Benchtop laboratory lyophilizer offers new levels of efficiency & flexibility…
December 18, 2008
SP Industries Inc., world leader in lyophilization equipment, has announced the new Virtis AdVantage Plus range of laboratory freeze dryers. Featuring the latest advances in benchtop freeze drying, the AdVantage Plus is now available with up to three fluid-cooled shelves which maintain precise temperature control previously available only in pilot and production scale units. At [...]
CambridgeSoft and StatSoft Execute Collaboration Agreement
December 18, 2008
CambridgeSoft, a leading supplier of desktop and enterprise knowledge management software solutions for life sciences companies, and StatSoft, a leading supplier of desktop and enterprise STATISTICA data analysis and data mining software solutions, announce the execution of a collaboration agreement. The agreement is the start of formal collaborations between the two companies, complementing CambridgeSoft’s Chem [...]
Automatic process control optimises use of raw materials in the dairy
December 18, 2008
Hilleroed, Denmark, FOSS announces XDS Process Analytics™ for the dairy, a powerful analytical and process control solution in a simple-to-integrate form. The XDS Process Analytics solution helps dairy producers to reduce out of specification production and optimize the use of valuable raw materials such as protein and fat. The system can be used to control [...]
December 18, 2008
EMERYVILLE, Calif., Dec 18, 2008 -- ProGenTech Limited, a life science and molecular diagnostics company based in Shanghai, China and the San Francisco Bay Area has signed a collaboration agreement with the China CDC to create a joint laboratory that will focus on developing next generation molecular diagnostic systems and assays. Under the terms of [...]
Fluxion Moves into Germany and Austria with New Distribution Agreement
December 18, 2008
IUL Instruments GmbH to Distribute BioFlux Line of Live Cell Imaging Products Fluxion Biosciences announced today an exclusive distribution agreement with IUL Instruments GmbH. IUL, based in Königswinter, Germany, will handle sales and service in Germany and Austria of Fluxion's BioFlux research tools for live cell image analysis in drug discovery. IUL Instruments GmbH, founded [...]
Researchers Successfully Used the 454 Sequencing System for Sensitive Detection of HIV Tropism
December 18, 2008
454 Life Sciences, a Roche company, announced today that a team of researchers from the BC Centre of Excellence in HIV/AIDS and the University of British Columbia, Canada have used the Genome Sequencer FLX system to monitor low frequency HIV variants from human samples in a recent study. The preliminarily results of the study were [...]
CombiMatrix Announces Positive Results From Expanded HerScan Study
December 18, 2008
Company Reaffirms Its Regulatory Stance in Offering HerScan as a Laboratory Developed Test (LDT) in Response to Genentech FDA Citizen Petition Filing MUKILTEO, Wash., Dec. 18, 2008 -- CombiMatrix Corporation (NasdaqGM:CBMX - News) today announced that expanded study results on the company's HerScan(tm) array comparative genomic hybridization (array CGH) test demonstrated 97% concordance with fluorescent [...]
Bioheart Partners With Life Technologies to Offer Myoblast Cell Products to the Research Market
December 18, 2008
SUNRISE, Fla., Dec 18, 2008 -- Bioheart, Inc. (Nasdaq:BHRT) and Life Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq:LIFE) have entered into a global distribution and OEM agreement to sell myoblast cell-based research products to life science researchers. Life Technologies will offer Bioheart's myoblast stem cell products to the research community so that they may accelerate the development of myoblast [...]
Highly Efficient & Flexible Parallel Research System…
December 18, 2008
The Synthesis 1 from Heidolph UK (www.heidolph-uk.co.uk) is a highly flexible system that can be configured for parallel solid and liquid phase synthesis as well as multiple evaporation experiments thereby increasing the efficiency of your chemistry. Interchangeable plug and play reaction blocks enable the Synthesis 1 to be quickly configurable to perform a wide range [...]
December 18, 2008
BILLERICA, Mass.--Bruker Daltonics today has released a robust, fast and highly sensitive high-capacity ion trap HCT™ solution for the detection and quantification of melamine and cyanuric acid (CA) by food safety laboratories. Since September 2008, thousands of infants and young children in China have been hospitalized to treat the symptoms caused by the ingestion of [...]

