NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, - Ocimum Biosolutions, a leading global integrated genomics company, today announced that it has partnered with Jivan Biologics to provide sequencing-based transcriptome profiling services. With this partnership, Ocimum will venture into RNA based services, especially transcriptome profiling, leveraging Jivan Biologics’s industry-leading bioinformatics infrastructure, experience and technology. Ocimum [...]

Z Backscatter Systems Continue to Support Critical Counterterrorist Missions in Harsh Environments BILLERICA, Mass.--American Science and Engineering, Inc. (AS&E®) (NASDAQ: ASEI - News), a leading worldwide supplier of innovative X-ray detection solutions, announced today the receipt of service and maintenance renewal orders valued at $6.0 million from the U.S. government for Z Backscatter™ Vans (ZBV) [...]

Increase measuring efficiency—from the generation of measuring plans to data analysis and documentation OBERKOCHEN, Germany -- With the latest version of its standard measuring software CALYPSO®, Carl Zeiss offers additional functions with outstanding properties for users of measuring technology. CALYPSO 5.0 further improves measuring efficiency—be it the generation of measuring plans for contact or optical [...]

Plainview, NY -- Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO), the leading provider of scanning probe microscopes (SPM) to the nanoscience community and industrial sectors, today announced the launch of “The Nanoscale World,”an online community resource and forum website for SPM & Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) collaboration. The Nanoscale World offers AFM researchers a direct means of [...]

Sunnyvale, CA -– In a slow economy, pharmaceutical and biotech companies facing increasing pressure to reduce costs, risk, and time-to-market, and maximize efficiencies have converged on a sound business strategy: outsource non-core functions such as peptide manufacturing. To help meet rising outsourcing demands and the life sciences industry’s quality concerns, American Peptide Company, a leading [...]

BOSTON, Massachusetts and BERGISCH GLADBACH, Germany -- Stemgent, Inc., and Miltenyi Biotec today announced a strategic collaboration for co-development and commercialization of stem cell research products. Within the strategic partnership, Miltenyi Biotec will be responsible for worldwide marketing and sales of Stemgent's existing stem cell product portfolio outside the USA, whereas Stemgent will continue to [...]

JENA -- Carl Zeiss offers the Axio Imager Vario microscope module in particular for tasks in industry where large samples such as solar cells, wafers, flat panel screens or printed circuit boards have to be examined under the microscope with various contrasting methods. The sample space of the Axio Imager Vario has been adapted to [...]

JENA -- Carl Zeiss is now introducing the Axio Lab.A1 microscope for examinations in the materials sciences. Its particularly intuitive operation makes this upright microscope suitable for routine lab applications in metallography, quality control and for inspection tasks in production lines. This permits microscopic examinations of metallographic specimens and samples made of polymers or other [...]

Algae-based biofuels such as biodiesel or bioethanol, have significant advantages over crop-based biofuels. Algae grow at a significantly faster rate than more complex plants, they have far greater yield per unit area and they can be grown in compact, closed systems. One further advantage is the short lifespan and hence a faster cycle of testing [...]

New ZENTM quencher reduces background fluorescence and improves performance CORALVILLE, IA -- Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), the world leader in oligonucleotide synthesis, has introduced a new double-quenched probe, which increases the accuracy and reliability of 5’ nuclease qPCR experiments. While traditional probes have 20-30 bases between the dye and quencher, this novel proprietary probe design [...]