New 50 ìl disposable tip for Tecan liquid handling platforms

Tecan has introduced the 50 ìl volume size to its family of high quality, conductive disposable tips, complementing the existing size range of 10, 200 and 1,000 ìl. The disposable tips have been custom-developed for Tecan’s automated liquid handling workstations, enhancing performance and minimizing cross-contamination in a broad range of genomics, forensics and ELISA-based applications. [...]

New FOSS India company improves analytical solution support for developing food and agriculture industry

FOSS has opened a new sales subsidiary in India. The new company is called FOSS India and is headquartered in Mumbai with branch offices in Bangalore, Coimbatore, Delhi and Hyderabad. The company currently employs 15 staff. Mr Anurag Bhatnagar has been appointed as Managing Director. He has extensive experience from the grain industry and was [...]

Datum Instruments, a New Member of JEOL Group

JEOL Ltd. (Yoshiyasu Harada, President) and JEOL Datum, Ltd. (Yasunobu Suenaga, President) established a new company, Datum Instruments, dedicated to servicing JEOL’s mass market products (environmental equipment/metrology and inspection equipment). Objective JEOL’s mid term management plan, Action 60, announced in 2007 (for 2007 to 2009), proposed to “strengthen sales and service of mass market products” [...]

Amnis Announces Release of Powerful New Image Data Analysis Software

SEATTLE, April 10 -- Amnis Corporation announced today a major new release of its IDEAS(R) statistical image analysis software. IDEAS version 3.0 incorporates greatly expanded analytical capabilities while maintaining an emphasis on ease of use. IDEAS 3.0 provides the user with dozens of new image feature calculations and improves existing features to strengthen morphological data [...]

New MicroRNA Analysis Tools From Applied Biosystems Advance Cancer Research

TaqMan(R) Reagents Speed Workflows and Enable Analysis of Trace Amounts of RNA in Cell and Tumor Samples FOSTER CITY, Calif.--Research related to a class of non-coding small RNA molecules called microRNAs (miRNAs) is one of the fastest-growing areas in biomedical research. These molecules have been found to regulate gene expression and have also been implicated [...]

Proteome Sciences Licenses its Patented TMT® Technology to Thermo Fisher Scientific

COBHAM, England (April 9, 2008) - Proteome Sciences plc has entered into an exclusive license agreement for its TMT® isobaric tandem mass tag technology with Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc (NYSE: TMO). Under the terms of the license, Proteome Sciences will manufacture its patented TMT® reagents exclusively for Thermo Fisher Scientific, which will market and sell [...]

Cell Signaling Technology® (CST) Expands Operations Overseas

DANVERS, Mass.--Cell Signaling Technology (CST), a leading provider of antibodies and related products for biomedical research, announced today that it has established a wholly owned subsidiary in Japan which began fulfilling orders as of April 1st, 2008. The office is strategically located in Tokyo, which is in close proximity to a significant proportion of its [...]

Yokogawa Acquires US Company with Unique Gas Analysis Technology Enhancing energy saving, environmental, and safety solution-providing capabilities

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the acquisition of Analytical Specialties, Inc. (ASI), a company with a unique gas analyzer technology. Yokogawa Corporation of America, Yokogawa's North American subsidiary, acquired all the stock of ASI on April 1, 2008. With this acquisition, Yokogawa is adding the TruePeak Tunable Diode Laser Gas Analyzers to its analyzer lineup and [...]

Invitrogen Teams with MitoSciences to Improve Mitochondrial Disease Research

Invitrogen to become exclusive North American Distributor CARLSBAD, Calif. & EUGENE, Ore.--Invitrogen Corporation (NASDAQ:IVGN - News), a provider of essential life science technologies for research, production and diagnostics, announced today the company will become the exclusive North American distributor of all MitoSciences products, including antibodies and assays used for researching mitochondrial proteins and diseases. MitoSciences [...]

Caliper Life Sciences Forms Alliance With Horizon Discovery to Provide Enhanced Solutions for Cancer Research Based on Isogenic Cell Lines

CDAS Expands Offering to Include Screening for Targeted Cancer Drugs Using Genetically-Defined In-Vitro Human Disease Models HOPKINTON, Mass., April 9, 2008 -- Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALP - News) today announced a partnership with Horizon Discovery Ltd. (Cambridge, UK) that expands Caliper Discovery Alliances and Services' (CDAS) oncology cell line and screening capabilities for [...]

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