Evaluation of UNIarray for Infectious Disease Diagnostics
July 6, 2010
Dortmund, Germany - Protagen AG, Dortmund, and the Neuried, Germany, based diagnostics company Mikrogen GmbH, announced today the closing of a collaboration agreement for the identification of typical autoantibody signatures in infectious diseases. Also classical infectious disease diagnostics can benefit from UNIarray®, the proprietary technology platform of Protagen for the determination of indication specific autoantibody [...]
Ocimum Biosolutions Offers New Solutions in MicroRNA Microarray Technology
July 6, 2010
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India - Ocimum Biosolutions, a global integrated genomics company, today announced that it now offers cutting edge solutions using miRNA microarray technology. A wide range of miRNA microarray kits and assays including human, mouse, rat and other systems are available immediately on Ocimum’s proprietary OciChip™ platform. The epoxide coated microarray slides are [...]
Synergy 2 Alpha Is A Proven Alternative For Reading AlphaScreen®/AlphaLISA® Assays
July 6, 2010
WINOOSKI VT, USA — Further expanding the Synergy™ Microplate Reader family, BioTek’s Synergy™ 2 Alpha Microplate Reader provides high-performance Alpha detection at a reasonable price for low- to medium-throughput laboratories. Synergy 2 Alpha comes pre-configured with the Alpha filter set, mirrors, software and optical modules to read all Alpha assays, and is easily upgradable with [...]
NPL Using Olympus LEXT OLS4000 to Develop Areal Surface Texture Measuring Standards
July 5, 2010
Project will deliver good practice guidelines and reference artefacts Olympus has today announced that the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is using its LEXT OLS4000 in a project to establish good practice guidelines for the calibration of 3D/areal surface texture measuring instruments. The NPL project will establish robust and easy to use calibration steps and reference [...]
Porvair’s Novel Moulding Process Delivers Highly Uniform Plastic Parts
July 5, 2010
Drawing upon over 30 years experience - Porvair Filtration Group has developed expertise to offer optimum manufacturing solutions of sintered porous plastic components using a wide range of cGMP manufacturing techniques. Recent development of a revolutionary new moulding technology now enables the company to rapidly produce porous plastic components of the highest quality and part-to-part [...]
A. Krüss Optronic Opens Office in Taiwan
July 2, 2010
At the CIA Singapore, Krüss Optronic announced the opening of its Asian headquarter in Taiwan. "Krüss Asia" will serve the South East Asian market, with Mr. Edward Yeh as managing director. Mr. Yeh has very long experience in the laboratory market and knows the region like his waste-pocket. Thanks to this knowledge, combined with very [...]
DNA2.0 Celebrates Freedom Of Expression With Mammalian Expression Vectors
July 2, 2010
pJmammalian Vectors Provide Superior Expression, Come Without IP Restrictions and are Free to Gene Synthesis Customers Menlo Park, CA - DNA2.0 , the leading gene synthesis and protein engineering company, today announced the availability of pJmammalian expression vectors, the latest offering in DNA2.0's unique and powerful family of expression vectors. Along with pJexpress bacterial expression [...]
IBM Partners with University of Missouri on Genomics Research Initiative
July 2, 2010
Collaboration Aimed at Helping Build 'Life Sciences Corridor' in the Midwest COLUMBIA, Mo. - IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the University of Missouri today announced a life sciences research initiative using IBM high performance computing technologies to advance the school's bioinformatics research projects. The goal of the initiative is to develop a first-of-a-kind cloud computing environment [...]
Illumina Appoints Nicholas Naclerio Senior Vice President, Corporate Development
July 2, 2010
SAN DIEGO - Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced that it has appointed Nicholas J. Naclerio, Ph.D., to the position of senior vice president, Corporate Development, reporting to Jay Flatley, president and chief executive officer. In this capacity, Dr. Naclerio will be responsible for all Corporate and Business Development activities, including licensing, strategic planning and acquisitions. [...]
WaferGen Announces Capital Raise of Approximately $7 Million in Registered Direct Offering
July 2, 2010
Fremont, Calif. -- WaferGen Biosystems, Inc. (OTCBB:WGBS), a leading developer of state-of-the-art genomic analysis systems, today announced that it has received commitments from certain investors to purchase approximately $7 million of previously unissued securities in a registered direct offering. The investors include the Chairman and CEO, Alnoor Shivji, who has agreed to purchase $1 million [...]
