Sterilin Limited Introduces New Catalogue for its Complete Range of Single Use Laboratory Products

(Caerphilly, UK, 24 June 2008) – Sterilin Limited, the established leader in single use laboratory plastics for life science applications, announces the availability of its newly rebranded comprehensive catalogue of single use plastic and Iwaki® tissue culture products. The 120 page catalogue features a large innovative range of products from containers, jars, pipettes and petri [...]

Invitrogen Advances Drug Discovery Safety Testing

Launches First Non-Radioactive Test Kit for High Throughput hERG Channel Blockage Screening CARLSBAD, Calif.--Invitrogen Corporation (NASDAQ:IVGN), a leading provider of essential life sciences technologies for research, production and diagnostics, today announced the availability of a proprietary test kit that enables better screening for cardiotoxicity traits of potential drug compounds earlier in the discovery process. The [...]

Aushon BioSystems Expands Microarray Service Offering

Aushon BioSystems, a provider of microarray instrumentation and services, today announced the expansion of its microarray service line to include offerings dedicated to reverse phase arrays (RPA). Previously, Aushon offered RPA print services through its Custom Microarray Printing Services, but has now added downstream array processing and data analysis. Unlike forward phase arrays in which [...]

Helicos BioSciences Announces Collaboration with Children’s Oncology Group to Elucidate Genomic Signatures in Ewing’s Sarcoma

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Helicos BioSciences (NASDAQ:HLCS - News), a life science company focused on innovative genetic analysis technologies, announced today that it has entered into a scientific collaboration with the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) in order to interrogate a wide spectrum of genomic variation within various sarcomas, an aggressive type of bone or soft tissue cancer usually [...]

Advance Nanotech’s Owlstone Subsidiary Receives a $629,000 Order From Selex Galileo NEW YORK

June 24 -- Advance Nanotech, Inc., (OTC Bulletin Board: AVNA), announced today that its Owlstone Nanotech, Inc. ("Owlstone") subsidiary has received an order from SELEX GALILEO totaling $629,000. SELEX GALILEO, a Finmeccanica company and one of Europe's foremost Aerospace and Defense organizations, is a leader in surveillance, protection, tracking, targeting, navigation & control and imaging [...]

Geospiza™ Joins Illumina Connect Partnership Program

SEATTLE, Washington – June 24, 2008 – Geospiza, Inc., a leading developer of workflow management software for genetic analysis, today announced that it joined Illumina Connect, a bioinformatics software partnership program established by Illumina to advance data integration and analysis. Illumina is a leading developer, manufacturer, and marketer of next-generation life science tools and integrated [...]

Sigma-Aldrich Introduces 96-Well Plasmid Purification Kit That Produces Industry’s Highest Viral Titers

GenElute(TM) HP 96-Well Plasmid Miniprep Kit provides rapid generation of transfection-grade plasmid from bacterial cultures ST. LOUIS, June 24 -- Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL - News) today announced the launch of its GenElute(TM) HP 96-Well Plasmid Miniprep Kit for DNA purification. The new 96-well kit is suitable for a variety of pharmaceutical and biotechnology research applications, [...]

Tecella “Amps” Up Cellectricon’s Dynaflow® HT for Pharma Leader

COSTA MESA, CA--(June 24, 2008) - Tecella today announced that Cellectricon has selected Tecella's Richmond patch clamp amplifier system to be integrated into their next generation Dynaflow® HT platform. Cellectricon earlier announced plans to deliver Dynaflow® HT platforms to a pharmaceutical leader under a collaborative agreement. "Our focus has been high throughput with high quality [...]

FEI Announces New Titan ETEM for Energy, Environmental and Chemical Research

Titan ETEM Allows Researchers to See Chemistry and Nanoscale Catalysis at the Atomic Level HILLSBORO, Ore.--FEI Company (NASDAQ:FEIC - News), a leading provider of high-resolution imaging and analysis systems, today announced the release of the Titan™ 80-300 environmental transmission electron microscope (ETEM). The Titan ETEM is the premier solution for chemical research at the atomic [...]

Picarro Expands Its Presence in Asia and Latin America

SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 23 -- Picarro has added two senior executive level leaders in order to further develop its business in North Asia and Latin America. Helio Ventura has assumed the role of Senior Director of Business Development for Latin America. Previously, Helio was Varian, Inc.'s most senior executive in Latin America, where he consistently [...]

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