Affymetrix and Asuragen Sign Agreement to Develop IVT Reagent Kits for Molecular Diagnostic Applications

Reagent Kits Will Strengthen Affymetrix' Diagnostic Product Portfolio SANTA CLARA, Calif. & AUSTIN, Texas--Affymetrix Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX - News) and Asuragen Inc., a leading molecular biology diagnostic company and service provider, today announced an agreement to license, develop and manufacture in vitro transcription (IVT) reagent kits for clinical molecular diagnostic applications. The new IVT reagent kits [...]

BugLab Launches Noninvasive Biomass Monitor for Continuous, On-Line Measurements

DANVILLE, Calif., July 8 -- BugLab LLC, has introduced the BugEye 200 Noninvasive Biomass Monitor, a novel biomass measurement system with the widest linear range of any such device currently available. It performs automated, continuous, real-time optical density (OD) measurements of biomass for fermentation and cell culture applications. The BugEye 200 is designed for use [...]

FDA Grants Invitrogen Premarket Approval of Breast Cancer Test

HER2 Gene Amplification Test Will Aid in Assessing Breast Cancer Patient Candidacy for Herceptin(R) Treatment CARLSBAD, Calif.--Invitrogen Corporation, (NASDAQ:IVGN - News), a provider of essential life science technologies for research, production and diagnostics, today announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) premarket approval (PMA) for its SPOT-Light® HER2 CISH Kit, indicated as [...]

Sigma-Aldrich Announces Collaboration With Metahelix Life Sciences

Partnership to provide expertise and applications support in plant biotechnology ST. LOUIS, July 8 -- Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL) and Metahelix Life Sciences today announced a partnership under which Metahelix will assist in developing applications data for Sigma-Aldrich's plant bioscience product line, and provide expert technological guidance regarding usage. The efforts of this collaboration will occur [...]

Associates of Cape Cod (ACC) and MDS Analytical Technologies Collaborate to Offer…

Associates of Cape Cod (ACC) and MDS Analytical Technologies Collaborate to Offer a More Robust LAL Endotoxin Assay Platform Associates of Cape Cod, Inc. (ACC) and MDS Analytical Technologies are pleased to announce the launch of ACC's Chromogenic LAL Endotoxin assay kits utilizing MDS Analytical Technologies' SpectraMax(R) instrument platform and SoftMax(R) Pro GxP software. ACC [...]

PANalytical and Malvern celebrate US office opening

NEWS RELEASE 07 July 2008 On 23 May 2008, the PANalytical and Malvern Instruments US teams celebrated the opening of their new headquarters. The sister companies now share state of the art facilities in Westborough, MA. Gjalt Kuipers and Brian Dutko, general managers of PANalytical and Malvern’s US companies respectively, led the day of celebrations [...]

PerkinElmer Appoints Its Chief Scientific Officer Daniel Marshak to Lead Greater China Operations

WALTHAM, Mass.--PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI), today announced the appointment of Daniel R. Marshak, Ph.D., to the additional position of president of its Greater China operations. In this role, Marshak will assume overall leadership of PerkinElmer in Greater China, and will be responsible for expanding its resources in the region to drive innovation and new product [...]

xCELLigence – Online-Measurement of Cell Activities without Labelling

PENZBERG, Germany--We are pleased to announce the launch of the xCELLigence System, a cell-based assay system that represents the perfect integration of micro electronics and cell biology. xCELLigence is Roche Applied Science’s new cell analyzer system -- – originally invented by US-based ACEA Biosciences, and co-developed by Roche and ACEA. The xCELLigence system will be [...]

Olink and scientists at Uppsala University founds a new instrument company: Q-linea AB

UPPSALA, SWEDEN, 7 July 2008 - Olink AB, a Swedish biotechnology company, has recently founded the instrument company Q-linea AB together with scientists at Uppsala University and Uppsala University Holding AB. Q-linea will develop a new, rapid, and sensitive detection instrument for analysis of, e.g., biological warfare agents. The main customer is currently the Swedish [...]

FEI Introduces New Category of Extreme High Resolution Scanning Electron Microscopy

New Magellan SEM First to Enable Rapid 3D Surface Imaging at Sub-Nanometer Resolution HILLSBORO, Ore., Jul 07, 2008 -- With its announcement today of the Magellan(TM) Family, FEI Company (Nasdaq:FEIC) introduced a new class of instruments called extreme high-resolution scanning electron microscopes (XHR SEMs). The Magellan XHR SEM allows scientists and engineers to quickly see [...]

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