Thermo Fisher Scientific Demonstrates Success of its LC-MS/MS Solution at Ameritox

San Jose, CA. (July 31, 2008) – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the success of its liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) solution at Ameritox, a leading provider of forensic and specialty toxicology laboratory services. The Thermo Scientific TSQ Quantum Access™ triple quadrupole mass spectrometer, combined with the [...]

Genetix Group plc

New Milton, UK, 31st July, 2008 - Genetix Group plc (AIM: GTX) ('Genetix' or the 'Company'), the cancer diagnostic and biopharmaceutical technologies group, today announces the strengthening of its senior management team in order to support Genetix' increasing presence in the biopharmaceutical drug discovery and cancer diagnostics markets. As part of this strategy Charles de [...]

New Kit Enhances Chiral Method Development and QC by CE

Calif. (July 31, 2008) – Beckman Coulter, Inc. introduces an enhanced Chiral Methods Development Kit for CE (capillary electrophoresis) analysis on the company’s P/ACE™ MDQ System. The new kit features highly sulfated cyclodextrins (HSCDs), a family of three chiral reagents that deliver excellent performance in the separation of most neutral, basic and weakly acidic compounds [...]

Roche´s xCELLigence System: Key Technology for Analysing Cells and Drug Mechanisms

PENZBERG, Germany--As shown in a number of experiments with different cell lines, the impedance-based xCELLigence System offers distinct and important advantages over traditional end point assays in research and is suitable for label-free and dynamic monitoring of the biological status of the cells, including cell number, viability, morphology and assessment of drug interactions with target [...]

Intezyne Technologies Improves Therapeutic Drug Delivery Efficacy with Wyatt Technology’s DynaPro Plate Reader

SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA (July 31, 2008) - Wyatt Technology Corporation, the world leader in absolute macromolecular characterization instrumentation and software, today announced that Intezyne Technologies has selected the DynaPro Plate Reader to assess the stability of its chemically bespoke novel drug carriers. Founded in 2004, Intezyne Technologies employs a unique approach in tackling the most [...]

New Filter Function With Thermal Analysis Software

COLUMBUS, Ohio (July 31, 2008) -- Software organization has been made easy and convenient with a new category of the STARe software from METTLER TOLEDO. Users can now find a desired measurement curve or evaluation from thousands of data records within a few seconds. The STARe software for DSC, TGA, TMA and DMA has always [...]

Syrris launch new Atlas calorimetry system

Royston, UK (31 July 2008) – Syrris, a leading chemistry automation product innovator, has introduced the Atlas Calorimetry System for Heat Flow Calorimetry (HFC) and Power Compensatory Calorimetry (PCC) measurement. This high-performance, low cost and easy-to-use system, can generate power and enthalpy graphs at the click of a button. This, combined with the simple configuration [...]

Affymetrix Microarray Platform Granted Clearance from FDA for Gene Expression Diagnostic Testing

Pathwork(R) Tissue of Origin Test is the First Gene Expression Microarray-Based Test to Receive Clearance SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Affymetrix Inc. (Nasdaq:AFFX - News) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted regulatory clearance to its GCS3000Dx (GCSDx) platform for in vitro gene expression diagnostic testing. The microarray system was granted clearance along [...]

Intevac Photonics’ DeltaNu Awarded $1M Contract to Develop Advanced Raman Spectroscopy Products for the DoD

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--July 30, 2008--Intevac Photonics, a division of Intevac, Inc. (Nasdaq:IVAC), announced today that its DeltaNu business unit has been awarded a $1.029 million contract from the Department of Defense to develop advanced Raman spectroscopy systems for both military and civilian applications. Applications include detection of toxic material and pathogens for the military, and [...]

JEOL Introduces New Thermal FE-SEM at M&M 2008

July 31, 2008 (Peabody, Mass.) -- JEOL USA will demonstrate a new high throughput Thermal Field Emission (FEG) Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), the JSM-7600F, at M&M 2008 in Albuquerque, New Mexico in its booth #1027. Featuring the highest beam current available on any FEG SEM, the JSM-7600F integrates a semi-in-lens objective lens with an in-lens [...]

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