Helicos BioSciences Q3 2009 Operating Highlights and Strategic Update
October 27, 2009
Significant Commercial and Technical Milestones Achieved CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Helicos BioSciences Corporation (NASDAQ: HLCS) announced today its operational, technical and scientific highlights for the quarter ended September 30, 2009. “In the third quarter of 2009, we continued to accelerate the deployment of our Helicos® Genetic Analysis System and to advance our technology. System orders more [...]
Spectrum Announces Proactive Approach to the Prevention of Melamine Contamination
October 27, 2009
Spectrum Chemicals & Laboratory Products announced it is fully committed to ensuring that every one of their products that contains, or is produced, using one of the pharmaceutical components identified by the U.S. FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM), a part of FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), is free from melamine contamination. [...]
CLC bio Expanding Network to Deliver Next Generation Sequencing Solutions to the Japanese Market
October 27, 2009
AARHUS, Denmark & KOBE, Japan -- Today, the leading provider of Next Generation Sequencing analysis solutions, CLC bio, announced that it has started a new expansion phase of the distribution of its Next Generation Sequencing solutions into the Japanese market. To handle direct relations with its Japanese customers, CLC bio has accepted Filgen Inc. as [...]
Kapa Biosystems Receives ISO Certification
October 27, 2009
WOBURN, Mass. -- Life science reagents supplier Kapa Biosystems announced today that its Research, Development and Manufacturing facility has received ISO 9001:2008 certification from SABS Commercial (Pty) Ltd. The Woburn, Mass.-based firm employs a high-throughput molecular evolution technology platform to optimize enzymes for DNA amplification, next-generation DNA sequencing and molecular diagnostic applications. Kapa Biosystems offers [...]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Places $9.1 Million Order for AS&E’s New MobileSearch HE Systems
October 27, 2009
CBP Orders First MobileSearch HE Systems for Port and Border Security Applications BILLERICA, Mass. -- American Science and Engineering, Inc. (AS&E®) (NASDAQ: ASEI), a leading worldwide supplier of innovative X-ray detection solutions, announced today the receipt of a $9.1 million order from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for multiple MobileSearch™ HE (High-Energy) cargo and [...]
October 27, 2009
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Affymetrix, Inc. (Nasdaq:AFFX) announced today that the Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy (IPIT) at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill is using the company’s DMET™ Plus biomarker panel to expand the Pharmacogenetics for Every Nation Initiative (PGENI). The PGENI’s mission is to help developing countries use genetic information [...]
Proteome Solutions Announces ProteinID Finder Version 1.7.0
October 27, 2009
Ann Arbor, MI -- Proteome Solutions, creator of ProteinID Finder and a leader in proteome database extraction and analyzation, today announced the availability of ProteinID Finder version 1.7.0 (v1.7.0). ProteinID Finder is a proteomics analyzation software capable of extracting information from the online universal protein resource database UniProt. ProteinID Finder imports your mass spectrometer analyzed [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific and Symyx Technologies
October 27, 2009
Thermo Fisher Scientific and Symyx Technologies Deliver Unparalleled Efficiency Enhancements to Bioanalytical Researchers with Integrated LIMS and ELN Solution PHILADELPHIA - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the release of a joint product development effort resulting from its partnership with Symyx Technologies. The solution will provide scientists in the [...]
Agilent Technologies and Stanford University to Explore New Class of Nanoscale Devices
October 27, 2009
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it is collaborating with Stanford University in a research program designed to explore a new class of nanoscale devices using a combinations of the scanning probe microscope (SPM) and atomic layer deposition (ALD). The research will enable the rapid prototyping and characterization of nanoscale [...]
T Bur Associates Announces Innovative Process-Monitoring Instrumentation
October 27, 2009
ROCKVILLE, Md.-- T Bur Associates, a Rockville, MD manufacturer of scientific instruments, has launched a new instrument system for online, real-time monitoring of plastics and chemicals processing. The instrument design is based on a central platform concept that incorporates multiple sensors that are capable of simultaneously measuring electrical, optical and rheological material properties. The instrument [...]

