TUCSON, Ariz.--HTG, Inc., provider of the quantitative Nuclease Protection Assay (qNPA™) system and service partner for the life sciences industry, today announced it has appointed Fredrick L. Pollock to Vice President of Corporate Development. Pollock will be responsible for leading commercial sales efforts in the academic and research markets, spearheading efforts for bio-marker and signature [...]

AS&E invited to exhibit with Abu Dhabi Customs at International Freight Week INTERNATIONAL FREIGHT WEEK ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates--American Science and Engineering, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASEI) (AS&E®), a leading worldwide supplier of innovative X-ray detection solutions, announced today that the Customs Administration at Abu Dhabi, the largest emirate of the United Arab Emirates, will debut [...]

New hire brings over 20 years of commercial life sciences sales experience to Cyntellect SAN DIEGO, Nov. 21 -- Cyntellect, a privately-held life sciences company leading the development and commercialization of live cell analysis and manipulation systems, announced today that it has appointed Andre Lubarsky as the Company's Director of Sales - North America. Andre [...]

Combined Company, Called Life Technologies Corporation, is a Global Leader in Biotechnology Reagents and Systems Company to Begin Trading Under Ticker Symbol LIFE CARLSBAD, Calif.--Invitrogen Corporation (NASDAQ:IVGN) and Applied Biosystems Inc. (NYSE:ABI) today announced the successful completion of their merger transaction. The new company will be named Life Technologies Corporation and will be traded on [...]

SAN FRANCISCO--Mirion Technologies Radiation Monitoring Systems Division today announced a contract award by Westinghouse Electric, Germany to supply radiation monitoring systems equipment for the Philippsburg 1 Nuclear Power Plant in southwestern Germany. The Particulate, Iodine and Noble Gas Monitors and associated signal processing electronics from Mirion’s MGPI-H&B product line provide critical process and event monitoring [...]

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 20 -- Cyntellect, a privately-held life sciences company leading the development and commercialization of live cell analysis, manipulation and purification systems, announced today that it has entered a research collaboration agreement with the University of Florida Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research. The agreement will focus on a variety of research areas including [...]

Acquisition Extends Data Analysis and Visualization Capabilities SEATTLE--Geospiza, Inc. and VizX Labs today announced a definitive agreement whereby Geospiza, a privately held developer of genetic analysis software, has acquired the award-winning GeneSifter Data Analysis product. This product will provide scientists a true sample to results solution for gene expression for both microarrays and next generation [...]

ULM, Germany, Nov. 20, 2008– Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced it is helping Pronota, pioneer in biomarker validation through mass spectrometry based in Ghent, Belgium, discover and validate disease biomarkers faster and more cost-effectively with its new HeavyPeptide FasTrack™ service. Heavy peptides are isotopically labeled peptides (very short [...]

AUSTIN, Texas & HONG KONG--Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX - News), the worldwide leader in multiplexed solutions, and Mingyuan Medicare Development Company, a leading supplier of biomedical products in China, today announced the signing of a distribution and supply agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Mingyuan will serve as the exclusive distributor in China and [...]

The study of microbial communities from environmental samples, known as metagenomics, has been propelled forward by technological advancements in high-throughput, low-cost sequencing such as 454’s Genome Sequencer FLX System. With the recent use of sequencing approaches for metagenomic analysis, the major research challenges have shifted from generating to analyzing data. To resolve these analysis bottlenecks, [...]