Helixis Appoints Illumina CEO Jay Flatley to Board of Directors
March 26, 2009
Carlsbad, California, February 26, 2009 - Helixis, Inc., developer of nucleic acid analysis tools, announced today that Jay Flatley, CEO of Illumina, Inc., has joined the company's board of directors. Under Flatley's leadership Illumina has become the market leader in genotyping and next-generation sequencing systems, and has completed numerous strategic technology acquisitions. Recognizing the company's [...]
Raytheon Awarded Phase 3 Contract for Stand-Off Radiation Detection System
March 26, 2009
TEWKSBURY, Mass., March 26, 2009 -- The Department of Homeland Security has awarded Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) a phase 3 contract to continue development of a Stand-Off Radiation Detection System (SORDS). Phase 3 is an eight-month contract for $2.3 million managed by DHS' Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO); it includes the construction of a prototype. [...]
Pfeiffer Vacuum Introduces ThermoStar™ Gas Analysis System
March 26, 2009
Nashua, New Hampshire - Pfeiffer Vacuum, one of the world's leading producers of vacuum products and services, introduces ThermoStar™ GSD320, the new standard in bench top thermal analysis-mass spectrometry (TA-MS). ThermoStar™ has a 20% smaller footprint than our proven, industry-leading model measuring only 12" x 22", saving valuable lab space. In addition, it is ten [...]
Carl Zeiss Launches AURIGA: A New, Highly Flexible CrossBeam Workstation
March 25, 2009
AURIGA™ CrossBeam® Workstation Provides Advanced Analytics, Precise Processing of Samples, Unique Imaging, a Future-Assured Upgrade Path and More OBERKOCHEN/Germany – March 25, 2009. Today, Carl Zeiss SMT introduced its newly developed AURIGA™ CrossBeam® (FIB-SEM) work-station. As one of the pioneers in developing this class of Information beyond resolution instruments, and with more than 8 years [...]
March 25, 2009
SAN DIEGO--Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced that researchers at Baylor College of Medicine’s Medical Genetics Laboratories will use Illumina’s Infinium® High-Density (HD) DNA Analysis products to study genomic imprinting and its role in developmental diseases such as Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), Angelman syndrome (AS), and other disorders caused by uniparental disomy. Baylor College of Medicine is [...]
March 25, 2009
Unique Single-Story Standard Bore 54 mm Magnet at 850 MHz and Novel Wide Bore 89 mm Magnet at 900 MHz Both Set New World Records BILLERICA, Mass.--Bruker BioSpin announced today that it will launch two new, unique and ground-breaking Ultra-High Field (UHF) NMR magnets on Sunday, March 29th, 2009 at the Experimental NMR Conference (ENC): [...]
New Cytogenetics Products Offer Best Overall Approach for Detection of Chromosome Aberrations
March 25, 2009
Comprehensive, Microarray-Based Analysis Designed Specifically for Cytogeneticists SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Today, Affymetrix, Inc. (Nasdaq: AFFX) launched its next-generation series of products for cytogenetics. The entirely new solution, which includes arrays, reagents, and software, enables fast and reliable detection of known and novel chromosome aberrations. “We worked closely with the cytogenetics community to develop these products,” said [...]
March 25, 2009
Horizon Discovery (Horizon) today announced it has secured world-wide exclusive rights to a panel of new patient-relevant human isogenic disease models developed by University of Maryland, Baltimore using its proprietary GENESIS platform. The in-licensed lines will be added to Horizon’s rapidly expanding number (150+) of X-MANTM (Mutant And Normal) cell models that allow drug discovery [...]
Pacific Biosciences Named Senior Party in Patent Interference with Life Technologies
March 25, 2009
MENLO PARK, Calif.--Pacific Biosciences, a private company developing third-generation single molecule DNA sequencing technology, announced today that it has been named the Senior Party in a patent interference declared by the United States Patent and Trademark Office with Life Technologies Corporation (LIFE). Pacific Biosciences was accorded Senior Party status based upon patent priority dates that [...]
March 25, 2009
Sirius Analytical Ltd., (UK), a leading provider of instrumentation and analytical services to the pharmaceutical and biotech industry, have launched a new automated instrument for measurement of ionisation (pKa), lipophilicity (logP/D) and solubility (kinetic and intrinsic) using sub-milligram quantities of drug sample. The SiriusT3 system is a new state of the art hardware platform designed [...]

