Leading Chinese Pharmaceutical Research Service Company Selects Watson LIMS
April 20, 2006
Philadelphia, PA – Thermo Electron Corporation,that WuXi PharmaTech Co., Ltd., the leader in the pharmaceutical R&D services industry in China, has selected Watson LIMS to meet the specific data management requirements of its bioanalytical facilities. Shanghai-based WuXi PharmaTech serves 19 of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies and 8 of the top 10 biopharmaceutical companies in [...]
April 19, 2006
SEATTLE and SAN JOSE, Calif.--Rosetta Biosoftware and Sage-N Research, Inc. announced a collaboration to establish interoperability between Rosetta Biosoftware's Elucidator(R) system for protein expression analysis and biomarker discovery and Sage-N Research's Sorcerer(TM) proteomic integrated data appliance to offer customers an advanced solution for protein expression research and protein identification. The Rosetta Elucidator system is a [...]
April 17, 2006
SAN DIEGO--Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) announced that it has introduced the Illumina AutoLoader to stage up to 40 high-density Sentrix(R) BeadChips for scanning on a BeadStation - sufficient for 15 hours of unattended, automated operation. Combined with a new software release for BeadStation that increases scan speed, system operators can now achieve scanning throughput 400% greater [...]
April 17, 2006
PALO ALTO, Calif., Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A)announced that it has acquired privately held SynPro Corp., the owner of a contract manufacturing facility established to supply active pharmaceutical ingredients and provide related services. Financial details were not disclosed. Based on Agilent and industry estimates, the size of the combined RNA and DNA synthesis market is [...]
AMETEK OPENS CUSTOMER SERVICE OFFICE FOR PROCESS INSTRUMENTS IN CHENGDU, SICHUAN, CHINA
April 13, 2006
PITTSBURGH, PA - AMETEK Process Instruments has significantly expanded its service and customer support capabilities in China with the opening of a new office in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in Southwest China. AMETEK’s Chengdu office, located at No. 35 Zongfu Road, commenced operation on March 1, 2006, and joins AMETEK sales, service and [...]
Siemens Acquires Ultrasonic Flow Measurement Firm
April 11, 2006
Siemens Acquires Ultrasonic Flow Measurement Firm Controlotron Atlanta, GA -Siemens Energy & Automation has entered into an asset purchase agreement for Controlotron, a maker of nonintrusvie ultrasonic flowmeters. Financial details were not disclosed. "Controlotron is highly recognized for its advanced technology in non-intrusive flow measurement, and its strong market positions in oil and gas, water [...]
GE Healthcare Unveils New Life Sciences Business
April 6, 2006
Chalfont St Giles, UK - GE Healthcare has announced the creation of GE Healthcare Life Sciences – a new business, involving the combination of two existing businesses – Protein Separations and Discovery Systems and is effective immediately. By this move GE Healthcare confirms the company’s ongoing investment and commitment to the protein and life science [...]
Affymetrix and Abbott Enter Into Licensing Agreement
April 5, 2006
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Affymetrix Inc. (Nasdaq:AFFX) announced that Abbott Molecular, a division of Abbott, has obtained a non-exclusive, worldwide license to a number of Affymetrix patents that will allow it to manufacture and sell comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) microarrays, related readers and software in the research and diagnostics field. Details of the license were not disclosed.
April 5, 2006
SAN JOSE, California – Thermo Electron Corporation has concluded a licensing agreement with the University of Virginia for Electron Transfer Dissociation (ETD), an innovative new ion fragmentation technology that provides sequence information not available from conventional methods currently in use on ion trap mass spectrometers.
April 4, 2006
FOSTER CITY, Calif & WASHINGTON--At the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, Applied Biosystems (NYSE:ABI), an Applera Corporation business, announced the commercial availability of 300 individual TaqMan(R) MicroRNA Assays (also known as miRNA assays) for human, mouse, and rat studies. MicroRNAs, one of the smallest entities in the human genome responsible [...]
