Corning Announces Significant Milestone in High-Throughput Label-Free Screening for Drug Development

Two 100,000-compound screens performed in high throughput using Corning® Epic® System; Data presented at industry's first label-free symposium in Dresden, Germany CORNING, N.Y., JUNE 12, 2008 -- Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) today announced the completion of two independent high-throughput label-free screens believed to be the largest ever publicly announced label-free screens to date. Renowned scientists from [...]

AMETEK Acquires Vision Research

PAOLI, Pa.--AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE:AME - News) announced the acquisition of Vision Research, Inc., a leading privately held, manufacturer of high-speed digital imaging systems used for motion capture and analysis in numerous test and measurement applications. Vision Research has estimated annual sales of approximately $37 million and is located in Wayne, New Jersey. “Vision Research provides [...]

Millipore Announces New Bioscience Division President

BILLERICA, Mass.--Millipore Corporation (NYSE:MIL), a life science leader that provides technologies, tools and services for bioscience research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing, today announced that Jon DiVincenzo has been appointed to succeed Dominique Baly as the President of its Bioscience Division. Mr. DiVincenzo, currently the Vice President, Global Sales and Service, for Millipore’s Bioscience Division, will assume [...]

Linguamatics Joins Microsoft BioIT Alliance

CAMBRIDGE, England--Linguamatics Ltd, a leader in enterprise text mining for the life science and other markets, today announced that it has joined the Microsoft BioIT Alliance, an association of life science organizations and informatics companies whose focus is to enhance collaboration and accelerate the pace of drug discovery and development. “As the amount of textual [...]

ZyGEM Announces Non-Exclusive Co-Marketing Agreement with Zee Tags for its livestockGEM™ Family of DNA Extraction Kits

--More than 250,000 Successful DNA Extractions Have Already Been Achieved By Combining the Innovative Products of Both Companies-- SOLANA BEACH, Calif. & ALBANY, New Zealand--ZyGEM Corp Ltd., a provider of novel enabling enzymatic tools for life sciences applications, today announced a non-exclusive agreement with Zee Tags, Ltd., a global leader in the provision of livestock [...]

One Run – Done: 454 Sequencing Quickly Reveals Detailed Insights Into the Physiology of Corynebacterium kroppenstedtii

BRANFORD, Conn.--454 Life Sciences, a company of Roche, announces that researchers from Bielefeld University in Germany have used a single sequencing run, generated during the installation of their new Genome Sequencer FLX System, to completely assemble and characterize the genome of Corynebacterium kroppenstedtii. The whole genome analysis, led by Andreas Tauch, revealed that lipophilism is [...]

Whatman, Part of GE Healthcare, and VigeneTech Launch Custom Software for Fast Quant(R) System

FLORHAM PARK, N.J.--Whatman, part of GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE - News), and VigeneTech, today announced the launch of custom software to analyze Whatman FAST Quant® samples. The customized OEM software from VigeneTech provides high quality image quantification and enhances the automation for Whatman FAST Quant® protein array image and data [...]

Invitrogen and Applied Biosystems to Combine

Invitrogen Corporation (NASDAQ: IVGN) and Applera Corporation today announced that their Boards of Directors have approved a definitive merger agreement, under which Invitrogen will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Applera's Applied Biosystems Group (NYSE: ABI) in a cash and stock transaction valued at $6.7 billion. This strategic combination will create a global leader [...]

Agilent Technologies Introduces High-Resolution Scanner for Current, Next-Generation Microarrays

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A - News) today introduced the latest version of its popular Agilent DNA Microarray Scanner, employing SureScan High Resolution Technology to deliver high resolution and rapid scan times for current and next-generation microarrays. The new scanner is designed to deliver higher quality data from current 65-micron-feature microarrays and to [...]

Illumina Announces Participation in the 1000 Genomes Project

Biotech Innovators Will Contribute to International Effort to Produce Most Detailed Map of Genetic Variation SAN DIEGO--Illumina, Inc., (NASDAQ:ILMN - News) today announced that it is among three firms to have pioneered the development of new sequencing technologies and joined the 1000 Genomes Project, an international effort to build the most detailed map to date [...]

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