X-Rite Announces New Profit Improvement Plan to Address Economic Slowdown
January 8, 2009
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.--X-Rite, Incorporated (NASDAQ:XRIT - News) today announced that due to the slowdown in the global economy, the Company will fall short of its fourth quarter and 2008 sales estimate. The Company also announced a significant new profit improvement plan which will better align its 2009 sales expectations and cost structure. Highlights of today’s [...]
January 8, 2009
BILLERICA, Mass.--Bruker Daltonics announced today that the laboratory of Professor Michael Gross at Washington University in St. Louis has ordered a package consisting of a Bruker 12 Tesla FTMS and a maXis UHR-TOF, primarily for applications in top-down proteomics in close collaboration with Professor Reid Townsend, who heads proteomics efforts at Washington University. The researchers [...]
January 8, 2009
EP1 System Delivers High Data Quality with Best-In-Class Workflow Efficiency Thursday, January 8, 2009; South San Francisco –Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission’s (CRITFC) genetic laboratory is incorporating Fluidigm’s integrated fluidic circuit (IFC) technology to conduct genetics research of salmon in the Columbia River. CRITFC has been using Fluidigm’s flagship 96.96 Dynamic Array chip and the [...]
Rosetta Genomics Announces Exclusive Distribution Agreement With Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.
January 8, 2009
REHOVOT, Israel and JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, January 8 -- Rosetta Genomics, Ltd. (NASDQ: ROSG), the leading developer of microRNA-based molecular diagnostics, announced today it has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. Under the terms of the agreement Teva will offer Rosetta Genomics' miRview(TM) tests in Israel and Turkey. The terms [...]
XOS Introduces the HDX 1000 Lead Analyzer to Screen and Certify Toys
January 8, 2009
East Greenbush, NY (PRWEB) January 8, 2009 -- Today XOS introduces the HDX 1000 Lead Analyzer uniting the speed and ease-of-use of conventional XRF analyzers with the precision and accuracy of chemical techniques. The HDX 1000 is now ready to meet industry needs for both screening and certification to new federally mandated lead levels going [...]
NIH grants Phylonix Phase II SBIR to develop high-throughput in vivo zebrafish assays
January 7, 2009
Cambridge, MA January 7, 2009 Phylonix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that it has been awarded a $1,250,369 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research Grant (SBIR) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop in vivo zebrafish assays for assessing drug effects on Cytochrome (CYP) P450s. CYP [...]
Hamilton Storage Technologies Announces New -20°C Sample Access Manager
January 7, 2009
Provides Cost Efficient Way of Storing Samples Hopkinton, Mass.-Jan. 6, 2009-Hamilton Storage Technologies today announces the latest advancement in laboratory automation, the -20°C Sample Access Manager (SAM). Similar to Hamilton's -80°C storage system, the -20°C SAM is an entry level system that offers reliable automation, multiple sample type capability, cherry-picking, sample tracking and easy-to-use software [...]
January 7, 2009
Malvern, UK: New pilot-scale research in the Pharmacy Department of the National University of Singapore is demonstrating the value of the Insitec in-line particle size analyzer from Malvern Instruments, for monitoring and control of spray drying processes. Process Analytical Technology (PAT) options, such as the Insitec, are used increasingly in the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry at [...]
January 7, 2009
Universal Detection Technology (www.udetection.com) (OTCBB: UNDT) (FRANKFURT: PO8), a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies to protect people from bioterrorism and other infectious health threats and provider of counter-terrorism consulting and training services, reported today that it has responded to a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) from the Department of Homeland Security. The BAA will provide funding [...]
ServiceXS Announces Illumina CSPro Certification
January 7, 2009
Leiden/San Diego, January 7, 2009 – ServiceXS announced today that it has successfully completed Illumina CSPro™ certification for Infinium® Genotyping, gaining entry to an elite group of Illumina genomics service providers globally. Illumina Inc., a San Diego-based company, provides leading-edge genetic analysis tools to genomics centers worldwide. Illumina CSPro is the collaborative service provider partnership [...]

