July 23, 2008
WASHINGTON--ICx Technologies™ (NASDAQ:ICXT - News), a developer of advanced sensor technologies for homeland security, force protection and commercial applications, announced today the release of Stride™ Radionuclide Detection and Identification Systems. Stride Systems are designed to automatically screen people, luggage and packages at critical checkpoints, as well as entries into facilities, to detect the covert movement [...]
Yale University chooses Rigaku X-ray Diffraction (XRD)
July 22, 2008
The Woodlands, TX - July 22, 2008. Rigaku Americas Corporation today announced that the Department of Chemistry at Yale University has chosen two Rigaku X-ray Diffraction (XRD) instruments to form the core of their new center for X-ray diffraction. Both the Rigaku RAPID II and Rigaku SCXmini™ diffractometers will be housed in a new facility [...]
GE Healthcare Financial Services Closes $3.5 Million Financing With VisEn Medical
July 22, 2008
VisEn Medical, a leading developer of fluorescence-based agents and system solutions that enable non-invasive in vivo imaging, has received $3.5 million in venture debt financing from GE Healthcare Financial Services. VisEn will use the credit facility to support its working capital needs and expanding commercialization efforts worldwide. "We worked closely with GE Healthcare Financial Services [...]
BioTrove Expands Customer Support, Corporate Presence with New West Coast Office
July 22, 2008
BioTrove, Inc. today announced the opening of a new Bay Area location to expand customer and technical support to the west coast region. Located in San Carlos, California, the new BioTrove corporate offices and laboratory will facilitate research collaborations with clients based nearby, as well as technology demonstrations of the company's OpenArray(TM) genomic analysis system [...]
Tecan Develops New, Long-Life OEM Syringe Pump
July 22, 2008
DURHAM, N.C.--Tecan has launched the Cavro® Centris Pump, a compact, high precision OEM syringe pump for laboratory instruments, setting new standards for reliability, accuracy and precision. The new pump offers a broader working volume range from a single syringe size compared to other similar pumps, enabling users to do more with one pump than ever [...]
July 22, 2008
SOUTH EASTON, Mass., July 22 -- Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: PBIO) ("PBI" or "the Company") today announced an important expansion of its pressure cycling technology ("PCT") product line with the unveiling of a new PCT consumable product, the FT500-ND PULSE Tube - a novel, single-use processing container designed specifically for the Company's PCT Sample Preparation [...]
Millipore Introduces Integrated Benchtop
July 22, 2008
Billerica, Massachusetts—July 9, 2008—Millipore Corporation, a Life Science leader providing technologies, tools, and services for bioscience research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing, today announced the availability of a range of assays, kits, flow cytometry systems, and service plans as part of an integrated benchtop flow cytometry portfolio. Flow cytometry is a powerful method used to measure cell [...]
University of Florida ICBR Selects Geospiza for Next Generation Expansion
July 22, 2008
Geospiza, Inc., the market leading developer of genetic analysis software, today announced that the University of Florida has selected Geospiza's FinchLab(TM) to manage its systems for the Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research (ICBR) Next Generation DNA Sequencing Laboratory. "When we adopted Geospiza's products to solve data management challenges with our Capillary Sequencing eight years ago, [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Extends Polymer Application Range For Its High End Rheometer Platform
July 22, 2008
New Extensional Rheology System Now Available Karlsruhe, Germany, (July 22, 2008) – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today launched a new accessory for its Thermo Scientific HAAKE MARS rheometer platform. The SER (Sentmanat Extension Rheometer) system extends a conventional steady rotational rheometer into a robust extensional rheometer for melts and [...]
InteRNA Genomics Joins Applied Biosystems’ SOLiD(TM) Software Community Program
July 22, 2008
BILTHOVEN, The Netherlands, July 22 -- InteRNA Genomics B.V. and Applied Biosystems Inc. announce signing of a Software Community Commercial Membership Agreement regarding the exchange of InteRNA's information and software tools related to Applied Biosystems' SOLiD(TM) technology, InteRNA and Applied Biosystems will co-market InteRNA's small RNA bioinformatics pipeline, miR-Intess(TM), for users of Applied Biosystems' SOLiD(TM) [...]
