Stratophase Move to Larger Facility

Romsey, UK – Following substantially increased interest in its SpectroSens optical microchip platform technology, Stratophase - a specialist in real-time chemical and biochemical measurement and detection - has doubled its sensor chip manufacturing capability and moved to a larger site. Three times larger than the old building, Stratophase’s new facility has been fitted with offices, [...]

Pacific Biosciences Announces $109 Million Financing

Series F Includes $50 Million Strategic Investment from Gen-Probe Menlo Park, Calif. – Pacific Biosciences, a private company developing a disruptive technology platform for real-time detection of biological events at single molecule resolution, today announced it has completed a Series F round of financing in the amount of $109 million. The financing round includes a [...]

Tecan Automated Solutions Accelerate Crop Improvement

Scientists at the Institute of Plant Breeding at the University of Kiel, Germany, are using a Tecan Freedom EVO® liquid handling workstation to perform high throughput DNA purification and normalization, for the development of TILLING® (Targeting Induced Local Lesions in Genomes) programs for rape seed and sugar beet. Tecan has worked closely with Macherey-Nagel to [...]

New Test Method Targets Gulf Seafood Safety

STARKVILLE, Miss.--A new test method developed by State Chemical Lab scientists at Mississippi State University for Gulf of Mexico seafood is expected to help protect the buying public and get commercial fishermen back to business. Lab personnel received a boost for the new method recently when Agilent Technologies, Inc., donated a high-end mass spectrometer that [...]

Capital for Fluorescent Mini-Antibodies – New Benchmarks in Cell Research

Bonn / Munich - High-Tech Gründerfonds and Bayern Kapital are investing about EUR 400k in Chromotek GmbH. The investment is intended to fund research and development work aimed at ensuring successful market entry for chromobody technology in the field of living cell analysis. Chromotek GmbH, an enterprise spun off from the Ludwig Maximilian University in [...]

Dorton Analytical Ltd, Simple, Reliable & Rapid Process Development

Dorton Analytical Ltd has been appointed the UK agency rights to support and supply the Dynamic Extraction Ltd range of High Performance Countercurrent Chromatography instrumentation. High Performance Countercurrent Chromatography (HPCCC) instruments offer a simple solution for focusing effort on process development instead of redeveloping chromatographic methods as production scale increases. Scale-up on these instruments is [...]

SP Scientific Has Announced the FTS ThermoJet ES

Environmental Simulator & Precision Temperature Cycling System SP Scientific has announced the FTS ThermoJet ES - a new generation temperature control system for precise and reliable device testing and characterization. The ThermoJet ES has been designed to deliver controlled temperature air from -80C to +350C at air flow rates from 5 to 20 scfm. A [...]

New Advanced Plating Module for TAP’s Automated Cell Culture System

Enables Reliable Production of Consistent, High Quality Cell Plates for Transport Assays. The Automation Partnership (TAP), a world leader in the design and development of innovative automation for life science applications is pleased to announce it has begun installations of its new CompacT SelecT Advanced Plating Module (APM), an innovative alternative to the established CompacT [...]

New England Biolabs Launches NEBNext™ Quick DNA Sample Prep Reagent Sets for Use with Roche/454 Next Generation Sequencing Platforms

Ipswich, MA - New England Biolabs (NEB) has expanded its line of reagents for sample preparation with the introduction of NEBNext™ Quick DNA Sample Prep Reagent Set 2 and Master Mix Set 2, both suitable for library construction for Roche’s 454 GS FLX Titanium™ and GS Junior™ instruments. These new products provide all the necessary [...]

New Touch-Screen Monitor Provides Fingertip Interface to MICROLAB® STAR Workstations

Reno, Nevada - Hamilton Robotics introduces a Touch-Screen Monitor option for its MICROLAB STAR and STARlet liquid handling workstations, providing increased ease of use and space savings. Taking advantage of new Windows* 7 capabilities, the touch screen minimizes the need for a separate keyboard and mouse. Users can customize their own graphical interface with windows [...]

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