Industry-exclusive warranty now covers more products and accessories Dunedin, Florida – Ocean Optics, the industry leader in miniature spectroscopy, has expanded its exclusive 3-Year Warranty beyond its spectrometers to include additional products such as light sources and other accessories. Beginning July 1, 2010, spectrometers, light sources and sampling accessories purchased from Ocean Optics and its [...]

Cologne (Germany) / Milan (Italy) – Lonza and Axxam are pleased to announce the signing of a license agreement enabling Lonza to include Axxam’s Photina®, i-Photina® and Clytin® Photoproteins as calcium biosensors in Lonza’s broad range of Clonetics® Primary Cells. “We are really pleased to have entered this license agreement with Lonza”, says Sabrina Corazza, [...]

Friedrichshafen, Germany - Nanosurf delivers its 1000th Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) to the Claude-Dornier-Schule, a technical high school in Friedrichshafen, Germany, near the Bodensee (Lake Constance). The STM was demonstrated during an official event that attracted a large number of interested students, teachers, and representatives of the local press. The event was organized by Dr. [...]

Sherr to lead the growth and management of RainDance’s foundational IP portfolio centered on the company’s disruptive microdroplet platform technology LEXINGTON, Mass. - RainDance Technologies, Inc., a private company pioneering microdroplet-based technologies for single-molecule and single-cell analysis, today announced the appointment of Alan Sherr as Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel. Mr. Sherr brings [...]

Asia Pump Experiences Global Success Royston, UK - Leading chemistry product innovator, Syrris, has experienced outstanding global success with its Asia Pump for applications within flow chemistry. Having sold over 40 continuous flow pumps since its launch in March 2010, Syrris has shipped units to laboratories and academic institutions in numerous countries, including Spain, USA, [...]

RUNCORN, Cheshire - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced its latest STP 420ES tissue processor for use in high-volume pathology laboratories. The updated instrument features more robust hardware and ease-of-use, enabling the high-throughput processing of large volumes of tissue to meet the demands of today's laboratories. The Thermo Scientific [...]

Range includes five digital baths (XUB range) and two analogue baths (XUBA range); all baths supplied with stainless steel basket and plastic (ABS) lid as standard Fully-featured XUB digital range offers advanced validation, traceability, control and cleaning; frequency LEAP technology significantly improves ultrasonic cleaning results by reducing dead spots and standing waves throughout the tank [...]

Welwyn Garden City - Cresset is delighted to announce the release of FieldView, its powerful new molecular Fields visualizer. FieldView is a molecular viewer/editor designed to create, modify, view and compare molecules along with their associated Field patterns and physicochemical properties. This provides a richer more informative view of how molecules behave in biological systems. [...]

Chemical Determinants of DNA Ligase Fidelity SAN DIEGO - The National Institutes of Health recently awarded TriLink BioTechnologies, Inc. (TriLink) a Phase II SBIR Grant of approximately $725,000 to continue their work on developing reagents to enhance the specificity of DNA ligase. In these continued studies, the utility of chemically modified components will be explored [...]

New data cartridge release enables first unified search across complex large biomolecular sequences and small-molecule structures SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Symyx Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMMX) has released the Symyx Direct 7.0 data cartridge—an innovative, one-stop solution for registering, searching, and retrieving chemical and biological entities stored in relational databases. Supporting the continued expansion of biologics in [...]