GE Healthcare Introduces ÄKTA™ avant 150 Liquid Chromatography System for Accelerated Scale-up

Uppsala, Sweden - GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announces the launch of ÄKTA™ avant 150, the second system in the new generation of ÄKTA liquid chromatography systems. ÄKTA avant 150 complements the ÄKTA avant 25 system to fully exploit the advantages of modern BioProcess media, enabling smooth development of scalable [...]

3i Sells Panreac to ITW

3i, funds managed by 3i, and other shareholders have signed an agreement to sell Panreac, a leading Spanish manufacturer and supplier of quality chemicals for laboratory research and production, to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (“ITW”), a company specialising in the worldwide production and design of high-tech gears and components, equipment and consumer systems, based in [...]

Avacta Group plc appointed Isogen Life Science as Distributor in Mainland Europe for the Optim 1000

Avacta Group plc ("Avacta" or the "Company"), which provides innovative, high value proprietary technologies and services to the pharmaceutical and diagnostics markets, is pleased to announce that it has appointed Isogen Life Science as distributor in Mainland Europe for the Optim 1000, its ground-breaking, ultra-low volume protein analysis system. The Optim 1000 has been developed [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Announces New Sales and Support Office for Microanalysis Business in the UK

HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, UK. - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the establishment of a sales and support office for microanalysis products sold in the United Kingdom, effective immediately. The office will be located at the UK commercial headquarters in Hemel Hempstead, and will focus on providing local customers with [...]

See (and read about) Beta-RAM 5 radio detector at ISSX Meeting

LabLogic Systems is exhibiting and presenting at the 9th International Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics (ISSX) in Istanbul, Turkey (4th – 8th September 2010). On exhibition stand 61 at the 9th ISSX Meeting (4th – 8th September 2010)., delegates will be able to see LabLogic's new Model 5 version of [...]

Tecan is First Choice for Quality and Reliability

Männedorf, Switzerland - The Regional Molecular Genetics Service (RMGS) at St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester, is using a Freedom EVO® liquid handling workstation in combination with chemagen’s proven nucleic isolation technology to perform fully automated DNA extraction. Supplied by chemagen’s UK distributor, Auto Q Biosciences, this integrated system is housed within a Class 1 biological safety [...]

FLIR Begins Tender Offer to Acquire ICx Technologies, Inc.

Portland, OR - FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) today will commence a cash tender offer through its wholly owned subsidiary Indicator Merger Sub, Inc., to purchase all outstanding shares of common stock of ICx Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: ICXT). On August 16, 2010, the companies previously announced a definitive agreement whereby FLIR agreed to acquire ICx [...]

ForteBio Announces Launch of Protein G Biosensor for Use on Company’s Octet® Instruments

Company also Completes ISO Certification of Biosensor Manufacturing Facility MENLO PARK, Calif. - ForteBio®, Inc., a leading supplier of label-free technology that accelerates the development of biotherapeutic and pharmaceutical products, today announced the launch of its Dip and Read™ Protein G biosensor for rapid detection and quantification of numerous types of mammalian immunoglobulin (IgG, an [...]

Waters Corporation and UCLA to Convene Leading Life Scientists

Will Present Latest Research at Applications of Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry Conference Sept. 13-15 MILFORD, Mass. - Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) will bring together some of the world's leading life science researchers and practitioners of mass spectrometry (MS) at a conference next month to discuss the [...]

New UV Monitoring Accessory Now Available for CEM Microwave Peptide Synthesizers

Matthews, North Carolina - CEM Corporation, a leading global provider of microwave laboratory instrumentation, is pleased to announce the introduction of its new UV Monitoring System, which is designed to work with CEM’s Liberty™ and Liberty1™ Microwave Peptide Synthesizers. The UV Monitor increases the efficiency of the reaction and maximizes peptide quality, while reducing cycle [...]

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