Commission clears proposed acquisition of Varian by Agilent, subject to conditions

The European Commission has cleared under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of Varian Inc by Agilent Technologies Inc, both of the US, by way of purchase of shares. The decision is conditional upon the divestment of Agilent's entire micro/portable gas chromatography instrument business and Varian's entire laboratory gas chromatography, triple quadrupole gas chromatography-mass [...]

Wyatt Technology Demonstrates SEC-MALS Capabilities

Studying Interactions of Tumor Suppressor p53 with S100 Proteins SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA -- Wyatt Technology Corporation, the world leader in instruments for absolute macromolecular characterization, announces that its light scattering system has been selected by the MRC Centre for Protein Engineering to investigate the interactions of the p53 tumor suppressor gene with S100 protein. Wyatt's [...]

IO Informatics, Inc. announces an agreement with the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine

BERKELEY, CA - IO Informatics, Inc. announces an agreement to license its Sentient Suite of Life Science & Healthcare software to the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine. “We are pleased to have the Sentient system deployed at the FDA,” stated Robert Stanley, President and CEO of IO Informatics. “Sentient is a powerful data integration and [...]

Hettich Centrifuges Issues a North America and Canada Recall of Plastic Hematocrit Rotors

BEVERLY, Mass. -- Hettich Centrifuges, Beverly, MA, is initiating a North America and Canada recall of 2050 and 2076 plastic hematocrit rotors that are used in combination with the Mikro 12-24, Mikro 20, Haematokrit 20 and Haematokrit 24 bench top plastic centrifuges. These plastic rotors have the potential to break apart resulting in pieces of [...]

Illumina’s Latest Sequencing System to be Installed in the Constance Laboratories

Konstanz / b3c newswire / – GATC Biotech today announced the purchase of Illumina’s new HiSeq 2000 sequencing platform, which has officially been launched last week. This latest acquisition will further strengthen GATC Biotech’s current fleet of three GA IIx. Initially, the company will employ the HiSeq 2000 to human genome sequencing projects from its [...]

Porvair Sciences Ltd. Announced New Sterile 96-well Shallow Polypropylene Plate

Porvair Sciences Ltd. has announced a new sterile 96-well Shallow Polypropylene Plate that offers a capacity of just 150µL per well reducing reagent costs and round well bottoms to ensure good mixing. Supplied sterile and DNA/RNA free in bags of 25, packed four to a case of 100, the new plates are an ideal tool [...]

BioLife Solutions and OriGen Biomedical to Offer Sterile, Pre-Filled Biologic Cell and Tissue Packaging Products

Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine Markets - Distribution and Contract Manufacturing Agreements Executed to Support Strategic Relationship and Increased Adoption of Complementary Products BOTHELL, Wash. and AUSTIN, Texas -- BioLife Solutions, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BLFS), a leading developer, manufacturer, and marketer of biopreservation tools for cells, tissues, and organs, and OriGen Biomedical, a leading [...]

Caliper Integrated Robotic System in TIME Magazine’s Top 10 Scientific Discoveries of 2009

'The Robot Scientist' First to Complete Experimentation Cycle without Human Involvement HOPKINTON, Mass. -- Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALP), a leading provider of life sciences tools, announced today that TIME Magazine's no. 4 Top Scientific Discovery of 2009 included an integrated robotic system designed by Caliper's Automation, Consulting, Engineering, & Services (ACES) team. Conceived [...]

Molecular Genetics Core Facility at Children’s Hospital Boston Selects HybSelect from febit

febit’s HybSelectTM assay enables the targeted enrichment of genes for focused re-sequencing using Next Generation Sequencing Systems LEXINGTON, Mass. (USA), and HEIDELBERG, Germany -- The Molecular Genetics Core Facility (MGCF) at Children’s Hospital Boston chose febit’s HybSelect technology which will enable genetics researchers to conduct the highly economic targeted enrichment of genes of interest for [...]

Beckman Coulter Adds Streptamer* Technology To Cell-Sorting, Cell-Characterizing Lines

New method expands flow cytometry immune monitoring capabilities BREA, Calif. -- Beckman Coulter, Inc. now offers Streptamer technology, providing a novel method for the isolation and characterization of functional antigen-specific T-cells by fluorescence-activated or magnet-assisted cell sorting. Streptamer technology, manufactured by IBA GmbH, includes Ag-specific multimers available in a number of human alleles and mouse [...]

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