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 [...]

Kapa Biosystems Receives ISO Certification

WOBURN, Mass. -- Life science reagents supplier Kapa Biosystems announced today that its Research, Development and Manufacturing facility has received ISO 9001:2008 certification from SABS Commercial (Pty) Ltd. The Woburn, Mass.-based firm employs a high-throughput molecular evolution technology platform to optimize enzymes for DNA amplification, next-generation DNA sequencing and molecular diagnostic applications. Kapa Biosystems offers [...]

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Places $9.1 Million Order for AS&E’s New MobileSearch HE Systems

CBP Orders First MobileSearch HE Systems for Port and Border Security Applications BILLERICA, Mass. -- American Science and Engineering, Inc. (AS&E®) (NASDAQ: ASEI), a leading worldwide supplier of innovative X-ray detection solutions, announced today the receipt of a $9.1 million order from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for multiple MobileSearch™ HE (High-Energy) cargo and [...]

Developing Countries Sign up for Pharmacogenomics for Every Nation Initiative Using the Affymetrix DMET™ Plus Panel

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Affymetrix, Inc. (Nasdaq:AFFX) announced today that the Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy (IPIT) at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill is using the company’s DMET™ Plus biomarker panel to expand the Pharmacogenetics for Every Nation Initiative (PGENI). The PGENI’s mission is to help developing countries use genetic information [...]

Proteome Solutions Announces ProteinID Finder Version 1.7.0

Ann Arbor, MI -- Proteome Solutions, creator of ProteinID Finder and a leader in proteome database extraction and analyzation, today announced the availability of ProteinID Finder version 1.7.0 (v1.7.0). ProteinID Finder is a proteomics analyzation software capable of extracting information from the online universal protein resource database UniProt. ProteinID Finder imports your mass spectrometer analyzed [...]

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