fp Institut für Produktqualität Enters Global Cooperation with QIAGEN to Market its Food Tests
May 26, 2010
Berlin, Germany -- / b3c newswire/ -- The Berlin-based diagnostics company ifp Institut für Produktqualität has sold its molecular biological, PCR-based food test product line to QIAGEN at a price not revealed. QIAGEN has purchased all the required patents and licences and will immediately begin to market and distribute the newly acquired portfolio of 70 [...]
ATLAS from Carl Zeiss Offers New Opportunities in the Nanoscopic Analysis of Large-area Samples
May 26, 2010
PEABODY, Mass. & OBERKOCHEN, Germany--Today, Carl Zeiss launches ATLAS™, a powerful hard- and software package, which, in combination with any scanning electron microscope from Carl Zeiss, enables quick and efficient imaging of large-area specimens with nanometer resolution. ATLAS is initially being utilized both in the area of neurological research, e.g. the young field of brain [...]
AnaSpec Introduces New SensoLyte® GSH and GST Assay Kits
May 26, 2010
AnaSpec has introduced two new Glutathione (GSH) related kits - the SensoLyte® Glutathione Cellular Assay Kit and the SensoLyte® GST Activity Assay Kit Fremont, CA -- AnaSpec has introduced two new Glutathione (GSH) related kits - the SensoLyte® Glutathione Cellular Assay Kit and the SensoLyte® GST Activity Assay Kit to complement the colorimetric and fluorimetric [...]
Covidien Announces Agreement to Sell Specialty Chemicals
May 26, 2010
DUBLIN--Covidien (NYSE: COV), a leading global provider of healthcare products, today announced a definitive agreement to sell its Specialty Chemicals business to an affiliate of New Mountain Capital, L.L.C. for a cash purchase price of $280 million. Covidien’s Specialty Chemicals business, headquartered in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, manufactures and markets high-purity chemicals and related products and [...]
OSI Systems Receives Approximately $3 Million in Initial Contract Awards
May 25, 2010
HAWTHORNE, Calif.--OSI Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSIS - News), a vertically-integrated provider of specialized electronic products for critical applications in the Security and Healthcare industries, today announced that its Security division, Rapiscan Systems, has received initial contract awards to supply air cargo inspection systems to two major international airlines. The contracts have a combined value of [...]
Exiqon and MultiD Sign Development and Distribution Agreement
May 25, 2010
COPENHAGEN, DK, AND GOTHENBURG, SE -- Exiqon A/S, a leader in microRNA analysis products and services, and MultiD Analyses AB, a leader in comprehensive software solutions for qPCR data analysis, today announced a Development and Distribution Agreement incorporating a specifically adapted version of the GenEx qPCR analysis software for Exiqon's new microRNA qPCR platform. The [...]
QIAGEN Acquires Comprehensive Portfolio of Molecular Food Safety Tests
May 25, 2010
GERMANTOWN, Maryland and HILDEN, Germany -- -- QIAGEN (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt, Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that it has entered into an agreement with the Institute for Product Quality (ifp), pursuant to which QIAGEN has acquired all rights to 70 molecular food safety tests developed by the Berlin-based specialized laboratory center for food analysis. The [...]
Shimadzu has Partnered with Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc.
May 25, 2010
COLUMBIA, Md. -- The goal of this partnership is to provide a means for impurity analysis and metabolite identification researchers to automatically assign high mass accuracy ion fragments to spectral peaks, and evaluate the assignment quality for structural elucidation. Working together with Shimadzu application layer software and LabSolutions software, ACD MS/Manager will be a powerful [...]
May 25, 2010
Porvair Sciences, specialists in microplate technology, has announced a new range of aluminium heat seals for PCR, storage and life science applications. The new foils are precision engineered to an exact thickness and come colour-coded to enable easy identification of the different types. In addition, the pre-cut foil sheets are marked to ensure that they [...]
Bionovo Develops a High Throughput LC-MS/MS Tandem Quantification of Multiple Bioactive Compounds
May 25, 2010
Results to Be Presented at the American Society for Mass Spectrometry's 58th ASMS Conference in Salt Lake City, May 23-27, 2010 EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- -- Bionovo, Inc. (NASDAQ:BNVI) today announced that it has developed a novel analytical 2-dimensional liquid chromatography mass spectrometry-based (LC/LC-MS/MS) multiplexing platform that allows for the rapid, specific, sensitive automated quantification of [...]

