Caliper Life Sciences Receives $1.1 Million Task Order from the EPA’s ToxCast(TM) Screening Program

- Caliper Screens Compounds to Detect Toxicity - HOPKINTON, Mass., Aug. 19 -- Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALP - News) today announced that it has received a $1.1 million task order under the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) ToxCast(TM) screening program. This task order was issued pursuant to a contract that Caliper was [...]

The New MagNA Pure LC 2.0 System: New Design and Improved Performance Meet a Proven Nucleic Acid Isolation Technology

August 19, 2008 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time PENZBERG, Germany--A fast, flexible, and reliable isolation of pure nucleic acids from various sample materials is crucial for sensitive molecular analysis by PCR, RT-PCR, sequencing, arrays etc. In addition, automation of nucleic acid isolation is becoming increasingly important for reproducibility and to reduce experimental error. During the [...]

LabCentrixSM Launches Affinity™ for Affymetrix® LIMS Package

LabCentrix delivers a pre-configured Thermo Scientific Nautilus LIMS System to meet the unique needs of laboratories that use GeneChip technology. This best practices solution improves sample management and dramatically reduces implementation time and costs. Hudson, MA (PRWEB) August 19, 2008 --- LabCentrixSM LLC, a premier provider of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) consulting services and [...]

ChemAxon Launches Marvin and JChem Version 5.1; Name to Structure Generation, OLE 2 and JavaScript Integration

PRNEWSWIRE BUDAPEST, Hungary, August 19 -- ChemAxon, a software solutions provider for cheminformatics today announced the launch of version 5.1 of their cheminformatics toolkits, Marvin & JChem. As well as other improvements, the release sees the introduction of IUPAC name import, support for OLE 2 format useful for integrating with Microsoft Office applications. Marvin & [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Enables Ultra-Fast and Reliable Mixture Analysis with Nicolet iN10 MX FT-IR Imaging Microscope

Madison, WI., (August 19, 2008) – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, announced that its newly introduced Thermo Scientific Nicolet™ iN10™ MX infrared imaging microscope enables analysts to quickly determine the identity and distribution of chemical species within complex structures and random mixtures on a microscopic scale. Designed for ultra-fast data [...]

Sigma-Aldrich and Atlas Antibodies Announce the Release of 2,000 New, Highly-Validated Prestige Antibodies

Latest additions to Human Protein Atlas made public at International HUPO Conference and now commercially available through Sigma-Aldrich ST. LOUIS, Aug. 19 -- Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL - News) today announced the addition of over 2,000 antibodies to its line of Prestige Antibodies(TM). These antibodies are developed by the Human Proteome Resource and are commercially available [...]

Oxford Nanopore announces Advisory Board, UCSC agreement 19 Aug 2008

Oxford Nanopore Technologies Announces License Agreement with University of California, Santa Cruz, and formation of Technology Advisory Board August 19th 2008, Oxford, UK. Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd (“Oxford Nanopore”) today announced the completion of an exclusive licence agreement to develop nanopore science developed at the University of California, Santa Cruz (“UCSC”), in the laboratories of [...]

Bruker AXS Announces Agreement to Acquire Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) Company S.I.S. Surface Imaging Systems GmbH

KARLSRUHE & HERZOGENRATH, Germany-- Bruker AXS GmbH today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire all of the equity of S.I.S. Surface Imaging Systems GmbH, a company with annual revenues of approximately $3 million. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2008, and no further financial details were provided. [...]

Now Sterilize without Flame!

Welcome to the World of Laboratory Sterilizers The electrical sterilization system SteriMax is ideal for the sterilization of inoculation loops, needles and instruments. The SteriMax is ideal for laboratories and safety cabinets where the use of gases and open flames is not permitted or unavailable. The sterilizing tube into which the items are inserted is [...]

Weatherford Acquires International Logging

HOUSTON, Aug 18, 2008 -- Weatherford International Ltd. (NYSE: WFT) announced today that it has acquired International Logging, Inc. ILI is a world-class provider of surface logging, or "mud logging", and provides formation evaluation and drilling related services at the well site through its team of more than 1,200 graduate field geologists serving customers in [...]

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