Caliper Life Sciences Announces Preliminary Results for the Fourth Quarter and 2010

HOPKINTON, Mass. - Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALP) today announced preliminary revenue for the fourth quarter of 2010 of approximately $36.0 million, which implies fiscal 2010 revenue of approximately $123.5 million, or 10% organic annual growth. The Company's fourth quarter revenue estimate exceeds the upper end of its previous revenue guidance by approximately $2.5 [...]

Micronic’s Roborack 96-Position Sample Tube Storage Rack

Micronic has introduced a next generation version of its popular Roborack 96-position sample tube storage rack. Traditionally users have used adhesive paper labels on their storage racks to provide sample traceability. However over a period of time, subject to repeated freeze thaw cycles and organic solvents which samples are often dissolved in, paper labels commonly [...]

PerkinElmer and the Meyer Children’s Hospital of Florence Co-Develop Early Diagnostic for Lethal Genetic Metabolic Disease Affecting Newborns

WALTHAM, Mass. & FLORENCE, Italy - PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, and the Meyer Children's Hospital of Florence, a leading Italian research center, today announced their successful collaboration in developing an early stage neonatal diagnostic test for Tyrosinemia Type I, a rare metabolic genetic [...]

Agilent Technologies Appoints Dr. Tachi Yamada to Board of Directors

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced the appointment of Dr. Tachi Yamada to its board of directors. Dr. Yamada currently serves as president of the Global Health Program of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a position he has held since June 2006. Prior to joining the Gates Foundation, Dr. Yamada [...]

RAE Systems Signs Definitive Agreement to Sell Its Interest in Its RAE Fushun Joint Venture

SAN JOSE, CA - RAE Systems Inc. (NYSE Amex: RAE), a leader in delivering innovative sensor solutions to serve industrial, energy, environmental, and government safety markets worldwide, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its 70 percent interest in the RAE Fushun joint venture (the "Joint Venture") to the Shenyang Research Institute of [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches YouTube Chromatography Channel

RUNCORN, U.K. - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the launch of a YouTube Channel dedicated to Chromatography at www.youtube.com/chromatographyvideos. The first two videos uploaded are entitled ‘How GC Columns Work’ and ‘An Introduction to SPE’ and are ideal educational pieces to give rapid training on how various aspects [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific ICP-MS Implemented by University of Oviedo for Reliable and Efficient Sulfur Detection in Proteins

CAMBRIDGE, UK - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that the University of Oviedo's analytical spectrometry research group has implemented the Thermo Scientific XSERIES 2 ICP-MS to perform reliable and interference-free sulfur detection in proteins. In the past, interference from gas-based polyatomics has made the accurate determination of sulfur [...]

Bioo Scientific Launches a Sensitive ELISA for Detection of Melamine Contamination in Food

Austin, TX, United States - Today Bioo Scientific released the MaxSignal® Melamine ELISA Kit for the sensitive detection of melamine contamination in food samples including milk, milk powder, feed, meat and even chocolate. Bioo Scientific announced the launch of the MaxSignal® Melamine ELISA Kit today. This kit offers sensitive detection of melamine in food and [...]

American Science and Engineering, Inc. Receives $5.5 Million Order from Abu Dhabi Customs for ZBV and Gemini Inspection Systems

BILLERICA, Mass. - American Science and Engineering, Inc. ("AS&E") (NASDAQ: ASEI), a leading worldwide supplier of innovative X-ray detection solutions, announced today the receipt of a $5.5 million order from Abu Dhabi Customs Administration for multiple Z Backscatter(TM) Van (ZBV(TM)) X-ray screening systems and Gemini(TM) 100100 parcel X-ray inspection systems. The ZBV and Gemini systems [...]

Affymetrix Launches Cost-Effective Bovine Genotyping Array for Accurate Trait Selection

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX) today announced it has launched the Axiom™ Genome-Wide BOS 1 Array, which has 34 percent higher genetic coverage than the current leading array because of its unique design. Developed in conjunction with the Affymetrix Bovine Consortium of leading breeders and researchers worldwide, the array comprehensively covers genetic traits [...]

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