OSI Systems Awarded Approximately $29 Million Contracts from U.S. Customs and Border Protection

OSI Systems Awarded Approximately $29 Million in Advanced Cargo and Customs Screening Contracts from U.S. Customs and Border Protection HAWTHORNE, Calif. -- OSI Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:OSIS - News), a vertically-integrated provider of specialized electronic products for critical applications announced that its Security division, Rapiscan Systems, has received approximately $29 million in orders from the U.S. [...]

JPK announces integration of electrochemistry and optics for the NanoWizard® AFM(pressebox)

Berlin, JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, is pleased to announce new electrochemical capabilities for their NanoWizard® AFM systems. Electrochemical experiments study redox reactions of substances at a solid-liquid interface. With atomic force microscopy, high-resolution images can be obtained in liquid as the electrochemical reaction [...]

Precision Antibody Wins Contract to Develop ‘Gold Standard’ Antibodies

Part of National Cancer Institute's Clinical Proteomics Technologies for Cancer (CPTC) Initiative Third contract awarded in NCI initiative to improve monoclonal antibody reagents for proteomics research Precision Antibody will develop high-quality, standardized, renewable monoclonal antibodies to 20 cancer-related target proteins COLUMBIA, Md. -- Precision Antibody(TM) has been selected as the antibody developer for a component [...]

RTS Life Science to Exhibit at DDL20, Edinburgh, December 2009

Manchester, UK . RTS Life Science, a worldwide supplier of automated sample management and drug delivery testing systems, today announces that it will exhibit at the Drug Delivery to the Lungs (DDL) annual conference, Edinburgh International Conference Centre, 9th -11th December 2009. RTS staff will be available on booth #44 to discuss your dry powder [...]

OSI Systems Receives $17.2 Million IDIQ from U.S. Customs & Border Protection for Mobile X-Ray Inspection Vans

HAWTHORNE, Calif. -- OSI Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSIS - News), a vertically-integrated provider of specialized electronic products for critical applications, announced today that the U.S. Customs & Border Protection (“CBP”) released a contract award notice for a $2.8 million order to OSI Systems’ Security division, Rapiscan Systems, for the purchase of Mobile X-ray inspection vans. [...]

eBioscience Acquires Bender MedSystems

Business Combination Adds Cutting-Edge Product Lines and Expands International Operations San Diego, California and Vienna, Austria -- eBioscience Corporation today announced that it has acquired privately held immunoassay technology pioneer Bender MedSystems GmbH in an all cash transaction. The acquisition will provide eBioscience with over 1,000 high profile immunology and oncology products including the Instant [...]

Roche Molecular Systems Research Team Uses 454 Sequencing System

Roche Molecular Systems Research Team Uses 454 Sequencing System for High-Resolution HLA Genotyping BRANFORD, Conn. -- A study published this month in the journal Tissue Antigens reports that researchers at Roche Molecular Systems (SWX:RO) (SWX:ROG) (Pink Sheets: RHHBY) in Pleasanton, CA have used high-throughput sequencing technology from 454 Life Sciences, a Roche Company, to carry [...]

Helicos BioSciences Q3 2009 Operating Highlights and Strategic Update

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

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

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 [...]

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