May 6, 2008
Portfolio to be made available through SDI's SEQer(TM) Antibody Product Catalog NEWARK, Del.--Strategic Diagnostics Inc. (Nasdaq: SDIX - News) – a leading provider of biotechnology-based detection solutions for a broad range of food, water, agricultural, industrial, environmental and life science applications, announced that it will be providing Jason Lieb’s Laboratory at University of North Carolina, [...]
May 6, 2008
TORONTO, May 6 /CNW/ - Dalton Pharma Services, a privately owned Canadian pharmaceutical services provider, and Thermo Fisher Scientific have entered into an agreement under which Dalton will use a proprietary Thermo Fisher manufacturing process to produce nucleic-acid biopolymers for pharmaceutical use. Utilizing enzyme-based technology developed at Thermo Fisher Scientific's Milwaukee, Wisconsin, molecular bioreagents facility, [...]
OSI Systems Awarded $4.4 Million Order for TSA’s Advanced Technology Program
May 6, 2008
HAWTHORNE, Calif.--OSI Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:OSIS - News), a vertically-integrated provider of specialized electronic products for critical applications in the security and healthcare industries, announced today that its Security division, Rapiscan Systems, has been awarded a follow on order for $4.4 million from the United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for its 620DV Advanced Technology X-ray [...]
May 6, 2008
Distributor's Fourth Sale in Europe AMES, Iowa--BioForce Nanosciences Holdings, Inc. (OTC BB: BFNH - News), a leader in systems integration at the micro- and nano-scales to create products for the life sciences, is pleased to announce that European distributor NanoAndMore GmbH has completed the sale of a Nano eNabler™ System at the Italian Institute of [...]
May 6, 2008
PARIS, May 6 -- ExonHit Therapeutics S.A. (Alternext: ALEHT), a drug and diagnostic discovery company, announces today the availability of its new SpliceArray(TM) for use in disease modeling and toxicogenomic applications by the basic and pre-clinical research communities. These SpliceArray(TM) products provide the highest resolution expression profiling analysis for the rat genome commercially available today. [...]
ASD Inc. Awarded Colorado Governor’s Award For Excellence In Exporting
May 6, 2008
Celebrating 19 years of operation, ASD’s array of innovative field portable, at-line, and on-line measurement solutions are in use in more than 60 countries, on every continent, in universities, government, public, and private industry. BOULDER, Colo., — May 6, 2008 — ASD Inc. (formerly Analytical Spectral Devices) has received the Governor’s Award for Excellence in [...]
Applied Biosystems Genomic Analysis Platform Fuels New Era of Life-Sciences Research
May 6, 2008
Scientists From the Broad Institute and Columbia University Medical Center to Present Data at Biology of Genomes Meeting Upgrades to SOLiD(TM) System Software and Chemistry Double Throughput, Simplify Workflows, and Decrease Run Times FOSTER CITY, Calif.--When Applied Biosystems (NYSE:ABI - News), an Applera Corporation business, introduced its ultra-high-throughput genomic analysis system less than a year [...]
Illumina Completes Sequencing of African Trio
May 6, 2008
Internal Sequencing Runs Yield 15GB on Single Flowcell SAN DIEGO--Illumina, Inc., (NASDAQ:ILMN - News) today announced that scientists at the Company have completed sequencing the genomes of an anonymous African Trio (Yoruba from Ibadan, Nigeria) using the company’s Genome Analyzer sequencing platform. Illumina previously announced the sequencing of the first of these HapMap samples, that [...]
SACHEM Launches Displacement Chromatography Services
May 6, 2008
SACHEM Responds to Customer Demand by Offering Onsite Expertise to Support Scientists in Evaluating and Applying Displacement Chromatography AUSTIN, Texas--In response to customer demand, SACHEM is now offering a new services program to help displacement chromatography users to quickly apply the technology in their laboratory and plant. The program uses SACHEM’s extensive chemical expertise and [...]
Applied Biosystems DNA Analysis Technologies Aiding Genographic Project
May 5, 2008
Landmark Global Population Study Begins to Unlock Genetic History of Human Migration FOSTER CITY, Calif.--As some early humans began to leave their native Africa around 60,000 years ago in a wave of migration that would ultimately populate the planet, they began to slowly accumulate and pass down various random genetic mutations that would ultimately result [...]

