Miniature Microscope Can Improve Disease Detection, Diagnosis and Treatment
November 3, 2009
CHICAGO -- New imaging technology using one of the world's smallest flexible microscopes enables physicians to look -- at the cellular level -- at living, moving tissue in the lungs and gastrointestinal tract so they can make a rapid diagnosis or carefully select tissue for biopsy. With the probe-based, confocal, laser-endomicroscopy system known as Cellvizio(R), [...]
Akonni Launches TruTip™ Kits for Rapid Nucleic Acid Extraction
November 3, 2009
Ground-breaking approach delivers inhibitor-free, PCR-ready nucleic acid from large volume samples in less than 4 minutes FREDERICK, Md. -- Akonni Biosystems, a molecular diagnostic (MDx) company focused on providing rapid and highly scalable solutions for research and infectious disease testing, today announced the worldwide launch of their TruTip product line for extracting DNA and RNA [...]
NuGEN Announces the Newest Member of its Applause Product Family
November 3, 2009
A Cost-Effective, Alternative for Routine 3' Microarray Gene Expression Analysis SAN CARLOS, Calif. -- NuGEN Technologies, Inc., a pace-setter in nucleic acid sample preparation, introduces the Applause 3'-Amplification System, a fast, cost-effective, single-tube solution to prepare RNA samples for microarray gene expression studies. Using its revolutionary linear Ribo-SPIA® (Single Primer Isothermal Amplification) technology, NuGEN offers [...]
Arrayit Corporation Blood Tests Diagnose Early Stage Cancers and Communicable Diseases
November 2, 2009
Collaborative Efforts Leading to Advances That Will Reduce Health Care Costs SUNNYVALE, CA -- Arrayit Corporation (OTC.BB:ARYC - News) is pleased to join the federal government in their efforts to help control health care costs by leveraging Arrayit's leading edge health care platform. For more than 150 years, traditional medicine has relied on a 'standards [...]
November 2, 2009
BOSTON--Enzo Biochem Inc. (NYSE:ENZ) announced today that favorable results of the Company’s clinical trial for treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) were presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. The study was a randomized double blind placebo controlled format of EGS21, Enzo’s orally administered beta glucosylceramide formulation, designed [...]
November 2, 2009
Caliper Discovery Alliances and Services division intends to expand its contract services offering to include label-free assays from SRU Biosystems WOBURN, Mass. -- SRU Biosystems today announced that Caliper Life Sciences will use SRU Biosystems’ label-free BIND® technology to offer new functional assays as part of its Discovery Alliances and Services. The label-free BIND technology, [...]
Caliper Life Sciences Expands LabChip(R) GX Product Capabilities
November 2, 2009
Broadens Application Focus, and Achieves Adoption Milestones - Scientists Utilize LabChip GX and LabChip EZ Reader Platforms in Protein Therapeutics and Vaccine Research Programs at an Increasing Pace HOPKINTON, Mass. -- Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALP - News), a leading provider of life sciences tools, today announced the availability of two new products that [...]
Roche Applied Science Announces CGX Arrays
November 2, 2009
Roche Applied Science Announces CGX Arrays Designed by Signature Genomics for Microarray-based Cytogenetic Analysis MADISON, Wis. -- Roche Applied Science (SWX:RO) (SWX:ROG) (Pink Sheets: RHHBY) will announce the European and Asia Pacific launch of the NimbleGen CGX arrays for microarray-based cytogenetic analysis at a workshop series in four European cities and seven cities in Asia [...]
GE Healthcare Launches Human Fab Capture Kit
November 2, 2009
For screening and kinetic characterization of human Fab samples using Biacore™ systems Uppsala, Sweden – GE Healthcare announces the launch of the Human Fab Capture Kit for the reliable and rapid screening and characterization of human Fab antibody fragments with Biacore™ instruments. The kit is suitable for use with samples including crude cell lysates, periplasmic [...]
Gulf Fiberoptics Expands With New Photonics Division
November 2, 2009
Oldsmar, Florida -- Gulf Fiberoptics announced its entry into the Photonics industry by launching a line of fiber optic products and accessories. “We are very excited about our expansion into Photonics,” said Patrick Bennetts, President of Gulf Fiberoptics. “Our new line of specialty fiber optic patch cable assemblies and related application solutions for spectrometers and [...]
