Management Slogan: Advancing to the Next Stage of Globalization Olympus Corporation (President: Tsuyoshi Kikukawa,) announced today the 2010 Corporate Strategic Plan ("2010 CSP"). This new medium-term management plan covers the five-year fiscal period ending March 2015. Olympus has also introduced a Centenary Vision for the Olympus Group, which will symbolize the vision and the commitment [...]

Agreement will lead to enhanced nuclear detection capabilities for global ports LIVERMORE, Calif. -- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and VeriTainer Corporation have entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA). The CRADA will be used to refine and enhance VeriTainer's patented crane mounted scanning (CMS) technology. The CRADA will be in place for [...]

European office established, Appointment of EU Sales Manager and value-added reseller agreements with leading MS manufacturers in response to increased demand for RapidFire® mass spectrometry across Europe WOBURN, Mass.--BIOCIUS Life Sciences Inc., developers of the label-free RapidFire® high-throughput mass spectrometry platform, today announced that it has expanded its operations, opening a European office and naming [...]

Bibby Scientific makes a major appointment, announcing Dr James Heffernan as the new Chief Executive Officer from 17 May. With both geographical expansion and an active programme of new product development underway throughout the Jenway, Techne and Stuart ranges, Dr Heffernan joins Bibby Scientific at an exciting time in the company's history. James Heffernan holds [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. & DUBLIN--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) and University College Dublin (UCD) today announced the appointment of Dr. Ben Collins as the Agilent Technologies Newman Fellow in Quantitative Proteomics at the UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research. “The University provides facilities for these talented and energetic Fellows and supports them academically during [...]

SAN DIEGO -- TriLink BioTechnologies, Inc. (TriLink), a key manufacturer of high quality oligonucleotides and nucleoside triphosphates, announced the launch of its new website and OligoBuilder® online oligonucleotide ordering system. TriLink's in-house marketing and design team utilized extensive user feedback and survey results to design a customer-centric website. The site renovation embodies TriLink's commitment to [...]

A2 Technologies now offers a family of portable handheld FTIR systems that are optimized for geoscience applications including the compositional analysis of rocks, minerals and soils. A2's Exoscan and FlexScan FTIR systems are battery powered, hand-held FTIR spectrometers that are proven for field applications. For years, use of FTIR spectroscopy has been applied to this [...]

2470 Arrayer to Help Accelerate Development of Accurate, Early Detection Blood Tests for Cancer BILLERICA, Mass.--Aushon BioSystems, Inc., a leading provider of advanced microarray instrumentation and laboratory services for biomarker discovery, development and analysis, announced today that the Van Andel Research Institute (VARI), part of the Van Andel Institute, will utilize the Aushon 2470 Arrayer [...]

Real-time, online monitoring system advances quality control measures Romsey, UK -- Stratophase, a specialist in real-time chemical and biochemical measurement, is providing a vital insight into the fermentation of alcoholic beverages with its SpectroSens technology. This technology uses refractive index and temperature measurements to provide real-time, online monitoring of this complex and time dependent process, [...]

Vegetable-based system offers gentler, more efficient and contamination-free dissociation PR Log (Press Release) -- Sera Laboratories International Ltd (Sera Lab), the serum specialist, has introduced the novel SplitKits cell dissociation system, the first specifically designed for use in both serum-based and serum-free methodologies. Developed using a vegetable-based component rather than trypsin, SplitKits avoid any risk [...]