The Synergy™ H4 Hybrid Microplate Reader from BioTek Instruments was awarded the LanthaScreen® Certified Plus designation from Invitrogen, part of Life Technologies, a provider of essential life science technologies for research, production and diagnostics. This ensures that the Synergy H4 is validated to strict standards in instrument setup and assay performance and has achieved the [...]

1st Detect Corporation announced today it is the recipient of a $1.8 million investment from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF). The investment will go toward commercialization of 1st Detect’s portable mass spectrometer, used to detect residues and vapors from a wide range of chemicals, including explosives, chemical warfare agents, toxic chemicals, and volatile organic [...]

BASEL, Switzerland & COLOGNE, Germany--Axiogenesis AG has entered into a worldwide, exclusive distribution agreement with Lonza Cologne AG effective 01 January 2010. The agreement includes Axiogenesis’s current product and service portfolio, including the industry standard Cor.At® mouse embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes. These highly pure and well characterized cells have demonstrated utility in drug discovery, safety [...]

World’s leading nuclear operators collaborate in an effort to extend the lifetime of power plants. Hillsboro, Ore -- FEI Company (NASDAQ: FEIC), a leading diversified scientific instruments company providing electron and ion-beam microscopes and tools for nanoscale applications across many industries, announces the completion of a multiple system installation at the Materials Ageing Institute (MAI) [...]

U.S. Army Submits Purchase Order for UNDT’s 5-Agent Detection Kits and Equipment for Detecting Ricin and SEBs LOS ANGELES--Universal Detection Technology (www.udetection.com – OTCBB: UNDT –), a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies to protect people from bioterrorism and other infectious health threats, and provider of counter-terrorism consulting and training services, reported today that it has [...]

MANCHESTER, UK--Gentronix Limited Manchester, UK announced today that it has entered into a three year agreement with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to provide GreenScreen HC and BlueScreen HC genotoxicity assays for use by GSK in genotoxicity screening. This agreement extends the existing relationship between Gentronix and GSK in respect of GreenScreen HC, to include the use by [...]

Munich, Germany -- Implen GmbH announces that scientists at the National Centre for Forensic Science at the University of Central Florida have developed a novel blood analysis technique using the NanoPhotometer™ which facilitates the direct analysis of blood stains as part of a criminal investigation. So far, there is no generally accepted procedure available that [...]

ZNA technology provides for increased affinity for nucleic acids Strasbourg, France -- Polyplus-transfection SA, a company developing innovative solutions for molecular and cellular biology, announced today that metabion GmbH, a company specialized in custom synthesis of biopolymers, has signed a non-exclusive agreement to manufacture and commercialize Polyplus-transfection’s Zip Nucleic Acid (ZNA (TM)) oligonucleotides, a new [...]

Company launches life science industry’s first mass spectrometry-based application for lipidomics studies Foster City, Calif. -- AB SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, today announced the launch of the first mass-spectrometry-based software application specifically designed to advance the study of lipidomics. LipidView™ Software is the first commercially available software using the analytical [...]

CARLSBAD, Calif. -- MO BIO Laboratories, Inc., the leader in soil, water and microbial nucleic acid purification, announces the launch of two innovative new products, PowerBiofilm™ DNA Isolation Kit and PowerBiofilm™ RNA Isolation Kit. The PowerBiofilm™ kits are designed to isolate high-quality DNA or RNA from virtually any type of biofilm sample, from dental plaque [...]