January 19, 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 will offer FuGENE® HD transfection reagent as an individual product and as part of its novel LightSwitch Transfection Optimization Kit. SwitchGear has also recently launched the innovative LightSwitch Luciferase [...]
GE Partners with Avery Dennison to Commercialize Radio Frequency Sensor Technology
January 19, 2011
NISKAYUNA, N.Y. - GE (NYSE: GE), acting through its Technology Ventures operation, today announced its intent to commercialize GE’s Radio Frequency Sensing technology (RFS) through a commercial license to the RFID division of Avery Dennison (NYSE: AVY). The proprietary RFS technology will enable a wide range of low-cost wireless sensing products in a series of [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Expands Shanghai Production Capacity
January 19, 2011
ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced it has expanded its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Shanghai, China. This latest expansion enables Thermo Fisher to meet growing demand for its Thermo Scientific Nunc Cell Culture products including a range of tissue culture EasY Flasks, dishes, Multidishes and cell [...]
Streamlining the Protein Precipitation Sample Preparation Technique
January 19, 2011
The p3 microplate from Porvair Sciences Ltd. eliminates the mess and complex sample preparation (no centrifuging, no vortexing) traditionally associated with protein precipitation techniques. The use of protein precipitation as a method for sample preparation is widely used within the pharmaceutical industry. Consequently the need to streamline the technique, to save technician time, has spurned [...]
January 19, 2011
FREMONT, Calif. - WaferGen Biosystems, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: WGBS), a leading developer of state-of-the-art genomic analysis systems, today announced that it has appointed world-renowned clinical genomics cancer researcher Arul M. Chinnaiyan, M.D., Ph.D., to its Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Chinnaiyan is a recognized leader in the use of biomarkers in the clinic to choose [...]
January 19, 2011
ANTA CLARA, Calif. - Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced the Agilent SureSelect XT Mouse All Exon Kit, the first commercial system for target enrichment of a model organism exome, to streamline next-generation sequencing experiments. Agilent collaborated with Dr. Yoichi Gondo of Japan's RIKEN Institute to develop the mouse exome target enrichment product, based [...]
Olympus Innov-X Announces Non-Destructive Fingerprinting of Pharmaceutical Compounds
January 19, 2011
All drug formulations have a unique fingerprint of both active and inactive ingredients that identifies the efficacy and brand of each drug. Pharmaceutical compound fingerprinting is commonly done using X-Ray Diffraction (XRD). Drug manufacturers have a responsibility to consumers: To use the correct formulations of their products to be sure that they are safe, and [...]
Emerson Extends Capabilities of pH/ORP Sensors to Meet a Broad Range of Applications
January 19, 2011
IRVINE, Calif. - Emerson Process Management has released the Rosemount® Analytical Model 3900 general purpose pH/ORP sensor, designed to meet the broadest range of applications in the industry. It has the widest temperature operating range of any general purpose sensor and is the first to function at sub-zero temperatures, providing accurate measurements in applications from [...]
Animal-free Preparation of Human Serum Albumin
January 19, 2011
AMSBIO has announced the launch of ecoHSA™ - an animal-free preparation of the human albumin gene produced in the seeds of Asian Rice (Oryza sativa). Commercial human albumin proteins extracted from plasma have multiple and invaluable uses in cell culture work. However, existing and new regulations now discourage the use of animal components, even in [...]
Asylum Research Sets Annual Sales Record
January 19, 2011
Asylum Research, the technology leader for atomic force and scanning probe microscopy (AFM/SPM), announced today that its 2010 sales set a new record, besting its record-breaking 2009 by nearly 20%. The new record was fueled by increasing acceptance of Asylum’s Cypher™ Atomic Force Microscope, the world’s highest resolution AFM. Sales also accelerated for the MFP-3D-BIO™ [...]
