Zygo Corporation Names Chris Koliopoulos President and Chief Executive Officer
January 19, 2010
Industry Veteran with Track Record of Growth and Value Creation to Focus Immediately on Delivering Financial Improvement and Enhancing Shareholder Value Company Strengthens Core Product Line with Acquisition of Optical Metrology Provider MIDDLEFIELD, Conn.--Zygo Corporation ("ZYGO") (NASDAQ: ZIGO) today announced that Chris Koliopoulos, former President and CEO of ADE Corporation, has been appointed President and [...]
InDevR’s Virus Counter? to Streamline Vaccine Development
January 19, 2010
Boulder, Colorado -- InDevR, developer of advanced life science products, today announced the availability of the Virus Counter? for rapid virus quantification. The Virus Counter is a unique bio-analytical tool that enables scientists to measure virus particle concentration within minutes. Unlike conventional plaque titer assays, which take days to complete, the Virus Counter provides accurate [...]
Ricerca Announces Validation of Watson LIMS
January 19, 2010
CONCORD, Ohio--Ricerca Biosciences is pleased to announce the validation and implementation of the Watson Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) for the company’s bioanalysis division. “This is a significant milestone for Ricerca’s bioanalytical division” The Watson LIMS system was developed with input from biopharmaceutical companies and is widely used within those organizations, as well as within [...]
Asylum Research Sets Annual and Quarterly Sales Records
January 19, 2010
Asylum Research, the technology leader for atomic force and scanning probe microscopy (AFM/SPM), announced today that it set new records for both orders and shipments in its fourth quarter and for the 2009 calendar year. The fourth quarter results exceeded Asylum’s record 2009 third quarter, where orders were more than half again greater than the [...]
January 19, 2010
Productive, Flexible Electronic Pipettor... Designed for laboratories looking for a productive and flexible electronic pipettor - the new six channel Voyager™ features a revolutionary mechanism that alters tip spacing at the press of a button. The 6 channel Voyager incorporates a small motor that moves the center-to-center tip spacing quickly and smoothly at any point [...]
University of Maryland School of Nursing Licenses GeneGo’s MetaCore Platform
January 19, 2010
ST. JOSEPH, Mich. -- GeneGo, Inc., a leading provider of software and databases for systems biology, today announced that the University of Maryland School of Nursing has licensed its pathway analysis and knowledge mining suite MetaCore. The latest version, MetaCore 6.0 includes a new easy to use interface, with unique interactome analysis tools, simple searching [...]
Scarab Genomics Introduces its NEW White Glove IS Detection Kit
January 19, 2010
Detecting Transposable Insertion Sequence Elements MADISON, Wis.--Scarab Genomics has now launched the White Glove IS Detection Kit to test for the presence of transposable Insertion Sequence (IS) elements in a DNA of interest. Numerous IS elements are naturally present in the genomes of E. coli strains commonly used for protein and plasmid production, but are [...]
New Fast UHPLC Columns Offer High Resolution Solutions for Pharma
January 19, 2010
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Varian, Inc. (NasdaqGS: VARI) announced today the release of significant additions to its family of Pursuit™ LC (liquid chromatography) columns for pharmaceutical applications. New materials address needs from drug discovery to bioanalysis, saving time on analysis and method development. The Pursuit range now covers a much broader array of [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Signs Agreement to Acquire Ahura Scientific
January 19, 2010
WALTHAM, Mass.--Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ahura Scientific, a leader in field-deployed analytical instruments for human health and public safety, for $145 million in cash plus the potential for an earn-out payment based on the achievement of [...]
The Automation Partnership Begins New Five Year Collaboration with Top Regenerative Medicine Centre
January 19, 2010
Following an Injection of £5.3 Million from the UK Government CAMBRIDGE, England--The Automation Partnership (TAP), a world leader in the design and development of innovative automation for life science applications is pleased to announce that its collaboration with leading translational research group, the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Regenerative Medicine at Loughborough University is [...]

