Carna Biosciences Signs Reagent Supply Agreement with Caliper Life Sciences

KOBE, Japan, Aug. 8 -- Carna Biosciences, Inc. ("Carna") is pleased to announce the signing of a collaborative agreement with Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. USA ("Caliper") on August 6 (US Eastern Daylight Time). Carna will supply a set of discrete protein kinases aiding the expansion of Caliper's kinase profiling and assay development services, and ProfilerPro [...]

U.S. FDA Licenses ADMET Predictor(TM) from Simulations Plus

LANCASTER, Calif.--Simulations Plus, Inc. (NASDAQ: SLP - News), a leading provider of software for pharmaceutical discovery and development, today announced that it has received a purchase order from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to license the Company’s ADMET Predictor™ software. Ron Creeley, vice president of marketing and sales for Simulations Plus, said: “We’re [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Acquires AquaSensors, LLC

August 8, 2008 AquaSensors, LLC, a start-up company founded in 2003 by former Great Lakes Instruments employees involved in the design and manufacture of innovative measurement systems for water quality and process control applications, has been acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific. Effective immediately, AquaSensors will be integrated into Thermo Fisher’s Water Analysis Instruments business (WAI) [...]

MSP Corporation Products in Use at Beijing Olympics

SHOREVIEW, MN, Aug 08, 2008 -- MSP is proud to announce that its wide-range particle spectrometers, the only ones of their kind in the world, are delivering precise, accurate data about air pollution in and around Beijing in conjunction with the Summer Olympics. In advance of the Olympics, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Shandong [...]

Roche’s 454 Sequencing System Used to Determine the Complete Neanderthal Mitochondrial Genome, Establishing When Humans and Neanderthals Diverged

BRANFORD, Conn.--Researchers led by the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany have published the complete Neanderthal mitochondrial genome sequence. The mitochondrial genome was generated using the 454 Sequencing technology to 35-fold redundancy, facilitating a detailed comparison against known human mitochondrial genomes and an analysis of recent human evolution. The study, entitled “A complete [...]

Corning Enters Second Year of Lab Grant Program for Cell Culture Research

Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW), a global supplier of scientific laboratory and drug discovery products for more than 90 years, today announced that its grant program for researchers opening new laboratory facilities will award six grants to researchers throughout 2008. The program was originated in 2007 as part of Corning’s celebration of the industry’s 100th anniversary [...]

PerkinElmer Expertise and Solutions Integral to Food Safety Monitoring for the Beijing Games

Methods, Applications Expertise and Instrumentation Deployed in Mobile Laboratory WALTHAM, Mass.--PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE:PKI - News), a global leader in Health Sciences and Photonics, today announced that its analytical solutions are being used by the Beijing Municipal Center for Food Safety Monitoring (BFSM) in a mobile laboratory supporting the Beijing Games. PerkinElmer instrumentation, software and expertise [...]

New PureYield™ Plasmid Miniprep System Helps Streamline Workflows

MADISON, Wis.--Promega Corporation announces a new plasmid isolation system that simplifies and speeds the preparation of plasmid DNA. The Promega PureYield™ Plasmid Miniprep System allows researchers to purify plasmid DNA in less than 10 minutes from 600µl to 3 ml of culture with fewer steps. The smooth work flow is further enhanced with the lysis/neutralization [...]

U.S. National Institutes of Health Renews ClassPharmerTM Software Licenses

Chemical Genomics Center Renews Five Licenses LANCASTER, Calif.--Simulations Plus, Inc. (NASDAQ:SLP), a leading provider of software for pharmaceutical discovery and development, today announced that it has received a purchase order from the U.S. National Institutes of Health to renew its licenses for the Company’s best-in-class ClassPharmer™ software. Ron Creeley, vice president of marketing and sales [...]

XENEMTRIX LTD ACQUIRES ANALYTICAL DIVISION OF JORDAN VALLEY SEMICONDUCTORS LIMITED.

On the 15th of June 2008, Jordan Valley Semiconductors Ltd, divested their Analytical Division which was then purchased by Xenemetrix Ltd., formed by a private management group under the direction of CEO, Doron Reinis, a founding partner of Business Processes Limited, Isaac Mazor CEO of Jordan Valley Semiconductors has announced, “As Jordan Valley Semiconductors Ltd [...]

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