BioTek Instruments and Millipore Collaborate on Application Note for Hormone Assay Panel

WINOOSKI VT, USA — BioTek Instruments, Inc., in collaboration with Millipore Corporation, has released the application note, “Automated Magnetic Bead Washing of Metabolic Hormone Assays” featuring BioTek’s new ELx405™ Magnetic Bead Washer and Millipore’s MILLIPLEX™ MAP Metabolic Hormone Assay Panel. The application details the use of the ELx405 Magnetic Bead Washer to automate the various [...]

UD start-up company prepares to commercialize novel detector for medical, military applications

AIR Technologies, a start-up company established by University of Delaware researchers and a former DuPont scientist, is preparing to commercialize a high-precision detector -- a planar array infrared spectrograph -- that can identify biological and chemical agents in solids, liquids, and gases, in quantities as small as an atom, and in less than a second. [...]

Rules-Based Medicine Introduces CardiovascularMAP(TM)

Rules-Based Medicine Introduces CardiovascularMAP(TM) Multiplex Biomarker Panel to Aid CVD Drug Development AUSTIN, Texas -- Rules-Based Medicine (RBM), a leading multiplexed biomarker testing laboratory, today announced the launch of CardiovascularMAP, a research tool designed specifically to advance drug development aimed at the treatment of cardiovascular disease (CVD.) Designed in collaboration with leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology [...]

PerkinElmer, Inc. and Corning Incorporated Announce Strategic Collaboration for the Advancement of Label-Free Technologies

Strategic agreement to develop next-generation platforms for Life Sciences research CORNING, N.Y. -- PerkinElmer Inc. and Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW), today announced that the two companies have entered into a strategic agreement to advance the development of next-generation label-free detection technologies. The agreement will allow Corning and PerkinElmer to combine their world-class expertise in optical [...]

Arrayit Announces NanoPrint Sale to Leukemia Center in Poland

Purchase of Arrayit Microarray System Will Play Integral Role in Targeted Cancer Testing SUNNYVALE, CA -- Arrayit Corporation (OTC.BB:ARYC - News) today announced the sale of a system to the Center of Excellence for Nucleic Acid-Based Technologies (CENAT) in Poznan, Poland. The Arrayit NanoPrint Microarrayer will be used by CENAT for scientific and medical collaborations [...]

Markes International Launches New Thermal Desorption Instrument for VOC and SVOC analysis

Llantrisant, UK -- Specialist analytical thermal desorption instrumentation manufacturer Markes International Ltd has announced the launch of its new thermal desorption (TD) instrument for gas chromatography (GC). The new TD-100 is the latest in a line of innovative and technologically advanced thermal desorption systems from the company. The system is based on the established and [...]

Tosoh Announces Establishment of Sales Office in Beijing

Tokyo, Japan—Tosoh Corporation has established a sales office in Beijing as a branch of its wholly owned subsidiary Tosoh (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., and commenced business on October 9, 2009. The new office was established to handle Tosoh (Shanghai)’s burgeoning operations in northern China. As part of Tosoh’s overall strategy to expand operations in China, Tosoh [...]

Micronics Acquires License to Biosearch Technologies� Nucleic Acid Assay Chemistries

Company is advancing point-of-care, molecular diagnostic infectious disease applications REDMOND, Wash. -- Micronics, Inc., a leading developer of point-of-care molecular diagnostic products, announced today that it has entered into a license agreement with Biosearch Technologies, Inc. (Biosearch) for the right to make, have made, use and sell Micronics� products that incorporate Biosearch�s proprietary fluorophores and [...]

WaferGen Adds Robert Coradini, Former President of J&J New Ventures, to Board of Directors

Company continues to strengthen board with industry veterans FREMONT -- WaferGen Biosystems, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: WGBS - News), a leading developer of state-of-the-art genetic analysis systems, today announced that Robert Coradini has joined the WaferGen Board of Directors. Mr. Coradini was most recently the President, New Ventures of Johnson & Johnson Consumer Group of [...]

Cell Biosciences Completes Acquisition of Alpha Innotech

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Cell Biosciences, Inc. today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Alpha Innotech Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: APNO - News). The stockholders of Alpha Innotech have approved the transaction, and all regulatory and other conditions have been satisfied. Pursuant to the merger agreement announced on September 8, 2009, former Alpha [...]

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