Hamamatsu Partners with Definiens to offer a complete and fully integrated image analysis solution

Collaboration closes the loop from image acquisition to image analysis Munich, Germany – October 15, 2008 – Definiens, the number one Enterprise Image Intelligence™ company, and Hamamatsu, a world-leading manufacturer of devices for the generation and measurement of infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light, today signed a partner agreement for the European market. Under the terms [...]

InforSense Collaborates With GlaxoSmithKline and Industry Innovators to Enable Virtual Drug Discovery

InforSense Ltd., the leading provider of next generation business and scientific intelligence tools, today announced it has successfully completed a pilot project at world leading pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to enable virtual drug discovery through virtual outsourcing of data analysis via secure Grid technology. The project is sponsored by SIMDAT -- a program funded by [...]

Invitrogen and Applied Biosystems Amend Merger Agreement to Eliminate Tax Opinion Condition; Stockholder Meetings to Be Moved to October 28, 2008

Invitrogen Corporation (NASDAQ:IVGN) and Applied Biosystems Inc. (NYSE:ABI) today announced that they have amended their pending merger agreement to eliminate a condition to closing requiring that the parties receive certain opinions of their respective counsel as to the tax treatment of the transaction. Under the prior terms of the merger agreement, completion of the merger [...]

Cepheid Molecular Diagnostic Test for MRSA and S. aureus Categorized ‘Moderate Complexity’ by FDA

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 15 -- Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD) today announced the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) categorized Cepheid's Xpert(TM) MRSA/SA Skin and Soft Tissue Infection (SSTI) test as "Moderate Complexity" under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA). The new test is designed for on-demand detection of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Staphylococcus aureus (SA), [...]

GE Healthcare Introduces pre-packed HiPrep Sephacryl S-400 HR and HiPrep Sephacryl S-500 HR gel filtration columns

GE Healthcare Introduces pre-packed HiPrep Sephacryl S-400 HR and HiPrep Sephacryl S-500 HR gel filtration columns For fast, reproducible, and convenient purification of large proteins and other macromolecules GE Healthcare has introduced HiPrep™ Sephacryl™ S-400 HR and HiPrep Sephacryl S-500 HR pre-packed columns, the latest additions to its range of columns for gel filtration. The [...]

Ocimum Biosolutions Awarded Two New US Patents in the Gene Expression Space

GAITHERSBURG, Md. & HYDERABAD, India--Ocimum Biosolutions has announced issuance of United States Patent No. 7,428,554 which covers the company's proprietary system and method for determining matching patterns within gene expression data and US Patent No. 7426441, which covers methods for determining renal toxins. The US Patent No. 7,428,554 covers a method for determining matching patterns [...]

David H. Murdock Research Institute Taps Waters for Laboratory Technology

Strategic Partnership Provides Advanced Technology for Groundbreaking Nutrition and Disease Research KANNAPOLIS, N.C. and MILFORD, Mass., Oct. 15 -- The David H. Murdock Research Institute (DHMRI), located at the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis, NC, and Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT - News) announced today that Waters® has been selected as the institute's primary supplier [...]

Ludesi’s 2D Gel Image Analysis Enabled Discovery of Potential Therapeutic Targets for Melanoma Tumors

Ludesi Corporation, developer of the award-winning Ludesi Image Analysis Service and the Ludesi REDFIN software for two-dimensional electrophoresis gels, today announced that researchers at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, National Eye Institute at National Institutes of Health in Bethesda Maryland, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been able to discover [...]

BioNanomatrix Announces Appointment of Dr. Pui-Yan Kwok to Its Scientific Advisory Board

- Pioneer in High Throughput SNP Discovery Brings Expertise in Human Genome Haplotyping - PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 14 -- BioNanomatrix, Inc., a developer of breakthrough nanoscale platforms for genetic diagnostics, personalized medicine and biomedical research, today announced the appointment of noted medical genomics researcher Pui-Yan Kwok, M.D., Ph.D., to its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). Dr. Kwok [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Opens New Facility and Demonstration Laboratory in Switzerland

REINACH, Switzerland (October 14, 2008) – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the opening of a new facility in Reinach, Switzerland, near Basel, to support the large pharmaceutical and chemical industry cluster in Switzerland near the French and German borders. The facility houses Thermo Fisher’s analytical instrument operations and [...]

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