Roche NimbleGen CGH Microarrays Further Our Understanding of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
March 31, 2009
MADISON, Wis.--The most commonly diagnosed form of childhood leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), often responds well to biologically-targeted therapeutic treatments, but also carries a 25% risk for relapse. ALL is frequently associated with a chromosomal translocation that involves the specific translocation of gene loci from the short (p) arm of chromosome 12 to chromosome 21 [...]
New Automated Tube DeCapper Enhances Lab Productivity
March 31, 2009
Reno, Nevada (March 31, 2009) - Hamilton Company, world leader in fluid measurement, introduces the DeCapper - an automated instrument for the opening and closing of screw-capped tubes. The programmable DeCapper opens a row of 12 tubes simultaneously, increasing productivity over one-at-a-time methods and providing more flexibility than systems that decap 96 tubes at once. [...]
Idaho Technology Issues License to Thermo Fisher Scientific
March 31, 2009
SALT LAKE CITY--Idaho Technology, Inc. has signed a licensing agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., covering reagents or methods using SYBR® Green I technology and melting curve analysis for real time PCR. This extends Idaho Technology’s ongoing program to license its broad and valuable intellectual property portfolio in cooperation with Roche Diagnostics GmbH. The agreement, [...]
Ideal Freeze Dryer for Laboratory Lyophilisation…
March 31, 2009
SP Industries Inc. has announced a new budget-priced version of its Virtis AdVantage Plus laboratory freeze dryer that includes a package of popular accessories. Reflecting its commitment to supporting customers in the current economic climate, the packaged data collection & graphic trending software, stainless steel product trays, MVP product thermocouple probe positioning assembly and a [...]
ArunA Biomedical Announces Co-development of Fully Validated Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Kit
March 31, 2009
ATHENS, Ga., March 31 -- ArunA Biomedical, Inc., a leader in human embryonic stem cell derived products, announced today that it has co-developed a validated kit to produce induced pluripotent stem cells with Open Biosystems now part of Thermo Fisher. In the spirit of collaboration ArunA Biomedical and Open Biosystems will launch the complete and [...]
March 31, 2009
Enterprise Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) Provides New Reaction Chemistry Capabilities and Essential Chemistry Information in the Context of Laboratory Workflows SUNNYVALE, CA--Mar 31, 2009 -- Symyx Technologies, Inc. (NasdaqGS:SMMX - News) today announced the release of Symyx Notebook 6.2. This enterprise ELN supplements existing functionality for analytical chemistry research and biology with new capabilities supporting [...]
March 30, 2009
LOS ANGELES, CA--(March 30, 2009) - Universal Detection Technology (www.udetection.com) (OTCBB: UNDT) (FRANKFURT: PO8), a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies to protect people from bioterrorism and other infectious health threats and provider of counter-terrorism consulting and training services, reported today that it is to supply the Miami-Dade Police Department with anthrax and ricin detection equipment. [...]
UV linearity reference sets feature extended absorbance scale
March 30, 2009
Starna Scientific has extended the absorbance scale range of its potassium dichromate linearity set of Certified Reference Materials to address a customer requirement in Quality Assurance laboratories to make multi-point linearity checks across the UV absorbance range. The use of potassium dichromate solvated in dilute perchloric acid is an established method for the validation of [...]
Leica Microsystems Reports Record Sales for 2008
March 30, 2009
Wetzlar, Germany. For the first time in its history, Leica Microsystems’ annual sales volume for 2008 exceeded the billion US dollar mark, reports the international high-tech microscope and scientific instrument manufacturer and distributor, headquartered in Wetzlar. “Over the last two years, we have seen a dramatic increase in the demand for our products throughout the [...]
Celebration of a successful collaboration
March 30, 2009
Oxford Instruments’ cutting edge developmental work on Dynamic Nuclear Polarisation (DNP), working in collaboration with GE Healthcare a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), led to the launch of the HyperSense® in-vitro polariser three years ago, and today they celebrate the sale of the 27th system. Sales of the in-vivo version of HyperSense are made [...]

