Best results in the company's history. Pfeiffer Vacuum to pay record dividend. Asslar, Germany, March 27, 2008. Pfeiffer Vacuum, one of the leading manufacturers of high-quality vacuum pumps, measurement equipment and complete vacuum systems, announces its full, audited results for the 2007 fiscal year. All sales and profitability numbers were able to be significantly increased. [...]

New Center of Excellence Focused on Solutions for Environmental Health, Food Safety and Drug Discovery WALTHAM, Mass.--PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI - News), a global technology leader in Health Sciences and Photonics, today celebrated the opening of a new Center of Excellence in Singapore. The PerkinElmer Inc. Center of Excellence in Singapore comes as part of [...]

The First 1536-well Label-free System for uHTS -- WOBURN, Mass.--SRU Biosystems today announced the introduction of its newest generation of microplate readers based on its proprietary label-free detection technology, the BIND® 96/384 TURBO Reader for 96- and 384-well microplates and the BIND® 384/1536 TURBO Reader for ultra-high throughput screening using 384- or 1536-well microplates. The [...]

Antibody-free system reduces cost and time of quantitative protein assay development for screening low abundance biomarkers in blood GHENT, Belgium; 26th March 2008 - Pronota nv, the Belgium-based biomarker discovery and development company, announced today the launch of MASSterclass™, its highly-sensitive protein biomarker verification tool, at the Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference in San Francisco. The MASSterclass [...]

Integrated TaqMan(R)-Based Solutions Streamline Real-Time PCR Workflows Using Cultured Cells FOSTER CITY, Calif.--Applied Biosystems (NYSE:ABI - News), an Applera Corporation business, today announced a new family of real-time PCR reagent kits that enable researchers to more rapidly perform cell-based gene expression research. The TaqMan® Cells-to-CT™ Kit solutions are chemical reagents that are designed to reduce [...]

PRINCETON, N.J.--Battelle Ventures, LP, has led the $5.1-million Series A funding round of BioNanomatrix, Inc., a Philadelphia-based company developing and commercializing nanoscale, single-molecule imaging and analytic platforms designed to dramatically reduce the time and cost needed to analyze the genome. The round was joined by Battelle Ventures’ affiliate fund, Innovation Valley Partners, and by KT [...]

ESA Biosciences and Waters Corporation (WAT: NYSE) have announced that the two companies are working together to integrate seamlessly the award-winning ESA Corona® CAD® universal HPLC detector with the Waters industry-leading chromatography control and data-analysis platform: Empower® 2. The Corona charged-aerosol detector (CAD) can analyse effectively a wide diversity of chemical structures and important classes [...]

COLLEGE STATION, TX--Mar 25, 2008 -- O.I. Corporation (NasdaqGM:OICO - News) today announced that its Board of Directors will nominate John K.H. Linnartz to stand for election at its 2008 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. Mr. Linnartz is the Managing Member of Mustang Capital Management, LLC, one of the Company's three largest shareholders. "We previously announced [...]

Enables improved protein characterization through calibration-free protein concentration analysis UPPSALA, SWEDEN, 25 MARCH 2008 – GE Healthcare announced today that it is introducing Biacore T100 software version 2, protein characterization software for the Biacore T100 label-free protein interaction analysis system, to enable calibration-free concentration analysis (CFCA) of proteins. For the first time it will be [...]

PerkinElmer introduces the EcoAnalytix™ Biodiesel Glycerin and Methanol Analyzer, providing a unique and complete solution to test biodiesel using gas chromatography (GC) test methods included in both the EN and ASTM standards. The Analyzer includes installation, training, standard operating procedures (SOPs) and preconfigured methods to ensure rapid startup and consistent ease of use. The Analyzer [...]