BIOTECON Diagnostics GmbH (openPR) - Foster City, Potsdam, May, 2008 Applera and BIOTECON Diagnostics (BCD) announce a non-exclusive, worldwide license agreement relating to PCR technology for Food Testing Applications and Genetically-Modified Organism (GMO) Testing Applications: BIOTECON Diagnostics has acquired important rights with the PCR licence. It enables the company to strengthen its position as an [...]

• amaxa excellent fit with Lonza Bioscience Cell Discovery business • Strengthening of both businesses with accelerated growth potential • In line with Lonza strategy of growing its life-sciences-platform Basel, 27 May 2008 – Lonza and amaxa jointly announce that Lonza, the leading supplier to the life sciences industries, acquires amaxa and all its activities. [...]

Productivity Solution Simplifies Research Projects by Providing Researchers with Powerful, Easy-to-Use Analysis Tools That Facilitate Complex Workflows Involving Vast Amounts of Disparate Data RENO, Nev.--Biotique Systems, Inc. today announced the availability of a new research and development productivity solution that provides an enterprise-scale informatics environment for integrating, analyzing and sharing data generated by next-generation sequencing [...]

Geneva, Switzerland – May 27, 2008 - Geneva Bioinformatics (GeneBio) SA today announced the addition of a new software platform to its growing suite of products. SmileMS builds upon GeneBio’s existing mass spectrometry (MS)-driven franchise and extends it beyond protein analysis to small molecules. SmileMS is a unique software platform for the identification and analysis [...]

The all new BenchCel® R Platform from Velocity11 is the heart of a fast and compact automation workstation that can handle applications ranging from simple microplate processing tasks to sophisticated applications (such as PCR prep) that were previously only possible with higher priced, full-size automation systems. The BenchCel R Platform handles more integrations, rack styles, [...]

CARLSBAD, Calif., May 27, 2008 ----GenoLogics, the leading developer of translational research informatics solutions for life sciences organizations, today announced its partnership with GenVault Corporation for its biospecimen data management system, BioVault. "We recognize the significance of biospecimen repositories with well annotated clinical information to biomedical research and have embarked on a strategic endeavor to [...]

BudgetSensors® introduces AFM Height Calibration Standards Sofia, Bulgaria (PRWEB) May 27, 2008 -- As a response to the increased demand for affordable high-quality AFM calibration standards, BudgetSensors®, a Bulgarian manufacturer of silicon and silicon nitride probes, as well as AFM accessories for Atomic Force Microscopes (AFM), announces the commercial introduction of 2 different AFM height [...]

Collaboration Aims to Accelerate Verification and Validation of Protein Biomarkers for Earlier Disease Diagnosis and Therapeutic Efficacy WALTHAM, Mass.--Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced an alliance between its Biomarker Research Initiatives in Mass Spectrometry (BRIMS) Center and George Mason University’s Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine [...]

MENLO PARK, Calif. and LINCOLN, Neb., May 27 -- Pacific Biosciences announced today that it has acquired "sequencing by incorporation" technology from LI-COR Biosciences of Lincoln Nebraska. Sequencing by incorporation generally identifies nucleotides in a DNA sequence based upon synthesis of a complementary DNA strand. The technology acquired from LI-COR broadens Pacific Biosciences' existing intellectual [...]

JENA/Germany, 27.05.2008. Electrophysiological experiments can be performed with the Axio Examiner Fixed Stage Microscope from Carl Zeiss with considerably greater ease and with maximum flexibility and safety. In the field of the neurosciences, Axio Examiner is particularly suitable for patch clamp experiments on nerve cells, examinations of brain sections and for measuring electrical signals on [...]