Stemgent and Pfizer Announce Collaboration
April 15, 2010
Research and Licensing Agreement Allows Stemgent to Offer Research Compounds from Pfizer Dr. Ruth McKernan, CSO of Pfizer Regenerative Medicine, to Join Stemgent’s SAB BOSTON & NEW YORK--Stemgent, Inc. and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) today announced a collaboration and research licensing agreement that will lead to certain research reagents developed or discovered by Pfizer being [...]
Arrayit Achieves Significant Progress in First Quarter 2010
April 15, 2010
SUNNYVALE, CA-- Arrayit Corporation (OTCBB: ARYC), a leader in life sciences, healthcare and molecular diagnostics, is pleased to announce company achievements in the first quarter 2010. "We have made significant progress and expect the momentum to continue," states Rene Schena, CEO. "Pre-symptomatic diagnostic tests, expanded microarray services, and life sciences instruments are key engines for [...]
Immobilized Chiral Columns Pave the Way to Novel Separations
April 15, 2010
WEST CHESTER, Pa. -- High-speed analysis and reproducible results are paramount to efficient pharmaceutical research and development. CHIRALPAK® IA, IB and IC immobilized polysaccharide columns from Chiral Technologies allow chemists to choose from a large assortment of organic solvents. Use of CHIRALPAK immobilized columns helps to develop new separations and attain high levels of enantioselective [...]
Dionex ICS-3000 Instruments Used to Study Climate Change in Antarctic Ice Cores
April 15, 2010
Sunnyvale, CA -- Dionex Corporation is pleased to announce that Dionex ICS-3000 instruments are being used by scientists of the Australian Antarctic Division’s glaciology department to study Antarctic ice cores impacted by the effects of climate change. The ice cores can be as long as 1200 meters with a climate history stretching back 90,000 years, [...]
New Roche NimbleGen Service Now With 2 Micron Scanning on the MS 200 Scanner
April 15, 2010
MADISON, Wis.--Roche NimbleGen (Pink Sheets: RHHBY) (SWX:RO) (SWX:ROG) is pleased to announce that its Service Business (via its Iceland service facility, located in Reykjavik, Iceland), will now offer 2 micron resolution scanning on the NimbleGen MS 200 Microarray Scanner for Comparative Genomic Hybridization arrays (2.1M, 3x720K, and 12x135K formats) and Gene Expression arrays (12x135K format). [...]
New Thermo Fisher Scientific Application Detects 510 Pesticides in Complex Food Samples
April 15, 2010
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has introduced an application note demonstrating how the Thermo Scientific Exactive LC/MS system, powered by Orbitrap technology, can be used to perform non-targeted and accurate screening, detection and separation of 510 pesticides at low ppb levels in just 12 minutes. Increasing food safety concerns and [...]
April 15, 2010
CENTER VALLEY, Pa. -- Olympus has introduced cellSens™ microscope imaging software, a comprehensive, fully customizable solution that allows researchers to move smoothly and quickly from initial image capture through processing, analysis and reporting in just a few simple steps. Even such advanced functions as deconvolution, cell counting, large area stitching, fluorescence unmixing and data sharing [...]
Sprin Technologies Raises EUR 1,5 Million in a Series A Round of Financing
April 15, 2010
SPRIN, a leading company focused on “sustainable chemistry and industrial biotechnology, is pleased to announce that AlAdInn Ventures has completed a EUR 750.000 initial investment in the framework of a total EUR 1,5 Million Series A round of financing. AlAdInn Ventures committed to invest additional EUR 750.000 alone or with possible co-investors within February 2011, [...]
Picarro and IsoForensics Announce World’s First Milk Origin Verification Solution
April 14, 2010
WASHINGTON, DC--Sure, you've got milk. But where's that milk from? Until now, the only authentication for milk origin was a bar code on a container. Picarro and IsoForensics are announcing at the Food Safety Summit the world's first Milk Origin Verification Solution (MOVS) for the food and beverage industry. Now food companies can quickly verify [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Helps Nigerian FDA Fight Counterfeit and Substandard Pharmaceuticals
April 14, 2010
Deployment of Thermo Scientific TruScan aids in the removal of thousands of counterfeit drugs from Nigerian market WILMINGTON, Mass. -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that the Nigerian National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has successfully field-deployed several Thermo Scientific TruScan handheld Raman instruments [...]
