In response to increased demand for GMP peptide production, AnaSpec has established a new facility dedicated to GMP manufacturing. Located adjacent to its current San Jose, California-based headquarters, the expansion provides an additional 5000 sq. ft. of dedicated GMP space including two class 10,000 clean rooms. “The need for GMP-grade peptides is growing,” stated AnaSpec [...]

Next-Generation System Will Have Multiplexing Capability of Up to 500-Plex and High Throughput AUSTIN, Texas--Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX - News), the worldwide leader in multiplexed solutions, today announced the commercial sale and shipment of the first FLEXMAPTM 3D system manufactured in Austin, Texas. Full market release of the instrument is expected in the first quarter [...]

With more than 10 million new cases every year, cancer has become one of the world’s most devastating diseases, killing an estimated 20,000 people each day. To help meet the growing demand for treatment, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) today announced collaboration with GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company, to develop [...]

Lexington, MA November 13, 2008 - Protein Forest®, a leading developer of state-of-the-art sample fractionation technology and bioinformatics software for protein research, today announced that it has commenced shipments of its new digital ProteomeChip™ (dPC™) protein separation system. The ProteomeChip system fractionates and concentrates proteins or peptides by isoelectric focusing. It provides higher resolution, greater [...]

Bridgewater, NJ. November 13, 2008. LabVantage today introduced the 90 day/$90K* guaranteed implementation for its SAPPHIRE BioBanking Solution. Already well recognized as the premier enterprise solution for biospecimen management, the full-featured, out-of-the-box SAPPHIRE BioBanking Solution is now guaranteed to be delivered by LabVantage within a fixed duration of 90 days and at a fixed cost [...]

Conformia, the market leader for product/process lifecycle management (PPLM) solutions for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, today announced the availability of an “out-of-the-box” Integrated Information Environment for large pharmaceutical and biotechnology process/product development divisions. Conformia’s unique approach utilizes a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to provide a central hub for integrating multiple source systems of mission critical [...]

Sigma-Aldrich to Carry Key Products for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Biology Research ST. LOUIS, Nov. 13 -- Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL - News) today announced a distribution agreement with AlphaGenix, Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of products for basic and clinical life science research. Sigma-Aldrich will now be the exclusive supplier of AlphaGenix-developed antibodies [...]

Designed to be easily assembled and disassembled by robotic manipulators the new Universal Robotic Manifold from Porvair Sciences Ltd. enables productive automation of SPE or DNA clean-up procedures. Able to accommodate collection plates from 14mm - 44mm in height and adaptable to work with three different lengths of drip director (short, medium and long) the [...]

Leading proteomics center incorporates EASY-nLC systems into LC-MS set-ups Odense, Denmark, 11. November 2008. Proxeon announced today that a world-leading proteomics laboratory, headed by Professor Matthias Mann at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany, will replace all installed LC instruments with Proxeon's EASY-nLC® nanoscale chromatography systems. The laboratory's aim is to standardize [...]

Breakthrough Innovation Gives Greater Numbers of Pharmaceutical Scientists Access to the Power of the Xevo TQ System's Quantitative and Qualitative Capabilities MILFORD, Mass., Nov. 13 -- Focused on the process of helping firms to move promising drug candidates into commercialization, Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT - News) will showcase innovative UltraPerformance LC® (UPLC) and mass spectrometry [...]