Actar AB Purchases Corning® Epic® System

Swedish Start-up Offers Label-free Drug Screening Services to European Drug Discovery Researchers CORNING, N.Y., October 15, 2008 -- Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) today announced that Actar AB, a part of the Karolinska Institutet innovations system, confirmed their ability to provide label-free drug screening services via the Corning® Epic® System. Actar is the first and only company [...]

microRNA Expert Dr. Muneesh Tewari Joins CombiMatrix Scientific Advisory Board

MUKILTEO, Wash., Oct. 15, 2008 -- CombiMatrix Corporation (NasdaqGM:CBMX - News) announced today that microRNA expert Dr. Muneesh Tewari has joined the Scientific Advisory Board of CombiMatrix. Dr. Tewari is in the Human Biology division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. ``I am delighted to have Dr. Tewari on our Scientific Advisory Board,' said [...]

Symyx Adds Chemistry to KNIME Open-Source Pipelining Software

Symyx Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMMX) today announced the release of version 1.0 of Symyx Chemistry Extensions for KNIME. The Symyx Chemistry Extensions enhance KNIME's open-source, no-fee data pipelining software with Symyx's high-value, industry-leading chemistry capabilities. This enables R&D organizations to deliver low-cost, agile chemistry extensions and services supporting scientific workflows. "Our chemistry users have said [...]

OSI Systems Awarded Approximate $3 Million Contract for Air Cargo Security Screening

Systems Will Be Used to Comply with New U.S. Air Cargo Screening Regulations HAWTHORNE, Calif.--OSI Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:OSIS - News), a vertically-integrated provider of specialized electronic products for critical applications in the security and healthcare industries, announced today that its Security division, Rapiscan Systems has received an approximate $3 million contract from an undisclosed U.S. [...]

Hamamatsu Partners with Definiens to offer a complete and fully integrated image analysis solution

Collaboration closes the loop from image acquisition to image analysis Munich, Germany – October 15, 2008 – Definiens, the number one Enterprise Image Intelligence™ company, and Hamamatsu, a world-leading manufacturer of devices for the generation and measurement of infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light, today signed a partner agreement for the European market. Under the terms [...]

InforSense Collaborates With GlaxoSmithKline and Industry Innovators to Enable Virtual Drug Discovery

InforSense Ltd., the leading provider of next generation business and scientific intelligence tools, today announced it has successfully completed a pilot project at world leading pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to enable virtual drug discovery through virtual outsourcing of data analysis via secure Grid technology. The project is sponsored by SIMDAT -- a program funded by [...]

Invitrogen and Applied Biosystems Amend Merger Agreement to Eliminate Tax Opinion Condition; Stockholder Meetings to Be Moved to October 28, 2008

Invitrogen Corporation (NASDAQ:IVGN) and Applied Biosystems Inc. (NYSE:ABI) today announced that they have amended their pending merger agreement to eliminate a condition to closing requiring that the parties receive certain opinions of their respective counsel as to the tax treatment of the transaction. Under the prior terms of the merger agreement, completion of the merger [...]

Cepheid Molecular Diagnostic Test for MRSA and S. aureus Categorized ‘Moderate Complexity’ by FDA

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 15 -- Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD) today announced the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) categorized Cepheid's Xpert(TM) MRSA/SA Skin and Soft Tissue Infection (SSTI) test as "Moderate Complexity" under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA). The new test is designed for on-demand detection of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Staphylococcus aureus (SA), [...]

GE Healthcare Introduces pre-packed HiPrep Sephacryl S-400 HR and HiPrep Sephacryl S-500 HR gel filtration columns

GE Healthcare Introduces pre-packed HiPrep Sephacryl S-400 HR and HiPrep Sephacryl S-500 HR gel filtration columns For fast, reproducible, and convenient purification of large proteins and other macromolecules GE Healthcare has introduced HiPrep™ Sephacryl™ S-400 HR and HiPrep Sephacryl S-500 HR pre-packed columns, the latest additions to its range of columns for gel filtration. The [...]

Ocimum Biosolutions Awarded Two New US Patents in the Gene Expression Space

GAITHERSBURG, Md. & HYDERABAD, India--Ocimum Biosolutions has announced issuance of United States Patent No. 7,428,554 which covers the company's proprietary system and method for determining matching patterns within gene expression data and US Patent No. 7426441, which covers methods for determining renal toxins. The US Patent No. 7,428,554 covers a method for determining matching patterns [...]

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