Sunnyvale, CA—Dionex Corporation is pleased to announce the establishment of a permanent academic endowment at The University of Texas at Arlington that will benefit the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in College of Science. The endowment will set up The Hamish Small Chair of Ion Analysis to honor Hamish Small, the inventor of suppressed ion [...]

Seminars in London, Amsterdam, Munich and Berlin Feature Preeminent European Scientists Discussing Advances in Targeted Sequencing LEXINGTON, Mass.--RainDance Technologies, Inc.: “Targeted re-sequencing? See what you’ve been missing.” What: RainDance Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of innovative microdroplet-based solutions for human health and disease research, today announced it is increasing its commercial activities in Europe beginning [...]

SRM/MRM Mass Spectrometry (MS) Standard Database for 5,000 Human Proteins ROCKVILLE, Md. and SEATTLE -- OriGene Technologies, Inc., a leading gene-centric life sciences company, and the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), announce plans to create a proteotypic PeptideAtlas and develop an SRM/MRM (single reaction monitoring, multiple reaction monitoring) mass spectrometry standard database for 5,000 human [...]

Paoli, PA -- AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE:AME) today announced the appointment of Ron Oscher as Vice President and General Manager of its Materials Analysis Division. He replaces Alan Devenish who will retire after nearly 45 years with the Company. Prior to joining AMETEK, Mr. Oscher held several positions with Emerson Electric Corporation. Most recently, he had [...]

Olink Bioscience expands its product portfolio by launching three new products, the Duolink® II reagent kit, Duolink® ImageTool, and Duolink® II Probemaker. The original Duolink product line, introduced on the market in 2007, has been well received by academic labs and pharma companies for its unique and enabling features to visualize and locate native protein-protein [...]

6,000-Sample Pilot Studies Completed on Axiom Catalog Array With Superior Performance SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ: AFFX) today announced that it has delivered the first custom array designed for a 100,000-sample genotyping project to be performed using the Axiom™ Genotyping Solution. The array, optimized for European populations, was developed in conjunction with researchers from the [...]

AnaSpec, the world’s largest provider of ?-amyloid peptide and Alzheimer’s research reagents , has introduced its ClearPoint™ ?-Amyloid custom peptide synthesis service. AnaSpec, the world’s largest provider of ?-amyloid peptide and Alzheimer’s research reagents , has introduced its ClearPoint™ ?-Amyloid custom peptide synthesis service. ClearPoint™ peptides are AnaSpec’s trademark collection of heavy or stable isotope [...]

Sunnyvale, CA -- Dionex Corporation is pleased to announce the March release of the new IonSwift™ anion-exchange column line, the next generation of column technology for anion analysis. These monolith columns provide better flow properties than packed columns, thus enabling faster analyses over traditional packed-column technology. The new IonSwift MAX-100 monolith anion-exchange column is designed [...]

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.--SurModics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SRDX), a leading provider of drug delivery and surface modification technologies to the healthcare industry, announced that it is presenting a scientific poster on the use of its StabilGuard® Immunoassay Stabilizer (BSA-Free) product as a blocker in Luminex Corporation assays. “This poster highlights additional benefits of the StabilGuard® Immunoassay Stabilizer/Blocker [...]

HERCULES, CA and WASHINGTON, DC -- -- Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. /quotes/comstock/13*!bio/quotes/nls/bio (BIO 96.93, -0.58, -0.60%) and /quotes/comstock/13*!bio.b/quotes/nls/bio.b (BIO.B 97.93, -0.44, -0.45%) , a multinational manufacturer and distributor of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, and the American Red Cross, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Biologics Evaluation and [...]