Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) and Mississippi State University (MSU) announced a new analytical method developed by State Chemical Lab scientists at MSU that will be used to test seafood from the Gulf of Mexico for evidence of oil contamination, pending review from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Recently published research from Datamonitor, "Back to the Lab! Improving R&D Productivity and Efficiency with LIMS and ELNs", is now available at Fast Market Research

Pharsight, a market-leading provider of software and scientific services to improve productivity and decision-making in clinical drug development, announced today that it has named five leading universities as Phoenix Centers of Excellence as part of its continuing collaboration with academic departments and research organizations worldwide.

Do you know the boundaries between OQ and PQ? Do you know how to leverage the qualification testing that your Vendor has performed? Does your environment allow for a positive outcome? Is getting started the hard part? Developing the appropriate validation strategy ensures the delivery of a controlled and defendable system with the minimum of effort. Documenting delivery of desired functionality, while ensuring ongoing control, is the primary goal of validation. Operational qualification (OQ) and performance qualification (PQ) are two often implicated constructs in the validation process. Using OQ and PQ with intention can better target the business’ limited risk-mitigation resources and reducing non-value-adding repetition in order to achieve validation’s primary goal.

Combined Intelligent ETD and CID Fragmentation Approaches for Tyrosine Phosphorylation Site Determination Available on the LTQ Orbitrap XL ETD Mass Spectrometer

Labtronics Inc., a world leader in laboratory automation is pleased to announce the release of a new Connector for Nexxis ELN that allows the Electronic Laboratory Notebook to connect to any LIMS.

KIKA™ Clinical Solutions, the leader in advanced EDC solutions for Clinical Asset Management™, announced that Denmark-based CRO BioStata ApS has made a seven-figure investment in KIKA technology to provide its Veracity™ advanced EDC platform to biopharmaceutical clients in Europe.

The world's food system provides food for nearly seven billion people each day. But according to a new report from the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), more advances are critical for an adequate food supply, which must nearly double during the next several decades, for the future world population.

Aspen Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AZPN), a leading provider of software and services to the process industries, today announced that GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca and other pharmaceutical industry leaders are reducing their research and development time and costs using newly patented technology that is part of AspenTech’s aspenONE Process Development for Pharmaceuticals software.

The Food and Drug Administration can promote progress toward personalized medicine by approaching the oversight of laboratory developed tests (LDTs) in a focused, flexible, and balanced way according to the American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA).

13th July 2010, InterSystems announce that NHS Wales Informatics Service (NWIS) has selected InterSystems as its National Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) partner. The Welsh Assembly Government funding of £12.1m will be used to implement a single instance of InterSystems TrakCare Lab™.

Pilgrim Software, Inc., a world-leading provider of Enterprise Risk, Compliance and Quality Management (ERCQM) software solutions, today announced that Insulet Corporation, a Massachusetts-based medical device company, has gone live with Pilgrim’s On-Demand “SaaS” delivery of its automated management solution for Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) management.

Adriane announces that Takeda San Francisco, Takeda’s global center for excellence for biologics, has signed an agreement to license Ariadne’s Pathway Studio® software. Takeda plans to utilize the software and underlying text-mining algorithms in their discovery program against cancer, inflammatory and metabolic diseases.

Cambridge Healthtech Institute is hosting its second annual Next Generation Dx Summit on August 24-26, 2010 in Washington, DC. Building on last year's inaugural success, the Summit is designed to bring together all of the major players in the Molecular Diagnostics arena.

Practical solutions and protocols will once again be exchanged at Cambridge Healthtech Institute's second annual "The Bioprocessing Summit" taking place August 23-26, 2010, in Boston. The four meetings comprising the event (Optimizing Cell Culture Technology, Affinity Tag Protein Purification, Optimizing Mammalian Cell Lines, and Baculovirus Technology) will address bioprocess challenges ranging from cell line and clone selection to scale-up and affinity tag purification.

Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, today announced a joint project with Microsoft Corporation to create the PLM industry’s first cloud computing-based quality management solution.

Pilgrim Software, Inc., a world-leading provider of Enterprise Risk, Compliance and Quality Management (ECQM) software solutions, today announced the global availability of its expanded Regulatory Reporting platform. Rounding out the platform, the MedDRA adapter is the newest capability from Pilgrim, integrating with its Complaints Management solution to ease adverse event reporting to global regulatory bodies.

As part of its commitment to introducing third generation DNA sequencing technology to the market, Pacific Biosciences today announced the launch of a software developer’s network – the PacBio DevNet – at the Eighteenth International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2010).