A strategic alliance announced today between TGen Drug Development (TD2) and Horizon Discovery Limited will significantly advance personalized medicine. The partnership will create a beginning-to-end solution for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to more rationally design and tailor their drugs to specific patient populations based on the unique genetic variations that define a given disease. TD2 [...]

BOULDER, Colo. -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. announced today that it has expanded its Opticks open-source software offerings to include new extensions that perform hyperspectral, multispectral and image spectroscopy analysis. Ball Aerospace launched Opticks in 2007 as its first open source software project designed to enable detailed analysis of remote sensing data and complement [...]

Positioning Capabilities for Greater Consistency and Ease-of-use RUNCORN, Cheshire -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the launch of its updated ClearVue coverslipper with increased ease-of-use and enhanced tissue positioning to improve consistency in cytogenetics, immunohistochemistry and cytology laboratories. The latest instrument ensures that coverslips are positioned correctly in [...]

Unanimous certification a major industry milestone; wireless control benefits plant operations and lowers costs, company says AUSTIN, Texas--Emerson Process Management, a global business of Emerson (NYSE:EMR - News), applauds the International Electrotechnical Commission’s (IEC) unanimous vote to certify WirelessHART technology as the first global standard for wireless communications for industrial process measurement and control. The [...]

SAS Supports Integrated Analytics, Fuels Success SEATTLE--SAS, the leader in business analytics, expands analytics options for customers with the announcement of additional interfaces to the R open-source statistical computing language for both SAS/IML® and JMP®. These new enhancements exemplify the flexibility that SAS provides customers to build a dynamic and extensible analytics framework. With SAS, [...]

SOLON, Ohio--Swagelok Company today announced it has acquired the shares of RHPS B.V. as part of its strategy to broaden the company’s offering of products and services for fluid system technology customers around the world. “We think the two cultures are a natural fit and have similar values including the passion to truly understand the [...]

Batch Statistical Process Control (BSPC) software for real-time monitoring and prediction for batch processes Malmö, Sweden -- Umetrics announces the release of version 3.4 of SIMCA-Batch On-Line (SBOL). SBOL is a state of the art, off-the-shelf, Windows based software, providing multivariate statistical process control and batch statistical process control (BSPC) for batch processes. SBOL 3.4 [...]

SANTIAGO, CHILE -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, is exhibiting its full range of solutions for the mining industry, designed to offer improved efficiencies and increased productivity, within booth 500-2 at EXPOMIN 2010, taking place from April 12-16 in Santiago, Chile. For success in the laboratory or in the field, [...]

Broadbent to lead Company through next phase of growth MARLBOROUGH, Mass.--Xcellerex, Inc. announced today that Guy Broadbent has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the company’s board of directors. Mr. Broadbent succeeds Joseph Zakrzewski, who served as Chairman, President and CEO, as part of an existing management succession process planned [...]

Single Platform Empowers Screening Scientists to Deliver Results Faster with New User Interface and Improved Support for Complex Experiments Phoenix, Ariz. -- Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced Genedata Screener® 8. Developed over the past year to address evolving customer requirements, Genedata Screener 8 [...]