Customer focus and product development leads to substantial revenue growth and continued profitability for IDBS in 2007

Guildford, UK, April 1st 2008 – IDBS, provider of data management, analysis and decision support software, is proud to report double-digit revenue growth and profitability for 2007 despite increasingly challenging market conditions. Sales revenues have increased by almost 50% since 2005, on the back of major developments to core product lines such as the ActivityBase [...]

VWR International, LLC Acquires Jencons (Scientific) LTD, UK

WEST CHESTER, PA, April 1, 2008 - VWR International, LLC, a leading global laboratory supply company, today announced that it has acquired Jencons (Scientific) Limited, a UK scientific laboratory supply distributor. Jencons is one of the UK's largest suppliers of laboratory equipment and consumables with 110 employees. Based in the UK, the company also has [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches Orion Dual Star Benchtop Meter

MUNICH, Germany (April 1, 2008) – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today launched its new Thermo Scientific Orion Dual Star Meter. The new benchtop meter features dual inputs, an informative display and an easy-to-follow interface, all designed to make it easier to take simultaneous pH/ISE readings from a single sample. [...]

Corning Introduces Integrated Liquid-Handling Accessory for the Epic® System Enables automated label-free biochemical and cell-based assays

CORNING, N.Y., APRIL 1, 2008 -- Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) today announced the introduction of an automated liquid-handling accessory (LHA) that integrates with the Corning® Epic® System for high-throughput label-free assays. "Corning developed this innovative accessory to meet the increasing demand for integrated liquid-handling capability with label-free assays," said Ron Verkleeren, business director, Corning Epic [...]

Axela, Inc. Launches dotLabTM System in Europe

Novel System Advances Capabilities for Protein Research TORONTO--Axela Inc., a recognized innovator in protein interaction technology, announced the introduction of the dotLab™ System in Europe at Analytica 2008, being held in Munich, Germany, April 1-4, 2008. The system, successfully introduced in North America in 2007, is now being used by life scientists in the academic, [...]

Roche NimbleGen Launches NimbleGen Sequence Capture Technology

Roche NimbleGen, a company of Roche Applied Science announced the commercial launch of its NimbleGen Sequence Capture technology for scientists interested in selecting targeted regions of the genome for high-throughput sequencing. This new technology enables researchers to easily and rapidly capture up to five million targeted bases from the human or mouse genomes. The technology [...]

New High-Throughput Hybridization System for Agilent Microarrays

April 01, 2008, Sunnyvale, CA — SciGene introduced the Mai Tai™ Hybridization System, a new microarray slide hybridization system that incubates four slide microarrays at once; as a replacement for Agilent SureHyb® chambers that incubate only one slide at a time. The Mai Tai™ System consists of a two-piece cassette that seals up to four [...]

WaferGen Signs Exclusive Distribution Agreement for SmartSlide(TM) Micro-Incubation System in Germany

FREMONT, Calif., April 1, 2008 -- WaferGen Biosystems, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: WGBS), a leading developer of state-of-the-art gene expression, genotyping, cell biology and stem cell research systems, today announced the signing of an exclusive distribution agreement for the company's SmartSlide(TM) Micro-Incubation System with IUL Instruments GmbH in Germany. The distributor agreement covers WaferGen's entire [...]

SRU Biosystems Announces Introduction of Cartridge Reader Using BIND® Label-free Technology

WOBURN, Mass.--SRU Biosystems today announced the extension of its product line of label-free instrumentation and biosensors with the introduction of its Cartridge Reader based on 8- and 16-well biosensors. The Cartridge Reader is being offered as the company’s entry level instrument for assay development and low throughput applications to cellular and biochemical studies. Details of [...]

Troll Busters LLC Files for Reexamination of United States Patent 6,814,934 Controlled by Applied BioSystems Inc.

MERCER ISLAND, Wash.--Troll Busters LLC of Mercer Island, WA announces that it has filed a Reexamination Brief yesterday with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a reexamination of all of the broad Real Time PCR apparatus claims of U.S. Patent 6,814,934 (‘934 Patent) entitled “Instrument for Monitoring Nucleic Acid Amplification.” This specification was [...]

Access IBO on Knowledge Center