FARMINGDALE, N.Y., Feb. 17 -- Cemtrex Inc. (OTC: CTEI - News) announced today that a new line of water quality monitors has been added to their portfolio of monitoring instruments. The Mercury Process Analyzer PA-2 is used for continuous monitoring of Mercury concentrations in industrial processes. Applications include effluent and quality control in chlorine-alkali plants, [...]

Investing in Groundbreaking Mass Spectrometry Technology Allows Contract Research Organization to Offer Pharmaceutical Clients Comprehensive Pre-Clinical Study Data MILFORD, Mass., Feb. 16-- Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) announced today that XenoTech (Lenexa, KS) has begun offering new metabolite profiling services made possible in part by its recent acquisition of a Waters(R) Synapt(TM) High Definition Mass Spectrometry(TM) [...]

LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A., February 16, 2009 -- RainDance Technologies, Inc., a provider of innovative microdroplet-based solutions for human health and disease research, has appointed Patrick Kelly to the newly created position of European Sales Director, effective immediately. “Mr. Kelly’s appointment represents an important step in the geographic expansion of our commercial efforts with the first [...]

SOLiD System Generates More Than 400 Gigabases of Mappable Sequence Data for Project CARLSBAD, Calif.--Applied Biosystems, a division of Life Technologies (NASDAQ:LIFE - News), and scientists from the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center (HGSC), today summarized their collective contribution to the first data release of the 1000 Genomes Project. As a commercial [...]

San Jose, CA (February 13, 2009) - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, announces the success of its liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) solution at the Kenneth L. Maddy Analytical Chemistry Laboratory. The Thermo Scientific Aria TLX-2 turbulent flow chromatography system coupled with the Thermo Scientific TSQ Vantage triple stage [...]

NEWBURY PARK, Calif.---Menssana Research, Inc. at Fort Lee in New Jersey has placed an additional order with Electronic Sensor Technology (EST) (OTCBB:ESNR), a leading provider of innovative homeland security, environmental and healthcare solutions. Dr. Michael Phillips, a medical innovator who uses breath analysis to screen for pulmonary diseases, founded Menssana Research. He has utilized the [...]

Accelr8 Technology Corporation (Alternext: AXK) today announced that the company will collaborate with the Denver Health Medical Center (DHMC) in a study of ICU patients at risk for contracting ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Denver Health is receiving funding for the study as a Team Science Award from the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI, https://ctsa1.uchsc.edu). [...]

Agilent Technologies Inc., has announced that its recently introduced Direct Drive Robot was recognised by the Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) as one of the top three outstanding new products at LabAutomation2009. The Direct Drive Robot advances high-throughput screening for drug-discovery research and can also be used in genomics applications, including DNA extraction and PCR [...]

SPOKANE, Wash.--Signature Genomic Laboratories’ flagship microarray, the SignatureChip®, covers regions of the human genome that were known and recently published to be associated with susceptibility to schizophrenia. A study led by investigators from Duke University and published Feb. 6 in PloS Genetics examined 1073 individuals with schizophrenia and 1148 unaffected control individuals. Among individuals with [...]

In a press conference held on February 12 in Leipzig, Germany, and simultaneously at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Chicago, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and 454 Life Sciences announced the completion of the 1X draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome. The announcement draws closure to an ambitious sequencing project initiated [...]