LVEM5 Installed at Université du Québec à Rimouski to Study the Environmental effects of Nano-Materials

Led by Dr. Emilien Pelletier, the Institut des Sciences de la Mer de Rimouski at the Université du Québec à Rimouski has obtained an LVEM5 benchtop electron microscope to help them study the short-term and long-term effects of nano-materials on the marine environment. Dr. Pelletier is the Canada Research Chair in Marine Ecotoxicology. The overall [...]

TGR BioSciences Announces Expansion of its ‘No-Wash’ AlphaScreen Surefire Cellular Kinase Assay Portfolio

Adelaide, South Australia -- TGR BioSciences announces expansion of the extremeley successful and proven 'No-wash' AlphaScreen Surefire portfolio by addition of 9 new cell pathway analysis kits for measurement of phosphoproteins. The AlphaScreen SureFire technology is an exquisitely sensitive assay system which combines TGR's SureFire assay platform with PerkinElmer's Alpha Technology. The AlphaScreen SureFire technology [...]

Strand Develops Genomic Reviewer Desktop Solution for the FDA

San Francisco, California – Strand Life Sciences (Strand), a pioneer in scientific intelligence, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to deliver the Genomics Reviewer Desktop (GRD), a solution to enable FDA reviewers to manage and analyze pharmacogenomic data submitted through its Voluntary Exploratory Data [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Announces Redemption of 6 1/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2015

WALTHAM, Mass.--Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, announced today that it has given notice of its intention to redeem all of the outstanding 6 1/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2015 (the "6 1/8% Notes"). This action is part of the refinancing transactions previously announced on April 20, 2010. As [...]

CellTreat Scientific Products and Mandel Scientific Company Inc. Announce Distribution Agreement

SHIRLEY, MA, U.S.A. and GUELPH, ONTARIO, CANADA -- CELLTREAT Scientific Products and Mandel Scientific Company Inc. announce an agreement to distribute CELLTREAT Products in Canada effective May 1, 2010. CELLTREAT™ manufactures serological pipettes, centrifuge tubes, tissue culture and petri dishes, tissue culture plates, inoculating loops and needles, tissue and suspension culture flasks, filter systems and [...]

Takara Bio Grants QIAGEN a license for LA-PCR Technology

Takara Bio Inc. (Shiga, Japan) today announced that it has granted QIAGEN GmbH (Hilden, Germany) a worldwide non-exclusive license to make, use and sell LA-PCR related products under the patents covering the LA-PCR technology, which Takara Bio owns. Including QIAGEN, the company has twenty four (24) licensees of its LA-PCR technology worldwide. Financial terms of [...]

Air Liquide Supports Three High-Tech and Clean-Energy Projects in Japan

Japan is actively seeking to develop technologies in fields such as material science, biomedical research and clean-energy, so as to address some of the challenges posed by its scarce natural energy resources and ageing population. Air Liquide has recently been selected in three technology-projects. The Group will provide helium liquefiers to two prominent universities in [...]

Malvern ISys 5.0 Cross-Platform Chemical Imaging Analysis Software Available to License

Rapidly becoming the industry standard for analyzing chemical imaging data, ISys 5.0 from Malvern Instruments is available for license on a wide range of analytical systems. Providing a single platform that supports the import and easy manipulation of MIR, NIR and Raman imaging and mapping data files from a variety of vendors, ISys includes all [...]

Polyplus-transfection SA appoints Mark Bloomfield as CEO

Bloomfield brings broad-based experience in commercial leadership roles with global corporations and proven business skills Strasbourg -- Polyplus-transfection SA, the privately-held company developing innovative solutions for molecular and cellular biology, today announced that its board has appointed Mark Bloomfield as CEO. Mark Bloomfield replaces Frédéric Perraud who continues with Polyplus as COO and Deputy CEO. [...]

microLAN Exstends R&D Facility in Monitoring Station

After winning a SenterNovem development project (for developing the SPE-UVTOX- combination) microLan has in collaboration with Rijkswaterstaat (Dutch Department of Public Works) achieved a further expansion from the monitoring station in Hank at the river Maas (Mouse, the Netherlands). This new section of the laboratory will house the permanent equipment, from which the data is [...]

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