Integrated Genomics, Inc. Appoints Jonathan M. Sheridan President, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors

CHICAGO--Integrated Genomics, Inc., a provider of bioinformatics products and services for the life sciences industry, has announced it has named Jonathan M. Sheridan to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Dr. John Elling who will remain Chairman of the Board. Prior to Integrated Genomics, Mr. Sheridan was VP Commercial Operations HTG Inc. [...]

PERKINELMER ADDS HIGH PERFORMANCE FT-IR/FT-FIR SPECTROMETER TO SPECTRUM SERIES

Instrument Designed to Offer Research Performance and Flexibility for Advanced Experiments WALTHAM, Mass. – PerkinElmer, a global leader in application-focused measurement and analysis solutions, today announced a research spectrometer offering push button ease-of-use for the characterization of materials including inorganics, novel materials and semiconductors. The Spectrum™ 400 FT-IR/FT-FIR is an advanced dual-range spectrometer that combines [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Introduces New General Purpose Ovens and Incubators

Thermo Scientific Precision Portfolio Offers Safe, Reliable and Long-lasting Performance MILFORD, Mass. (November 6, 2008) - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has introduced the new Thermo Scientific Precision® general purpose oven and incubator line for a full range of incubation, heating and drying applications. Thermo Scientific Precision products have easy-to-clean, [...]

Roche Applied Science Pens Co-Research Agreement with NuGEN Technologies for Developing a NimbleGen Array Application

Roche Applied Science and NuGEN Technologies, Inc., a leader in nucleic acid sample preparation systems, announced today a co-research agreement that will enable NuGEN to develop a NimbleGen array application for small, degraded, and compromised samples. Designed to meet MAQC standards, it will explore input sample capabilities. Using NuGEN WT-Ovation Systems for amplification and labeling, [...]

Applied Biosystems and Asuragen Collaborate with the Critical Path Institute to Improve Drug Toxicity Screening

Drug toxicity accounts for billions of lost dollars to the pharmaceutical industry each year and is a leading cause of pre-clinical drug failures. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other regulatory organizations have called upon the pharmaceutical industry to develop more effective tools to help avoid these costly failures, reduce the number of [...]

Proxeon releases ProteinCenter 2.0

New functionalities facilitate data sharing and enhance interpretation capabilities Odense, Denmark, 6. November 2008. Proxeon today announced the release of ProteinCenter 2.0, the company's unique data interpretation tool that converts complex proteomics datasets into biological sense within minutes - a task that can take months to finalize using conventional solutions. Recognizing that proteomics data is [...]

A Virus-Infecting Virus: Researchers Use the 454 Sequencing System to Identify a Novel Small Virus Parasitic to Another Virus

BRANFORD, Conn.--Using the Genome Sequencer System from 454 Life Sciences, a Roche company, French scientists have identified a small virus that can actually be parasitic to a larger one. The 50 nm virus, named Sputnik, is associated with a new strain of the giant Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus (APMV) and is believed to represent a currently [...]

Ahura Scientific Ships 2000th Instrument to AstraZeneca

Company emerges as industry leader of portable and handheld chemical identification solutions WILMINGTON, Mass. – November 6, 2008 – Ahura Scientific, Inc., a leader in rugged, ultra-compact handheld instruments for chemical identification, today announced that it has achieved a significant corporate milestone with the shipment of its 2000th chemical identification unit. The accomplishment is the [...]

QIAGEN and Institute for Animal Health Enter Partnership in Bluetongue Testing

Worldwide license agreement expands the Company's veterinary assay portfolio and aims to contain future outbreaks of the devastating viral disease Venlo, The Netherlands - November 6, 2008 - QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) has announced today that it has entered into a worldwide exclusive partnership with the Institute for Animal Health (IAH), [...]

Illumina Launches the HumanCytoSNP-12 BeadChip

New Twelve-Sample BeadChip Offers Scientists a Targeted Tool for Molecular Cytogenetic Research SAN DIEGO--Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN - News) today unveiled a new product for Molecular Cytogeneticists: the Infinium® High-Density (HD) HumanCytoSNP-12 DNA Analysis BeadChip. The HumanCytoSNP-12 BeadChip contains nearly 300,000 genetic markers per sample that target all known cytogenetic abnormalities found in genes and disease [...]

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