SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the appointments of Robert Schueren as vice president and general manager, Genomics; and John Fjeldsted, Ph.D., as general manager, Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry. "The life sciences and biological systems business continues to be a key growth driver for Agilent, and the addition of Robert and [...]

First Products to Bear New Morpho Detection Name Destined for Airport Checkpoints Across the United States NEWARK, Calif.--Morpho Detection, Inc., a business of Safran group’s Sagem Sécurité division, today announced it has signed a contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for several hundred Itemiser® DX explosive trace detection systems [...]

Biacore™ 4000 maximizes productivity in antibody selection, biotherapeutic and LMW drug discovery Uppsala, Sweden -- GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), is launching Biacore™ 4000, a powerful solution for large-scale, label-free molecular interaction analysis in drug discovery, from early screening to characterization. Biacore 4000 delivers high quality binding, kinetic, affinity, concentration, [...]

Westborough, MA (PRWeb) – GenomeQuest today issued its annual summary for 2009. An overall strong performance was led by record revenues across its target markets, continued high satisfaction and renewal rates, and the adoption of its new sequence data management (SDM) platform across major accounts in life sciences. “In 2009, we saw life science executives [...]

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--Fluidigm Corporation today announced the release of its amplicon tagging protocol for the Illumina GA II next-generation sequencer. The 48.48 Access Array integrated fluidic circuit (IFC) allows Illumina GA II users to automatically prepare sequencing-ready libraries from 48 individual samples at a time, for as little as $7 (U.S.) per sample. “Fluidigm's [...]

BioDiscovery, Inc. a leader in integrated software solutions for microarray-based research, announced today the release of version 5 of its popular Nexus Copy Number software, the leading platform independent and user friendly application for DNA copy number analysis of microarray derived data. El Segundo, CA (PRWEB) -- BioDiscovery, Inc. a leader in integrated software solutions [...]

Cancer Diagnostics and Chromatography Products RUNCORN, Cheshire -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the official opening of its new cutting-edge facility in Runcorn, Cheshire. The new facility, located at Tudor Road, Manor Park, is a significant investment for Thermo Fisher Scientific in the North of England and is [...]

Centice Corporation, a pioneer in drug verification and safety products, announced today that Congressman David Price visited Centice headquarters on January 29th. Morrisville, NC (PRWEB) -- Centice Corporation, a pioneer in drug verification and safety products, announced today that Congressman David Price visited Centice headquarters on January 29th to learn more about new technologies that [...]

The most ambitious European project for tackling bottlenecks in Alzheimer's disease research and drug discovery PARIS -- “The participation of ExonHit in this European initiative further validates our SpliceArray™ technology and our R&D expertise in Alzheimer’s disease” ExonHit Therapeutics S.A. (Paris:ALEHT) (Alternext: ALEHT) is pleased to announce that it has been chosen to participate in [...]

Farfield have released their latest version of their proprietary Dual Polarisation Interferometer instrumentation aimed specifically at the label free protein characterisation market for Conformation Activity Relationship (CAR) studies. The Farfield have released their latest version of their proprietary Dual Polarisation Interferometer instrumentation aimed specifically at the label free protein characterisation market for Conformation Activity Relationship [...]