Waters Empower 2 Business Intelligence Manager Adds a New Analytical Dimension: Analysis of Lab Operations - Web-Based Dashboard Solution Provides Lab Asset Utilization and Performance Data in Rapid, Easy-to-Access, Visualized Formats MILFORD, Mass., July 15 -- Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) today announced it is now shipping Waters((R))( )Empower(TM) 2 Business Intelligence Manager(TM), a web-based dashboard [...]

PerkinElmer Awarded U.S. Patent on Method to Ensure Accuracy of Automated Thermal Desorption Gas Chromatography - Automatic Verification of ATD Packing Integrity Saves Time and Gives Users Confidence in Analytical Results WALTHAM, MA – PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, announced today that the [...]

Liquid Handler is a 50 mL multi-burette with integrated drive for accurate dosing of aqueous or non-aqueous liquids using a six-port valve. Each port is individually assignable, allowing dosing of up to four different liquids, such as samples, solvents and other auxiliary reagents with burette accuracy and resolution. A wide volume range from 10 ìL [...]

IDT Expands Gene Expression Assay Portfolio to Better Support Validation and Screening Studies PrimeTime qPCR Assays now allow for affordable validation and screening studies CORALVILLE, IA – July 14 2009. Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), the world leader in oligonucleotide synthesis, expands its PrimeTime qPCR portfolio to include new assay scales that enable more affordable gene [...]

Roche NimbleGen CGH Arrays Enable Characterization of Novel Genomic Disorders Associated with Psychiatric Disease in Recent Studies MADISON, Wis.--High-resolution comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) has rapidly emerged as the method of choice for molecular cytogenetic detection and characterization of chromosomal abnormalities associated with mental retardation, cancer, and other complex phenotypes. In two recent studies published in [...]

YPSILANTI, MI--(July 14, 2009) - Integrated Sensing Systems, Inc. (ISSYS) announced that it has signed an intellectual property licensing agreement with Affinity Biosensors, LCC of Santa Barbara, CA. Affinity Biosensors is developing and commercializing methods of measuring and monitoring particles, cells, bacteria, and viruses using resonating micromachined tubes. Specialists in MEMS technology, ISSYS has developed [...]

The J. Craig Venter Institute improves its metagenomics annotation pipeline with high-performance computing solution from CLC bio BOSTON--The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) in Rockville, Massachusetts, has recently incorporated CLC bio’s accelerated versions of the algorithms Hmmpfam and Hmmsearch into their bioinformatics pipeline for functional annotation of proteins identified in metagenomics data. The algorithms originate [...]

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that scientists using an Agilent custom-designed comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) array have sequenced the entire gene map of a Korean male. An international team led by researchers at Seoul National University published the results in Nature. The study, "A highly annotated whole-genome sequence of a Korean individual," published [...]

Sartorius Stedim Biotech Partners with Cell Culture Media Specialist SAFC Biosciences® to Provide World-Class Fluid Management and Liquid/Powder System Solutions - Global agreement strengthens customized manufacturing solutions for upstream and downstream processing and moves the “disposable factory” closer to reality GOETTINGEN, Germany & ST. LOUIS, Mo.--Sartorius Stedim Biotech (Paris:DIM), and SAFC Biosciences, a business segment [...]

Luminex Receives FDA Clearance for an Update to the xTAG® Respiratory Viral Panel Package Insert Package Insert to Include Data from Two New Publications on 2009 Influenza A/H1N1 AUSTIN, Texas--Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX), the worldwide leader in multiplexed solutions, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared labeling updates for the [...]