Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, will showcase its new informatics offerings on booth #1741 at PITTCON® 2008 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1-7. Under the theme `Moving Science Forward`, the company will demonstrate a range of innovative analytical instruments, software and laboratory workflow solutions marketed under its Thermo Scientific brand.

Labtronics Inc. is pleased to announce the release of the LimsLink Worksheet Utility v4.1, a stand-alone application that assists organizations with management of the LimsLink v4.1 worksheets that they generate. LimsLink is Labtronics’ industry leading solution for connecting laboratory instruments with LIMS.

Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, has scheduled its annual Laboratory Informatics Symposium (LIS), to take place on 14-15 February 2008 at the Le Meridien in Bangalore, India.

GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) and a leading global provider of automated high content analysis systems, today presents a preview of its new IN Cell Miner High-Content Manager (HCM) software for the management of complex data generated by cellular high content analysis (HCA) and screening, at the CHI High Content Analysis meeting in San Francisco.

A new Protein Binding module is available with Debra 5.7, the latest release of LabLogic’s ADME LIMS.

Test engineers in industries ranging from aerospace and defense to consumer electronics are facing the challenge of testing increasingly complicated designs with shrinking timelines and budgets. To address these issues, engineers and scientists are incorporating new test and measurement technologies that are capable of meeting complex design requirements without raising costs. National Instruments, a worldwide leader in automated test solutions, has identified five trends it anticipates will significantly influence the test and measurement industry over the next three years.

Mettler Toledo and Applied Biosystems (NYSE:ABI), an Applera Corporation business, announced an integrated solution that is expected to improve the workflow and the transfer of information in laboratories for many scientific disciplines, including the life science, chemistry, food and petrochemical industries. The companies have collaborated to create a unique solution through which they are providing researchers in these fields the means to exchange data between precision instruments and laboratory information management systems.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, will showcase its new informatics offerings on booth #1741 at PITTCON 2008 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1-7. Under the theme "Moving Science Forward", the company will demonstrate a range of innovative analytical instruments, software and laboratory workflow solutions marketed under its Thermo Scientific brand.

Timeless Medical Systems announces the release of the Timeless Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) version 3.0.

3i Infotech's ORION(TM) ERP offered with Caliber's LIMS to deliver richer, integrated business process visibility for manufacturing companies

Pharsight Corporation (Nasdaq: PHST), a leading provider of software and strategic services for optimizing clinical drug development, today announced that a global biopharmaceutical company has become its 21st PKS customer.

Systat Software, Inc., a leading developer and supplier of award-winning scientific software and services, today launched MYSTAT 12, a freely downloadable statistical analysis software package designed specifically for use by students and teaching community.

The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) and the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) have announced a joint venture to present educational programs to clinical and public health laboratories.

Sparta Systems, Inc. (Sparta), the maker of TrackWise(R), and the market leader in enterprise quality and compliance management software announce that BioReliance, a leading contract services organization for the biopharmaceutical and pharmaceutical industries, deployed TrackWise to handle key quality management activities.

Autoscribe is offering a new LIMS selection guide which is based on over 60 years of practical management experience, specifying and delivering, successful LIMS solutions to any laboratory in any industry.

Seacoast Laboratory Data Systems, Inc., a market leader in laboratory and financial systems for the commercial laboratory, announced today that it has reached an agreement with PathNet Esoteric Laboratory Institute (Van Nuys, California) to install and maintain Seacoast’s full line of software systems for the commercial laboratory including: SurroundLab™ Plus laboratory information system and SurroundLab™AR revenue cycle management system.

Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced it has completed the acquisition of Velocity11, a leader in automated liquid handling and laboratory robotics for the life science market. Financial details were not disclosed.

STARLIMS Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq:LIMS), a leading provider of laboratory information management systems (LIMS), today announced an $800,000 follow-on order from a leading contract research organization (CRO) providing clinical research services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies around the world.

Ocimum Biosolutions (Ocimum) is pleased to announce that it has raised capital from Kubera Cross Border Fund (KUBC) for an equity investment of up to US$17 million (including the pro rata investment by affiliates of Kubera Partners, LLC, the Investment Manager of KUBC).

Applied Biosystems and METTLER TOLEDO, today announced an integrated solution that is expected to improve the workflow and the transfer of information in laboratories for many scientific disciplines, including the life science, chemistry, food and petrochemical industries. The companies have collaborated to create a unique solution through which they are providing researchers in these fields the means to exchange data between precision instruments and laboratory information management systems.