Linguamatics Joins Microsoft BioIT Alliance
June 12, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, England--Linguamatics Ltd, a leader in enterprise text mining for the life science and other markets, today announced that it has joined the Microsoft BioIT Alliance, an association of life science organizations and informatics companies whose focus is to enhance collaboration and accelerate the pace of drug discovery and development. “As the amount of textual [...]
June 12, 2008
--More than 250,000 Successful DNA Extractions Have Already Been Achieved By Combining the Innovative Products of Both Companies-- SOLANA BEACH, Calif. & ALBANY, New Zealand--ZyGEM Corp Ltd., a provider of novel enabling enzymatic tools for life sciences applications, today announced a non-exclusive agreement with Zee Tags, Ltd., a global leader in the provision of livestock [...]
June 12, 2008
BRANFORD, Conn.--454 Life Sciences, a company of Roche, announces that researchers from Bielefeld University in Germany have used a single sequencing run, generated during the installation of their new Genome Sequencer FLX System, to completely assemble and characterize the genome of Corynebacterium kroppenstedtii. The whole genome analysis, led by Andreas Tauch, revealed that lipophilism is [...]
Whatman, Part of GE Healthcare, and VigeneTech Launch Custom Software for Fast Quant(R) System
June 12, 2008
FLORHAM PARK, N.J.--Whatman, part of GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE - News), and VigeneTech, today announced the launch of custom software to analyze Whatman FAST Quant® samples. The customized OEM software from VigeneTech provides high quality image quantification and enhances the automation for Whatman FAST Quant® protein array image and data [...]
Invitrogen and Applied Biosystems to Combine
June 12, 2008
Invitrogen Corporation (NASDAQ: IVGN) and Applera Corporation today announced that their Boards of Directors have approved a definitive merger agreement, under which Invitrogen will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Applera's Applied Biosystems Group (NYSE: ABI) in a cash and stock transaction valued at $6.7 billion. This strategic combination will create a global leader [...]
Agilent Technologies Introduces High-Resolution Scanner for Current, Next-Generation Microarrays
June 11, 2008
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A - News) today introduced the latest version of its popular Agilent DNA Microarray Scanner, employing SureScan High Resolution Technology to deliver high resolution and rapid scan times for current and next-generation microarrays. The new scanner is designed to deliver higher quality data from current 65-micron-feature microarrays and to [...]
Illumina Announces Participation in the 1000 Genomes Project
June 11, 2008
Biotech Innovators Will Contribute to International Effort to Produce Most Detailed Map of Genetic Variation SAN DIEGO--Illumina, Inc., (NASDAQ:ILMN - News) today announced that it is among three firms to have pioneered the development of new sequencing technologies and joined the 1000 Genomes Project, an international effort to build the most detailed map to date [...]
Advanced Photonix, Inc. Announces T-Ray 4000 Terahertz System Orders from
June 11, 2008
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jun 11, 2008 -- Advanced Photonix, Inc.(R) (AMEX: API) announced today that it has received purchase orders totaling more than $800,000 for T-Ray 4000(TM) Terahertz systems from leading university and government research labs in North America, including Rice University and Sandia National Laboratory. Picometrix(R), LLC, an API company, has been the leader [...]
Zecotek Introduces New Solid-State Laser for Mass Spectrometry
June 11, 2008
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(June 11, 2008) - Zecotek Photonics Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ZMS)(FRANKFURT:W1I) today announced a new and proprietary solid-state 336nm DPSS laser designed to replace nitrogen gas lasers currently used in a wide range of mass spectrometry applications. Zecotek's 336nm DPSS laser offers both superior performance and product lifetime characteristics as compared to existing lasers used [...]
June 11, 2008
Roche NimbleGen Inc., a company of Roche Applied Science, announced today that it has formed a strategic alliance with BioDiscovery, Inc. to offer complete solutions to comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) microarray customers. The new high-density 2.1 million probe (HD2) arrays of Roche NimbleGen combined with industry-leading proprietary software, Nexus Copy Number, of BioDiscovery bring unprecedented [...]
