EE-LIMS™ from Stone Bond Technologies Will Document Activities within the Laboratory Workflow at the siRNA Facility, Increasing Throughput, While Reducing Risks HOUSTON--The newly established Small Interfering Ribonucleic Acid (siRNA) Facility at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center has been charged with providing high-quality siRNA screening services for both internal and external customers. M. D. Anderson has [...]

Transaction Adds Proprietary Real-Time PCR Detection Technologies to QIAGEN’s Portfolio of Molecular Testing Solutions VENLO, The Netherlands, July 1, 2008 – QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt, Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that it has acquired Corbett Life Science Pty. Ltd. (Corbett), a privately-held developer, manufacturer, and distributor of life sciences instrumentation headquartered in Sydney, Australia. [...]

PLAINVIEW, N.Y.--Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO - News), a leading provider of instrumentation to the nanoscience community, today introduced the “Veeco Labs Research Grant Program,” designed to stimulate the generation of new scientific investigation for researchers in the atomic force microscopy community. This grant program will sponsor selected early adopters of current and future Veeco [...]

Micronit launches easy-to-use and affordable lab-on-a-chip platform named “Fluidic Connect” Enschede, The Netherlands, July 1st, 2008 – Micronit Microfluidics today announced a new lab-on-a-chip platform named “Fluidic Connect”. The platform enables researchers to create their own lab-on-a-chip setup in just a few minutes of time. Fluidic Connect offers a solution for two major problems in [...]

SAN DIEGO--Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN - News) today announced that researchers participating in a new initiative funded by the Wellcome Trust selected Illumina’s Infinium HD BeadChips to analyze 90,000 DNA samples. This new initiative aims to decipher the molecular basis of human disease and includes participation from leading research groups around the globe. Together, researchers at [...]

WALTHAM, Mass.--Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, announced today that it has acquired Open Biosystems, Inc., a provider of RNA interference (RNAi), gene expression and protein detection products for life science research and drug discovery and development. The acquisition significantly expands Thermo Fisher Scientific’s leadership position in the growing RNAi field. [...]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Metabolix, Inc. (NASDAQ: MBLX) today announced that Telles™, its joint venture with Archer Daniels Midland Company that produces Mirel™ bioplastics, has entered into an agreement to supply Mirel bioplastic resin to Labcon North America, a leading manufacturer of laboratory supplies, for the production of its new Pagoda pipet reloading system. “Labcon’s product launch demonstrates [...]

Acquisition Strengthens Agilent’s Nanomeasurements Portfolio SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced that it has acquired the Nano Instruments business unit of MTS Systems Corp. The acquisition will strengthen Agilent’s portfolio of instrumentation for imaging, characterizing and quantifying nanomechanical material properties. Financial details were not disclosed. Based in Oak Ridge, Tenn., Nano Instruments is a [...]

Efforts to Focus on Accelerating Medical Resequencing CARLSBAD, Calif. & MONTREAL--A scientific collaboration aimed at advancing pharmacogenomics research through the development of novel methodologies and advanced reagents for targeted medical resequencing was announced today by Invitrogen Corporation (NASDAQ:IVGN - News), a provider of essential life science technologies for research, production and diagnostics, and the Génome [...]

New LABWORKS(TM) Packages Build on EcoAnalytix(TM) Initiative; Address Critical Data Management Needs, Support Compliance and Help Drive Efficiencies WALTHAM, Mass.--PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI - News), a global leader in Health Sciences and Photonics, today announced three market-specific LABWORKS™ Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) packages that address increasing regulatory and compliance pressures. The new packages are [...]