Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced a comprehensive range of clinical research and diagnostic products at the annual conference of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC).

LABVANTAGE today announced that its C5-LIMS by SoftwarePoint has been chosen by a major regional public health care authority in Northern Europe. The goal of the project is to completely digitize and automate all of their pathology laboratories. The system will eventually become one of the largest such installations in the world and among the first of its kind in northern Europe.

RURO, Inc., an award winning innovator of research productivity and management solutions today introduced their newly created RURO Smart RFID program targeting life sciences applications that will benefit from enhanced accuracy, safety, security and productivity that radio frequency identification (RFID) technology enables.

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PACS offers monthly short courses in major cities. Courses can also be provided at the client's time and place. The remaining 2011 month and city schedule is August Atlantic City NJ; September Seattle WA; October Pittsburgh PA - 28th International Activated Carbon Conference; November Orlando FL; December Miami FL. September PACS Courses and Consulting in Seattle PACS Testing, Contract R&D, Consulting, Short Courses and Conferences will provide short courses in Seattle, Washington this September.

First of Leading Enterprise ELN Solutions to have Web-Based Client; Additional BioBook and ChemBook Releases Provide Enhanced Chemistry and Regulatory Capabilities

LABVANTAGE, the leading provider of Laboratory Informatics solutions, today announced that its LABVANTAGE Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) has been chosen by a major multi-national healthcare company headquartered in Europe. This new $1M USD contract will supplement their current successful deployments within their North American operations and will encompass an extensive multi-site rollout.

Molecular Devices, LLC, a leader in bioanalytical systems for drug discovery & development, life science research, and bioassay/test development, today announced that the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) has accredited the Laboratory Quality System under ISO/IEC 17025 for validation plate calibration and re-calibration processes.

Two Fold Software Limited’s innovative Qualoupe LIMS solution now features a new secure web reporting capability that offers laboratory users and their customers even greater flexibility to drive their business forward by generating ‘priceless’ on-demand reports derived from laboratory data.

Accelrys, Inc., a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, today announced a new release of the Discovery Studio® life sciences modeling and simulation software. The release incorporates the first commercially available software for predicting protein-protein aggregation to advance biotherapeutics research. In addition, a major update to the software’s 3D-molecular ActiveX control enables researchers to display dynamic molecular visualizations in webpages, Microsoft Office® applications and Microsoft SharePoint® collaboration software.

PACS offers monthly short courses in major cities. Courses can also be provided at the client's time and place. The remaining 2011 month and city schedule is July St Louis MO; July PACS courses in Asia: MS, GC, Activated Carbon in Singapore; August Atlantic City NJ; September Seattle WA; October Pittsburgh PA - 28th International Activated Carbon Conference; November Orlando FL; December Miami FL.

Cambridge Healthtech Institute will host its third annual Next Generation Dx Summit from August 23-25, 2011 in Washington, DC. Building on last year's success, the Summit is designed to bring together all of the major players in the evolving areas of diagnostics. The seven meetings comprising the Summit will showcase improvements in technology research and development with an emphasis towards application to the clinical laboratory and commercialization

Molecular Devices Inc., a leader in bioanalytical systems for drug discovery & development, life science research, and bioassay/test development, today announced that it has expanded the functionality of the SoftMax® Pro Software and prominence of the SpectraMax® microplate readers, enabling monitor and control ability via an Apple iPad wireless device.

Practical solutions and protocols will once again be exchanged at Cambridge Healthtech Institute's third annual "The Bioprocessing Summit" taking place August 22-25, 2011, in Boston. From cell line selection and transfection, to biopreservation, scale-up and bioreactor design, this event explores the bioprocesses that continually consume time and resources.

Contur Software AB, a wholly owned subsidiary of Accelrys, Inc., today announced that compound supplier Key Organics Ltd. has chosen the cloud solution iLabber as their Electronic Laboratory Notebook system. iLabber will be used within early drug discovery research to improve research documentation and knowledge sharing and reinforce IP protection in contract research.

Multi-site implementation for manufacturing and QC

• Thermo Fisher Scientific Recognized as Winner of the 2011 Microsoft Life Sciences Innovation Awards for Fourth Year in a Row.
• Thermo Scientific LIMS transforms information management solution at Nova Biologicals.
This is the fourth consecutive year that the company has been recognized by Microsoft, demonstrating Thermo Fisher’s leading position as a provider of innovative enterprise informatics solutions to the life sciences industry.

Ross Group Inc (RGI) announced final contract award of the Universal Veterinary Information System (UVIS) with the University of Pretoria located in South Africa.

Today, CLC bio announced the offer of one 6-months license of CLC bio's premier desktop software package, CLC Genomics Workbench, to researchers and organizations who have purchased one of these sequencing instruments: Ion Torrent PGM from Life Technologies, 454 GS Junior from Roche, or Illumina's upcoming MiSeq. The licenses will be for a fully functional version and support as well as all software upgrades during the half year period are included.

LABVANTAGE Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of products and solutions for Laboratory Informatics, including Laboratory Information Management Solutions (LIMS), quality electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) and business intelligence, announced the relocation of its corporate headquarters to Somerset, New Jersey, the United States.