DPT Laboratories Uses Malvern Spraytec in all Nasal Spray Work
June 29, 2010
Malvern, UK: Used at two different locations within contract development and manufacturing organization DPT Laboratories (San Antonio, Texas), Spraytec laser diffraction particle size analyzers from Malvern Instruments have assured their place in the company’s nasal spray development and manufacturing areas by being both highly effective and very user friendly. Dr Vitthal Kulkarni, Scientific Advisor at [...]
AMSBIO Has Released 4 New Homogeneous Assay Kits
June 29, 2010
AMSBIO has released 4 new homogeneous 384-well format AlphaScreen assay kits - JMJD2A, JMJD2B, JMJD2C, PRMT5 and G9a (a histone methyltransferase). In the desire to make the search for new drugs more economically viable, pharmaceutical companies are seeking rapid, sensitive assays where all the reaction reagents are added in a single automated step. Homogeneous assays [...]
Tecan Freedom EVO® Offers on Demand Protein Expression
June 29, 2010
The High Throughput Expression (HiTEL) Laboratory at the University of York is a service facility offering bespoke protein expression, using a Freedom EVO 200 workstation to meet its heavy demand for complete automation of high throughput cloning, expression and screening. "As a busy service laboratory, we rely on our automated systems to ensure reproducible cloning [...]
NanoString Technologies Announces Key Executive Management Appointments
June 29, 2010
Brad Gray Joins as President and Chief Executive Officer, and Nalini Murdter Named Chief Business Officer SEATTLE, Wash. - NanoString Technologies, Inc., a privately held life sciences company marketing a complete solution for detecting and counting large sets of target molecules in biological samples, today announced that it has appointed Brad Gray as President and [...]
June 29, 2010
CENTER VALLEY, Pa. - Olympus America Inc., Scientific Equipment Group – Industrial Microscopes has signed an agreement with Hirox-USA, Inc., of Hackensack, N.J., to distribute the Hirox KH-7700 Digital Microscope system in the United States. The KH-7700 is an all-in-one portable digital microscopy system that is designed to provide observation, recording and measurement for industrial [...]
Hamilton Introduces 2D Barcode Reader for Integration on MICROLAB® STAR Decks
June 29, 2010
Reno, Nevada - Hamilton Robotics announces a new, proprietary 2D Barcode Reader specially designed to provide advanced sample tracking functions on MICROLAB STAR automated liquid handling workstation. The new reader has a compact footprint in a standard Hamilton carrier size to minimize the required deck space. The reader's CCD camera records barcodes in less than [...]
June 29, 2010
Strategic NATO Facility to Deploy Z Portal System for Checkpoint Security BILLERICA, Mass. - American Science and Engineering, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASEI) (AS&E(R)), a leader in X-ray detection technology, announced today that NATO C3 Agency has awarded AS&E a follow-on order for a multi-view Z Portal(R) X-ray screening system for use at a strategic security checkpoint. [...]
FEI Commissions Titan S/TEM at Institute of Nanoscience of Aragon
June 29, 2010
World class research institute will use world’s most powerful commercially-available microscope to investigate new materials and structures down to the atomic scale. Hillsboro, Ore. - FEI Company (NASDAQ: FEIC), a leading scientific instrumentation company providing electron microscopy systems for nanoscale applications across many industries, has successfully completed the installation of its Titan™ scanning/transmission electron microscope [...]
AL-TAR Services, Inc. Laboratory Is Now Accredited For ACLASS Standards
June 29, 2010
AL-TAR Services, Inc., a California based laboratory equipment repair and instrument calibration services company, has been formally approved by ACLASS and the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board as an internationally accredited calibration lab. Beginning in 2009, the AL-TAR Quality Department invested valuable time and began its journey working towards the prestigious International Organization of Standardization (ISO) [...]
JPK Instruments, The Pioneers of BioAFM, Launch The NanoWizard® 3 BioScience AFM
June 29, 2010
JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation in life sciences and soft matter, is pleased to select MicroScience 2010 to announce the launch of their third generation, dedicated BioAFM system, the NanoWizard® 3 BioScience AFM. Building relationships with the SPM community and collaborating with users worldwide has enabled JPK to develop powerful and flexible [...]

