Thomas Scientific Launches NEW Website
October 29, 2009
SWEDESBORO, N.J. -- Thomas Scientific on Wednesday launched a new website. The website provides one-stop laboratory products shopping, and presents a wide range of advancements, including quick, easy navigation to accurately find products. The new design includes superior product organization and related filters, improved product descriptions, content and specifications. The comparison shopping functionality allows customers [...]
Linde North America rebrands Spectra Gases business
October 29, 2009
Murray Hill, New Jersey, U.S. – Linde North America, a member of The Linde Group, has announced that Spectra Gases Inc., acquired in 2006, is changing its brand name to Linde, effective immediately. Spectra Gases, which Linde acquired in 2006, is a global leader in next generation fine chemicals and high purity gases. The Linde [...]
Dionex Wins Large Order from the National Police Agency of Japan
October 29, 2009
Sunnyvale, CA— Dionex Corporation is pleased to announce that is has won a large order from the prestigious National Police Agency (NPA) of Japan. The order for 51 units of the Dionex ICS-3000 and 51 units of the Dionex ICS-2100 systems was secured by Dionex’s Japanese subsidiary, Nippon Dionex K.K., which has a long history [...]
Xenomics, Inc. Files Suit against Sequenom, Inc. for Fraud
October 29, 2009
NEW YORK -- Xenomics, Inc. (Pink Sheets:XNOM.PK)(FWB:XE7) a developer of trans-renal molecular diagnostic technologies, announced today that it has filed a complaint against Sequenom, Inc. (Nasdaq: SQNM) in the Supreme Court of the State of New York alleging that Sequenom fraudulently misrepresented to Xenomics the status of its testing for Down Syndrome and based upon [...]
GeneGo Launches New Web Site With Free Pathways for the Biology and Chemistry Community
October 29, 2009
ST. JOSEPH, Mich. -- GeneGo, Inc., the leading systems biology tools company, announced today that they will be launching a new web site with FREE high quality pathway content. On www.genego.com, anyone can now search for genes, proteins, compounds, processes and diseases and access high quality manually curated pathway maps for human, mouse and rat [...]
Norwegian Team Completes Cod Genome Using 454 Sequencing System
October 29, 2009
BRANFORD, Conn. -- Scientist from a consortium of Norwegian marine and aquaculture institutions announced this week that they have generated the first ever draft sequence and assembly of the Atlantic cod genome. The results, presented at the GenoFisk meeting in Oslo, Norway, include a high-quality genome assembly and preliminary annotation of the fish species, completed [...]
BioTek Instruments and Millipore Collaborate on Application Note for Hormone Assay Panel
October 29, 2009
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
October 28, 2009
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)
October 28, 2009
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 [...]
October 28, 2009
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 [...]
