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Thermo Fisher launches HyCell CHO medium

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced the Thermo Scientific HyCell CHO cell-culture medium, a versatile animal-derived- component-free (ADCF) and chemically defined (CD) medium for culturing a broad variety of CHO cells.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 17 Mar 2012

Thermo Fisher launches innovations that enable customers to improve lab productivity

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced innovations that enable customers to improve laboratory productivity - by delivering results faster and with greater accuracy - while extending the boundaries of routine analysis. During Pittcon, being held from March 11-15, in Orlando, the company will showcase its scale and depth of capabilities across its three premier brands: Thermo Scientific, Fisher Scientific and Unity Lab Services.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 13 Mar 2012

Thermo Fisher introduces Dionex ICS-5000 system

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced the Thermo Scientific Dionex ICS-5000, a capillary high-pressure ion chromatography system that increases separation speeds and provides sharper peaks for high-efficiency ion chromatography.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 13 Mar 2012

Thermo Fisher launches three new capillary ion chromatography columns

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced three new high-capacity, high-efficiency 4 µm particle-size capillary IC columns that enable faster, more accurate analyses.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 13 Mar 2012

Thermo Fisher Scientific introduces integrated capillary high-pressure ion chromatography system

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the Thermo Scientific Dionex ICS-4000, the world's first commercially available integrated capillary high-pressure ion chromatography (HPIC) system, incorporating multiple detector options in one instrument.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 12 Mar 2012

Thermo Fisher Scientific launches Acclaim Surfactant Plus and MAbPac SCX-10 chromatography columns

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced new chromatography columns, the Thermo Scientific Acclaim Surfactant Plus and smaller-particle sized Thermo Scientific MAbPac SCX-10.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 12 Mar 2012

Thermo Fisher Scientific introduces new ICP-MS system, iCAP Q

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today launched its new Thermo Scientific iCAP Q, an ICP-MS system that features world-class performance and increased throughput to help laboratories cut analysis times by up to 50 percent when compared to the XSERIES 2 ICP-MS, the model it replaces.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 12 Mar 2012

Illumina launches new highly multiplexed cancer panel

Illumina today introduced the TruSeq Amplicon - Cancer Panel, a highly multiplexed panel that will allow researchers to accurately sequence hundreds of the most relevant cancer loci, even in difficult samples such as formalin-fixed, paraffin embedded (FFPE) tumor samples.

From Illumina, Inc. 7 Mar 2012

Roche extends cash tender offer to acquire all shares of Illumina

Roche announced today that it has extended its cash tender offer to acquire all outstanding shares of Illumina, Inc., at a price of $44.50 per share, to 6:00 p.m., New York City time, on March 23, 2012.

From Illumina, Inc. 27 Feb 2012

China's SFDA approves Dynex DS2 ELISA analyzer

Dynex Technologies announced today it has received approval from China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) to market the DS2 automated enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) analyzer in China.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 22 Feb 2012

Illumina introduces Cancer Analysis Service from IGN

Illumina, Inc. today announced the launch of a Cancer Analysis Service from the Illumina Genome Network (IGN) that leverages the high accuracy of Illumina technologies to provide cancer researchers with easily interpretable tumor/normal sequencing data to quickly move their research forward.

From Illumina, Inc. 16 Feb 2012

Study underscores power of real-time cell monitoring to dissect pluridimensionality of GPCR signaling

A research team led by Dr. Michel Bouvier at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of the University of Montreal in Quebec, used the Roche xCELLigence SP Instrument to measure changes in cell response following ligand stimulation.

From Roche Sequencing and Life Science 16 Feb 2012

Thermo Fisher Scientific introduces new handheld narcotics analyzer

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced Thermo Scientific TruNarc, a new handheld narcotics analyzer that gives local law enforcement a significant technology edge in the war on drugs.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 3 Feb 2012

Oxford Nanopore CTO to present at AGBT conference in Florida

Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd. announces that Clive G Brown, Chief Technology Officer, will present at the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) conference in Marco Island, Florida, on 17th February 2012 at 11.40am (EST) / 4.40pm (GMT).

From Oxford Nanopore Technologies 2 Feb 2012

Sartorius consolidated sales revenue increases to 733.1M for fiscal 2011

Sartorius, a leading international laboratory and process equipment provider, grew dynamically yet again in 2011 and significantly expanded its profitability. Both Group divisions reported highs in sales revenue and earnings.

From Sartorius 2 Feb 2012

Thermo Fisher fourth quarter revenues increase 15% to $3.13B

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2011.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. 1 Feb 2012

Technoclone, Roche enter strategic alliance to co-develop coagulation assays

Roche announced today that it has entered into a strategic alliance with Technoclone, a reagent specialist in thrombosis and cardiovascular diagnostics based in Vienna, Austria, to co-develop a complete range of coagulation assays.

From Roche Sequencing and Life Science 27 Jan 2012

Roche proposes to acquire Illumina for $44.50 per share

Roche announced today that it is proposing to acquire all outstanding shares of Illumina, Inc. for $44.50 per share in cash, or an aggregate of approximately $5.7 billion on a fully diluted basis.

From Roche Sequencing and Life Science 24 Jan 2012

Courtagen announces acquisition of Medicinal Genomics

Courtagen Life Sciences, Inc.

From Beckman Coulter Life Sciences - Automation and Genomics 18 Jan 2012

QIAGEN's therascreen EGFR Mutation Detection Kit receives Japanese regulatory approval

QIAGEN today announced the regulatory approval of its therascreen EGFR Mutation Detection Kit RGQ in Japan. EGFR, the epidermal growth factor receptor, has been shown to play an important role in certain cancers and is the target of many new anticancer drugs.

From QIAGEN Manchester Limited 10 Jan 2012