Steven A. Sonnenberg named executive vice president of Emerson and business leader of Emerson Process Management John M. Berra to become chairman of Emerson Process Management ST. LOUIS--Emerson (NYSE:EMR - News) announced today that, effective Oct. 1, 2008, Steven A. Sonnenberg will be named executive vice president of Emerson and business leader of Emerson Process [...]

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 22 -- Cyntellect, a privately-held life sciences company leading the development and commercialization of live-cell analysis and manipulation systems, announced today the launch of CellXpress, powered by the Company's proprietary laser-based system LEAP(TM). The automated system brings new improvements in speed, cost and optimal clone selection for cell line development. Biopharmaceutical teams [...]

Sequenom, Inc. (Nasdaq: SQNM) today announced that it has secured exclusive rights to fundamental patent rights for digital PCR technologies and methods through a licensing agreement with Genomic Nanosystems, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Cytonix Corporation. The exclusively licensed rights include United States Patent Nos. 6,143,496 and 6,391,559 and pending applications. The license [...]

PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 22 -- Varian, Inc. (NasdaqGS: VARI - News) announced today its new high-performance, high-capacity vacuum gauge rack controller that provides cost effective monitoring and control of multiple roughing, high vacuum and ultra high vacuum gauges in a standard half-rack package. The XGS-600(TM) replaces Varian's widely used controllers, the MultiGauge(TM) and SenTorr(TM) [...]

Histogen, Inc., a regenerative medicine company developing solutions based on the products of newborn fibroblasts, today launched BioNuesisTM, the only soluble human extracellular matrix (ECM) developed as a culturing kit for stem cell growth. The kit was launched and is being exhibited at the 2008 World Stem Cell Summit taking place in Madison, Wisconsin. San [...]

Package Includes Instrumentation and Application to Conform with Current U.S. FDA Methodology to Address Melamine Adulteration of Dairy Products WALTHAM, Mass. – PerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences, a global leader in application-focused measurement and analysis solutions, today announced that its analyzer using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) for the determination of melamine adulteration in protein-based foods [...]

Agilent Technologies Inc., (NYSE:A) today introduced Agilent GeneSpring GX 10.0, the next generation of Agilent's flagship gene expression bioinformatics platform. GeneSpring GX, considered the gold standard of desktop gene expression analysis, now offers tools for systems-level data interpretation and pathway analysis, enabling scientists to attain a new level of insight into the underlying mechanism of [...]

New software supports screening, confirmation and characterization of anti-drug antibodies GE Healthcare announced today that it is has introduced a new immunogenicity software package for its Biacore™ T100 label-free protein interaction analysis system, to support screening, confirmation and characterization of anti-drug antibodies during preclinical and clinical development. Biacore T100 Immunogenicity Package addresses the problem of [...]

How do you guarantee the quality and characteristics of chemical products? The water content can give you important information. Karl Fischer titration is the specific standard method to determine the water content and gives accurate and precise results within minutes. With the new METTLER TOLEDO Karl Fischer titrators your operators need only to press one [...]

BioTrove, Inc. today announced the launch of Pathways pre-validated qPCR assay panels, the latest addition to the OpenArray(TM) Real-Time qPCR System. These standardized panels contain a pre-determined set of optimized, validated assays, allowing researchers to skip the initial steps of gene selection and assay optimization, and begin immediate work on the analyses of commonly studied [...]