November 7, 2005
CHALFONT ST. GILES, UK - GE Healthcare today announced the availability of His MultiTrap™ FF and His MultiTrap HP prepacked 96-well filter plates for convenient screening and rapid, high-throughput parallel purification of histidine-tagged recombinant proteins. The standardized 96-well plate allows great flexibility and consistent well-to-well and plate-to-plate performance to ensure high reproducibility. His MultiTrap 96-well [...]
Arnold A. Pinkston Joins Beckman Coulter as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
November 7, 2005
FULLERTON, Calif. – Beckman Coulter, Inc. (NYSE:BEC) announced today that Arnold A. Pinkston has been named senior vice president, general counsel effective November 15, 2005, and secretary, effective December 1, 2005 pending Board approval. Pinkston succeeds William H. May who is retiring after 30 years of service as general counsel and an officer of the [...]
BD Biosciences to Establish Manufacturing in Puerto Rico
November 7, 2005
Franklin Lakes, NJ---BD Biosciences, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), today announced plans to expand manufacturing in Puerto Rico and to begin production of selected reagent products there starting in 2007.The $42 million capital investment project is expected to create over 100 new positions at the Cayey, Puerto Rico facility, which currently supports [...]
Electrochemical Detector from ESA Biosciences Offers Redox Capability in Single Cell
November 3, 2005
CHELMSFORD, Mass. – The Coulochem III from ESA Biosciences, Inc., uniquely combines both coulometric and amperometric detection in a flexible high performance electrochemical detector system. In combination with ESA’s patented electrodes, the Coulochem III detector is the only electrochemical detector to offer redox capability in a single cell. Compatible with all HPLC columns and offering [...]
Waters Strengthens ACQUITY Ultra Performance LCSystem Product Line With Advanced Detectors
November 3, 2005
Milford, MA, – Waters Corporation announced today the availability of three advanced detectors specifically designed for Waters ACQUITY Ultra Performance LC™ (UPLC™) System. The three detectors are photodiode array (PDA), evaporative light scattering (ELS) and tunable ultraviolet (TUV) models and bring new versatility to the ACQUITY UPLC System for high-resolution analysis of a wide variety [...]
Thermo Introduces Migration Agent – New Solution for Low-Risk, Effective Software Migration
November 2, 2005
Philadelphia, PA – Thermo Electron Corporation (NYSE:TMO) today introduced Migration Agent, a professional services and software solution that reduces risk and overcomes business challenges when migrating from any existing laboratory information management system (LIMS) to a Thermo LIMS. Migration Agent employs services personnel for project management and implementation, as well as an extract, transform and [...]
November 1, 2005
CARLSBAD, Calif.--Invitrogen Corporation (Nasdaq:IVGN), a leading life sciences company, today announced the extension of an RNAi research service agreement with Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (P&GP), a division of The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG). The research service agreement is now in its fourth year and will continue through December 2006. Through use of Invitrogen's [...]
CEM Reports Record-Breaking Results for 4th Consecutive Year
November 1, 2005
Matthews, North Carolina - CEM Corporation, a leading provider of microwave laboratory instrumentation, announced results for its fiscal year ending September 30, 2005. Revenue for the year reached a record $54.5 million, compared to $48.7 million the previous year, a 12% increase. Operating income increased 11% to $8.1 million compared to $7.3 million the prior [...]
New Analyzer System from Thermo Achieves Non-Destructive Protein Analysis
October 31, 2005
MADISON, Wisconsin - Thermo Electron Corporation (NYSE: TMO) announces the launch of its new complete instrumentation package for the analysis of proteins, the Proteus protein analyzer system. The system is based on Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) technology and uses a Nicolet series FT-IR spectrometer to non-destructively scan protein samples for structural defect and impurity analysis [...]
Applied Biosystems to Invest in VisiGen Biotechnologies
October 26, 2005
Next Generation Sequencing Technology May Hold Promise of the $1,000 Genome FOSTER CITY, Calif. & HOUSTON--Applied Biosystems Group (NYSE:ABI), an Applera Corporation business, and VisiGen Biotechnologies, Inc., announced today that Applied Biosystems has signed a definitive agreement to make an equity investment in privately held VisiGen, a next-generation sequencing technology company, and to enter into [...]
