AMETEK Anticipates Strong First Quarter

INCREASES FIRST QUARTER EARNINGS GUIDANCE TO $0.53 - $0.54 PER DILUTED SHARE --Raises Full Year 2010 Estimate to $2.20 to $2.28 per Diluted Share-- PAOLI, Pa. -- AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE:AME - News) today announced it expects its first quarter results to substantially exceed its prior guidance. The Company now expects first quarter diluted earnings per [...]

Vanderbilt University is 100th Facility to Install Genetix’ ClonePix FL

System will be used to support antibody and recombinant protein services New Milton, Hampshire, UK -- Genetix, a leading provider of solutions for imaging and image analysis, announces that Vanderbilt Monoclonal Antibody Core (VMAC), Vanderbilt University, has become the 100th facility to purchase its ClonePix™ FL system. Used for screening and selection of secretory cell [...]

IDT earns ISO 9001:2008 Certification at its European Oligonucleotide Production Headquarters

Worldwide certification of quality systems at all manufacturing operations completed LEUVEN, Belgium -- Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), the world leader in oligonucleotide synthesis, today announced that the production processes for synthetic oligonucleotides at its European headquarters in Leuven, Belgium have achieved ISO 9001:2008 certification. All three IDT oligonucleotide facilities (Coralville, Iowa, San Diego, California, and [...]

Affymetrix Launches Axiom Genome-Wide ASI Array For Maximized Coverage of East Asian Populations

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX) today announced the launch of the Axiom™ Genome-Wide ASI Array, the first commercial product to provide maximum power for genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in East Asian populations. This array is the second catalog release for the Axiom™ Genotyping Solution, which includes a suite of population-optimized arrays for genomic studies that [...]

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 [...]

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