Affymetrix, Inc. (Nasdaq:AFFX) today announced the DMET™ Plus Premier Pack, the most comprehensive method for standardizing drug metabolism studies. The DMET (Drug Metabolism Enzymes and Transporters) Plus Panel features the most biologically relevant content identified by key opinion leaders from industry and academia in a cost-effective format. The DMET Plus Panel contains markers in all [...]

WEST CHESTER, PA, November 11, 2008 - VWR International, LLC, a leading global laboratory supply company, has signed a distribution agreement with Corning Incorporated, effective January 2009. This agreement will significantly extend VWR's product offerings as well as enhance VWR's ability to provide customers with the product choices they need to support their critical research [...]

Pittsburgh, PA (ChemImage Corporation) - ChemImage is pleased to announce publication of the results of a collaborative study with the FDA to characterize the thermodynamics of a highly unstable polymorph of acetaminophen. The Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, a peer-reviewed journal, published "Raman detected differential scanning calorimetry of polymorphic transformations in acetaminophen" (doi: 10.1016/j.jpba.2008.09.008). [...]

COLUMBIA, Md. (November 11, 2008) — Shimadzu Scientific Instruments introduces a gel permeation chromatography (GPC) mass spectrometer for quick analysis of ultra-trace substances such as impurities and additives in plastics and synthetic polymers. The GPC-AccuSpot-AXIMA combines a high resolution GPC system, the AccuSpot fully automated fraction collection and spotting device, and an AXIMA series MALDI-TOF [...]

Test Simultaneously Identifies and Differentiates More Virulent 027 Strain from Common Strains SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 10 -- Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD - News) today announced the release of Xpert(TM) C. difficile as a European CE IVD Mark product under the European Directive on In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices. For the first time, European hospitals will have [...]

NanoAndMore USA, Inc. has added one more quality manufacturer's AFM probes to its most comprehensive inventory in the Americas. A distribution arrangement has been entered with nanotools™ GmbH, a manufacturer of specialty probes utilizing EBD to create consistently uniform high density carbon (HDC) tips. Lady's Island, SC (PRWEB) November 10, 2008 -- NanoAndMore USA, Inc. [...]

Institute Accelerates Reconstruction of Key Protein Complexes Using MATLAB and Parallel Computing Toolbox NATICK, Mass.--The MathWorks today announced that the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry is using MATLAB, Parallel Computing Toolbox, MATLAB Distributed Computing Server, and other MathWorks tools to accelerate its workflow and drastically reduce research and development time. Researchers at the department of [...]

Integrated Genomics, Inc., a leader in microbial genomic informatics, has licensed the ERGO™ genomics platform for use in research and production systems to Evonik Industries, a global leader in specialty chemicals. Under the terms of the agreement, scientists of the Evonik Science-to-Business Center Biotechnology will use the ERGO™ system to optimize their production strains and [...]

Arbor Vita Corporation (AVC), a privately held biopharmaceutical company, today announced a strategic collaboration in women's health with BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company. The collaboration and license agreement is initially focused on the development of a commercial diagnostic for cervical cancer, which globally affects more than 500,000 women each [...]

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 10, 2008 -- Dionex, Inc. (NasdaqGS:DNEX - News), a leading provider of liquid chromatography analysis instrumentation has entered into an agreement with Caliper Life Sciences, Inc., to purchase Caliper's AutoTrace(r) line of products, which had sales of $3.1 million in 2007. The AutoTrace SPE workstation automates the extraction of large volume aqueous [...]