Lexington, MA November 13, 2008 - Protein Forest®, a leading developer of state-of-the-art sample fractionation technology and bioinformatics software for protein research, today announced that it has commenced shipments of its new digital ProteomeChip™ (dPC™) protein separation system. The ProteomeChip system fractionates and concentrates proteins or peptides by isoelectric focusing. It provides higher resolution, greater [...]

Bridgewater, NJ. November 13, 2008. LabVantage today introduced the 90 day/$90K* guaranteed implementation for its SAPPHIRE BioBanking Solution. Already well recognized as the premier enterprise solution for biospecimen management, the full-featured, out-of-the-box SAPPHIRE BioBanking Solution is now guaranteed to be delivered by LabVantage within a fixed duration of 90 days and at a fixed cost [...]

Conformia, the market leader for product/process lifecycle management (PPLM) solutions for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, today announced the availability of an “out-of-the-box” Integrated Information Environment for large pharmaceutical and biotechnology process/product development divisions. Conformia’s unique approach utilizes a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to provide a central hub for integrating multiple source systems of mission critical [...]

Sigma-Aldrich to Carry Key Products for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Biology Research ST. LOUIS, Nov. 13 -- Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL - News) today announced a distribution agreement with AlphaGenix, Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of products for basic and clinical life science research. Sigma-Aldrich will now be the exclusive supplier of AlphaGenix-developed antibodies [...]

Designed to be easily assembled and disassembled by robotic manipulators the new Universal Robotic Manifold from Porvair Sciences Ltd. enables productive automation of SPE or DNA clean-up procedures. Able to accommodate collection plates from 14mm - 44mm in height and adaptable to work with three different lengths of drip director (short, medium and long) the [...]

Leading proteomics center incorporates EASY-nLC systems into LC-MS set-ups Odense, Denmark, 11. November 2008. Proxeon announced today that a world-leading proteomics laboratory, headed by Professor Matthias Mann at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany, will replace all installed LC instruments with Proxeon's EASY-nLC® nanoscale chromatography systems. The laboratory's aim is to standardize [...]

Breakthrough Innovation Gives Greater Numbers of Pharmaceutical Scientists Access to the Power of the Xevo TQ System's Quantitative and Qualitative Capabilities MILFORD, Mass., Nov. 13 -- Focused on the process of helping firms to move promising drug candidates into commercialization, Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT - News) will showcase innovative UltraPerformance LC® (UPLC) and mass spectrometry [...]

Micronic has introduced a new range of white, flat bottom alphanumeric tubes (0.5ml, 0.75ml, 1.1ml and 1.4ml) for storage of blood samples or other highly coloured liquids. Traditionally alphanumeric tubes have been manufactured in clear polypropylene. However with highly coloured samples such as blood - manual reading of alphanumeric coding can be prone to error. [...]

COLLEGE STATION, TX--Nov 13, 2008 -- O.I. Corporation (NasdaqGM:OICO - News) today announced that a next-generation Total Organic Carbon Analyzer ("TOCA") is scheduled to be launched tomorrow on the Space Shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station. OI developed the core TOCA technology for this analyzer, which will be a key component of the water [...]

New kits provide greater sensitivity than traditional drug discovery cytotoxicity analyses Billerica, Massachusetts—November 13, 2008—Millipore Corporation (NYSE: MIL) today announced the launch of new high content analysis kits for detecting neurotoxicity. The kits are designed for use in drug discovery and basic neuroscience research. The kits identify toxicity biomarkers in neurons and glial cells. Detection [...]