GE Healthcare Forms Strategic Alliance with FUJIFILM in Life Sciences

Global alliance in biomolecular imaging Uppsala, Sweden, May 28th, 2009 - GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announces that it has entered into a Strategic Alliance Agreement with FUJIFILM Corporation. Under the alliance, Fujifilm will develop, manufacture and supply advanced biomolecular imaging systems to GE Healthcare. The products will be sold [...]

MedMira Strengthens North American Sales Channels, Adding VWR as Distributor for the United States

HALIFAX, May 28 - MedMira Inc., ("MedMira") (TSX Venture: MIR, NASDAQ: MMIRF), a developer and marketer of rapid diagnostic technology and solutions, announced today that VWR International, LLC (VWR) has joined the Company's U.S. distribution network. Headquartered in West Chester, Pennsylvania, VWR is a global laboratory supply and distribution company with worldwide sales in excess [...]

ZyGEM Corp. Signs Agreement to Incorporate Its Breakthrough DNA Extraction Technology Into Rubicon’s Research and Diagnostic Products

-Latest in Series of Global Distribution Agreements to Make ZyGEM's Lower-Cost, Rapid and Easy-to-Use DNA Extraction Kits Available to Researchers Everywhere- -ZyGEM Also Announces Issuance of U.S. Patent for its DNA Extraction Technology- SOLANA BEACH, Calif. and HAMILTON, New Zealand and ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 28 -- ZyGEM Corp. Ltd. today announced that it has [...]

Protein Discovery Inc. to Introduce Programmable Molecular Weight Fractionation System at ASMS 2009 Conference

KNOXVILLE, TN--May 28, 2009 -- The GELFREE(TM) 8100 Fractionation System is the first instrument for proteomics that partitions complex protein mixtures into user-selectable, liquid-phase molecular weight fractions. Protein Discovery anticipates that the new system will be utilized broadly by proteomics research laboratories in combination with routine research techniques such as IEF, trypsin digestion, western blotting, [...]

High Quality PCR Plates Deliver Outstanding Performance…

Specialists in applications optimised microplates - Porvair Sciences Ltd - have announced a new range of high quality Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) plates. Manufactured from ultra clean medical grade polymer under Class 10,000 clean room conditions the new range of eleven plates are certified free of pyrogens as well as DNAse and RNAse enzyme activity [...]

Moxtek and Philips Research Announce Collaboration Agreement for New Microarray Technology

May 28, 2009 12:50 PM Pacific Daylight Time OREM, Utah--Moxtek (www.moxtek.com), a nano-photonics company, today announced that it has reached a collaboration agreement with Philips Research to develop a new wire grid microarray chip (WGM) that has been designed to offer ultra-high surface specificity and excellent suppression of background signals. The WGM is based on [...]

Air Liquide Healthcare: Acquisition of Pacific Science in the U.S.

PARIS & HOUSTON--Air Liquide’s Healthcare business is pursuing its development in the United States with the acquisition of Pacific Science, Inc., a provider of cryobiology equipment and services to biobanks, based in Torrance, California. The transaction, effective May 1st, was made by Air Liquide Healthcare America Corporation, Air Liquide’s American Healthcare subsidiary. Cryobiology is a [...]

Agilent Technologies’ Application Kits for Pesticides and Toxicology Analysis Provide Fast Track to More Productivity in Lab

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A - News) today announced the availability of pesticides and toxicology application kits to improve workflow and productivity in food, environmental and forensic markets. During the past four decades Agilent has taken an active role in developing methods that have evolved into global industry standards. More than 60 quick-start application [...]

Pacific Biosciences Names Dr. Eric Schadt Chief Scientific Officer

MENLO PARK, Calif.--Pacific Biosciences, a private company developing third-generation DNA sequencing technology, today announced that leading genetic scientist Eric E. Schadt, Ph.D. has joined the company as Chief Scientific Officer. Dr. Schadt joins Pacific Biosciences from Rosetta Inpharmatics, a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc. in Seattle, where he was Executive Scientific Director of Genetics. [...]

Agilent Technologies’ Enterprise Content Management System Now Supports Dionex Chromeleon Chromatography Software

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 28, 2009 Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that its OpenLAB Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system now supports the archiving of data generated by Dionex Corp.'s Chromeleon 6.8 chromatography software. This demonstrates Agilent's continued commitment to open systems, resulting in broader customer choice. "Chromatography software such as Chromeleon stores data [...]

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