Simple control of complex sample pipetting procedures
July 9, 2008
The latest Freedom EVOware® Sample Oriented software, version 1.2, is now available for the Freedom EVO® family of workstations, enhancing Freedom EVOware Standard and Freedom EVOware Plus with a number of sample-based pipetting, diluting and pooling functions. The software is ideal for laboratories that need to perform complex pipetting and dilution sequences, and for those [...]
July 9, 2008
ROCHESTER, N.Y.--Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that it will implement an average price increase of 5.3% for certain laboratory consumables products it manufactures, such as specialty laboratory plastic ware and liquid handling products. The pricing change is in response to increases in raw material and energy costs that [...]
Lonza and Bar Harbor BioTechnology, Inc. Sign Exclusive Sales Agreement
July 9, 2008
Lonza and Bar Harbor BioTechnology, Inc. (BHB) announce that an exclusive sales agreement has been signed between the two companies. Beginning 08 July 2008 Lonza will be the sole global distributor of StellARray™ Gene Expression System products from Bar Harbor BioTechnology. The strategic alliance between the two companies combines the Cell Discovery business of Lonza [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Demonstrates NIR Leadership with New Comprehensive Web Resource
July 9, 2008
Madison, WI. – (July 9, 2008) – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has launched a new web site to provide detailed information on near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy and the Thermo Scientific NIR product family. This informative and user-friendly web site, www.thermo.com/nir, has been designed to serve as the most comprehensive point [...]
July 8, 2008
PENZBERG, Germany--The Cancer Genomics Group at Barts and The London Medical School is researching leukemia with the aquisition of the state-of-the-art Genome Sequencer FLX System paired with the Roche NimbleGen Sequence Capture arrays. Researchers, led by Professor Brian Young, will use the combined technology of 454 Sequencing and NimbleGen Sequence Capture Arrays to uncover the [...]
July 8, 2008
Thermo Scientific Nautilus LIMS™ Recognized for Driving Better Business Decisions at AstraZeneca PHILADELPHIA — (July 8, 2008) — Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced that it is the winner of a Microsoft Corporation 2008 Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Innovation Award in the Discovery and Product Innovation category. The award honors [...]
July 8, 2008
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced it has acquired Particle Sizing Systems, a privately held company that designs and manufactures instruments that measure the particle size and stability in materials ranging from soft drinks to inkjet inks to semiconductor polishing slurries. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition expands Agilent’s growing portfolio of [...]
Accuri Cytometers Completes $13 Million Series C Financing
July 8, 2008
ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 8 -- Accuri Cytometers Inc., a life sciences company developing revolutionary bench-top flow cytometer systems, today announced the completion of a $13 million Series C financing led by Fidelity Biosciences and Flagship Ventures. Current investors including Baird Venture Partners and Arboretum Ventures also participated in the financing. Accuri will use the [...]
July 8, 2008
BALTIMORE--Ameritox, Ltd., the U.S. leader in pain prescription urine drug monitoring, today announced its addition of the industry’s most advanced, most sensitive analytical method for detecting prescription pain medications: multiplexing liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). Ameritox has implemented the Thermo Scientific TSQ Quantum Access™ triple quadrupole mass spectrometer with the Aria™ TLX-4 multiplexing system [...]
Yale Keck Microarray Center Becomes a GeneGo Center of Excellence
July 8, 2008
ST. JOSEPH, Mich., July 8 -- GeneGo, Inc., the leading systems biology tools company, announced today that Keck Microarray Center at Yale has become a certified GeneGo Center of Excellence (COE). Yale researchers will have access to GeneGo's MetaCore, training and advanced support. The W. M. Keck Foundation Biotechnology Resource Laboratory (Keck Lab), one of [...]
