Millipore Launches the New Elix® Advantage Water Purification System Environmentally friendly system provides consistently high quality pure water to meet users’ most demanding needs

Billerica, Mass.—October 1, 2008—Millipore Corporation (NYSE:MIL), a Life Science leader providing technologies, tools and services for bioscience research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing, today announced the availability of the new Elix Advantage water purification system, which provides high quality pure water from tap. Featuring Millipore’s patented Elix electrodeionization technology and outstanding ergonomics, coupled with a “green” design [...]

Parker Maintains Long-term Focus on Strategic Acquisitions and Growth

Acquires Three Companies Contributing a Combined $452 Million in Annualized Revenues and Supporting International Expansion and New Market Growth Opportunities CLEVELAND, Oct. 1 -- Parker Hannifin Corporation (NYSE: PH - News), the world leader in motion and control technology, today announced that it has acquired three companies whose total sales for their most recently reported [...]

Applied Biosystems Debuts New SOLiD(TM) 3 System Expected to Enable $10K Genome

Applied Biosystems (NYSE:ABI) today announced a new genomic analysis platform, the SOLiD(TM) 3 System, that is expected to enable scientists to sequence a human genome for approximately $10,000. Significant cost-reduction and productivity enhancements have been built into the company's latest ultra-high-throughput genomic analysis platform, enabling researchers to dramatically drive down the cost of sequencing entire [...]

Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum Aids Development of Tool To Identify Rare Cancer Cells

COLOGNE, Germany--As part of a comprehensive R&D effort to develop an analytic tool to assist in accurately identifying leukemia stem cells, Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum is supporting the StemSpec R&D project at the University of Toronto with a TURBOVAC SL turbomolecular vacuum pump and a fore vacuum pump, and advising researchers about the use of the [...]

CombiMatrix Launches Two New Array-Based Diagnostic Tests

MUKILTEO, Wash., Sept. 30, 2008 -- CombiMatrix Corporation (NasdaqGM:CBMX -News) announced today the launch of two new array-based diagnostic tests, adding to its leading and growing portfolio of tests. These new tests augment each other and demonstrate levels of multiplexing and personalization that are unprecedented in the industry. The tests will be operated out of [...]

New software for Freeman Technology FT4 simplifies hopper design

30 September 2008: Welland, UK: New software for the FT4 Powder Rheometer, the universal powder tester from Freeman Technology, demystifies hopper design, guiding the user step-by-step through powder measurement, data analysis and equipment specification. Relevant to a broad range of industries, the new software provides a cost- and time-effective solution for hopper and bin specification. [...]

Cellumen Partners with Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation to Develop New Assays for Early Treatment of Alzheimer’s

Cellumen, Inc. today announced an agreement with the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) to apply Cellumen's Cellular Systems Biology (CSB) technology to create a cellular model of Alzheimer's disease. The main objective of the partnership is for Cellumen to develop a panel of CSB assays, as well as biosensors of key protein:protein interactions, that reveal [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Upgrades Software for Viscometers and Rheometers

Extended capabilities for beginners and experts including Windows Vista® compatibility KARLSRUHE, Germany (September 30, 2008) – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the worldwide leader in serving science, today announced the new Thermo Scientific HAAKE RheoWin 4 software with extended capabilities for rheological investigations, including compatibility with the Windows Vista operating system. HAAKE RheoWin software is user-friendly, [...]

Support of Microsoft Windows Vista for Atlas Chromatography Data System

PHILADELPHIA, Penn. (September, 30, 2008) - Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, announced that its award-winning Atlas Chromatography Data System(TM) (CDS) now supports the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system. Thermo Scientific Atlas version 8.2 provides LC and GC instrument control, digital data acquisition, chromatography data processing and reporting all in a familiar, [...]

GeneGo Is Awarded NCI Grant for Development of Systems Biology Database and Tools for Nutrition in Cancer in Collaboration with the FDA

ST. JOSEPH, Mich., Sept. 30 -- GeneGo Inc., a leading provider of databases, tools and services in systems biology, announced today that they were awarded with a Phase I SBIR grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for the development of a platform for understanding the influence of nutrients on cancerogenesis and cancer prevention. GeneGo [...]

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