November 9, 2009
Niton XL2 Series Analyzers Deliver Positive Material Identification with Point and Shoot Simplicity BILLERICA, Mass. -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, will demonstrate the newest member of its family of Thermo Scientific Niton handheld XRF analyzers, the Niton® XL2 Series, at POWER-GEN International 2009 taking place December 8-10 at the [...]
Hercules Technology Growth Capital Commits $5.5 Million to Labcyte, Inc.
November 9, 2009
Labcyte, Inc. Developer of Acoustic Droplet Ejection Technology PALO ALTO, Calif.--Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. (NASDAQ: HTGC), the leading specialty finance company providing venture debt and equity to venture capital and private equity-backed technology and life science companies at all stages of development, today announced that it has committed to provide Labcyte, Inc. (www.labcyte.com) $5.5 [...]
November 9, 2009
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia and ST. LOUIS -- The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) and Orion Genomics today announced that a consortium co-led by the Advanced Biotechnology and Breeding Centre of MPOB and Orion Genomics has sequenced three oil palm genomes from two oil palm species, an important food and biofuel crop. This genome sequencing effort [...]
Thermo Scientific Orbitrap Technology Selected by the Medical Research Council
November 6, 2009
Thermo Scientific Orbitrap Technology Selected by the Medical Research Council for Groundbreaking Metabolomics and Lipidomics Research SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that the Human Nutrition Research (HNR) unit of the Medical Research Council (MRC) in Cambridge, UK, has selected the Thermo Scientific LTQ Orbitrap [...]
Rand Capital Announces $250,000 Investment in Rheonix, Inc.
November 6, 2009
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Rand Capital Corporation (Nasdaq:RAND) ("Rand"), a business development company (BDC) that provides capital and managerial expertise for small to medium-sized private companies, announced that it has invested $250,000 in Rheonix, Inc. (www.rheonix.com), based in Ithaca, New York. Rheonix began operations and was later spun out of the microfluidic division of Kionix, Inc. [...]
Galvanic announces reorganization of operations
November 6, 2009
CALGARY -- Galvanic Applied Sciences Inc. TSXV: GAVV ("Galvanic") announces that it is reorganizing the European distribution of its Monitek product line supported by the Duesseldorf, German office. In order to remain competitive in the global marketplace it became necessary to discontinue the operations in Germany and consolidate in Lowell, Mass. The intent of the [...]
Cisbio Bioassays Strengthens Presence in Asia
November 5, 2009
Leader in drug screening tools and technologies now has local sales teams in China and South Korea Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France – Cisbio Bioassays (www.htrf.com), a member of IBA group and global developer of HTRF® (Homogeneous Time-Resolved Fluorescence) technology and services used in assay development and drug screening, today announced that it has established sales operations in [...]
Illumina Announces Scale-Up of Genome Analyzers at The Broad Institute
November 5, 2009
Institute Purchases Additional 30 GAIIx Systems SAN DIEGO--Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced that the Broad Institute has purchased 30 additional Genome Analyzers, increasing its total installed base of Illumina systems to 89. “We’ve significantly expanded our fleet of Genome Analyzers to ramp up our sequencing capabilities in whole genome, whole exome, and whole transcriptome analysis,” [...]
Arrayit Corporation to Diagnose Early Stage Cancers and Monitor Effectiveness of Treatments
November 5, 2009
Collaborative Efforts Leading to Advances That Will Contribute to Health Care Reform SUNNYVALE, CA -- Arrayit Corporation (OTC.BB:ARYC - News) is pleased to join the federal government in their efforts to help control health care costs through early diagnosis of diseases. For more than 150 years, traditional medicine has relied on a 'standards of care' [...]
Complete Genomics Publishes in Science
November 5, 2009
Complete Genomics Publishes in Science on Low-Cost Sequencing of Three Human Genomes Using Its Proprietary Sequencing Platform MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Complete Genomics, a third-generation human genome sequencing company, today announced publication of a report in the journal Science describing its proprietary DNA sequencing platform, including analysis of sequence data from three complete human genomes. The consumables [...]
