PerkinElmer Launches Operetta™ High Content Screening (HCS) System
January 5, 2009
At the 6th Annual High Content Analysis Conference in San Francisco, PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and their environment, today announced the launch of its Operetta™ system, a benchtop instrument that provides leading edge High Content Screening (HCS) and High Content Analysis (HCA) capabilities to drug discovery [...]
NanoInk Launches NanoStem Cell Division
January 5, 2009
New Division Aims to Revolutionize the Utility of Adult Stem Cells Through Nanotechnology SKOKIE, IL -- NanoInk, Inc., a global leader in nanotechnology, began the new year by announcing the launch of its NanoStem Cell division. The new division will provide a highly reliable, renewable source of differentiated adult stem cells, through the application of [...]
Illumina Appoints Bill Bonnar Senior Vice President of Operations
January 5, 2009
Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today appointed Bill Bonnar as Senior Vice President of Operations. In this newly created role, Bill is responsible for overseeing Illumina’s global manufacturing and supply chain efforts, and will report to Joel McComb, Senior Vice President and General Manager Life Sciences Business. Bill joins Illumina from KLA-Tencor, a leading semiconductor equipment provider, [...]
Versatile Capsule Filling Workstation…
January 5, 2009
Symyx Technologies Europe SA has announced that a Clinical Trial Phase 1 group within a pharmaceutical company has standardised upon the Powdernium® Workstation for automating pure drug active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) dispensing and binary blending with excipient into capsules. The manual API dispensing and excipient blending techniques traditionally used by the Clinical Trial Phase 1 [...]
FEI Company Expands Presence in Automated Mineralogy Market
January 5, 2009
Electron Microscopy Leader Acquires the Assets of Intellection FEI Company (Nasdaq:FEIC), a leading provider of high-resolution imaging and analysis systems, today announced that it had acquired substantially all of the assets of Intellection Holdings Pty. Ltd. of Brisbane, Australia. Intellection's primary product is the QEMSCAN automated mineralogy system. The purchase increases FEI's presence in the [...]
January 2, 2009
Response Genetics, Inc. (Nasdaq:RGDX), a company focused on the development and sale of molecular diagnostic tests for cancer, announced today it has signed an amended and restated master service agreement with GlaxoSmithKline, Ltd. (NYSE:GSK). This agreement extends the current agreement between the companies for a two-year period and names Response Genetics as preferred provider of [...]
High speed and high accuracy from Jenway Performance pH electrodes
January 2, 2009
New Jenway Performance pH electrodes, with inbuilt Platinum Plus reference systems, reduce analysis time through rapid equilibration when compared with conventional pH electrodes with AgCl reference systems, and increase the reproducibility of results following exposure to extremes of pH and temperature. Two glass-bodied Performance pH electrodes join the highly regarded Jenway combination electrode range: a [...]
NETZSCH Analyzing & Testing Acquires World’s Most Advanced Adiabatic Reaction Calorimeters from TIAX
January 1, 2009
The NETZSCH Analyzing & Testing Business Unit recently announced its acquisition of the TIAX Accelerating Rate Calorimeters (ARC®) and Automatic Pressure Tracking Adiabatic Calorimeters (APTAC™). These products will be merged with NETZSCH’s worldwide Thermal Analysis business. The new product line will be manufactured as part of the current instrument series at NETZSCH Instruments, Inc., which [...]
SpectraSensors Reorganizes Sales and Marketing Team
January 1, 2009
Jorge Jones appointed Vice President Marketing & Business Development to head Strategic Marketing, Product Management and Business Development. Houston, TX (PRWEB) January 1, 2009 -- Jorge Jones has been appointed Vice President Marketing & Business Development reporting to the CEO of SpectraSensors Inc. Jones has been with SpectraSensors for 3 years successfully leading the International [...]
FDA Approves Most Comprehensive System to Test Donated Blood for HIV, Hepatitis B & Hepatitis C
December 31, 2008
PLEASANTON, Calif., Dec. 31 -- The United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA) today approved a new nucleic acid test from Roche to screen donated blood for HIV-1 Group M RNA, hepatitis C RNA and hepatitis B DNA in a single, automated assay. The test, called the cobas TaqScreen MPX Test for use on the [...]
