Fluidigm Releases Access Array™ System for 454 FLX Amplicon Tagging

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.-- Fluidigm Corporation today announced the release of its 48.48 Access Array™ integrated fluidic chip (IFC) for 454 FLX™ users active in Amplicon Tagging. This Access Array IFC automatically generates emPCR-ready libraries by simultaneously combining 48 samples and 48 primer sets to produce 48 uniquely-barcoded samples per chip for approximately $7 (U.S.) [...]

Agilent Technologies Introduces GeneSpring GX 11

Agilent Technologies Adds Genetic Association and Copy Number Variation Analyses to Bioinformatics Software, Expanding Systems Biology Suite SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:A) introduced GeneSpring GX 11, the latest generation of its popular desktop software for visualizing and analyzing microarray data, and GeneSpring Workgroup 11, the enterprise version of the GeneSpring desktop software. Designed to [...]

WuXi PharmaTech Selects Labcyte POD(TM) 810 Platform for High-Throughput Screening

SHANGHAI /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- WuXi PharmaTech (NYSE: WX), a leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device research and development outsourcing company with operations in China and the United States, announced today it has purchased a Labcyte POD(TM) 810 plate assembler equipped with an Echo(R) 555 acoustic liquid handler for its work in high- throughput screening and secondary [...]

Roche Diagnostics Opens State-of-the-Art Training Center in California

Facility makes it easier for west-coast lab personnel to get hands-on experience with analyzers INDIANAPOLIS -- Roche Diagnostics announced today the opening of a new west-coast customer training center in Pleasanton, California, as part of an initiative to make state-of-the-art training on diagnostic equipment more accessible to hospitals and independent laboratories on the west and [...]

Lab901’s ScreenTape® system for automated SDS-PAGE installed at GSK and UCL

ScreenTape “dramatically improves productivity” (UCL) Edinburgh -- Lab901 today announced that it has shipped its first ScreenTape® P200 systems for automated protein analysis. GSK (Stevenage, UK) will use the ScreenTape system in its core Monoclonal Antibody production facility for antibody production QC and at-line monitoring of antibody expression. UCL Cancer Institute (London, UK) is using [...]

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Selects Symyx Workflows to Support Biomass and Renewables Research

Systems Provide Technology for High Throughput Synthesis and Primary Screening of Heterogeneous Catalysts SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Symyx Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:SMMX) today announced that Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), a U.S. Department of Energy research laboratory, has purchased two new Symyx workflows to supplement its high-throughput and combinatorial catalyst technology capabilities. These systems will be used [...]

BioLife Solutions Announces Custom cGMP Manufacturing & License Agreement

Variant of CryoStor DLite(R) Biopreservation Media Used in Cell Therapy Product Development BOTHELL, Wash. -- BioLife Solutions, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BLFS), a leading developer, manufacturer, and marketer of biopreservation tools for cells, tissues, and organs, today announced that it has executed a license and custom cGMP manufacturing agreement with Centocor Research & Development, Inc. [...]

genOway: important Framework agreement with BIDMC, Harvard Medical School’s Teaching Hospital

Lyon, France -- genOway (ALTERNEXT-NYSE EURONEXT: ALGEN ; ISIN : FR0004053510), the biotechnology company dedicated to the development of genetically modified animal models, today reports an important framework agreement with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) Harvard Medical School’s Teaching Hospital located in Boston (USA). The National Institute of Health (NIH) ranks BIDMC as the [...]

Affymetrix Appoints Andrew Last to Chief Commercial Officer

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Affymetrix, Inc. (Nasdaq: AFFX) announced today the addition of Andrew J. Last, PhD, to its management team as Chief Commercial Officer. “Andy is a proven leader in our core business as well as in the downstream markets of validation and routine testing,” said Kevin King, president and CEO of Affymetrix. “He will drive [...]

Olympus Offers Super Corrected 60x Microscope Objective

World’s Best-Corrected Objective Lens CENTER VALLEY, Pa. -- The new super corrected Olympus 60x, NA 1.4 microscope objective is the world’s best-corrected microscope objective lens, designed to deliver its optimal levels of performance using light at wavelengths not only up to 650nm, but down to the unprecedented 405nm wavelength as well. It is useful for [...]

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