BioTrove, Gene Express Awarded NIH Grant to Develop Novel Standardized Genetic Profiling Test

Companies to Combine PCR Platform, PCR Standards with Mount Sinai School of Medicine Sample Library to Explore Quantitative Multigene Diagnostic Test for Indicators of Lung Cancer Risk WOBURN, Mass. & WILMINGTON, N.C.--BioTrove, Inc. and Gene Express, Inc. today announced their receipt of a two-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant, awarded in support of their [...]

Advion Expands Its Bioanalytical Capabilities with Investment in New API 5000 and API 4000 Mass Spectrometers from Applied Biosystems/MDS Analytical Technologies

July 1, 2008 – Ithaca, NY – Advion BioServices, Inc., a specialty contract research organization, today announced that it has expanded its bioanalytical service capabilities by adding five new triple quadrupole mass spectrometers to its laboratory in Ithaca, New York. Included in this investment are the industry-leading API 5000™ LC/MS/MS System and API 4000™ LC/MS/MS [...]

Applera Corporation Completes Separation of its Celera Business and is Renamed Applied Biosystems Inc.

FOSTER CITY, Calif.--Applera Corporation announced today that the name of the company has been changed to Applied Biosystems Inc. to reflect the remaining business of the company following the separation of its Celera business. Effective today, Celera Corporation (NASDAQ:CRA - News) is an independent publicly traded company that holds the businesses, assets and liabilities previously [...]

Microfluidic Systems Receives Continued Funding From the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

Toward the Commercial Production of Autonomous Airborne Pathogen Detection Systems FREMONT, Calif., July 1 -- Microfluidic Systems Inc. (MFSI) announced today that it has been awarded the Phase 3X agreement for the production of Microfluidic - Bioagent Autonomous Networked Detector (M-BAND). This award is the fourth in a series of funded phases by the DHS [...]

M. D. Anderson Automates Laboratory Workflow with Stone Bond Technologies

EE-LIMS™ from Stone Bond Technologies Will Document Activities within the Laboratory Workflow at the siRNA Facility, Increasing Throughput, While Reducing Risks HOUSTON--The newly established Small Interfering Ribonucleic Acid (siRNA) Facility at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center has been charged with providing high-quality siRNA screening services for both internal and external customers. M. D. Anderson has [...]

QIAGEN Acquires Corbett Life Science

Transaction Adds Proprietary Real-Time PCR Detection Technologies to QIAGEN’s Portfolio of Molecular Testing Solutions VENLO, The Netherlands, July 1, 2008 – QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt, Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that it has acquired Corbett Life Science Pty. Ltd. (Corbett), a privately-held developer, manufacturer, and distributor of life sciences instrumentation headquartered in Sydney, Australia. [...]

Veeco Launches the “Veeco Labs Research Grant Program”

PLAINVIEW, N.Y.--Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO - News), a leading provider of instrumentation to the nanoscience community, today introduced the “Veeco Labs Research Grant Program,” designed to stimulate the generation of new scientific investigation for researchers in the atomic force microscopy community. This grant program will sponsor selected early adopters of current and future Veeco [...]

NEW PLATFORM FOR MICROFLUIDICS RESEARCH

Micronit launches easy-to-use and affordable lab-on-a-chip platform named “Fluidic Connect” Enschede, The Netherlands, July 1st, 2008 – Micronit Microfluidics today announced a new lab-on-a-chip platform named “Fluidic Connect”. The platform enables researchers to create their own lab-on-a-chip setup in just a few minutes of time. Fluidic Connect offers a solution for two major problems in [...]

The Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium (WTCCC) Selects Illumina Infinium High-Density (HD) DNA Analysis Products to Study 90,000 Samples

SAN DIEGO--Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN - News) today announced that researchers participating in a new initiative funded by the Wellcome Trust selected Illumina’s Infinium HD BeadChips to analyze 90,000 DNA samples. This new initiative aims to decipher the molecular basis of human disease and includes participation from leading research groups around the globe. Together, researchers at [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Acquires Open Biosystems, Creating Unmatched RNAi Platform

WALTHAM, Mass.--Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, announced today that it has acquired Open Biosystems, Inc., a provider of RNA interference (RNAi), gene expression and protein detection products for life science research and drug discovery and development. The acquisition significantly expands Thermo Fisher Scientific’s leadership position in the growing RNAi field. [...]

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