Screening Dicer-substrate siRNA duplexes enable fast, cost-effective siRNA CORALVILLE, Iowa – Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), a world leader in oligonucleotide production, has announced the launch of its Screening Dicer-substrate siRNA (DsiRNA) duplex product. Ideal for small scale in vitro applications, Screening DsiRNAs provide researchers with a cost effective and quick solution for their RNAi experiments. [...]

Official ceremony also marks company's 20 years in Cork BILLERICA, Mass.--Millipore Corporation (NYSE:MIL - News), a life science leader providing technologies, tools and services for bioscience research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing, today opened a new membrane casting manufacturing facility in Carrigtwohill, County Cork, Ireland. The 30,000 square foot facility almost doubles the company’s membrane production capabilities [...]

WILMINGTON, MA and ESSEN, GERMANY, Oct 07, 2008 -- FROM SECURITY-ESSEN, HALL #7, STAND #329 -- Ahura Scientific, Inc., a leader in rugged, ultra-compact instruments for chemical identification, announced today it is expanding its presence in Europe with three new distribution partners -- Nucletron Technologies GmbH in Germany and Austria, HazmatLINK in the United Kingdom [...]

The Omega series, including the FLUOstar Omega and POLARstar Omega, is the world's only microplate reader line with Tandem Technology utilizing high-speed UV/Vis spectrometer based absorbance and ultra-sensitive filter based detection in all measurement modes. These multidetection microplate readers are capable of reading absorbance, luminescence, fluorescence intensity, fluorescence polarization and time-resolved fluorescence. Combined with a [...]

Available in a range of diameters, AxiChrom columns are simple to operate and give superior performance GE Healthcare introduces AxiChrom™ columns, a new concept in low-pressure chromatography. All columns have been designed to support the lean-enabling approach to column operation and maintenance. Through Intelligent Packing, intuitive handling and predictable scale-up, AxiChrom makes process chromatography easier, [...]

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 7 -- Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD) today announced the release of Xpert(TM) vanA/vanB as a European CE IVD Mark product under the European Directive on In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices. The test delivers rapid detection of vanA and/or vanB genes, the genes most commonly associated with vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) -- one of the [...]

SAN JOSE, Calif., (October 7, 2008) – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the availability of a method to detect melamine and cyanuric acid in food matrices. The method uses Thermo Scientific instrumentation for liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) systems, and is published in the U.S. [...]

Fluidigm Corporation and BIOKE, a licensed distributor for the company, today announced that Enza Zaden, one of the world's leading suppliers of high-quality vegetable seeds for agriculture, has chosen the Fluidigm's BioMark(TM) System for Genetic Engineering and the new 96.96 Dynamic Array to help assure the quality of its seed supply. As the world's food [...]

New Thermo Scientific Nunc EasyFill Cell Factory is a Space-saving “Out-of-the-Box” Solution Offering High-yield Efficiency and Process Flexibility ROSKILDE, DENMARK and ROCHESTER, N.Y. (October 7, 2008) - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced the new Thermo Scientific Nunc EasyFill Cell Factory, an easy-to-use multi-layer system for production-scale cell culture. [...]

Tiger Optics expects continued growth through product enhancements and affordable upgrades. Warrington, PA (PRWEB) October 7, 2008 -- Tiger Optics (https://www.tigeroptics.com), the a leading manufacturer of laser-based trace gas analyzers, today announced that it has over 500 analyzers in service across the world, using its patented continuous wave cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CW-CRDS) technology. Tiger Optics' [...]