CLC bio Expanding US Operations with New Offices and Hirings

CLC bio is currently ramping up their efforts in both North and South America as a direct response to the increasing data analysis demands throughout the life science sector. Per September 1st, CLC bio’s Americas headquarters has opened a new location on 10 Rogers Street in Cambridge, Boston. The new offices will be the home [...]

Tecan Concludes the Sale of the Sample Management Activities to NEXUS Biosystems

Männedorf, Switzerland - The Tecan Group (SIX Swiss Exchange: TECN) today announced that the sale of REMP AG, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tecan, as well as other related assets, to NEXUS Biosystems has been completed as planned. From September 1, 2010, the Sample Management business segment will no longer be consolidated within the Tecan [...]

Agilent Technologies Ships 300th X-Ray Crystallography System

Recipient Is University of Oxford's Chemical Crystallography Laboratory Santa Clara, Calif. - Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that it has shipped the 300th X-ray crystallography SuperNova system. The system was manufactured by Oxford Diffraction Ltd., part of Varian, Inc., which was acquired by Agilent in May, 2010. The 300th (and 301st) SuperNova systems [...]

VWR International, LLC Acquires LABART SP. Z O.O. in Poland

WEST CHESTER, PA - VWR International, LLC, a leading global laboratory supply and distribution company, announced today that it has acquired LABART SP. Z O.O., a scientific laboratory supply distributor headquartered in Gdansk, Poland. LABART was founded in 1996 and is one of Poland's largest independent suppliers of laboratory equipment and consumables. LABART is recognized [...]

Sigma(R) Life Science Enters Genetically Modified Cell Market

Sigma Life Science launches range of engineered cell lines exploiting CompoZr(R) zinc finger nuclease technology St. Louis - Sigma Life Science, the innovative biological products and research services business of Sigma-Aldrich(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: SIAL), today announced the global release of a pioneering range of engineered mammalian cell lines. This new product range combines Sigma's proprietary [...]

iBox® Explorer™ Fluorescence Imaging Microscope released at the 2010 World Molecular Imaging Conference in Kyoto Japan

UVP, LLC will exhibit at World Molecular Imaging Conference in Kyoto, Japan from September 8 – 11, 2010 to showcase the new iBox® Explorer™ Fluorescence Imaging Microscope along with UVP’s extensive line of iBox in vivo imaging systems for rapid high resolution analysis of fluorescently tagged cells, tissues, organs and whole animals in the visible [...]

New England Journal of Medicine Study Shows New Molecular TB Test Could Offer Rapid and Effective Diagnosis in Developing Countries

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD) today announced that its Xpert(R) MTB/RIF test was the subject of a study published in the latest edition of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), "Rapid Molecular Detection of Tuberculosis and Rifampin Resistance." The complete study is now available online (https://www.nejm.org) and will appear in the September 9 [...]

LGC Genomics Acquires the New Illumina HiSeq 2000

The new Illumina HiSeq 2000 is added to LGC Genomics’ next generation sequencing portfolio LGC Genomics, the genomics division of LGC, announces the acquisition of the latest next generation sequencing technology Illumina HiSeq 2000 to its sequencing portfolio at its Berlin facilities. The Illumina HiSeq 2000 sequencing platform - together with the Roche GS FLX [...]

New Near-Infrared Spectrometer from Ocean Optics Provides Great Stability and High Optical Resolution

Ocean Optics (www.oceanoptics.com) has expanded its offering of small-footprint near-infrared spectrometers with the introduction of NIRQuest512-2.2, a high-performance unit with response from 900-2200 nm. NIRQuest512-2.2 is ideal for applications ranging from moisture detection and chemical analysis to high-resolution laser and optical fibre characterization. NIRQuest512-2.2 uses a high-stability, 512-element Hamamatsu Indium Gallium Arsenide (InGaAs)-array detector in [...]

Undergraduates use MARAN Ultra NMR Analyzers

Oxford Instruments Magnetic Resonance, the leading supplier of low-field benchtop nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technology, offers a range of GeoSpec rock analyzers including the MARAN Ultra. The University of Oklahoma uses a total of seven of these instruments in undergraduate education and research. According to Dr. Carl Sondergeld, professor and associate dean of the University [...]

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