ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Sept. 1 -- Ambry Genetics announced today that they have completed certification to become an Agilent Certified Service Provider on the Agilent microarray platform. The initial certification is for Comparative Genomic Hybridization (aCGH) which is an application used by researchers to discover and detect genomic copy number variations within specific genomes. The [...]

GE Healthcare Introduces ÄKTA™ avant Next Generation Liquid Chromatography System for Accelerating Process Development - For speed, scalability and security Uppsala, Sweden – GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announces the launch of ÄKTA™ avant, the next generation ÄKTA high performance liquid chromatography system providing a complete, robust solution for fast, [...]

St. Joseph, MI. – GeneGo, Inc., the leading systems biology tools company, announced today that it launched a collaborative development project on systems biology of stem cells with global pharmaceutical companies and leading academic centers as members. The 24-month project aims to create a comprehensive “knowledge base” on development and biology of different types of [...]

Oxford, UK, September 1, 2009 - Oxford Gene Technology (OGT) and SciGene announced today at the annual meeting of the British Society for Human Genetics (BSHG), an agreement for OGT to supply SciGene’s lines of microarray sample processing equipment to cytogenetics and research laboratories throughout the European Union, excluding Germany. SciGene’s automated instruments improve test [...]

Symyx Technologies, Inc. has announced a new release of the Symyx Isentris® decision support system. Isentris 3.2 enables scientists to explore, compare and report on information spanning multiple experiments captured in electronic lab notebooks, the Symyx Lab Execution and Analysis (LEA) software suite, laboratory information management systems (LIMS) and other information management systems. Symyx Isentris [...]

BREMEN, Germany (September 1, 2009) - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that at the 18th Annual International Mass Spectrometry Conference (IMSC) it will showcase a variety of innovative mass spectrometry solutions that deliver improved analytical performance and ease of use. During the conference, which runs from Aug. 30 [...]

Asylum Research and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) announced today that the Institute’s Laboratory for Energy and Nano-Science (LENS) has acquired Asylum’s MFP-3D Stand Alone Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) and instrumented NanoIndenter to perform research aimed at improving the efficiency of thermoelectric materials and developing non-destructive tools for [...]

To Provide Diverse Chemical Libraries Together With Researchers' Own Private Data BURLINGAME, Calif., Sept. 1, -- ChemBridge Corporation, a leading discovery chemistry company offering an extensive portfolio of discovery chemistry products and contract research services, has now made ten of their most popular screening libraries available to researchers via the Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD) Public [...]

Type-it® HRM PCR Kit and Rotor-Gene® ScreenClust HRM Software enables enhanced effectiveness and reliability Venlo, The Netherlands - Genotyping encompasses a range of applications used to analyze genetic differences between individuals or cells. These studies require accuracy, speed, reliability and standardization which often places high demands on limited resources including sample material, human capital and [...]

Florida Rock slashes production costs using advanced process control and real-time particle size analysis Malvern, UK: Florida Rock Industries (Jacksonville, Florida, US), part of the Vulcan Materials Company, has slashed energy consumption and improved cement product quality using the powerful combination of a model predictive control package from Pavilion Technologies (Austin, Texas US) and real-time [...]