Varian, Inc. Board of Directors Makes Officer Changes

PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 15 -- Varian, Inc. (NasdaqGS: VARI) today announced that its Board of Directors has promoted Sean M. Wirtjes, Vice President and Controller, to a new position, Vice President, Finance and Treasurer, effective September 15, 2008. Wirtjes assumes the Treasurer position from G. Edward McClammy, who continues as the Company's Senior Vice [...]

GE Healthcare and Varian, Inc. Establish Collaboration for New Pre-Clinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging System

PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 15 -- GE Healthcare and Varian, Inc. announced today that they will begin a collaboration to develop a new pre-clinical 7T magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system. Under the agreement, initial development and integration will be a joint effort between the two companies. Once development is complete, Varian will offer customers a [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Ships First Product with InforSense Virtual Machine Inside

InforSense Workflows and Analytics Used to Deliver Automated Protein Annotation for Proteome Discoverer London, UK and Cambridge, MA, September 15, 2008 – InforSense Ltd., the leading provider of next-generation business and scientific intelligence tools, today announced that Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, has begun shipping its Proteome Discoverer [...]

Chlorine and Iron TNTplus™ Chemistries Two NEW parameters for Hach’s complete laboratory solution

Loveland, Colorado, September, 2008 — Hach introduces chlorine and iron testing parameters for its total laboratory analysis system featuring TNTplus chemistries, methods and DR2800/5000 Series Spectrophotometers. Ideal for drinking water and industrial water facilities, both chlorine and iron TNTplus parameters are USEPA equivalent and can be used for reporting. Chlorine TNTplus allows users to sequentially [...]

SRU Biosystems Announces Launch and First Commercial Sale of Cartridge Reader Using BIND(R) Label-free Technology

SRU Biosystems today announced the launch and first commercial sale of its recently introduced Cartridge Reader into a leading academic laboratory. The Cartridge Reader is the company's entry-level instrument for assay development and low throughput applications to cellular and biochemical studies based on 8- and 16-well label-free biosensors. "SRU accelerated the launch of its Cartridge [...]

Smiths Detection Launches Advanced Portable, Rugged Radiation and Nuclear Threat Detector

High Performance Radioisotope Identifier (HPRIDTM) Optimized for Quick Identification of Multiple Radiation Sources Simultaneously PINE BROOK, N.J.--Smiths Detection, part of the global technology business Smiths Group, today announces the launch of its HPRIDTM, High Performance Radioisotope Identifier, a next generation handheld device for detecting and identifying highly enriched uranium, plutonium and other radioactive materials. The [...]

Queen’s University Chooses Xceed’s Ziplex(R) System for Translational Research

WELLESLEY, Mass., Sept. 15 -- Xceed Molecular, a pioneer in the development of cost-effective, easy-to-use gene-expression analysis systems, announced that Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, is the latest high-profile institution to implement Xceed's Ziplex System as a critical tool to advance its translational research. Harriet Feilotter, Ph.D., FCCMG, of the University's Department of Pathology [...]

The Genome Institute of Singapore Acquires Applied Biosystems Genomic Analysis Systems for Cancer Research

Scientists from the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), a leading genome research institute, will use ultra-high throughput genomic analysis systems from Applied Biosystems Inc. (NYSE:ABI) to undertake a comprehensive analysis of the genetic changes that characterize cancer in humans. Applied Biosystems announced today that GIS will add three new SOLiD(TM) Systems to its existing base [...]

SANYO Green Ultralow Freezers Decrease Laboratory Carbon Footprint and Increases Energy Efficiency

NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Wood Dale, IL, United States, 09/12/2008 - The biomedical division of SANYO Commercial Solutions, a division of SANYO North America Corporation, a global leader in green technology, revamped and redesigned their new refrigeration systems that result in lower operating costs and efficiency. SANYO, a global leader in green technology, revamped and [...]

New Electronic Laboratory Notebook Technology – Go Paperless in Minutes

GUELPH, Ontario, Sept. 12, 2008 - Labtronics Inc., a world leader in laboratory data integration and management solutions is pleased to announce the latest release of Nexxis ELN, their Electronic Laboratory Notebook for routine analyses, featuring the introduction of ReDI (Rapid eForm Development and Implementation) a revolutionary technology that creates electronic forms from paper documents [...]

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