Luminex Launches Two New Cystic Fibrosis Tests in Europe
June 9, 2009
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’
June 9, 2009
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
June 9, 2009
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 [...]
June 9, 2009
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
June 8, 2009
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
June 8, 2009
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) [...]
June 8, 2009
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 [...]
June 8, 2009
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 / [...]
Biotage Entrusts PartnerTech with Greater Responsibility – Instrument Manufacture
June 8, 2009
STOCKHOLM, Sweden--Regulatory News: PartnerTech (STO:PART) and Biotage (STO:BIOTA), an international company in the field of life science research, have long cooperated on a far-reaching basis. Now the two companies are expanding their collaboration through a new agreement according to which PartnerTech will take over most instrument manufacture, currently located at Biotage's plant in Charlottesville, Virginia. [...]
June 8, 2009
Offers customers a quality waterproof meter in a field kit for measurements in the lab, plant or in the field. BEVERLY, MA (June 8, 2009) - Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, announces the release of the new Orion AQUAfast AQIII series of portable colorimetry and turbidity meters. This new line offers [...]
