Versatile Capsule Filling Workstation…

Symyx Technologies Europe SA has announced that a Clinical Trial Phase 1 group within a pharmaceutical company has standardised upon the Powdernium® Workstation for automating pure drug active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) dispensing and binary blending with excipient into capsules. The manual API dispensing and excipient blending techniques traditionally used by the Clinical Trial Phase 1 [...]

FEI Company Expands Presence in Automated Mineralogy Market

Electron Microscopy Leader Acquires the Assets of Intellection FEI Company (Nasdaq:FEIC), a leading provider of high-resolution imaging and analysis systems, today announced that it had acquired substantially all of the assets of Intellection Holdings Pty. Ltd. of Brisbane, Australia. Intellection's primary product is the QEMSCAN automated mineralogy system. The purchase increases FEI's presence in the [...]

Response Genetics Signs Amendment to Its Master Service Agreement With GlaxoSmithKline as Preferred Provider of Genetic Testing Services

Response Genetics, Inc. (Nasdaq:RGDX), a company focused on the development and sale of molecular diagnostic tests for cancer, announced today it has signed an amended and restated master service agreement with GlaxoSmithKline, Ltd. (NYSE:GSK). This agreement extends the current agreement between the companies for a two-year period and names Response Genetics as preferred provider of [...]

High speed and high accuracy from Jenway Performance pH electrodes

New Jenway Performance pH electrodes, with inbuilt Platinum Plus reference systems, reduce analysis time through rapid equilibration when compared with conventional pH electrodes with AgCl reference systems, and increase the reproducibility of results following exposure to extremes of pH and temperature. Two glass-bodied Performance pH electrodes join the highly regarded Jenway combination electrode range: a [...]

NETZSCH Analyzing & Testing Acquires World’s Most Advanced Adiabatic Reaction Calorimeters from TIAX

The NETZSCH Analyzing & Testing Business Unit recently announced its acquisition of the TIAX Accelerating Rate Calorimeters (ARC®) and Automatic Pressure Tracking Adiabatic Calorimeters (APTAC™). These products will be merged with NETZSCH’s worldwide Thermal Analysis business. The new product line will be manufactured as part of the current instrument series at NETZSCH Instruments, Inc., which [...]

SpectraSensors Reorganizes Sales and Marketing Team

Jorge Jones appointed Vice President Marketing & Business Development to head Strategic Marketing, Product Management and Business Development. Houston, TX (PRWEB) January 1, 2009 -- Jorge Jones has been appointed Vice President Marketing & Business Development reporting to the CEO of SpectraSensors Inc. Jones has been with SpectraSensors for 3 years successfully leading the International [...]

FDA Approves Most Comprehensive System to Test Donated Blood for HIV, Hepatitis B & Hepatitis C

PLEASANTON, Calif., Dec. 31 -- The United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA) today approved a new nucleic acid test from Roche to screen donated blood for HIV-1 Group M RNA, hepatitis C RNA and hepatitis B DNA in a single, automated assay. The test, called the cobas TaqScreen MPX Test for use on the [...]

Ariadne Provides Pathway Studio® Interoperability with Illumina’s New GenomeStudio Software

ROCKVILLE, MD, December 29, 2008 – Ariadne announces the completion of a key partner program with Illumina Inc., to provide advanced integration and interpretation capabilities for data generated from their iScan and BeadArray Reader platforms. The coupling of Ariadne’s Pathway Studio® to Illumina’s next generation software, GenomeStudio™ Data Analysis Software, provides researchers with a state-of-the-art [...]

Rosetta Genomics Announces Commercial Availability of Its Third MicroRNA-Based Diagnostic Test: miRview(TM) meso

REHOVOT, Israel, JERSEY CITY, New Jersey and PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, December 29 -- Rosetta Genomics, Ltd. (NASDQ: ROSG), the leading developer of microRNA-based molecular diagnostics, announced today the introduction of its third diagnostic test, miRview(TM) meso. The test is now commercially available through Rosetta Genomics CLIA-certified lab in Philadelphia. To order the test, physicians may contact [...]

Celera and Abbott Revise Strategic Alliance from Profit Sharing to Worldwide Distribution and Royalty Agreements

Celera Corporation (NASDAQ:CRA) and Abbott (NYSE:ABT) today announced a revision of the strategic alliance agreement between the two companies. Under a new distribution agreement, Abbott will exclusively distribute certain molecular diagnostic products manufactured by Celera. Under a second agreement, Celera will receive royalties on the sale of m2000™ reagents, instruments, service and related consumables, and [...]

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