online Tool, which helps clinical laboratories standardize their verification and validation requirements and eases adoption of new molecular tests for labs in the United States and Europe. Life Technologies' EZValidation Online Toolis a [...]
Luminex Corporation Launches New FDA Cleared Pharmacogenetic Diagnostic Test
November 17, 2010
xTAG® CYP2D6 Kit Can Assist Physicians in Improving Patient Care by Helping to Determine a Personalized Therapeutic Strategy AUSTIN, Texas - Luminex Corporation (Nasdaq: LMNX), today announced that it has commercially launched its first pharmacogenetic test, the xTAG® CYP2D6 Kit, which recently received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The new [...]

