Environmental instrumentation company Quantitech has been awarded a contract worth in excess of £1million to provide advanced air sampling and analysis equipment to the multi-agency air quality cell that has been established following the recommendations of the Major Incident Investigation Board for the Buncefield incident. Quantitech has supplied 18 sets of instrumentation including advanced portable [...]

Enables Real-time Filtration and Forwarding of Sensor Readings OTTAWA & WALTHAM, Mass. | Solace Systems and Thermo Fisher Scientific today announced a technology partnership to combine the capabilities of Thermo Scientific software and Solace’s hardware-based message routers for sophisticated nuclear threat monitoring using sensor readings and geospatial coordinates. The solution enables exceptional sensor readings to [...]

MADISON, Wisconsin -- DNASTAR, Inc. and the BioIT Alliance today announced the expansion of the BioIT Alliance program to include DNASTAR, a software company that has been meeting the sequence assembly and analysis needs of life scientists for more than 25 years. The BioIT Alliance is a group of organizations working together to realize the [...]

Biotechnology Leader Provides Technology of Choice for Leading Pharmaceutical Industry Scientists WOBURN, Mass.--Cambridge Research & Instrumentation, Inc. (CRi), a leader in biomedical imaging, announced that 18 out of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies worldwide are using CRi’s optical imaging systems. These top pharmaceutical companies, ranked by revenue by Med Ad News in September 2009, have [...]

Approval a Significant Milestone Toward Close of Transaction TORONTO - MDS Inc. (TSX: MDS; NYSE: MDZ), a leading provider of products and services to the global life sciences markets, today announced that the Company has received provisional anti-trust approval from the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for the proposed sale of MDS Analytical Technologies [...]

New Automation Solution for the Genome Sequencer FLX System BRANFORD, Conn.--454 Life Sciences announced today the launch and immediate availability of the new REM e System, a robotic accessory module for liquid handling systems which enables complete automation of emPCR enrichment in the GS FLX Titanium workflow. The REM e System dramatically simplifies the sequencing [...]

Bipartisan Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism Gives U.S. Government a Grade “F” on Rapid Response and Prevention of Biological Attacks; UNDT CEO Says First Responder Detection Equipment and Training Essential to Bioterrorism Prevention LOS ANGELES--Universal Detection Technology (www.udetection.com) (OTCBB: UNDT), a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies to protect [...]

PRINCETON, NJ--Princeton Security Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: PSGY), through its wholly owned subsidiary, Princeton Gamma-Tech Instruments (PGT), a leading supplier of X-ray and Gamma-ray Detectors and Spectroscopy systems, portable Radioisotope Identifiers, announced today that it has signed a distribution agreement with Technology Experts Co in Riyadh , Saudi-Arabia. Princeton Gamma-Tech Instruments signed a distribution agreement as [...]

ST. LOUIS--Tripos®, a leading provider of drug discovery informatics products and services, today announced that Pfizer has become the latest customer of Benchware® Discovery 360 (D360). The novel license agreement allows Pfizer to deploy the capabilities of D360 to all scientists within its worldwide research sites. “Tripos is thrilled that Pfizer has selected D360 as [...]

The Biomolecular Separation Engineering group at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, is using the Freedom EVO® liquid handling workstation, equipped with the Te-Chrom™ module and Atoll’s 96-array MediaScout® RoboColumn system, to create a fully automated chromatography platform for biopharmaceutical process development. Professor Jürgen Hubbuch explained the team’s research strategy: “We are using automation to [...]