World-Leading Biotech Company Selects STARLIMS for $4M Project

Web-Based LIMS, SDMS and ELN Solution for Quality Control Labs On Three Continents HOLLYWOOD, Fla., March 4, 2009 -- STARLIMS Technologies Ltd. (NasdaqGM:LIMS - News), a leading provider of laboratory information management systems, or LIMS, today announced that it has been selected by a world-leading biotechnology company for a multi-site project. The contract value is [...]

GE Healthcare and Tecan Collaborate to Improve the Automation of Process Development

GE Healthcare has entered into a marketing collaboration with Tecan, to provide customers with access to both companies’ expertise in lab automation and process development. The agreement will enable process developers to implement specifically-designed protocols and accessories for GE Healthcare’s PreDictor™ 96-well plates on Tecan Freedom EVO® workstations. Automation will reduce hands-on time required for [...]

Change in the Tecan Board of Directors

Long-standing Board of Directors Chairman Mike Baronian will not stand for re-election at the ordinary Annual General Meeting 2009 The Board will propose the current members Heinrich Fischer, Gérard Vaillant, Prof. Dr. Peter Ryser and Dr. Juerg Meier for re-election Rolf A. Classon, Dr. Lukas Braunschweiler and Dominique F. Baly will be proposed for election [...]

The Automation Partnership Celebrates 20 Years of Automated Cell Culture

Applications in discovery research, regenerative medicine and bioprocessing CAMBRIDGE, England--Mar 4, 2009 - The Automation Partnership (TAP), a leading supplier of innovative automation for life science research and production, today announced that this week marks 20 years since the installation of its first automated cell culture system. In 1989, following in-house design and development, TAP [...]

Researchers Use 454 Sequencing System for Rapid Sequencing of Avian Influenzas

A team of researchers at the Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute Insel Riems, in Germany has developed a simple and rapid method for preparing Avian Influenza samples of infected individuals for sequencing with the Genome Sequencer FLX system. The highly pathogenic avian influenza A virus (HPAIV) of subtype H5N1 has caused global concern as a [...]

CRG buys Genomatix’ Next Generation Sequencing analysis solution

The Center for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona installed a Genomatix Genome Analyzer The Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, Spain purchased the Genomatix Genome Analyzer (GGA), as announced today by Genomatix Software GmbH. GGA comprises purpose built high performance hardware and terabytes of proprietary databases and software providing a complete solution for the analysis [...]

Tecan’s NanoQuant™ Plate gets under the skin of stem cells

Dr Maria Kasper, from the Karolinska Institute’s environmental toxicology group, explained how the system is helping the research: “The scarcity of Lgr5+ cells makes the extracted genetic material extremely valuable, so we need a method to achieve exact quantification of this RNA with minimal sample loss. Using our Infinite reader with the NanoQuant Plate ensures [...]

Breakthrough in Culturing Intracellular Bacteria Aided by Biolog’s Phenotype MicroArray™ Technology

A major breakthrough publication, published last Friday in the February 27 early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, describes studies that were greatly aided by utilizing Biolog Phenotype MicroArray technology to advance our understanding of an important class of pathogenic bacteria. At the Rocky Mountain Laboratories of the NIH, NIAID division, [...]

Emerson Helps Range Fuels Bring First Next-Generation U.S. Biofuels Plant into Commercial Production

Cellulosic biofuels company to safely and efficiently convert wood waste into fuel at Georgia plant AUSTIN, Texas--Second-generation biofuels company Range Fuels has formed a strategic relationship with Emerson Process Management, a business of Emerson (NYSE: EMR - News), to help bring online the first commercial cellulosic biofuels plant in the United States. Range Fuels selected [...]

PerkinElmer Introduces Micro-Channel Wafer Technology for the Clarus Gas Chromatographs

PerkinElmer, Inc. introduces Swafer™, a new micro-channel wafer technology platform for flow-switching applications in capillary gas chromatography (GC). PerkinElmer’s exclusive Swafer technology provides Clarus® Gas Chromatograph users with additional application flexibility, while delivering richer sample information, increased sensitivity, lower maintenance costs and increased sample throughput. This exciting new technology can enhance productivity for most analytical [...]

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