ANN ARBOR, Mich.--Essen Instruments Inc. announced today the establishment of a European Discovery Services operation and corresponding business site at the Biopark, Welwyn Garden City, UK. The new facility, headed by Dr. Del Trezise, will provide contract and collaborative services for drug discovery based initially around ion channels and Essen's pioneering platform technologies including IonWorks [...]

Smiths Detection Awarded $10.6 Million U.S. Government Contract for Advanced High-Energy X-Ray Systems - Mobile Screening Systems Provide Flexible Security Solutions for Ports and Border Control PINE BROOK, N.J.--Smiths Detection today announces a $10.6 million U.S. Government contract for its mobile, high-energy cargo screeners which will be deployed across the country to inspect inbound and [...]

Oxford Instruments, the world's leading supplier of superconducting materials, has been selected to supply 58 tonnes of superconducting wire to ITER at a value in excess of £30million. ITER is a joint international research and development project seeking alternative energy through fusion power and is one of the largest scientific projects ever undertaken. This order, [...]

Department of Homeland Security Certifies Universal Detection Technology’s Handheld Biodetection Kits for Counter-Terrorism Emergency-Ready Kits Used to Detect Anthrax, Ricin and Other Bio-Agents Receive SAFETY Act Certification LOS ANGELES--Universal Detection Technology (www.udetection.com) (OTCBB:UNDT), a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies to protect people from bioterrorism and other infectious health threats and provider of counter-terrorism consulting and [...]

Enigma Diagnostics Announces Signing of Patent Licenses With Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. PORTON DOWN, England, July 16 -- Enigma Diagnostics Limited, the decentralized and point-of-care molecular diagnostics company, announced today that it has signed two patent license agreements with Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. (RMS). The licenses signed on 15 July 2009, provide Enigma full access [...]

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., July 16 -- MTS Systems Corporation (Nasdaq: MTSC - News) today announced an additional reduction in its workforce in response to the continued weakness in industrial capital spending. The capacity reduction impacts approximately 65 positions and includes both immediate actions as well as those taken in April 2009. As a result, the [...]

Bruker and the University of Warwick Announce Collaboration for Further Development of Extreme Performance Mass Spectrometry COVENTRY, United Kingdom--Bruker Daltonics announced today the establishment of a long-term collaborative programme for developing both applications and fundamental instrument technology in the area of extreme resolution mass spectrometry. Building on over 14 years of experience in high performance [...]

CARLSBAD, Calif., July 16 / / - MO BIO Laboratories, Inc., the leader in soil and microbial nucleic acid purification, announces the launch of an innovative new product, PowerFood(TM) Microbial DNA Isolation Kit, designed to isolate high-quality genomic DNA from food cultured microorganisms. The PowerFood Microbial DNA Isolation Kit stands out from other commercial food [...]

Researchers to Decode Antarctic Ice Metagenome with the 454 Sequencing System, to Explore the Effects of Climate Change BRANFORD, Conn.--For many years, researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany have been studying polar and marine environments to improve our understanding of ocean-ice-atmosphere interactions and the animal and [...]

Cellular Dynamics International In-Licenses Key Patent Portfolio for Using Stem Cell-Derived Cells in Drug Testing Greater Than 90 Percent Cell Type Purification Enabled Through Exclusively Licensed Technology MADISON, Wis., July 15, 2009 –Cellular Dynamics International (CDI) today announced that it has exclusively in-licensed a US-issued patent portfolio on optimizing the stem cell differentiation selection process [...]