LabVantage’s SAPPHIRE™ BioBanking Solution Selected to Support the NCI Cancer

Genome Atlas Biospecimen Core Resource Bridgewater, NJ. July 15, 2008. LabVantage Solutions, Inc. today announced that its SAPPHIRE™ BioBanking Solution has been licensed by the renowned International Genomics Consortium (IGC) based in Phoenix, AZ. IGC was selected by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) to lead the Human [...]

Quantum Analytics and LEAP Technologies Align to Bring Customized Automation with Rental and Lease Options to Chromatography and Mass Spectroscopy Laboratories

(PRLEAP.COM) Quantum Analytics (Foster City, CA) and LEAP Technologies (Carrboro, NC) announce a co-marketing partnership to offer efficiency improving chromatography and mass spectrometer systems, including new developments in front-end automation. By coordinating their technical staff and sales forces, both instrument suppliers will be able to offer complete and highly automated analytical solutions. Both companies have [...]

Bio-Rad’s Web-Based siLentMer siRNA Search Tool Offers Easy Access to Available Validated Gene Targets

Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (AMEX: BIO and BIOb), a multinational manufacturer and distributor of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, today launched a new siLentMer™ siRNA search tool available online at www.bio-rad.com/rnaisearch. The siLentMer siRNA search tool offers a way to review Bio-Rad’s library of validated siRNA gene targets by searching for a siRNA (by [...]

Pacific Biosciences Raises $100 Million to Fund Commercial Product Development

MENLO PARK, Calif., July 14 -- Pacific Biosciences announced today that it has secured $100 million in a Series E private equity financing round. The proceeds will be used to fund the commercial development of the company's innovative single-molecule, real-time (SMRT(TM)) DNA sequencing platform. The transaction was co-led by Deerfield Capital Management and Intel Capital, [...]

Symyx Showcases Research Services for Refining at 14th International Congress on Catalysis

Services Expand Refiners Capabilities in Catalyst Discovery and Development and Reduce Pilot Plant Runs Symyx Technologies, Inc. (SMMX - News) announced today, at the opening of the 14th Annual International Congress of Catalysis, the expansion of Symyx Research to include Refining R&D services. Symyx is showcasing its capabilities at the International Congress on Catalysis in [...]

Picarro Names Sanyo Trading as Distributor in Japan

Picarro has signed the Sanyo Trading Co., Ltd. as a distributor for their instruments in Japan. Specifically, the Scientific Instruments Business Group of Sanyo Trading will sell and service the entire range of Picarro gas and isotope analyzers for environmental applications, including greenhouse gas (CO2, CH4 and H2O) detection, and process control uses, such as [...]

Luminex Corporation and ViroNovative Announce License Agreement for Human Metapneumovirus Rights

AUSTIN, Texas & ROTTERDAM, Netherlands--Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX), the worldwide leader in multiplexed solutions, and ViroNovative BV today announced that the companies have signed a licensing agreement that gives Luminex worldwide rights to use ViroNovative’s human metapneumovirus (hMPV) intellectual property in the xTAG Respiratory Viral Panel (RVP). Under the terms of the agreement, rights to [...]

CDEX Inc. and EURAF Announce Business Partnership Relationship

CDEX Inc. and EURAF Enter Into Distribution Agreement for the ValiMed(TM) Medication Validation System in France TUCSON, AZ and PARIS--Jul 14, 2008 -- CDEX Inc. (OTC BB:CEXI.OB - News) follows up on recent announcements regarding continued international expansion by announcing today a business partnership agreement with EURAF to distribute ValiMed(TM) in France. The ValiMed Medication [...]

Goodrich Chemical Detection Technology Selected by Department of Homeland Security

Innovative system is expected to precisely detect chemicals that elude current systems CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, July 14 -- (Farnborough International Airshow) Goodrich Corporation (NYSE: GR - News) has received a contract from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to deliver and evaluate a new chemical detection system that uses advanced technology to pinpoint the presence [...]

Gene Logic Renews Agreement with Agilent Technologies as Certified Service Provider

GAITHERSBURG, MD and SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 14, 2008 —Gene Logic (An Ocimum Biosolutions Company) and Agilent Technologies today announced that Gene Logic has been reappointed as a Certified Microarray Service Provider for Agilent gene expression microarrays. The Certified Service Provider (CSP) program comprises a select list of strategic organizations that pass a rigorous assessment [...]

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