Welwyn Garden City -- Cresset is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Rob Scoffin as Chief Executive Officer of Cresset Group. Rob joins Cresset from CambridgeSoft where, as Vice President of European Operations, he was responsible for significant growth in CambridgeSoft’s European business. Rob replaces Beatrice Leigh, who will now become non-executive Chairman of [...]

Easy and Economic Generation of Functional siRNAs The Turbo Dicer siRNA Generation Kit from AMSBIO enables easy and cost-effective generation of a large number of small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) from full-length target genes. siRNAs are 21- to 23-nucleotide RNA molecules that can cause targeted gene silencing in mammalian cells through a process known as RNA [...]

Flexible and lightweight for taking readings remotely, in process plants, laboratories, classrooms—or anywhere! (Vocus) -- A new series of i-LAB handheld analyzing spectrometers (https://www.coleparmer.com/7797) from Cole-Parmer offers the convenience of portability. Weighing only 7.4 ounces each, the compact battery-operated instrument enables users to go directly to the sample source. For those who test water quality, [...]

FileTek, Inc., a pioneer developer of large-scale data management and information governance solutions, today announced StorHouse® for Life Sciences, a large-scale, storage virtualization and data management platform specifically engineered to administer the terabytes to petabytes of structured and unstructured fixed content generated by highly scalable and dynamic life sciences applications. StorHouse combines industry-leading traditional and [...]

Micronic Europe BV has announced it will display its latest products for traceable sample storage at the forthcoming International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER 2010) in Rotterdam, The Netherlands (11th-14th May 2010). Visitors to Stand 49 will be able to review and discuss Micronic's extensive range of products that address the evolving sample [...]

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, and Professor Bruno Domon, director of the new Luxembourg Clinical Proteomics unit (LCP), today announced a collaboration to develop workflows that overcome current bottlenecks in biomarker discovery and assay development for clinical proteomics research. The LCP is funded by the Fonds [...]

Particulate Systems Granted Distribution Rights for the Cordouan VASCO Series of Dynamic Light Scattering Nanoparticle Size Analyzers The Cordouan VASCO DLS Particle Size Analyzers are unique dynamic light scattering (DLS) nanosizing instruments based on a patented innovative technology developed in collaboration with the French Institute of Petroleum (IFP). The VASCO’s original optical configuration design combines [...]

HORIBA Scientific announces the XploRA INV, an addition to the widely successful XploRA compact analytical Raman chemical imaging microscope. The XploRA INV combines the exclusive automatization features and small footprint of the standard XploRA confocal Raman microscope with the unique capabilities of an inverted microscope, especially important for demanding biological applications. These applications include cell [...]

ITHACA, N.Y.--Rheonix, Inc. today announced the completion of a $12.6 million Series A financing to continue development of the Rheonix CARD™ (Chemistry And Reagent Device) system. This powerful, analytic platform for the life-science industry vertically integrates all the functions of traditional molecular diagnostic instrumentation into a single system to achieve unprecedented raw sample preparation, molecular [...]

Developments in Detector Designs Result in Significantly Improved Area and Solid Angle (PRWEB) -- SII NanoTechnology USA Inc. (SIINT) recently customized designs of their 50mm2 silicon drift detectors (SDD), increasing the detectors’ solid angle, by allowing a close sample-to-detector geometry. These improvements increase the high rate capability and permit silicon drift detectors to be placed [...]