ViraCor-IBT Laboratories Launches Comprehensive Influenza and Respiratory Virus Testing Service

New Suite of Tests Identifies 2009 Influenza A H1N1 (“Swine Flu”), Additional Influenza Subtypes and Other Common Respiratory Viruses, Assisting Physicians in Improving Patient Care and Ensuring Appropriate Antiviral Use LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. & LENEXA, Kan.--ViraCor-IBT Laboratories today launched a new, comprehensive influenza and respiratory virus testing service that will assist physicians in detecting a [...]

Advion BioSystems, Inc. and Waters Corporation Announce Compatibility

Advion BioSystems, Inc. and Waters Corporation Announce Compatibility of Advion's TriVersa NanoMate® Chip-Based Nanoelectrospray System with Waters' Newest Range of XevoTM and SYNAPTTM Mass Spectrometers BREMEN, Germany, August 31, 2009 - Advion BioSystems, Inc. (Advion) and Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) jointly announced today at the 18th International Mass Spectrometry Conference (IMSC) that Advion's TriVersa NanoMate® chip-based [...]

BloodStor(TM) Stem Cell Biopreservation Media Platform Launched by BioLife Solutions

Industry Standard Product Should Drive Increased Revenue From Cord Blood Banks BOTHELL, Wash., Aug. 31 -- BioLife Solutions, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BLFS), a leading developer, manufacturer, and marketer of biopreservation tools for cells, tissues, and organs, today announced the launch of its BloodStor biopreservation media product platform. The product family includes BloodStor 55-5 for [...]

New Core-Shell Column Technology Delivers Ultra-High Performance on Any HPLC

Kinetex(TM) Column Provides Sub-2-Micron Level Performance Without UHPLC Instrumentation Torrance, CA - Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the manufacture of separation science consumables, introduces Kinetex - ultra-high performance LC columns based on the company's new core-shell silica technology. Kinetex meets researchers' need to improve results and increase productivity without large capital expenditures. By delivering [...]

Illumina Announces Delivery of the First Genome Through Its Individual Genome Sequencing Service

SAN DIEGO--Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced that it has delivered Hermann Hauser’s genome sequence. Dr. Hauser, Partner, Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd, is the first consumer to purchase Illumina’s individual genome sequencing service working with his physician, Michael Nova, MD, of Pathway Genomics. The genome was completed in Illumina’s CLIA-certified and College of American Pathologists (CAP) [...]

KD Scientific Introduces the NEW EZFlow 2030

NEW Portable Syringe Pump Ideal for Drug & Nutrient Delivery KD Scientific has introduced the NEW EZFlow 2030 is a small, light and completely portable syringe pump. It is designed to deliver small volumes with a linear flow rate of 1 - 99 mm per/hr with ±2% accuracy and can be used in a wide [...]

Endeca Congratulates Customer Sigma-Aldrich for Award-Winning Web Research Tool

Your Favorite Gene CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Endeca Technologies, Inc., a search applications company, today announced that Sigma-Aldrich, an Endeca customer and leading Life Science and High Technology company, has been honored with a 2009 CIO 100 award. Awarded at the conclusion of last week’s annual CIO 100® Symposium, Sigma-Aldrich has been recognized for its pioneering and innovative [...]

Biomatters and GenomeQuest announce partnership

New Zealand-based scientific software company Biomatters Ltd, creators of Geneious Pro, and GenomeQuest, the leader in sequence data management (SDM), announce an alliance to offer researchers a landmark “top-down” discovery methodology for next generation sequencing (NGS) projects. Specifically, the companies will integrate Biomatters’ desktop analysis and visualization software, Geneious Pro™ v4.8, with GenomeQuest 6.0Beta, an [...]

Bruker Announces the Availability of the World’s First 18 Tesla FTMS Magnet at IMSC 2009

BREMEN, Germany--Aug. 30, 2009-- At the 18th International Mass Spectrometry Conference, Bruker Daltonics today announced the availability of the world’s first 18 tesla (T) magnet for FTMS. This unique, actively-shielded, refrigerated 18T magnet system with excellent homogeneity and field stability, represents the world’s highest field FTMS magnet, providing unique and novel scientific capabilities that can [...]

Wyeth Corporation comes to the aid of UH Hilo’s College of Pharmacy

The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo College of Pharmacy will soon install a major instrument that will help further research at the university, thanks to a gift from the Wyeth Corporation. The Bruker-Biospin Avance DRX 400 is a 400-megahertz nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer (NMR) valued at a quarter million dollars, which will be used to [...]

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