Labcyte Echo Acoustic Liquid Handler an Essential Component of Pharmaceutical High-Throughput Screening Recent Issue of JBS Emphasizes the Importance of Acoustic Liquid Handling in Drug Discovery SUNNYVALE, Calif.--The most recent edition of the Journal of Biomolecular Screening, the world’s leading peer-reviewed publication on drug discovery sciences, focused on the significant advances made recently in the [...]

MADISON, Wis.--Promega Corporation announces the recent purchase of Turner BioSystems Inc. to grow their mutual interest in offering high quality integrated systems (optimized instrument with reagents) to life scientists in research, drug discovery and clinical diagnostics. This latest Promega expansion continues the existing synergies between the two companies. Together they have delivered integrated bioluminescent systems [...]

ORANGE COUNTY, Calif., Aug. 2 -- Beckman Coulter, Inc. (NYSE: BEC - News), a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of products that simplify, automate and innovate complex biomedical testing, announced today the completion of the acquisition of Olympus' lab-based diagnostics business. This acquisition, first announced in February, extends Beckman Coulter's leadership position in Chemistry and [...]

Sunnyvale, CA—Dionex expands its family of industry-leading Rapid Separation LC (RSLC) systems with the new UltiMate® 3000 RSLCnano system. The RSLCnano system is ideal for ultrafast and ultrahigh-resolution separations of proteins and peptides for proteomics research. The system’s unrivaled flexibility is provided by an extensive flowpressure footprint, delivering continuous, direct flow rates from 20 nL/min [...]

Sunnyvale, CA—The ASE® Prep CR H+ form is a cation-exchange resin in the hydrogen ion form that neutralizes strong bases in samples that have undergone pretreatment for base hydrolysis. Many samples require pretreatment with acids or bases to improve the solubility of analytes or release them from the sample matrix. For example, with food samples, [...]

New England Peptide Unveils Industry's First Peptide Array Flash Purification System - New FlashPure™ Technology Improves Reproducibility, Cost-Effectiveness New England Peptide has introduced NEP'S FlashPure™, the peptide industry's first flash purification system, which more rapidly and cost effectively prepares research grade peptides for customers worldwide. This proprietary process transforms unpurified arrays into partially purified peptides [...]

July 31, 2009 04:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time Bruker Announces New Mass Spectrometry Joint Venture in India New Bruker LabMate Joint Venture Company Established to Further Enhance Customer Support for Life-Science Mass Spectrometry in Rapidly Growing Indian Market BANGALORE, India--Bruker Daltonics announced today the establishment of the Bruker LabMate Private Limited company, a life-science mass [...]

MANCHESTER, England--DxS Ltd, a personalised medicine company and leaders in the provision of companion diagnostics, has announced it is working closely with AstraZeneca to make available a companion diagnostic for use with IRESSA™ (gefitinib), AstraZeneca’s treatment for non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). DxS’ clinical diagnostic, the TheraScreen®: EGFR29 Mutation Kit will be used to [...]

Techcomp increases its European footprint by acquiring a 75% stake in historic French company • Acquires 75% stake in HCC Group which has 2 leading French brands: Froilabo and Firlabo • Acquisition below the HCC Group’s FY08 NTA of €2.90 million • Temperature control technology was key to acquisition as well as the strong brand [...]

Kewaunee Scientific Corporation Named to Fortune Small Business Magazine's Annual List of America's Fastest-Growing Small Public Companies STATESVILLE, N.C., JULY 30 -- Kewaunee Scientific Corporation (Nasdaq: KEQU - News) announced today that it has been named to Fortune Small Business magazine's ninth "FSB 100" list of America's fastest-growing small public companies. Kewaunee Scientific ranked 96th [...]