BioTrove, Inc. and Cisbio Bioassays, a member of the IBA Group, today announced at the Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) 2009 Conference in Palm Springs, CA, the signing of a co-exclusive distributor agreement enabling Cisbio to provide customers with a total screening solution for drug discovery. Under the agreement, Cisbio will offer BioTrove’s RapidFire® High-Throughput [...]

PHILADELPHIA, Penn. (January 26, 2009) Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced significant functionality enhancements to Darwin LIMS™, its purpose-built Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) designed specifically for pharmaceutical manufacturing R&D and QA/QC. Already offering dissolution, stability management, product and batch management, environmental monitoring and system interfacing, Thermo Scientific Darwin [...]

WALTHAM, Mass.--Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO - News), the world leader in serving science, announced it was recently named one of the “Top-10 Fast Growth Companies in China” by Business Watch magazine, a bi-weekly Chinese-language business publication. Thermo Fisher was recognized for its double-digit growth in China during the past few years, as well [...]

Patent-Pending Powder Dispense Technology Provides Added Flexibility, Compatibility With Symyx Integrated Workflows PALM SPRINGS, CA--Jan 26, 2009 -- Symyx Technologies, Inc. (NasdaqGS:SMMX - News) today announced the availability of Powdernium SV (Storage Vial), a new shaker powder dispense technology ideal for novel applications such as compound management, walk-up sample prep and reference standards preparation. Powdernium [...]

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced it has renamed Velocity11 as Agilent Automation Solutions and selected LabAutomation2009 to introduce the new division. The company is also launching new products and applications here designed to help researchers and scientists increase productivity and decrease costs. Agilent Automation Solutions is part of the Agilent’s Life Sciences Solutions Unit. [...]

PEABODY, Mass.--Analogic Corporation (NASDAQ: ALOG - News) announced today that the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has certified the new eXaminer® SX Explosives Detection System (EDS) for checked-baggage, air-carrier applications. The compact eXaminer SX, brought to market in conjunction with Analogic’s partner, L-3 Communications, can detect a wide range of explosives in passenger baggage and [...]

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Jan 26, 2009 -- Spectrum Chemicals & Laboratory Products is pleased to announce the appointment of Marc Hayem, 42, as the company's Chief Executive Officer, starting on February 1st, 2009. Mr. Hayem holds an Electrical Engineering degree from ENSEIR-Bordeaux, France. He also has various other degrees, among them a Management course at [...]

VistaGen and Capsant have signed a strategic commercialization agreement under which the companies will combine their leading-edge stem cell biology and 3D cell culture platforms, respectively, to advance their mutual business interests worldwide. The new collaboration will focus on late-stage development and commercialization of a new generation of human stem cell-based biological tools enabling Clinical [...]

The National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR) announced today that it has broken the 20 billion DNA sequence barrier for the first time with an Illumina Genome Analyzer. Using a single Illumina flowcell, NCGR scientists generated more than 20 billion bases (or letters) of high quality human DNA sequence – seven-times the length of a [...]

Kapa Biosystems, a provider of next-generation engineered polymerases, announced the adoption of its KAPA2G™ Fast HotStart DNA Polymerase by industry and academic leaders in the fields of resequencing and SNP detection including Agencourt Bioscience, a Beckman Coulter Company, energy crop company Ceres, Inc., Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC). [...]