Scienion Launches Microfluidic sciSWIFTER – Joint Commercialization with Matrical Bioscience

Scienion AG and Matrical bioscience recently announced the launch of the sciSWIFTER™, a new dispensing device developed for high precision dispensing in 96, 384, and 1536 microplates. The sciSWIFTER will be jointly commercialized by Scienion AG and Matrical Bioscience, both leading suppliers in the life science market. Dortmund, Germany, and Spokane, WA, USA, January 12, [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Ensures Effective Pseudoephedrine Identification In Illicit Drug Mixtures using UHPLC/MS

SAN JOSE, Calif., (February 2, 2009) - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, introduces a new application note that demonstrates a fast and reliable UHPLC/MS method to effectively separate and identify pseudoephedrine, ephedrine, amphetamine, methamphetamine and 3,4-MDMA. The application note details UHPLC/MS methodology and instrumentation for high throughput separation and identification [...]

Cisbio Bioassays Selects CyBio Robotic Workstation To Enhance Custom Assay Development Capabilities

Robust and flexible robotic workstation complements Cisbio’s expertise in creating and optimizing HTRF assays BAGNOLS-SUR-CÈZE, France – January 27, 2009 – Cisbio Bioassays, a member of IBA group and a global developer of HTRF® (Homogeneous Time-Resolved Fluorescence) technology and services used in assay development and drug screening, today announced at ALA in Palm Springs, CA [...]

Agilent Technologies and National University of Ireland, Galway, Open Biological Mass Spectrometry Facility

SANTA CLARA, Calif. & GALWAY, Ireland--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A - News) and the National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway, today announced the opening of a Biological Mass Spectrometry Facility on the NUI Galway campus. The state-of-the-art facility is fully equipped with the latest accurate-mass quadrupole time-of-flight (Q-TOF) and triple quadrupole (QQQ) mass spectrometer platforms from [...]

Shackleton Ventures completes further investment in NanoSight

February 2009 - Shackleton Ventures Limited (Shackleton), the secondaries venture capital firm, today announces that it has completed a follow-on investment in one of its portfolio companies, NanoSight Limited, with the purchase of a significant shareholding from the National Endowment for Science, Technology & Arts (NESTA) for an undisclosed amount. NanoSight is the world-leading supplier [...]

Life Technologies Highlights 2008 Philanthropy and Provides Focus for Grant Giving in 2009

CARLSBAD, Calif.--Life Technologies (NASDAQ:LIFE - News), a provider of innovative life science solutions, announced today that it donated more than $500,000 in funding to a dozen programs through its Life Technologies™ Foundation (formerly the Invitrogen Foundation) in 2008. In 2008, the Life Technologies™ Foundation was created to support science education and advance society’s understanding of [...]

Agilent Technologies Dramatically Increases GC Productivity with Low Thermal Mass Rapid Heating/Cooling Option

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced a new low thermal mass (LTM) system for rapid heating and cooling of its 7890A gas chromatograph (GC), greatly increasing productivity by significantly reducing analytical cycle times. This option is also available for the older Agilent 6890 GC. Agilent acquired this proprietary LTM technology with the purchase of RVM [...]

Millipore Expands Cell Biology Offering With Acquisition of Guava Technologies

Millipore Corporation (NYSE: MIL), a leading provider of technologies, tools and services for the global life science industry, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Guava Technologies (Guava), a provider of easy-to-use, bench top cell analysis systems. The acquisition follows the distribution and co-development partnership the two companies announced in March [...]

Waters Acquires Thar Instruments; Establishes “Green” Separation Science Leadership and Expands Chromatography Application Range

MILFORD, Mass.--Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT - News) today announced it has acquired all of the remaining outstanding capital stock of privately held Pittsburgh-based Thar Instruments, Inc., the world’s largest supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) manufacturer, for an undisclosed amount. Waters® had previously made an equity investment in Thar in June 2007. Current annual revenues of Thar [...]

DxS Grants DuPont Qualicon License to Scorpions Technology for Food and Beverage Diagnostics

DxS Ltd, a personalized medicine company and leader in the provision of companion diagnostics, has granted DuPont Qualicon, a developer of innovative, science-based diagnostic products that can reduce the impact of pathogens and other unwelcome organisms in food and pharmaceuticals, a license to use its novel Scorpions® diagnostic platform to develop tests for use by [...]

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