Pall Corporation Appoints Donald Stevens President
April 24, 2008
EAST HILLS, N.Y.--Donald Stevens has been named Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL - News) president according to an announcement today by Eric Krasnoff, chairman and CEO. Mr. Krasnoff held the title prior to Mr. Stevens' promotion. Mr. Stevens, 63, has spent substantially his entire career with Pall. He heads the company's Industrial business which accounts for 60% [...]
April 24, 2008
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. and Gentel® Biosciences announced the two companies have completed the first stage of a collaboration to shift microarrays to a new 96 well configuration. This new patent-pending product will evolve the current microarray offerings toward an “ELISA-like” format to increase the speed and volume of multiplex applications. The platform conforms to [...]
ZS Genetics, Inc. to Vie for Ten Million Dollar Archon X PRIZE for Genomics
April 23, 2008
Massachusetts-Based Company Enters the Competition With New Approach to Genetic Sequencing SANTA MONICA, CA--(April 23, 2008) - ZS Genetics, Inc. is the seventh team to be accepted into the ten million dollar Archon X PRIZE for Genomics competition. Led by William Glover, an engineer and inventor, ZS Genetics was founded in 2003. The company, which [...]
LAB901 SECURES £3.5 MILLION EQUITY FUNDING TO EXPAND SALES AND LAUNCH NEW PRODUCTS
April 23, 2008
Edinburgh, UK – Lab901 Limited, a developer of innovative automation for life sciences based in Loanhead, Edinburgh, has raised £3.55 million in its latest equity funding round. The financing syndicate was led by new investor, Alliance Trust Equity Partners (ATEP), together with existing investors, Scottish Enterprise’s Scottish Venture Fund, Archangel Informal Investment Ltd and Noble [...]
April 23, 2008
Nanopoint, Inc. has announced its strong network of Asian distributors who include DayMoon Industries of Korea;, DI Biotech LTD of Korea; JC Biotech of Korea; JK Bio of Delhi, India; Joagene BioScience of Korea, Quantum Design China of China; Quantum Design Japan of Japan; and Trade 21 Pte., LTD of Singapore and SinWan Biotech LTD [...]
April 22, 2008
MADISON, WISCONSIN (April 22, 2008). Promega has entered into an agreement with GeneCopoeia to combine its HaloTag® protein fusion technology with GeneCopoeia's extensive library of human and mouse open reading frame (ORF) OmicsLink™ sequences. The resulting OmicsLink ORF expression clones with HaloTag are ready for use, offering a potentially weeks of time savings to customers. [...]
Expanded control options in Clarity Chromatography Software
April 22, 2008
Prague, April 22nd, 2008. DataApex, a leading independent provider of chromatography software, has expanded control options in Clarity Chromatography Software. Clarity users can control currently more than 170 instruments directly from the software and more new modules are expected to be added later this year. DataApex has recently developed drivers for Antec Leyden’s pump and [...]
April 22, 2008
New Capacity Will Triple BGI's Rate of Whole-Genome Sequencing Projects SAN DIEGO--Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN - News) today announced that in early March Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) purchased 11 Genome Analyzers, increasing the organization’s total number of the Illumina sequencing systems to 17. BGI is the fourth genome center to expand its Genome Analyzer install base [...]
Agendia and Agilent Announce Plans to Jointly Develop New Diagnostic Tests, Extend Supply Agreement
April 22, 2008
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands and SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 22 -- Agendia BV, a world leader in the rapidly evolving field of molecular diagnostics, and Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A), today announced terms under which they intend to collaborate to develop new in-vitro diagnostic tests. In addition, the two companies announced an agreement in which Agendia products [...]
febit to Introduce Geniom RT Analyzer(R) to U.S. Market at RNAi World Congress
April 22, 2008
RNA, microRNA Researchers Comprise One of the Main User Groups of febit's Simplified and Automated Microarray Technology MEDFORD, Mass., and HEIDELBERG, Germany, April 22 -- febit holding gmbh today announced it will introduce the Geniom RT Analyzer(R) to the U.S. market at RNAi World Congress, which will take place April 30-May 2 in Boston. RNA-researchers, [...]

