Agilent Technologies Expands Particle Size Measurement Portfolio by Acquiring Particle Sizing Systems

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced it has acquired Particle Sizing Systems, a privately held company that designs and manufactures instruments that measure the particle size and stability in materials ranging from soft drinks to inkjet inks to semiconductor polishing slurries. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition expands Agilent’s growing portfolio of [...]

Accuri Cytometers Completes $13 Million Series C Financing

ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 8 -- Accuri Cytometers Inc., a life sciences company developing revolutionary bench-top flow cytometer systems, today announced the completion of a $13 million Series C financing led by Fidelity Biosciences and Flagship Ventures. Current investors including Baird Venture Partners and Arboretum Ventures also participated in the financing. Accuri will use the [...]

Ameritox, Ltd., Announces Addition of LC-MS/MS – the Industry’s Most Advanced Analytical Method for Detecting Prescription Pain Medications

BALTIMORE--Ameritox, Ltd., the U.S. leader in pain prescription urine drug monitoring, today announced its addition of the industry’s most advanced, most sensitive analytical method for detecting prescription pain medications: multiplexing liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). Ameritox has implemented the Thermo Scientific TSQ Quantum Access™ triple quadrupole mass spectrometer with the Aria™ TLX-4 multiplexing system [...]

Yale Keck Microarray Center Becomes a GeneGo Center of Excellence

ST. JOSEPH, Mich., July 8 -- GeneGo, Inc., the leading systems biology tools company, announced today that Keck Microarray Center at Yale has become a certified GeneGo Center of Excellence (COE). Yale researchers will have access to GeneGo's MetaCore, training and advanced support. The W. M. Keck Foundation Biotechnology Resource Laboratory (Keck Lab), one of [...]

Affymetrix and Asuragen Sign Agreement to Develop IVT Reagent Kits for Molecular Diagnostic Applications

Reagent Kits Will Strengthen Affymetrix' Diagnostic Product Portfolio SANTA CLARA, Calif. & AUSTIN, Texas--Affymetrix Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX - News) and Asuragen Inc., a leading molecular biology diagnostic company and service provider, today announced an agreement to license, develop and manufacture in vitro transcription (IVT) reagent kits for clinical molecular diagnostic applications. The new IVT reagent kits [...]

BugLab Launches Noninvasive Biomass Monitor for Continuous, On-Line Measurements

DANVILLE, Calif., July 8 -- BugLab LLC, has introduced the BugEye 200 Noninvasive Biomass Monitor, a novel biomass measurement system with the widest linear range of any such device currently available. It performs automated, continuous, real-time optical density (OD) measurements of biomass for fermentation and cell culture applications. The BugEye 200 is designed for use [...]

FDA Grants Invitrogen Premarket Approval of Breast Cancer Test

HER2 Gene Amplification Test Will Aid in Assessing Breast Cancer Patient Candidacy for Herceptin(R) Treatment CARLSBAD, Calif.--Invitrogen Corporation, (NASDAQ:IVGN - News), a provider of essential life science technologies for research, production and diagnostics, today announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) premarket approval (PMA) for its SPOT-Light® HER2 CISH Kit, indicated as [...]

Sigma-Aldrich Announces Collaboration With Metahelix Life Sciences

Partnership to provide expertise and applications support in plant biotechnology ST. LOUIS, July 8 -- Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL) and Metahelix Life Sciences today announced a partnership under which Metahelix will assist in developing applications data for Sigma-Aldrich's plant bioscience product line, and provide expert technological guidance regarding usage. The efforts of this collaboration will occur [...]

Associates of Cape Cod (ACC) and MDS Analytical Technologies Collaborate to Offer…

Associates of Cape Cod (ACC) and MDS Analytical Technologies Collaborate to Offer a More Robust LAL Endotoxin Assay Platform Associates of Cape Cod, Inc. (ACC) and MDS Analytical Technologies are pleased to announce the launch of ACC's Chromogenic LAL Endotoxin assay kits utilizing MDS Analytical Technologies' SpectraMax(R) instrument platform and SoftMax(R) Pro GxP software. ACC [...]

PANalytical and Malvern celebrate US office opening

NEWS RELEASE 07 July 2008 On 23 May 2008, the PANalytical and Malvern Instruments US teams celebrated the opening of their new headquarters. The sister companies now share state of the art facilities in Westborough, MA. Gjalt Kuipers and Brian Dutko, general managers of PANalytical and Malvern’s US companies respectively, led the day of celebrations [...]

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