Grant Instruments (www.grant.co.uk), a world-renowned supplier of scientific, life sciences and data acquisition products, has launched the LMC-3000, a general purpose, low speed benchtop centrifuge with interchangeable metal rotors accommodating up to 12 tubes (10 to 15 ml or 50 ml) or two 96-well microtitre plates. Designed for use in a wide range of analytical [...]

Customers to benefit from HalfMoon light test systems for Solid State Lighting and Display testing North Sutton, NH - Labsphere, Inc and Otsuka Electronics Co., Ltd. have partnered to develop the next generation of total spectral light measurement systems, based on Otsuka's patented HalfMoon hemispherical design. By incorporating traditional diffuse reflectance technology with specular imaging [...]

JASCO has now developed drivers for Applied Biosystems/MDS Analytical Technologies’ Analyst® software to allow scientists to control its X-LC® (UHPLC) and supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) systems, ideal for front- ending mass spectrometry systems from the Applied Biosystems/MDS Analytical Technologies joint venture, a leader in the mass spectrometry market. JASCO has been a manufacturer of high [...]

CARLSBAD, Calif.--Invitrogen Corporation (NASDAQ: IVGN - News) today announced that its shareholders have voted to approve the company’s proposed merger with Applied Biosystems Inc. (NYSE: ABI - News) at a special meeting of shareholders held today. “We are pleased with the outcome of today’s vote and with the fact that our shareholders so overwhelming supported [...]

Geneva, Switzerland and Odense, Denmark – October 28, 2008 - Geneva Bioinformatics (GeneBio) SA and Proxeon today announced an integration and distribution agreement focused on GeneBio’s Phenyx protein identification platform and Proxeon’s ProteinCenterTM data interpretation software. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Under the terms of the agreement, GeneBio’s Phenyx will be integrated [...]

Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM) today announced the launch of an independent, prospective, multi-center observational study to document the performance of Sequenom's SEQureDx(TM) Trisomy 21 technology for Down syndrome based upon Sequenom's SEQureDx Technology. The study, RNA-based Noninvasive Aneuploidy (RNA), will be directed by Jacob Canick, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brown University Medical [...]

Applied Biosystems Inc. (NYSE:ABI) today announced the worldwide availability of a new universal genotyping reagent solution that accelerates the generation of high-quality genotyping data for a host of life science applications. The TaqMan(R) Sample-to-SNP(TM) Kit enables scientists who conduct genetic disease investigations, cancer research, transgenic animal studies, plant research, and agricultural seed selection to prepare [...]

KOBE, Japan, Oct. 27 -- Carna Biosciences, Inc. ("Carna") announced on October 27, 2008, the signing of a Distribution Agreement with Shanghai Universal Biotech Company ("SUBC"). Under the terms of this Agreement, SUBC will become the exclusive distributor of Carna's Protein Kinases within China. With China's emergence as a strong market opportunity, particularly in the [...]

San Francisco, CA., October 22, 2008 – GE Healthcare introduced IN Cell Miner High-Content Manager (HCM) for the effective management of complex data generated by cellular high-content screening and analysis systems. The client-server based application handles data that has been generated by the IN Cell Analyzer imaging system providing a robust and scalable data management [...]

San Jose, CA (Oct. 27, 2008) – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the launch of the Thermo Scientific ToxSpecÔ Analyzer, a complete, easy-to-use and cost-effective LC-MS solution for clinical and forensic toxicology-screening laboratories. Using an integrated system of hardware, software and methodologies, the ToxSpec Analyzer dramatically simplifies the [...]