WaferGen Names Christopher Sears, Ph.D., Architect of High-Value Molecular Diagnostics and Computational Biology Platforms, to Company's Scientific Advisory Board FREMONT, Calif. -- WaferGen Biosystems, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: WGBS - News), a leading developer of state-of-the-art genetic analysis systems, today announced that Christopher Sears, Ph.D. has joined the company's Scientific Advisory Board. His career has [...]

Reno, Nevada -- Hamilton Robotics introduces the MICROLAB NIMBUS Heater/Shaker Package - an integrated system that incorporates high-speed automated pipetting with orbital plate shaking and heating. This preconfigured, turnkey package provides streamlined functionality for a variety of applications that require heat for solute mixing or shaking such as in colorimetric, fluorescent or luminescent bioassays, cell [...]

League City, TX -- The International Society of Automation (ISA) named Senscient, Inc. as the winner of its Gold InTech Innovator’s Award. The award was presented at ISA EXPO 2009 in Houston. The InTech Innovator’s Awards recognize companies that have made significant and unique contributions to any field in the automation profession. These contributions include, [...]

Less Expensive, More Reliable Rodent Panel Offers Both Predictivity and Mechanistic Profiles PITTSBURGH--Cellumen, Inc., a discovery and early safety assessment company, today announced that its in vitro Rat Hepatocyte Early Safety Assessment Panel provides increased predictivity for human drug induced liver injury (DILI) equivalent to that of a recently published panel comprised of human hepatocytes. [...]

Online Event from Varian, Inc. Features New and Recently Introduced Products PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Varian, Inc. (NasdaqGS:VARI) has announced that The Varian Experience, an online event, has reopened with new and updated information. The interactive, digital world features an abundance of application-specific research data, animated product demonstrations, and a digital kiosk where customers can [...]

Marlborough, Massachusetts -- Block Engineering announced today that it has been awarded a new $4,380,000 government contract to develop a fieldable, handheld infrared spectrometer that utilizes Block's unique laser and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technologies. The spectrometer will be used for standoff detection of solid and liquid explosive materials or other substances that could be used [...]

For laboratories handling smaller numbers of cryogenically stored samples - the new Aluminium Decapper-8 from Micronic Europe BV enables quick and simple opening of lightly frozen sample storage tubes. With increasing pressure to ensure long term stored sample integrity - more and more laboratories are turning to cryostorage solutions. However accessing cryostored samples without subjecting [...]

SEATTLE -- Glencoe Software, Inc., the commercial arm of the Open Microscopy Environment (OME) Consortium (https://openmicroscopy.org), is proud to announce its collaboration with the American Society of Cell Biology's exciting new project titled "The Cell: An Image Library." The ASCB has been awarded a $2.5M stimulus grant through the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Grand [...]

ECUBLENS, Switzerland -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced a new and powerful addition to its range of automated optical emission and X-ray fluorescence spectrometers. As an alternative to single spectrometer automation, the new Thermo Scientific ARL SMS-3500 integrates multiple standalone laboratory instruments, including sample preparation, in a fully [...]

SpectralWorks AnalyzerPro software is core software for AgResearch metabolomics studies in New Zealand AgResearch Limited (www.agresearch.co.nz ), New Zealand’s largest Crown Research Institute (CRI) has entered into an agreement with SpectralWorks Limited for the supply and potential further development of their AnalyzerPro® MS data mining Software. Based at the Grasslands Research Centre in Palmerston North, [...]