New PSD/4 Smooth Flow blends enhanced slow flow rates with precision dispensing for increased application flexibility across a wide volume range Reno, Nev. (July 28, 2017) – Hamilton Company expands its PSD/4 precision syringe drive product family with the launch of PSD/4 Smooth Flow. The new PSD/4 Smooth Flow delivers exact flow rates in nanoliters... Read more
FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., July 18, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced new technology that can automatically report and release negative urine cultures. Every day, medical laboratory professionals spend a significant amount of time reviewing urine samples. Because up to 70 percent of these samples... Read more
Milky Way for Preparing Pour Plate Total Viable Counts TAMPA, Fla., July 10, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — The MilkyWay is heading to the Sunshine State. COPAN Diagnostics, Inc. will unveil MilkyWay, the first fully automated instrument for preparing pour plate total viable bacterial counts on liquid samples, at the International Association for Food Protection Annual Conference in Tampa, Florida today. The... Read more
Saluggia, Italy and Männedorf, Switzerland, June 23, 2017 – DiaSorin (FTSE Italy Mid Cap: DIA) and Tecan Group (SIX Swiss Exchange: TECN) announced today that they have agreed to collaborate in a development under which DiaSorin will make use of Tecan’s Fluent® Laboratory Automation Solution as its Nucleic Acid extraction platform. The new platform will... Read more
New Eppendorf Pipette Holder System Hamburg, June 2017 Carousels, stands and wall mount devices: The new Pipette Holder System is perfect for all users of handheld liquid handling instruments, who need a highly flexible system for their Eppendorf pipettes and Multipettes®. Carousels and stands provide a robust design with a small footprint. To save precious... Read more
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) and Andrew Alliance today announced they have signed an agreement that will bring drug development scientists an easy-to-use, semi-automated sample preparation approach for released N-glycan profiling and analysis by LC and LC-MS. Under the co-marketing agreement, Waters will combine its existing Glycoworks™ RapiFluor-MS™ (RFMS) N-Glycan Kits with an Andrew pipetting robot that... Read more
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, and BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG, a global leader in metabolic phenotyping, today launched a ready-to-use kit for accurate and confident metabolic phenotyping on high resolution mass spectrometry instruments. As part of a co-marketing agreement, the companies will jointly promote and market the combined use of... Read more
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, will recognize the winners of the 2016 Thermo Scientific Tandem Mass Tag (TMT) Research Award at a breakfast workshop held on June 6, 2017 during the 65th American Society of Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Conference in Indianapolis. Now in its third year, the research competition selects scientists... Read more
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced a co-marketing agreement with Biognosys AG, leader in next-generation proteomics, to provide a comprehensive, efficient workflow to enable library creation and data processing for Data-Independent Acquisition (DIA) studies, through the combined use of Orbitrap mass spectrometers and Spectronaut Pulsar software. Compatible with the... Read more
AUSTIN, Texas, June 5, 2017 /PRNewswire/ –Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX) today announced that Japan’s Central Social Insurance Medical Council has approved the recommendation by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) to provide reimbursement for two VERIGENE® assays: the Gram-Positive Blood Culture (BC-GP) test and the Gram-Negative Blood Culture (BC-GN) test. The MHLW established reimbursement went into... Read more