FEI Sells Phenom(TM) Product Line
November 3, 2009
HILLSBORO, Ore. -- FEI Company (Nasdaq:FEIC - News) announced that Phenom-World, a majority-owned subsidiary of NTS Group B.V. (NTS) of Eindhoven, The Netherlands, has acquired FEI's Phenom(TM) product line. NTS has been FEI's manufacturing partner and was closely involved with the development of the innovative desktop scanning electron microscope before it was introduced in 2007. [...]
Sigma-Aldrich Signs License Agreement With Polyplus-transfection
November 3, 2009
Commercialization of ZNA technology provides solutions for increased affinity for nucleic acids ST. LOUIS -- Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL - News) today announced a worldwide licensing agreement with Polyplus-transfection (Strasbourg, France) to manufacture and commercialize Zip Nucleic Acid (ZNA(TM)*) oligonucleotides, a new technology that provides solutions for increased affinity for nucleic acids. Under the terms of [...]
Cerno Bioscience, Agilent Technologies to Co-Market MassWorks for GC/MSD
November 3, 2009
Calibration Software Enables Single Quadrupole Instruments to Easily Identify Unknowns Cerno Bioscience and Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced they will jointly market Cerno's MassWorks calibration software to Agilent GC/MSD ChemStation users. This novel calibration increases the mass accuracy of Agilent's single quadrupole GC/MSD sufficiently to identify unknown compounds. This normally requires use of [...]
Accelrys to Showcase Materials Studio 5.0 at AIChE 2009
November 3, 2009
Conference Includes Presentations From Boeing and U.S. Army Research Laboratory SAN DIEGO, CA -- Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACCL - News), a leading provider of scientific business intelligence software and services, will participate in the AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers) Annual Meeting being held at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee from November 8 to [...]
Roche NimbleGen Arrays Help Unveil the Secrets of Insidious Potato Blight
November 3, 2009
MADISON, Wis. -- A large international team of researchers recently published the 240-megabase DNA sequence of Phytophthora infestans, a robust parasitic water mold responsible for the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, in Nature (1). Breeders have not been able to produce potato cultivars that remain resistant to this insidious blight, aptly named as the [...]
PerkinElmer Secures FDA 510K Clearance for Newborn Screening Platform
November 3, 2009
Automated GSP™ Genetic Screening Processor enables multi-analyte analysis, accelerates sample screening and increases accuracy WALTHAM, Mass. -- PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced that the Company has received 510K clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its GSP™ Genetic Screening Processor, [...]
NTS Group takes the lead in Phenom-World
November 3, 2009
FEI Company retains a minority stake in this new BV (limited company) Eindhoven -- The NTS Group has announced its majority participation in Phenom-World BV, a new limited company founded on November,3 to realise the marketing, sales and service of Phenom. FEI Company, which has so far been responsible for the marketing and sales of [...]
Malvern Sponsors Protein Aggregation Track at PepTalk 2010
November 3, 2009
Malvern, UK: As well as presenting a technical paper and exhibiting from its range of Zetasizer light scattering solutions and Viscotek size exclusion chromatography systems, Malvern Instruments is sponsoring the ‘Protein Aggregation’ track at the next Cambridge Healthtech Institute PepTalk conference (January 11-15, 2010, San Diego, California). ‘Protein Aggregation: Understanding and Overcoming Analytic, Formulation, Manufacturing, [...]
November 3, 2009
Agilent Technologies’ Next-Generation-Sequencing Human Exome Target Enrichment Portfolio Now Available for SOLiD™ SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that its SureSelect Human All Exon Kit is now available for the Applied Biosystems SOLiD System. Applied Biosystems is part of Life Technologies Corp. The kit enables target enrichment prior to next-generation DNA sequencing. [...]
November 3, 2009
TORONTO, and WASHINGTON, D.C. - MDS Inc. (TSX: MDS - News; NYSE: MDZ - News), a leading provider of products and services to the global life sciences markets, and Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR - News), a diversified technology leader, today announced that they have each received a Second Request for information from the Federal Trade [...]

