Pall Corporation Appoints Donald Stevens President

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% [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific and Gentel Biosciences Collaborate to Introduce a 96 Well Multiplex Platform

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

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

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 [...]

Nanopoint’s Far Eastern Clients to be Well-Served by a Network of Experienced, Regional Distributors Throughout Asia

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 [...]

Promega Enters into Agreement with GeneCopoeia To Deliver Cloned Gene Content Ready for Multiple Proteomics Applications

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

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 [...]

Beijing Genomics Institute Signs Multi-Million Dollar Order for 11 Additional Illumina Genome Analyzers

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

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

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, [...]

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