Bridgewater, NJ. LabVantage today announced the release of Service Pack 7 (SP7) for the SQL*LIMS product platform. SQL*LIMS is a fully-integrated laboratory information management solution (LIMS) ideally suited to manage an organization's product development, quality management, and analytical laboratories. The SP7 release includes over 100 enhancements, and it offers new additional capabilities including: · Enhanced [...]

Sets New Standards for Throughput, Data Quality and Ease-of-Use CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Applied Biosystems, part of Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:LIFE), today announced the global commercial availability of a new capillary electrophoresis (CE) sequencing system. The 3500 Series Genetic Analyzer builds on Applied Biosystems’ industry-leading CE sequencing systems, with state-of-the-art advancements, setting significant new standards for [...]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Progenika, Inc. today announced that it has entered into an agreement with ARUP Laboratories (ARUP) of Salt Lake City, UT, to provide blood group genotyping reference laboratory services to ARUP to determine patient red blood cell antigen profiles when serology has logistic and functional limitations. Progenika’s blood group genotyping microarray, which simultaneously [...]

Eurogentec S.A. (“Eurogentec”) announced today that it has obtained a license from Applied Biosystems’, part of Life Technologies Corporation, (“AB”) under AB’s Probe Manufacturing License Program. Under the agreement, Eurogentec and its affiliates are licensed to manufacture and sell dual-labeled oligonucleotide probes worldwide for use in the 5’ Nuclease process. This process is one of [...]

SOUTH EASTON, Mass. -- Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq:PBIO - News) ("PBI" and the "Company") today announced that scientists from the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, Texas ("UNTHSC") reported notable improvements in the yields of DNA from challenging forensic samples -- such as human hair and bone samples -- when the [...]

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments updated its existing System GC Program to include the GC-2014 gas chromatograph. In addition, the program now offers new streamlined systems for natural gas, transformer gas and greenhouse gas analysis, as well as biofuels and biomass feedstock research. Shimadzu’s modular GC-2014 Series, the workhorse of the System GC Program, is suited for [...]

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Uses IDBS to Improve Understanding of Childhood Diseases Translational Research Solution Delivers Fast Analysis of Clinical and Genomic Data for Diabetes, Asthma, Autism, and Brain Cancer Studies GUILDFORD, UK and CAMBRIDGE, MA -- IDBS, the leading worldwide provider of research data management and analytics solutions to R&D organizations, today announced [...]

Institute for Systems Biology, Agilent Technologies to Build MRM Atlas for Quantification of All Human Proteins SEATTLE & SANTA CLARA, Calif.--The Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) and Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced a collaboration to create the Human Multiple Reaction Monitoring (MRM) Atlas, a comprehensive resource designed to enable scientists to perform quantitative analysis [...]

MUKILTEO, Wash. -- CombiMatrix Corporation (Nasdaq:CBMX - News) announced today that Mr. Chris Emery and Dr. Lony Lim have joined its wholly owned subsidiary, Combimatrix Molecular Diagnostics (CMDX), as Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Operations, respectively. The tandem will use their extensive laboratory diagnostics services expertise to help implement the company's strategic initiatives [...]

INTEGRA has announced that it is now able to offer a complete range of handheld pipetting systems offering accurate liquid handling from 0.5µl to 100ml. Proven in over one hundred thousand installations worldwide the PIPETBOY pipettor range sets a high benchmark for ease-of-use, reliability, build quality, performance and operational safety. Each PIPETBOY pipettor can be [...]