American Science and Engineering, Inc. Receives $8.2 Million Order
March 22, 2010
X-ray Inspection Systems to Scan Vehicles and Trucks Entering High-Risk Facilities for Explosive Threats and Contraband BILLERICA, Mass.--American Science and Engineering, Inc. (AS&E®) (NASDAQ: ASEI - News), a leading worldwide supplier of innovative X-ray detection solutions, announced today that it has received an $8.2 million order for its cargo inspection systems to secure critical infrastructure [...]
Acquisition of Sircal Instruments (UK) Limited
March 19, 2010
Judges Scientific, the parent company of a group that specialises in the design, manufacture and sale of scientific instruments, announces that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Fire Testing Technology Limited ("FTT"), has today completed the acquisition of the entire issued share capital of Sircal Instruments (UK) Limited ("Sircal") for a consideration of £1 million, payable in cash. [...]
March 19, 2010
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India -- Ocimum Biosolutions, a leading provider of Life Sciences Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) and genomic solutions, is pleased to announce that its Biotracker™ LIMS solution has been selected by The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center as their standard for the automation of their Research Core Facilities. The [...]
Brookfield Holds the Line Again in 2010
March 19, 2010
Level Pricing is Good Business Middleboro, MA - Brookfield Engineering, the worldwide leader in viscosity measurement and control, has put a hold on prices for the third consecutive year. For over 75 years Brookfield has built a reputation for delivering high quality instruments at reasonable prices. And, with the current economic conditions, customers need that [...]
OGT Signs Kreatech as Exclusive Distributor for CytoSure™ in France
March 19, 2010
Deal provides OGT with an expanded customer base for its market-leading aCGH arrays Oxford, UK -- Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), the pioneer of microarraybased technologies, has today announced that it has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Kreatech Diagnostics (Amsterdam, The Netherlands). The deal will enable Kreatech Diagnostics to sell OGT’s CytoSure™ products throughout France, [...]
Agilent Technologies Appoints Rick Burdsall as Chief Infrastructure Officer
March 18, 2010
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) has announced the appointment of Rick Burdsall to the newly created position of chief infrastructure officer. Burdsall is currently Agilent’s vice president and chief information officer. Bill Sullivan, Agilent’s president and CEO, said, “Rick brings a strong track record of success from his previous positions at Agilent. He [...]
Novel Imaging Software Released by Celsense Inc.
March 18, 2010
Molecular & cellular image manipulation software, Voxel Tracker™ is first-of-its-kind Pittsburgh, PA (Vocus/PRWEB ) -- Celsense, Inc. announced today its launch of the first off-the-shelf software for merging scanner images. The software, dubbed Voxel Tracker™, was designed to optimize the use of Celsense’ imaging reagents but will be made available to any researcher wanting to [...]
Promega Maxwell® 16 IVD System CE Marked to the European Union IVD Directive
March 18, 2010
The Promega Maxwell® 16 IVD System is CE marked in accordance with the requirements of Directive 98/79/EC on in vitro diagnostic medical devices. The CE mark applies to the instrument, the Maxwell® 16 Blood DNA Purification System and the Maxwell® 16 Viral Total Nucleic Acid Purification System. The bench top automation system is fully compliant [...]
Excillum and Bruker AXS Announce Collaboration to Develop X-ray Diffraction Solutions
March 18, 2010
STOCKHOLM & KARLSRUHE, Germany--Excillum and Bruker AXS today announced an exclusive collaboration to develop and market a unique new metal-jet X-ray source for X-ray diffraction applications. This novel source is the fruit of many years of research at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. It is more than ten times brighter than the [...]
Targeted Sequencing in Maize Genome
March 18, 2010
A Novel Two-Stage Sequence Capture Method with NimbleGen Arrays and 454 Sequencing Systems MADISON, Wis.--Researchers from Iowa State University, University of Minnesota, University of Florida and Roche NimbleGen (SIX:RO)(SIX:ROG)(Pink Sheets:RHHBY) have published a novel method to perform targeted sequencing in the highly complex maize genome. The method, which can be easily adapted to other genomes [...]
