WaferGen Announces Eight New Early-Access Customers
March 10, 2010
Ships First International SmartChip System Following CE Certification - Company's commercialization strategy to generate revenue through early access program and service prior to general availability FREMONT, Calif. -- WaferGen Biosystems, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board:WGBS.ob - News), a leading developer of state-of-the-art genetic analysis systems, today announced eight new early-access customers that include major universities and [...]
Lab901 Extends ScreenTape User Base for Rapid, Automated SDS-PAGE
March 10, 2010
Plans US launch Edinburgh -- Lab901 announced today a significant extension of the user base for its protein ScreenTape platform for rapid, convenient, automated SDS-PAGE. The company has completed new shipments of ScreenTape systems to ESBATech, Crucell, Symphogen, Bayer Healthcare and multiple systems to Novartis Basel. ‘We are delighted that so many premier bio-pharmaceutical companies [...]
Max Planck Innovation Licenses Innovative Sampling System to Bbi-Biotech
March 10, 2010
Max Planck Innovation GmbH, the technology transfer organization of the Max Planck Society, is concluding two exclusive licensing agreements for a liquid sampling system with bbi-biotech GmbH, an innovative biotechnology company. The technology, developed at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg, provides a sterile and economical way of taking [...]
March 10, 2010
Austrian biomarker developer BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG (www.biocrates.com) announced today that it entered a co-marketing agreement with Canadian-based CHENOMX Inc (www.chenomx.com). Both enterprises focus on a new and highly promising technology aimed at generating a metabolic profile of the human organism that can be used to monitor the effects of disease, nutrition, toxins, environment, or [...]
March 10, 2010
SANYO North America Corporation (SANYO) Biomedical and Environmental Solutions Division introduces the Twin Guard Series(TM) MDF-U500VXC, the first 18.3 cu.ft., -86 degreesC Ultralow Temperature Freezer to be offered and sold in North America with Dual degrees Cool(TM) technology. Unlike traditional cascade systems, Dual degrees Cool operates as two refrigeration systems with two individual compressors, each [...]
Dr. Joachim Heck to become Managing Director of Ehrfeld Mikrotechnik BTS GmbH
March 10, 2010
Predecessor Dr. Olaf Stange heads new BTS Southeast Asia office in Singapore Leverkusen, Wendelsheim -- Dr. Joachim Heck will succeed Dr. Olaf Stange as Managing Director of Ehrfeld Mikrotechnik BTS GmbH effective March 1, 2010. Stange will become the head of the new Southeast Asia regional office of Bayer Technology Services (BTS) in Singapore effective [...]
March 10, 2010
ITTSBURGH and SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Duquesne University and Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that they have established a Center of Excellence (COE) for mass spectrometry at the university. The facility enables a wide range of research in the life sciences and environmental analysis, including: metabolomics and trace lipid analysis, the effects of [...]
Ingenuity Systems Announces New Distributor in Taiwan
March 9, 2010
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Ingenuity Systems, the leading provider of information solutions for life science researchers, today announced Molecule Scientific Co., Ltd. as the exclusive distributor of IPA® in Taiwan. "Molecule Scientific's expertise in life sciences and local presence in Taiwan will facilitate the growing adoption of IPA in Taiwan and the Asia Pacific region," [...]
March 9, 2010
BILLERICA, Mass. & SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) and Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:A) announced today that Bruker and Agilent have entered into a definitive asset purchase agreement. Pursuant to this agreement, Bruker will acquire certain product lines of Varian Inc., which Agilent has committed to divest in connection with obtaining regulatory approval [...]
Genevac’s Proprietary SampleGenie™
March 9, 2010
Concentrating Environmental Samples Prior to Analysis For environmental laboratories it is of great benefit to concentrate samples prior to analysis to help accurately determine levels of analyte in a given sample. Genevac's proprietary SampleGenie™ flask technology has been developed to help scientists eliminate handling of samples by concentrating samples, without loss of volatile components, directly [...]

