Systems Provide Precise Macromolecule Aggregation Measurement for Drug Discovery and Vaccine Development ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. – (June 4, 2009) -- Newly designed centerpieces used in the Beckman Coulter XL-A and XL-I instruments – the only analytical ultracentrifuges on the market today – allow the systems to provide precise, repeatable measurement of pharmaceutical sample aggregation in [...]

SALT LAKE CITY--Idaho Technology, Inc. has received the support of the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) for use of the Platinum Path™ Extraction Kit (PPEK) with the Joint Biological Agent Identification and Diagnostic System (JBAIDS). “The PPEK kit is designed to handle dozens of different sample types, replacing the need for multiple specialized [...]

Chip-Man Technologies’ innovative Cell-IQ live cell imaging and analysis platform is now available to research institutions in China through the ChiFi (Shanghai) Biomedical Engineering Company. This deal means that the powerful Cell-IQ system is, for the first time, available to Chinese academic and industrial research laboratories wishing to study cell lines, primary cell, co-cultures and [...]

PHILADELPHIA (June 3, 2009) - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, announced today at the American Society of Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) 2009 annual conference the launch of two new products designed to increase the productivity of quantitative proteomics research. The products are Intelligent Selected Reaction Monitoring (iSRM), which improves the throughput [...]

MADISON, Wis.--Roche NimbleGen introduces a new high-resolution scanning instrument, the NimbleGen MS 200 Microarray Scanner. The MS 200 is the first scanner optimized to reveal the full potential and capture the complete picture from all NimbleGen DNA microarrays. This offering completes the NimbleGen DNA Microarray processing family, comprised of a high-resolution suite of innovative microarray [...]

AARHUS, Denmark--CLC bio today announced the release of new versions of their premier solutions for analyzing and visualizing Next Generation Sequencing data, the desktop application CLC Genomics Workbench, version 3.5 and the award-winning enterprise platform CLC Genomics Server, version 1.5. With this release, CLC bio is making a major push into epigenomics by supporting chromatin [...]

RALEIGH, N.C.--Sequence, Inc. and Global Automation Partners, Inc. (GAP) today announced a strategic partnership designed to offer computer system integration and compliance solutions to the life sciences industry. The partnership will combine the proven automation and manufacturing IT engineering processes of GAP with the regulatory expertise of Sequence, Inc. to effectively design, implement and validate [...]

febit Embeds InforSense Platform to Support Flexible Microarray Analysis LONDON and CAMBRIDGE, MA--(June 3, 2009) - InforSense Ltd., the leading provider of next generation business and scientific intelligence solutions, today announced that febit has integrated key components of the InforSense platform to provide the data analysis and visualization functionality in febit's new Geniom flexible microarray [...]

On-Demand Test for Genetic Risk of Thrombosis Improves Time-to-Result over Current Molecular Tests SUNNYVALE, Calif. and BEDFORD, Mass., June 3 -- Cepheid (NASDAQ: CPHD) and Instrumentation Laboratory today announced that Health Canada has issued Cepheid a medical device license for its Xpert HemosIL FII & FV test. The test detects Factor II (FII) and Factor [...]

Shrink Nanotechnologies to Commercialize Nanotech Device Platform and Manufacture Diagnostic Polystyrene Devices for Drug Discovery, DNA Research, Immunological and Environmental Testing Assays and Other Devices Based on Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence Nanostructures CARLSBAD, Calif.--Shrink Technologies, Inc. (“Shrink Technologies”), a California corporation, has agreed to be acquired in a stock-for-stock transaction by Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. (OTCBB: AUIO). The [...]