Agilent Technologies Enhances Performance of Popular Atomic Force Microscope for Research, Education

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced the availability of a next-generation atomic force microscope (AFM) that can excel in both the laboratory and the classroom. The new Agilent 5420 AFM, based on Agilent’s popular 5400 platform, is a high-precision instrument that has been re-engineered to deliver lower noise, better performance and greater versatility. [...]

RAE Systems Ships Wireless Gas and Radiation Detection Order to Middle East

SAN JOSE, CA--Apr 14, 2009 -- RAE Systems Inc. (NYSE Amex: RAE) (AMEX:RAE - News), a leader in producing innovative sensor solutions to serve industrial, energy, environmental and government safety markets worldwide, has delivered 10 custom-configured AreaRAE Wireless gas-detection Rapid Deployment Kits with wireless, LifeShirt Personnel Management Systems and 100 GammaRAE 2R radiation detectors to [...]

Paul Keim Appointed to febit’s Scientific Advisory Board

Paul Keim brings deep knowledge in the field of medical microbiology, biodefense and pathogens to febit, the leader in microfluidic microarray DNA analysis technologies LEXINGTON, Mass. (USA), and HEIDELBERG, Germany, April 14, 2009 – febit today announced the recruitment of Paul Keim, Ph.D., for its Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Keim is Senior Investigator and Director [...]

WaferGen Announces Signing of Private Financing

FREMONT, Calif., April 14 -- WaferGen Biosystems, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: WGBS - News), a leading developer of state-of-the-art genetic analysis systems, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell redeemable convertible preferred shares in the company's wholly owned Malaysian subsidiary, WaferGen Biosystems (M) Sdn. Bhd., in a private financing placement with [...]

Children’s Memorial Research Center, Chicago Becomes a Member of GeneGo’s MetaMiner Stem Cell Partnership Program

ST. JOSEPH, Mich., April 14 -- GeneGo, Inc., the leading systems biology tools company, announced today that Professor Marcelo Bento Soares of Children's Memorial Research Center has joined the MetaMiner Stem Cell Partnership Program. The goal of the program is to develop a series of blueprint pathway maps for adult, embryonic, fetal, fibroblasts, hematopoietic, mesenchymal, [...]

Hamilton Sundstrand Awarded U.S. Department of Defense Contract for Chemical Detection Equipment

WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn., April 14 -- The U.S. Department of Defense Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense (JPEO-CBD) has awarded Hamilton Sundstrand an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract to provide up to 156 Chemical Biological Mass Spectrometer II (CBMS II) devices. Hamilton Sundstrand is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX). Hamilton [...]

Accelrys Releases Cheminformatics Collection for Pipeline Pilot

Award-Winning LMQS Query and Retrieval System Simplifies Searching of Scientific Databases SAN DIEGO, CA--Apr 14, 2009 -- Accelrys, Inc. (NasdaqGM:ACCL - News), a leading provider of scientific business intelligence software and services, today announced the release of the first components of the Cheminformatics Collection for Pipeline Pilot. The new award-winning components simplify searching of scientific [...]

NextBio Receives Phase II SBIR Grant to Add New Genomic and Proteomic Content

CUPERTINO, Calif.--NextBio, provider of an innovative platform that enables life science researchers to search, discover, and share knowledge locked within public and proprietary data, today announced the receipt of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). The grant will provide approximately $1,000,000 over two years to support [...]

BioForce Nanosciences Voluntarily Files Form 15 to Suspend SEC Reporting Obligations

AMES, IA--Apr 14, 2009 -- BioForce Nanosciences Holdings, Inc. (OTC BB:BFNH.OB - News), a producer of products and solutions for academic and commercial users based upon its ultra-micro to nano scale fluid deposition platform, filed paperwork today with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to terminate the Company's registration under the Securities Exchange Act of [...]

Precision Biomarker Resources: Immediate Processing of Newly Released Affymetrix microRNA Assays

AACR Annual Meeting CHICAGO--Precision Biomarker Resources, a contract research organization based in Evanston, Illinois, is the first Service Provider to offer microRNA Profiling using the new GeneChip® miRNA Arrays recently released by Affymetrix, Inc. Precision Biomarker provides RNA and microRNA (miRNA) profiling and data analysis services for pharmaceutical, biotechnology and academic researchers who use microarray [...]

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