Truven Health Analytics℠, formerly the Healthcare business of Thomson Reuters, today announced that CHRISTUS Health, a 30 hospital, 5,000 bed organization located in seven U.S. states, has completed a multi-year agreement for broad access to Micromedex® Clinical Knowledge Suite for evidence-based Drug, Toxicology, Disease, Neonatal and Pediatric clinical resources and tools.

LifeMap Sciences, Inc., a subsidiary of BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT: BTX), announced today the release of GeneCards®, Version 3.09, on November 18, 2012. The new release is available at www.genecards.org. LifeMap Sciences holds the exclusive worldwide license to market GeneCards® from Yeda Research and Development Company Ltd., the commercial arm of the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Accelrys, Inc., a leading provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management software, today announced release 6.1 of the Accelrys Materials Studio ® modeling and simulation environment, providing seamless integration with the Accelrys Pipeline Pilot scientific authoring application, the scientifically aware Accelrys Enterprise Platform and Accelrys Materials Studio Collection.

Autoscribe, developer of the Matrix Gemini Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), has published a white paper which looks at the common factors that contribute to risk in LIMS projects. Available for download from www.autoscribe.co.uk/about/press-releases/2012/146-risk-management, the white paper includes examples of projects that have run into difficulties due to inadequate risk management.

BioTime, Inc. and its subsidiary LifeMap Sciences have announced the launch of LifeMap BioReagents™ (http://bioreagents.lifemapsc.com/), a new portal offering researchers access to BioTime’s research product lines including PureStem™ human progenitor cell lines, PureStem™ packages, clinical and research grade human embryonic stem cell lines (hES), HyStem® hydrogels, culture media, and cell differentiation kits.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the Winter/Spring semester application deadline for its Thermo Scientific Pierce Scholarship program, which provides educational opportunities and $80,000 in scholarships annually to the future generation of scientists. Winter/Spring semester applications are being accepted through December 14, 2012.

Exemplar Laboratory Information System for Tablets along with the new generation of tablets such as the Google Nexus 10, Samsung Galaxy Note™ 10.1 and iPad™ 2/3/4, allows lab technicians to work untethered from a desktop or laptop computer and to take Exemplar with them where they are working. Exemplar’s Lab Management Software for Tablets features a workflow-driven, responsive touch interface with intuitive mechanisms for common LIMS software needs like multi-selection, file loading, resizing and scrolling. Exemplar also addresses the limited screen real estate by converting into full screen, app mode when its workflows are running. Wireless barcode scanners can also be joined with the tablet allowing for barcode scanning directly into Exemplar, further improving lab technician efficiency.

Process Systems Enterprise (PSE), the Advanced Process Modelling company, today announced the release of gCRYSTAL 3.0, its industry-leading software tool for increasing R&D efficiency, scaling up with reduced risk and optimising crystallization processes.

Quartz Imaging Corporation will be showcasing its’ newest release of its’ FA-LIMS system (Failure Analysis Laboratory Information System) at the International Symposium for Testing & Failure Analysis (ISTFA 2012), held in Phoenix, AZ on November 13th and 14th. The first generation of the Quartz Basic LIMS and FA-LIMS has been successfully deployed in many companies around the world including multi-national semi-conductor organizations.

Hyperion and the Hellenic Peproleum Group announce the successful completion of a major upgrade and extension project for the Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) at the three Greek petroleum refineries of the Group. The 10-month long project, also provided the migration of the three systems to a single unified environment with common work processes, data and reporting infrastructure, and was implemented on the Thermo Scientific SampleManager LIMS software platform from Thermo Fisher Scientific, a US-based corporation and Hyperion’s strategic partner in Greece, Cyprus, Russia and Saudi Arabia.

AB SCIEX, Phenomenex and Peak Scientific are taking their laboratory solutions across Europe in a mobile laboratory, providing “open house” opportunities on the European MASStastic Voyage Tour for anyone interested in using mass spectrometry and separation science to solve analytical challenges.

WWEM is the specialist event for the Water, Wastewater and Environmental Monitoring community. WWEM is focused on measurement, testing and analysis for the water and wastewater and environmental industry. From test kits to process measurement,laboratory analysis right through to fixed and portable gas detection, if you work in the water industry, you need to be at WWEM.

Protein & Antibody Engineering Summit Europe

Ingenuity® Systems, a leading provider of biomedical information and analysis solutions, and Laboratory Corporation of America® Holdings (LabCorp®) today announced a long term collaboration for LabCorp to license and deploy Ingenuity's clinical content and applications to rapidly review and annotate clinically relevant sequence variations.

Partek® today announced it has added Partek® Flow® to Illumina’s BaseSpace Apps, Illumina’s dedicated applications store and informatics community dedicated to advancing genomic analysis. Partek Flow is utilized for multiple next generation sequencing applications including RNA-Seq, small RNA-Seq, exome, and targeted sequencing. It provides a single web-based environment to carry out multiple tasks, which can be executed an unlimited number of times on an unlimited number of samples.

Each year at the PITTCON conference, Conferee Networking Sessions are held for all registered attendees to attend and network in an informal setting. In the two-hour sessions, attendees with similar interests meet to discuss new techniques, resolve problems, or brainstorm new ideas. The three abstracts submitted by CSols were accepted and we are very excited to moderate each of them.

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the Encore Multispan Liquid Handling System, featuring an array of unique technological advances in a single instrument. The Encore Multispan Liquid Handling System is unlike any other instrument available today and will enable new automation capabilities that improve every stage of the research process.

OKI (OKI Electric Industry) and ISID (Information Services International-Dentsu) today announced the launch of "PLEXUS CM" which incorporates part of OKI's "COINServ®-COSMOS-R/R", system for managing information on chemicals found in products, as a new choice from the menu of features provided as part of ISID's "PLEXUS" enterprise product life-cycle management (PLM) cloud computing service.

RURO, Inc., a leading developer of innovative research productivity tools, is pleased to announce official support for Citizen CL series barcode label printers in both FreezerPro and LIMS 24/7.