July 14, 2010
Uppsala, Sweden – Biotage (STO: BIOT), a leading supplier of tools and technology for analytical and medicinal chemistry, announced the introduction of ExploraSep 96-well screening plates to identify optimum scavengers. The 4 different screening plates deliver 128 selective resins based on high-performance, Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (MIPs). Biotage provides professional MIPs technical consultation, information on additional [...]
Zygem Introduces Breakthrough Microbial Fingerprinting Technology
July 14, 2010
DNA Fingerprinting Assays Run on Integrated ZyGEM/MicroLab Sample-to-Answer Platform Have Transformational Potential for Profiling Unknown Bacterial Samples Has Potential to Identify Up to 30 Different Bacterial Infectious Agents in Challenging Samples in Less than One Hour, a Dramatic Improvement over Current Methods Charlottesville, VA and Hamilton, New Zealand - ZyGEM Corp. Ltd., has introduced its [...]
World’s First Damage-Less Cell Sorter Suitable for Human iPS Cells will be Available Worldwide
July 14, 2010
Furukawa Electric (TOKYO:5801)(ISIN:JP3827200001) have commercialized the world's first damage-less cell sorter (PERFLOW Sort), an instrument for analyzing and sorting living cells, especially human induced pluripotential stem (iPS) cells and human embryonic stem (ES) cells with inducible pluripotency to differentiate into various cell types. Different from the conventional sorting methods including ultrasonic wave, charge and high [...]
Stratophase Move to Larger Facility
July 14, 2010
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
July 14, 2010
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
July 14, 2010
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
July 14, 2010
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
July 14, 2010
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
July 14, 2010
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
July 14, 2010
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 [...]
