October 23, 2006 - Materia Announces NIH Funding for the Development of Advanced Reagent System for Drug Discovery

Materia has announced NIH funding for the further development of a metathesis-enabled reagent system for drug discovery.

October 19, 2006 - Radiochromatography software can run the whole show

Whatever your LC set-up, it's likely that Laura can control it - detector, pump, auto-sampler and all.

October 19, 2006 - BioIT Alliance Shows Progress in Accelerating the Pace of Drug Discovery and Development

Agilent Technologies, Applied Biosystems and Illumina Inc. team up with Microsoft and software providers to accelerate work in biomarker discovery.

October 19, 2006 - Geospiza Proud to be a Part of Microsoft BioIT Alliance

Bringing together technology savvy leaders with scientifically-focused products

October 19, 2006 - Agilent Technologies joins BioIT Alliance

Agilent Technologies today announced that it has joined the BioIT Alliance, a cross-industry group working together to improve biomedical information technology.

October 18, 2006 - NextBio™ Addresses Fundamental Research Challenge With General Availability of Knowledge-based Discovery Platform

NextBio (http://www.nextbio.com) today announced the general availability of its first-of-a-kind, knowledge-based discovery platform. For nearly a year, scientists at leading research institutions have been using NextBio’s platform in diverse therapeutic areas to generate new hypotheses and advance research discovery.

October 18, 2006 - Novinity Software Announces the Release of PAT toolkit™ Version 3.0 Software for the FDA’s Process Analytical Technology (PAT) Initiative

Novinity Software announced today the release of its Version 3.0 PAT toolkit™.

October 18, 2006 - Los Alamos licenses avian flu modeling and simulation software

Santa Fe-based CIVA (The Company for Information Visualization and Analysis) signed an agreement to license Los Alamos National Laboratory's epidemiological modeling and simulation system, called EpiCast.

October 18, 2006 - GraphLogic to Build Custom LIMS for Genetic Services for Sequenom

GraphLogic Inc. announced today that they have been selected by Sequenom, Inc. to create a custom laboratory information management system (LIMS).

October 18, 2006 - Bio-Rad Announces Fall Web Seminars for Technology Advances in Spectral Analysis and Metabolomics

Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., a multinational manufacturer and distributor of life science research and clinical diagnostics products, announced today that it will offer a series of web seminars focused on the latest technological advances in spectral analysis and the emerging area of metabolomics.

October 16, 2006 - Laboratory Productivity Improves with First Commercial Mass Spectrometry-based System for Amino Acid Analysis

Amino Acid 20/20 Analyzer from Applied Biosystems/MDS SCIEX brings new approach to common pharmaceutical, food testing, and protein research applications

October 16, 2006 - Another source of jobs and income: Chemtech opens new office

Chemtech is opening another office today in Porto Alegre, state of Rio Grande do Sul. The company now has 7 offices: Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Belo Horizonte (state of Minas Gerais), Salvador (state of Bahia), Manaus (state of Amazonas), Porto Alegre (state of Rio Grande do Sul), and Houston (USA).

October 16, 2006 - Irosoft Signs a Seven-Year Agreement with Justice Canada

The Department of Justice Canada (DJC) recently signed a seven-year service agreement (four years plus a three-year option) with the Montreal-based company Irosoft. Under this agreement, Irosoft's mandate is to ensure the maintenance and development of modules for the LIMS system, which, in particular, improves access to Canada's acts and regulations for the general public and other government departments.

October 13, 2006 - M-Medical has become the new Italian distributor of Ocimum Biosolutions

Ocimum Biosolutions announced that it has concluded an agreement with M-Medical S.r.l. that, effective October 02, 2006, M-Medical becomes an authorized distributor of Ocimum Biololutions Micro Array services and products in Italy

October 13, 2006 - Chemtech: Automation processes for metallurgical industry discussed at seminar

According to the ABM (Brazilian Metallurgy and Materials Industry Association), of the 32 million tons of steel produced in Brazil in 2005, 55% were allocated to 26 consumer industries of the domestic market and 45% were exported to 100 countries. "Automation has been one of the key factors to help our industry face commercial competition", declared ABM executive director Horacídio Leal Filho.

October 12, 2006 - Intertek Caleb Brett Selects BioAnalyte’s ProTrawler LC/MS Software for High Throughput Metabolomics Operations

Intertek will implement ProTrawler in its Manchester (UK)-based Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology laboratory.

October 12, 2006 - Professional Analytical and Consulting Services Presents – 18th International Activated Carbon Conference & Courses Program

Professional Analytical and Consulting Services Presents - 18th International Activated Carbon Conference & Courses Program

October 12, 2006 - InforSense® and Thermo Electron Corporation Announce Three-Year OEM Agreement

InforSense Ltd., the leading provider of enterprise real-time analytics and Thermo Electron Corporation, the leading provider of analytical instruments, today announced a three-year OEM agreement. Under this agreement, InforSense will provide their KDE platform to Thermo for integration into the industry-standard BioWorks package for proteomics data analysis.

October 11, 2006 - European Medicines Agency (EMEA) Goes Live With Sparta Systems’ TrackWise Quality and Compliance Management Software

Sparta Systems, Inc., the leader in enterprise quality and compliance management software for the life sciences and other highly regulated industries, announced today that the European Medicines Agency (EMEA), Europe's governing agency for the promotion and protection of public and animal health in a global environment, has completed implementation of TrackWise(R) software.

October 11, 2006 - See Neptune LIMS at WWEM 2006, Stand 21 , Telford, UK , 1 – 2 Nov 2006

Autoscribe will exhibit its unique Matrix Gemini™ Neptune LIMS solution for the Water and WasteWater Industry at WWEM 2006, Stand 21.