Cepheid Receives FDA Clearance for First On-Demand Diagnostic Test for Life-Threatening MRSA and Staphylococcus aureus From Patient Positive Blood Cultures

One Hour Test is Cepheid's Second FDA Cleared Diagnostic Test in 2008; Test Improves Time-to-Result by More Than Twenty-Four Hours Over Conventional Methods SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 1 -- Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD - News) today announced it has received clearance from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to market its Xpert(TM) MRSA/SA Blood Culture (BC) [...]

U.S. Army Awards ICx Technologies a Contract for Future Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Reconnaissance System with an Estimated Value of Up to $711 Million

WASHINGTON--ICx Technologies (NASDAQ:ICXT - News), a developer of advanced sensor technologies for homeland security, force protection and commercial applications, announced today that it has been awarded a system-engineering, analysis and integration contract by the U.S. Army Research and Development Engineering Command Acquisition Center. The award, with an estimated value of up to $711 million over [...]

Agilent Technologies Creates Specialized Training Program in China for Melamine Analysis in Milk, Milk Products

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A - News) announced today it has created a specialized training program to address the current melamine crisis in China. The program will be available in early October and is part of Agilent University, a multifaceted education program for Agilent’s customers in China. The four-day training program will cover melamine-testing [...]

Affymetrix and Medical Prognosis Institute Collaborate to Develop Cancer Treatment Products

Affymetrix Inc. (Nasdaq:AFFX) and Medical Prognosis Institute A/S (MPI), a leading cancer diagnostic development company based in Denmark, today announced that they have signed a Powered by Affymetrix(TM) (PbA) agreement. With this agreement, MPI gains non-exclusive access to Affymetrix microarray technology to develop and commercialize drug sensitivity prediction and prognostic products for patients with cancer. [...]

454 Life Sciences Launches the GS FLX Titanium Series Reagents, Effectively Replacing Traditional Sanger Sequencing

454 Life Sciences Corporation, a Roche company, announced the launch of the new GS FLX Titanium series reagents and software that are transforming the life science's industry. The new reagent kits provide individual sequencing reads with an improved Q20 length of 400 base pairs (99% accuracy at the 400th base and higher for preceding bases) [...]

GenomeQuest Announces Integration of GenomeQuest™ 5.0 with Invitrogen’s Vector NTI Advance™ for Genomic Sequence Analysis

Leaders in sequence informatics and desktop sequence analysis join forces to provide users with enhanced, interoperable sequence search, analysis and data management capabilities WESTBOROUGH, Mass.--GenomeQuest and Invitrogen today announced that the GenomeQuest™ 5.0 web-based sequence search, analysis and data management platform is now interoperable with Invitrogen’s Vector NTI Advance™ desktop sequence analysis solution. Ronald Ranauro, [...]

SoluLinK Introduces New One-Shot ChromaLink(TM) Biotin Antibody Labeling Kit with Built-in Biotin Quantification.

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 1 -- SoluLinK, Inc., a leader in conjugation products and complete easy to use kits, announces the introduction of its newest product, the One-Shot ChromaLink Antibody Labeling Kit. This innovative kit includes all the components for the rapid traceable biotinylation of a single antibody. The kit features SoluLinK's patented sulfo-ChromaLink Biotin linker, [...]

Lumiphore Partners with Biophor Diagnostics, Inc. to Develop Tests for Drugs of Abuse; Appoints Ibis Biosciences Founder David J. Ecker to Board

Richmond, California – October 1, 2008 – Lumiphore, Inc., a biotechnology leader in the development of new proprietary fluorescent metal-lanthanide technology for use in high-value applications, announced that it has signed an exclusive agreement with Biophor Diagnostics, Inc., Redwood City, California to apply Lumiphore products in diagnostic tests for drugs of abuse. Under the agreement, [...]

Bruker AXS Announces New G4 PHOENIX Combustion Analysis System with Infrared

Bruker AXS Announces New G4 PHOENIX Combustion Analysis System with Infrared Furnace for Determination of Diffusible Hydrogen in Wide Range of Metals Applications AWS Welding Show 2008 Booth 13302 KALKAR, Germany-- Bruker AXS announced that it will launch its new G4 PHOENIX™ combustion analysis system with an infrared furnace for the determination of diffusible hydrogen [...]

Laura Hamilton Named MTS Board Chair; Joe O’Donnell Appointed as Director

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Oct. 1 -- MTS Systems Corporation (Nasdaq: MTSC - News) today announced that its Board of Directors has elected Laura B. Hamilton to the position of Chair of the Board, succeeding Sidney W. Emery, Jr., who retired from the Board effective September 28, 2008. Hamilton is the Company's President and Chief Executive [...]

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