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Product news in brief - week 37

13-Sep-2007 - LabTechnologist.com brings you its round of recent product releases, with new offerings from Affymetrix, ATTC, BTX, KD Scientific, Illumina, Micronic, Seegene and Warner Instruments.

Cellectricon delivers genome-wide RNAi screening system

12-Sep-2007 - Swedish cell-based screening expert Cellectricon has placed the world's first high throughput (HT) genome-wide RNAi screening system at a beta-test site for evaluation.

AstraZeneca to help Biovator replace in vivo allergy testing

11-Sep-2007 - AstraZeneca (AZ) is to assist Biovator in the development of its in vitro test for identifying potential allergens that could replace many experiments on animals.

Cisbio to brighten screening technology

10-Sep-2007 - Cisbio has entered into a partnership agreement with Lumiphore to gain access to new fluorescence reporter molecules for use in its high throughput (HT) screening assays.

Product news in brief - week 36

06-Sep-2007 - LabTechnologist.com brings you its round up of latest product news, with releases from 3Prime, Applied Biosystems, Millipore, Olympus, Roche/454, Symbion and Thermo Fisher Scientific.

eMolecules opens the ChemGate for spectral access

06-Sep-2007 - eMolecules launched a new web-based database, ChemGate, that contains over 700,000 spectra that Wiley-VCH has collected for over 500,000 molecules.

Anasys enables point and click local thermal analysis

06-Sep-2007 - Anasys Instruments has launched the world's first easy-to-use local thermal analyser which promises to help pharmaceutical companies' quality control (QC) of drug coatings and formulations.

IonGate and LIVC to push screening to the next level

05-Sep-2007 - High-throughput (HT) screening expert IonGate will assist start-up LIVC with the development and marketing of its novel light-activated ion channel switching technology.

Millipore targets arthritis research efficiency

04-Sep-2007 - Millipore has released a new kit that allows researchers to quickly generate arthritis mouse models for screening and evaluating anti-inflammatory therapeutics.

Product news in brief - week 35

30-Aug-2007 - LabTechnologist.com brings you its periodic round up of new product releases and product news, with new offerings from Aura, Horiba Jobin Yvon, Integra, Metrohm, Millipore, Promega, Roche and Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Sigma-Aldrich jump on the LentiExpress for RNAi screening

30-Aug-2007 - Sigma-Aldrich has launched a new technology that promises to dramatically simplify and speed-up high-throughput (HT) RNAi screening of the human kinome.

MicroCal pushes ITC towards secondary screening applications

28-Aug-2007 - The launch of the world's fastest isothermal titration calorimeter (ITC) could herald a new dawn for a technique traditionally hampered by throughput limitations and the need for large amounts of sample.

Synthetic MAb purification tech edges closer to market

28-Aug-2007 - The UK arm of biopharma company ProMetic has hit a milestone with its breakthrough synthetic molecule solution for protein purification.

Big pharma learning drug safety lessons

28-Aug-2007 - Big pharma is learning from past failures to improve its ability to predict drug toxicity earlier in the development process.

Symyx expands lab automation tools

23-Aug-2007 - Symyx Technologies has released a machine designed to automate the sample preparation stage of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) solubility experiments, saving researchers valuable time.

Product news in brief - week 34

21-Aug-2007 - LabTechnologist.com brings you a round-up of recent product news, with new releases and news from Copley Scientific, Uniqsis, Q Chip and Applied Biosystems.

Applied Biosystems expanding genotyping access

21-Aug-2007 - Through a new service partnership, Applied Biosystems is helping scientists study genetic variations - even if they can't access or afford the necessary lab equipment.

Agilent expands microarray offering with FFPE sample labelling kit

15-Aug-2007 - Using technology recently licensed from Kreatech, Agilent has launched a kit to enable researchers to more easily access genetic information from formalin-fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) samples.

Product news in brief - week 33

14-Aug-2007 - LabTechnologist.com brings you a round-up of recent product news, with new releases and news form Bruker, FEI, Illumina, Millipore, Paraytec and Sigma-Aldrich.

Invitrogen takes the stress out of stem cell 'passaging'

13-Aug-2007 - The launch of Invitrogen's Stempro EZPassage should substantially reduce the time and stress involved in dividing up cultures of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) colonies.

Jeol ups the ante with new 'entry level' NMR machine

09-Aug-2007 - Jeol has launched a new NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) spectrometer that brings a high performance instrument to routine drug discovery and quality control applications, all in an 'entry level' package.

PerkinElmer reduces the cost of cellular imaging

09-Aug-2007 - PerkinElmer has launched an 'introductory configuration' of its Opera system to lower the upfront cost of adding high content screening (HCS) to drug discovery and systems biology programmes.

PerkinElmer expands LC/MS validation service

09-Aug-2007 - PerkinElmer has expanded its multi-vendor service offering to help firms reduce the cost of regulatory compliance in pharmaceutical drug development and manufacturing quality control laboratories.

Celsis tech gets pharma recognition

07-Aug-2007 - Celsis' Rapid Microbiological Method (RMM) has been included in GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) successful Veramyst New Drug Application (NDA), paving the way for broader acceptance of the time saving technique.

Entelos to develop liver injury model for the FDA

06-Aug-2007 - The search for better models to predict drug-induced human liver damage has led the FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) to turn to Entelos to design a 'virtual liver' to guide biomarker and assay development.