NanoNose Creator QualSec Hires New Director of Finance
October 21, 2008
QualSec (OTCBB: QLSC) --QualSec, developer of the NanoNose, is pleased to announce it has hired a new head for its financial team. Mark MacDonald joins QualSec as Director of Finance. Mr. MacDonald has been the Accounting Manager and Financial Analyst at US Flue-Cured Tobacco Growers, Inc. for two years, prior to which he served in [...]
Molecular spectroscopy company Trinean closes $4.6 million funding round
October 21, 2008
October 21, 2008--Molecular instrumentation company Trinean NV (Gentbrugge, Belgium) announced the closure of a $4.6 million dollar round of financing. The round was co-led by new investor Vesalius Biocapital and existing investor Capital-E. Trinean is a spin-off of the University of Ghent (Intec) and the Belgium nanoelectronics research center IMEC. The company develops and markets [...]
Malvern joins industry group in developing common model for analyzer integration
October 21, 2008
21 October 2008: Malvern, UK: Malvern Instruments is pleased to announce its participation in the newly-formed OPC Analyzer Device Integration Working Group. The group has been constituted to develop a common method for data exchange and an analyzer data model for process and laboratory analyzers. It comprises interested members of the OPC Foundation, an organisation [...]
McMaster University unveils world’s most advanced microscope
October 20, 2008
So powerful it can probe the spaces between atoms Hamilton, ON. Oct. 20, 2008 The most advanced and powerful electron microscope on the planetcapable of unprecedented resolutionhas been installed in the new Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy at McMaster University. "We are the first university in the world with a microscope of such a high [...]
IDEX Corporation Acquires Semrock
October 20, 2008
NORTHBROOK, Ill.--IDEX Corporation (NYSE: IEX) today announced the acquisition of Semrock, the leading provider of optical filters for biotech and analytical instrumentation in the life sciences markets. Semrock’s products are used in the biotechnology and analytical instrumentation industries. Semrock produces optical filters using state-of-the-art manufacturing processes which enable them to offer significant improvements in the [...]
Illumina Launches GenomeStudio(TM) Data Analysis Software
October 20, 2008
Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today introduced GenomeStudio Software, a primary analysis software program designed to analyze both microarray and sequencing data. For researchers, GenomeStudio Software enables the correlation of biological variation across multiple applications and graphical display of the results. The flexibility of GenomeStudio Software also allows researchers to integrate with third-party software providers for advanced [...]
October 20, 2008
BOSTON, Mass, (October 20, 2008) – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the release of new software features that enhance data quality and acquisition speed for multi-spectrum data handling. New software features enhance the CyberReady capabilities of the award-winning K-Alpha X-Ray Photoelectron Spectrometer (XPS). The K-Alpha is the first [...]
Phase Forward and SGS Life Science Services Continue Collaboration Developing Phase I Trials
October 20, 2008
Phase Forward (NASDAQ: PFWD), a leading provider of data management solutions for clinical trials and drug safety, today announced that SGS Life Science Services, a leading contract research organization (CRO), has successfully developed multiple Phase I trials across various therapeutic areas using Phase Forward's Central Designer tool. The Central Designer technology provides one central and [...]
Personal Cell Analysis System helps battle global AIDS pandemic…
October 20, 2008
Guava Technologies, Inc. has announced significant progress in the transition of customers from the Guava EasyCD4™ System to its recently launched Guava® AutoCD4/CD4% System. The AutoCD4/CD4% System, based on the personal cell analysis (PCA) platform, is part of the company's broader effort to develop easy to use and maintain, technology specifically designed to monitor treatment [...]
October 20, 2008
Testing at Melbourne Airport Will Feature Rapiscan 620DV Baggage Screener and Secure 1000 Body Scanner MELBOURNE, Australia--Rapiscan Systems, Inc., a global leading supplier of security inspection systems, announced today that the Rapiscan 620DV and Rapiscan Secure 1000 Body Scanner have been approved for use in the Advanced Technology Trials at Melbourne Airport by the Australian [...]
