New Medstere software generates non-obvious drug candidates Royston, UK -- Leading chemistry product innovator, Syrris has recently announced the release of Medstere; innovative software designed specifically for medicinal chemists that suggests novel bioisosteres for a lead compound. Medstere, developed in collaboration with Cresset Group, shortens lead optimisation cycles by generating hundreds of non-obvious, drug-like alternatives [...]

Teledyne Tekmar continues to bring new innovative products to market. Mason, Ohio - Mason -- Teledyne Tekmar Company, a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY) introduced a new analytical instrument to the market, the AQUATek 100 Waters-only Autosampler. The AQUATek 100 is a purge and trap autosampler that automates the sample preparation steps for the [...]

Leading analytical X-ray company PANalytical (Almelo, the Netherlands) has entered a strategic alliance with neutron generator based analyzer specialist SODERN (Limeil-Brevannes, France). The result will be the long-term, exclusive, worldwide distribution and support of SODERN’s neutron based cross-belt analyzers by PANalytical. Cross-belt analyzers are used in the cement, minerals and coal industries for critical applications [...]

Partnership brings state-of-the-art training in key Sigma biological technologies to the research community ST. LOUIS -- Sigma® Life Science, the innovative biological products and services brand of Sigma-Aldrich® (Nasdaq:SIAL - News), today announced details of a corporate partnership with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Advanced Training Centre, based in Heidelberg, Germany, that officially opened [...]

Extends VisEn's Leading Fluorescence Imaging Agent Portfolio to Enable Real Time Measurements of Gastric Motility and Related Drug Effects In Vivo BEDFORD, Mass. -- VisEn Medical Inc., a leader in fluorescence imaging from research through medicine, announced today the commercial launch of its new GastroSense(TM) 750 fluorescence agent for imaging gastric motility and related drug [...]

Jena -- Analytik Jena AG (Frankfurt DE0005213508, Prime Standard: AJA) expects sales of about EUR 80.0 m for the current financial year 2009/2010 and hence renewed double digit growth compared with the preceding record year 2008/2009. The Thuringian manufacturer of analytical instrumentation technology announced this today at its tenth Ordinary Annual General Meeting in Jena. [...]

MUNICH -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, announced today a new quaternary pump that dramatically improves separation for complex mixtures, such as red wine, during ultra-high pressure liquid chromatography (U-HPLC) analysis. The new Thermo Scientific Accela 1250 pump features Force Feedback Control (FFC) which eliminates the need for pulse dampening [...]

Sunnyvale, CA—Dionex Corporation is pleased to announce the addition of new Acclaim® Carbamate columns designed for analysis of carbamates specified in United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) Method 531.2, using LC-postcolumn derivatization-fluorescence or LC-MS methods. Carbamates are widely used as pesticides for food crops worldwide. The residual carbamates can pollute drinking water sources, thus [...]

MUNICH -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that it will feature a large array of new Thermo Scientific reagents used for protein expression, detection, preparation and purification at booth 101 in Hall B1 during Analytica 2010, being held March 23 - 26, in Munich, Germany. The company recently [...]

MADISON, Wis.--In a recently published study in the journal Genome Research, a team of scientists led by Dr. Shaying Zhao at the University of Georgia have developed a novel cross-species comparative genomics and oncology strategy for cancer driver gene discovery, using microarray technologies from Roche NimbleGen (SWX:RO) (SWX:ROG) (Pink Sheets: RHHBY), that differs fundamentally from [...]