Fluidigm Releases Access Array™ System Amplicon Tagging Protocol for Sequencing with 454 GS FLX Titanium Series Reagents

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--Fluidigm Corporation today announced the release of a protocol for the Access Array™ System that enables sequencing of amplicon libraries using GS FLX Titanium Series reagents on the 454 GS FLX sequencing system. The Access Array integrated fluidic circuit (IFC) automatically generates emPCR-ready libraries by simultaneously combining 48 samples and 48 primer [...]

HighRes Biosolutions Fortifies Applications Team

Boston, MA -- HighRes Biosolutions, the leader in laboratory automation solutions for life science, announced today that it has hired Chris Pacheco, Ph.D, as Director of Life Science Technologies. Dr. Pacheco joins HighRes from Dr. Susan Lindquist’s lab at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT. Dr. Pacheco brings with him over a decade [...]

PerkinElmer’s New Western Lighting™ Ultra Kits Illuminate Western Blotting Detection

Global leader in reagent solutions enables highest confidence in detection of protein expression for the investigation of new drug candidates for critical disease states ANAHEIM, Calif.--At FASEB 2010 in Anaheim, California today, PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, announced the launch of its Western Lighting™ [...]

Porvair Expands Production of Vyon™ Sintered Porous Plastics

Porvair Filtration Group (Wrexham, UK) has starting manufacturing its high quality Vyon™ sintered porous plastics range at its US facility in Ashland, Virginia. The expansion of Vyon production is in response to increased demand and in order to enhance supply and support for OEM users in North America and Asia. Available in sheet, tube, and [...]

Ametek Establishes Atom Probe Technology Center

MADISON, WI – AMETEK Materials Analysis Division, a leader in high-end analytical instruments used in elemental and materials analysis, has established an Atom Probe Technology Center Madison, WI, at the headquarters of the recently acquired Imago Scientific Instruments. “The Atom Probe Center further strengthens our leadership in this emerging technology by bringing together the field’s [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Introduces New Range of Laboratory Cold Storage Solutions for Critical Samples

Thermo Scientific Jewett High-Performance Lab Refrigerators and Freezers Provide Worry-free Operation MILFORD, Mass. -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the latest additions to the Thermo Scientific Jewett laboratory refrigerator and freezer range, specifically designed to store high value, critical samples, reagents, vaccines, blood and plasma. The new high-performance [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Offers Pure Water for a Wide Range of Applications

Thermo Scientific Pure Water Systems for Delivering Type II Water MILFORD, Mass. -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, offers a range of purification systems to meet the needs of laboratories requiring Type II water. From preparing microbiological media and buffers to washing glassware and feeding laboratory equipment such as autoclaves [...]

Golub Capital Provides Financing to Support The Recapitalization of Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc.

NEW YORK -- Golub Capital today announced that it has provided $12.0 million of senior subordinated debt to support the recapitalization and ongoing growth of Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc. ("IDT"). This transaction marks the first investment made by GC 2009 Mezzanine Partners, L.P., which is Golub Capital's sixth fund dedicated to middle market mezzanine debt [...]

Trinean Reduces Volume and Time Requirements for Genomic DNA Quantification

GENTBRUGGE, Belgium -- Only 6 months after the release of its ground-breaking DropSense 96 spectrophotometer, Trinean, pioneer in high throughput analysis of droplets of samples in microfluidic structures, is now launching another device that will set the tone in scientific circles: the DropPlate 16 G. This upgrade of the current microfluid disposable, the DropPlate 16 [...]

Innovative Kitchener Company to Benefit From Federal Loan

Funding for P&P Optica Spells Jobs and New Global Market Potential KITCHENER, Ontario -- -- An innovative Kitchener company, P&P Optica Inc. that specializes in the design and manufacture of high precision optical instruments known as spectrometers, is poised to leap into the global marketplace thanks to a $1.3 million dollar loan announced today by [...]

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