Tecan Freedom EVO® Offers on Demand Protein Expression

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

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 [...]

Olympus to Distribute Hirox® KH-7700 All-in-One Digital Microscope for U.S. Industrial and Quality Assurance Applications

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

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 [...]

American Science and Engineering, Inc. Receives Follow-on Order from NATO C3 Agency for Z Portal X-ray Screening System

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

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

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

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 [...]

Agilent Technologies Provides Free On-Line Access to FC24 Food Commodities and Contaminants Database

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that it has purchased access to the FC24 Food Commodities and Contaminants Database compiled by Europe's Food and Environmental Research Agency (fera), and is allowing customers worldwide to use it free of charge at www.agilent.com/chem/foods. "Food testing is all about being able to quickly [...]

Cofactor Genomics to Provide Sequencing Data for Ozzy Osbourne

Cofactor Genomics in conjunction with Knome and Applied Biosystems, will construct libraries and perform the sequencing of Ozzy Osbourne’s genome. Cofactor will generate sequencing data on a newly installed Applied Biosystems SOLiD 4 system by Life Technologies while Knome will provide data analysis and interpretation. “These technologies produce thousands of times more data per run [...]

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