Optiferrin shown to provide superior performance in cell culture and addresses the need for animal-free transferrin in many applications including Stem Cells, Primary Cells, Hybridoma Cells and Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells. Fort Collins, CO – InVitria today announced the launch of Optiferrin, a high performance, well-defined and animal-free recombinant transferrin for use in mammalian [...]

Pharmaceutical Industry Non-Profit Maintains Standards and Certification for Digital Signatures SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Symyx Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:SMMX - News) today announced it has joined SAFE-BioPharma Association, a non-profit association that created and manages the SAFE-BioPharma digital identity and signature standard for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. The membership enables Symyx to implement the SAFE-BioPharma(r) digital [...]

Meridian Bioscience Reaffirms Fiscal 2009 Guidance CINCINNATI--Meridian Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIVO) today provided the financial community with guidance regarding the Company’s fiscal 2010 sales and earnings estimates. Based on the Company’s business planning and budgeting activities for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, management expects net sales to be in the range of $160 [...]

Life Science Organizations Participate in Economic Recovery by Purchasing Late-Model Lab Equipment EquipNet is offering life science organizations an extraordinary opportunity to purchase premium, late-model lab equipment at pre-owned prices. After a restructuring, a major biotech company found themselves with a facility full of valuable, but now idle, lab equipment. That's when EquipNet was called [...]

Limbach Laboratory Network Group Selects Bruker´s MALDI Biotyper for Mass Spectrometry-Based Microbial Identification by Molecular Fingerprinting BREMEN, Germany--Prior to the 61st Annual Meeting of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology on September 20-23, 2009 in Goettingen, Bruker Daltonics announces a new framework agreement with the Limbach laboratory network, concerning microbial identification based on MALDI-TOF [...]

Abbott Park, Illinois — Abbott announced today it has been named the overall Gold winner of the 2009 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards for its Ibis T5000 Biosensor system, which is designed to detect and characterize a broad range of infectious agents in a given sample, including viruses, bacteria and fungi. "Abbott is dedicated [...]

Tripos Establishes Benchware Pantheon Partnership Program For Developers of Software Tools Powerful and Flexible Benchware Pantheon Platform Enables Easy and Rapid Software Integration and Development ST. LOUIS--Tripos™, a leading provider of drug discovery informatics products and services, today announced the creation of a worldwide Benchware® Pantheon™ Partner Program for software developers. The new program will [...]

Cargo X-ray Inspection Systems to Scan Vehicles and Trucks at Border Crossings for Explosive Threats and Contraband BILLERICA, Mass.--American Science and Engineering, Inc. (AS&E®) (NASDAQ: ASEI - News), a leading worldwide supplier of innovative X-ray detection solutions, announced today that it has received an $18.8 million order for cargo X-ray inspection systems from an unnamed [...]

The Hugo Sachs Elektronik- Harvard Apparatus IH-SR Isolated Heart perfusion system utilizes a patented flow resistance and compliance chamber to faithfully mimic the in-vivo cardiac afterload in small rodent models. This exclusive feature creates an environment for the heart which more closely resembles the actual resistance of the peripheral vasculature and sets a new standard [...]

LifeSensors, Inc. manufactures Ubiquitin Proteasome Pathway (UPP) research tools and novel recombinant protein expression technologies MALVERN, Pa. & SAN DIEGO--Nacalai USA, Inc. has entered into a distribution agreement with LifeSensors, Inc., a Malvern, Pennsylvania, based biotechnology company for distribution of LifeSensors’ Ubiquitin Proteasome Pathway (UPP) research tools and novel recombinant protein expression technologies in Japan, [...]