Finesse Solutions Forges Agreement With Leading Biotechnology Company for Single-Use Technology Exploration SAN JOSE, Calif., July 13 -- Finesse Solutions, LLC, San Jose, CA, a manufacturer of measurement and control solutions for biologics applications today announced a development agreement with Biogen Idec, Inc. (Nasdaq: BIIB) aimed at evaluating emerging technologies for single-use bioprocessing. These technologies [...]

Collaboration to Address Inline Elemental Analysis of Defects for the 45nm Node and Beyond ALBANY, N.Y. & HILLSBORO, Ore.--FEI Company, (NASDAQ: FEIC), a leading provider of atomic-scale imaging and analysis systems, and SEMATECH, the global consortium of chipmakers, announced today that FEI Company has joined SEMATECH’s Advanced Metrology Development Program at the College of Nanoscale [...]

115 of the most common cancer genes are now available for HybSelect, febit's highly automated technology for sequence capture enabling targeted Next-Generation Sequencing and biomarker discovery in a wide variety of oncology studies LEXINGTON, Mass. and HEIDELBERG, Germany, July 13 -- febit holding gmbh announced today the launch of the first human cancer biochip for [...]

Cepheid Receives FDA Clearance for First On-Demand Molecular Diagnostic Test for Clostridium difficile Infection Xpert C. difficile Test Establishes New Benchmarks for Speed and Accuracy, Addressing Major Deficiencies In Previously Available Tests SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 13 -- Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD) today announced it has received clearance from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to [...]

Paraytec Ltd. has announced that its multi-award winning ActiPix D-100 system has been selected by Cambridge University to enable pioneering research into high-throughput micro channel separations of recombinant proteins within microcapillary films. Professor Nigel Slater, Dr Nick Darton and Dr Nuno Reis at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at Cambridge University (www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/) are [...]

Agilent Technologies Introduces DNA Capture Microarray to Streamline Next-Generation Sequencing Studies SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today introduced the SureSelect DNA Capture Array, which easily removes a major bottleneck in small-scale DNA studies by letting scientists sequence only genomic areas of interest with next-generation sequencing (NGS) instruments. Designed for smaller studies, the SureSelect DNA [...]

Crowborough, UK, 13 July 2009 - Servomex is expanding its portfolio of industry-leading analyser technologies after agreeing a strategic licence to incorporate Norsk Elektro Optikk’s Tuneable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy (TDLAS) technology into its global product range. Norsk Elektro Optikk (NEO) - a world-leader in TDLAS - will license its laser technology to Servomex, providing [...]

New Flow Cytometry-based Methods For Stem Cell Research Presented At Annual International Society For Stem Cell Research Meeting New data presented by BD Biosciences, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), at the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) 7th Annual Meeting in Barcelona, Spain, highlights two novel flow cytometry-based sorting and analysis [...]

BILLERICA, Mass., July 10 -- Millipore Corporation, a leading provider of technologies, tools and services for the global life science industry, including bioscience research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing, has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, against W.L. Gore & Associates for infringement of Millipore's patent rights under U.S. [...]

PHILADELPHIA (July 10, 2009) - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that Analab Chile SA, a leading South American analytical testing laboratory, has selected SampleManager LIMS (laboratory information management system) for use in its laboratories in Chile. Analab Chile S.A. is a contract testing laboratory for microbiological and chemical [...]