Sigma-Aldrich Introduces New Services Network Complementing Its Life Sciences Product Portfolio

Customers can now conveniently access a collection of support services that can be used on a short or long term basis to accelerate their research ST. LOUIS, June 9 -- Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL - News) today announced the launch of its new Services Network designed to provide laboratory services for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. [...]

NanoString® Technologies Closes $30 million Series C Financing to Accelerate the Commercialization of its Leading Expression Profiling Products

Clarus Ventures Leads Financing SEATTLE--NanoString Technologies, a privately held life sciences company advancing best-in-class technologies for expression profiling, announced today that it has closed a $30 million Series C equity financing. This financing, structured in two tranches, will allow NanoString Technologies to accelerate the commercialization of the nCounter™ Analysis System in the research tools and [...]

Luminex Launches Two New Cystic Fibrosis Tests in Europe

CE IVD Marked Tests Can Quickly and Accurately Detect Up to 39 and 71 Cystic Fibrosis Gene Mutations AUSTIN, Texas--Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX - News), the worldwide leader in multiplexed solutions, today announced that it has launched two new cystic fibrosis (CF) tests in Europe, the xTAG® Cystic Fibrosis 39 Kit v2 and xTAG® Cystic [...]

CSIRO deal to commercialise ‘artificial gut’

CSIRO Food Futures National Research Flagship and Australian company Stadvis Pty Ltd have signed a worldwide license agreement to commercialise an automated instrument that accurately predicts glycemic index (GI) and resistant starch (RS) in food products. 9 June 2009 The machine will provide the food industry with an accurate means of testing the functional properties [...]

Fast Pandemic Detection Tool Ready to Fight Flu

Agilent Technologies and Los Alamos Develop First High-Throughput System to Be Deployed at UCLA’s New Global Bio Lab SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced researchers are developing new tools for rapidly characterizing biological pathogens that could give rise to potentially deadly pandemics such as Influenza A (H1N1). This is part of a joint [...]

Mexican Ministry of Agriculture and National Institute for Epidemiology Buy Advalytix AmpliSpeed and Implen Nanophotometer to Screen for H1N1 (Swine Flu) and Agricultural Pathogens

MUNICH and MEXICO CITY--The Advalytix product team of Olympus, Implen, and AmpliBio jointly announce that the Mexican Ministry of Agriculture (SAGARPA) awarded AmpliBio a contract for 17 GENE LABs – AmpliBio’s turnkey solution for molecular analysis. Each GENE LAB will contain Advalytix’s AmpliSpeed single cell molecular analysis cycler, and Implen’s Nanophotometer to quantify DNA, RNA [...]

Commonwealth Biotechnologies, Inc. Announces Agreement to Acquire GL Biochem (Shanghai) Ltd

Transformative Transaction to Create the Global Market Leader in the Development and Supply of Research-Grade Custom Peptides RICHMOND, Va.--Commonwealth Biotechnologies, Inc. (“CBI”) (NASDAQ Capital Market:CBTE) is pleased to announce that it has executed an agreement to acquire all of the outstanding shares of GL Biochem (Shanghai) Ltd (“GL Biochem”), a privately owned Shanghai-based chemical company [...]

The Automation Partnership’s First Project to Automate Manufacture of 3D Tissue Constructs

Collaborates with Major University on Development Phase of Human 3D Corneal Constructs CAMBRIDGE, England--The Automation Partnership (TAP), a world leader in the design and development of innovative advanced automation for life science applications, today announced it is collaborating with world leading academics on the prestigious, Technology Strategy Board funded, RAFT (Rapid Automated Fabrication of Tissues) [...]

Bruker Announces First Publications of Molecular Structures from World’s Only Fully Automated Single Crystal X-ray Diffractometer – SMART X2S

MADISON, Wis.--Bruker AXS today announced the first publications of X-ray crystal structures determined automatically using the SMART™ X2S benchtop system. The SMART X2S was developed to provide automated, unambiguous 3D molecular structure information to chemists in an easy-to-use, affordable and low cost-of-ownership package. The SMART X2S is a true benchtop system that requires only low [...]

Anthos Zenyth 200 High performance scanning microplate reader with built in UV/Vis spectrophotometer from Biochrom

The compact Zenyth 200 is a high performance scanning microplate reader with the added benefit of a built-in UV/Vis spectrophotometer. It is designed specifically for the needs of Life Science laboratories that need a fast accurate plate reader with the flexibility to handle multiple plate formats from cell culture plates (6-48 well) to 96 / [...]

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