Roche’s xCELLigence System Designed to Reduce Animal Testing in Pharmaceutical Development

PENZBERG, Germany--BOTOX® is an important medicine that over the last 15 years of clinical use has helped millions of patients with serious medical conditions worldwide. Pharmaceutical manufacturers using Clostridium botulinum toxin (BOTOX®) in drugs are required by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States and by other worldwide health regulatory agencies to [...]

Revolutionary New Routine for Accurate Element Identification

MAHWAH, NJ - EDAX Inc., a leader in X-ray microanalysis and electron diffraction instrumentation, has launched EXpert ID. "Superior X-ray microanalysis is based on correct identification of the peaks in the spectrum. Otherwise the analysis is built on a 'garbage-in, garbage-out' principle," explains Del Redfern, Product Marketing Manager for EDAX. "Today, most peak identification routines [...]

American Science and Engineering, Inc. Receives DHS SAFETY Act Certification for Multiple Products

AS&E’s Parcel and Mobile Cargo Inspection Products and Services are Certified as Qualified Anti-Terrorism Technology by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security BILLERICA, Mass.--American Science and Engineering, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASEI) (AS&E®), a leading worldwide supplier of innovative X-ray inspection solutions, announced today that it has received SAFETY (Support Anti-terrorism by Fostering Effective Technology) Act Certification [...]

ChanTest Launches New Business to Provide Validated Ion Channel Expressing Cell Lines to the Research Community

Company expands beyond core business of discovery and safety services to BOSTON and CLEVELAND, Aug. 6 -- ChanTest, the world-leading provider of validated ion channel-expressing cell lines and services for drug-discovery and development applications, will make a selection of its fully validated cell lines available to researchers through a new Web site: https://www.chantestchannels.com. ChanTest Founder [...]

Simple Control of Complex Sample Pipetting Procedures

DURHAM, N.C.--The latest Freedom EVOware® Sample Oriented software, version 1.2, is now available for the Freedom EVO® family of workstations, enhancing Freedom EVOware Standard and Freedom EVOware Plus with a number of sample-based pipetting, diluting and pooling functions. The software is ideal for laboratories that need to perform complex pipetting and dilution sequences, and for [...]

Symyx Enhances Software With OpenEye Technology

Addition of Structure-to-Name Conversion Toolkit Will Enhance Chemical Compound Searching and Improve Productivity for Researchers Using Symyx(R) Applications SANTA CLARA, CA and SANTA FE, NM--Aug 6, 2008 -- In an extension of its strategic partnership, Symyx Technologies, Inc. (SMMX - News) plans to integrate OpenEye's Lexichem(TM) structure-name converter software with Symyx Draw and other key [...]

Renowned Prostate Cancer Expert, Dr. Colin Collins, Joins CombiMatrix’s Scientific Advisory Board

MUKILTEO, Wash., Aug. 6, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- CombiMatrix Corporation (NasdaqGM:CBMX - News) announced today that renowned cancer expert, Colin Collins, Ph.D., has joined the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of its subsidiary reference laboratory Combimatrix Molecular Diagnostics (CMDX). Dr. Collins is an Associate Professor of Urology at the Cancer Research Institute and Department of Laboratory [...]

BioNanomatrix Awarded New NIH Grant for Development of Nanoscale Platform for Single-Molecule DNA Mapping and Haplotype Applications

- Goal Is Development of a Fully Integrated Nanochannel Chip and Reader for Single-Molecule Mapping, Enabling Direct Visualization and Analysis of Long Strands of DNA in Context and at Very High Resolution - PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 6 -- BioNanomatrix, Inc., a developer of breakthrough nanoscale whole genome imaging platforms for genetic diagnostics, personalized medicine and biomedical [...]

Pressure BioSciences, Inc. Announces the Market Release of its PCT-Enhanced Trypsin Digestion Application for Proteomics

SOUTH EASTON, Mass., Aug. 6 -- Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: PBIO - News; "PBI" or "the Company") today announced the market release of its pressure cycling technology ("PCT")-enhanced trypsin digestion application for proteomics, a major new addition to its PCT family of products. Named "Proteolysis (Trypsin)-PrEP", this new PCT-enhanced processing ("PrEP") application was unveiled at [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches New Tribology Cell for its Rheometer Line

Improved insight in surface engineering processes Karlsruhe, Germany, (August 6, 2008) – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today launched a new tribology cell for its rheometer product line. Rheometers with a normal force sensor like the Thermo Scientific HAAKE MARS or Thermo Scientific HAAKE RheoStress 6000 are now capable of [...]

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