BEST Subsidiary RI Research Instruments Awarded $7.7M Linear Accelerator Contract from DoE Brookhaven National Laboratory

BERGISCH GLADBACH, Germany--RI Research Instruments GmbH, a majority-owned subsidiary of Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies (BEST), Inc., today announced the award of a $7.7 million contract from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory. The contract is for the turn-key supply of a 200 MeV electron injection linear accelerator for BNL’s next-generation National Synchrotron [...]

Ligand Earns $6.5 Million Milestone Payment from Roche

Roche Advances RG7348 into Clinical Development for Hepatitis C SAN DIEGO--Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ: LGND) today announced that it earned a $6.5 million payment from Roche (SWX: ROG.VX; RO.S, OTCQX: RHHBY) as a result of Roche progressing RG7348 into a Phase I clinical trial for the treatment of hepatitis C viral (HCV) infection. The milestone [...]

Pall’s New Immobilized Carbon Depth Filters Expand Bioprocess Scale-Up Options

PORT WASHINGTON, NY -- Pall Corporation (NYSE: PLL), a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, has launched Supra™ AKS depth filters for biotechnology and pharmaceutical purification applications. The new intermediate-size cartridges give process developers important new scale-up options when using Pall’s line of depth filters featuring Seitz® AKS immobilized activated carbon depth filter media. [...]

Pall Delivers Highly Reliable Fluid Dynamics and Better Process Economics with New T-Series TFF Cassettes

PORT WASHINGTON, NY -- Pall Corporation (NYSE: PLL), a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, has introduced Pall T-Series cassettes for use in tangential flow filtration (TFF) applications. The new cassettes feature significant design enhancements while utilizing the same proven membranes to reduce revalidation requirements. T-series cassettes have been designed with more durable and [...]

Porvair Filtration Group Increases Focus On Single Brand Identity

Porvair Filtration Group has announced that its operating divisions - Porvair Technology, MF&T, Filters for Industry, Microfiltrex, and its US operation (formally Omnifilter and Manufacturing Inc.) will increasingly focus on trading under a single corporate brand - Porvair Filtration Group. Tom Liddell, Managing Director of Porvair Filtration Group stated, "For nearly 50 years we have [...]

Lucigen Corporation Awarded $1.7M in SBIR Grants

Lucigen Corporation is pleased to announce that it has recently been awarded three new grants to fund additional research and development. The National Institutes of Health has awarded Lucigen $1,764,732 in Small Business Innovation Research grants to be used over two years to develop research tools and diagnostic assays with potential to improve human health. [...]

Biotage Awarded Patent for Flash Purification Method Development and Optimization

Uppsala, Sweden -- Biotage (STO: BIOT), a global leader in automated flash purification, tools and technology for medicinal and analytical chemistry, announced it has recently been awarded U.S. patent 7686959: Control system and Method for Flash Separation. The patented technology converts thin-layer chromatography (TLC) compound retention data into a linear gradient and also provides the [...]

ForteBio Launches New-Generation Octet(R) QK(e) Instrument

Company also Introduces New Anti-Penta-HIS Biosensor For Use on Its Octet Platform MENLO PARK, Calif. -- ForteBio®, Inc., a leading supplier of label-free technology that accelerates the development of biotherapeutic and pharmaceutical products, today announced the launch of its new Octet QK(e) instrumentation system. The new system, the next generation of the company's initial eight-channel [...]

Ghent University Will Use Roche´s LightCycler® 1536 Instrument in the Field of HT PCR for Cancer Research

PENZBERG, Germany--Roche (SIX:RO)(SIX:ROG)(OTCQX:RHHBY) and Ghent University (Belgium) have signed an agreement for the use of Roche's LightCycler® 1536 Instrument in various cancer research projects in Ghent. Studies include multigene expression signature profiling on cancer research samples and, digital PCR for sensitive detection of mutant cancer cells in a background of normal cells. Furthermore, DNA methylation [...]

New Columns Accelerate LC/MS Analysis of Synthetic Oligonucleotides

Torrance, CA -- Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the manufacture of separation science consumables, introduces Clarity® Oligo-MS? columns for rapid and efficient LC/MS characterization and quality control of synthetic RNA and DNA. Based on the company's core-shell particle technology, the new C18 columns deliver significantly shorter run times than traditional media, along with increased [...]

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