Russ Swan, Editor, writes:
We see from your search that you're looking for information on the term "Assay Development",
and we have a large number of manufacturers' news releases and technical articles here on Laboratorytalk which will be of interest.
Let me be your guide.
Start with
the news release Complete package for assay development is online from
Randox Laboratories, which we summarised at the time by saying "The range of products includes monoclonal, polyclonal and recombinant antibodies, recombinant proteins and conjugates for all your research needs in the life sciences sector".
A couple of weeks before,
we featured the news release Assay enables study of all kinases and ATPases from
Cisbio International: "Assay measures the generation of ADP (Adenosine 5'-diphosphate), which is directly detected by a specific antibody labelled with Eu3+ cryptate and correlates with amount of phosphorylated substrate".
In January 2008, we covered the news from Argenta Discovery
- take a look at Electrophysiology and hERG screening from Argenta
which says: "Argenta Discovery has entered into an alliance with NeuroSolutions to gain preferential access to its specialist electrophysiology and hERG testing services and expertise".
Take a look also at the news release from Carl Zeiss MicroImaging, High content analyses for research microscopes,
as well as JV to develop molecular diagnostics products from Qiagen,
and Automated pipetting makes most of real-time PCR from Eppendorf UK.
See also:
Lumi4 complexes are incorporated in Cisbio assays
(October 2007)
Cisbio and Lumiphore Announce Partnership for New Product and Technology Development Incorporating Lumi4 Compounds
Easier determination of cell cycle phases
(September 2007)
Enhanced version of Guava Cell Cycle Assay allows quick, easy determinations of G0/G1, S and G2/M cell cycle phases and distinguishes without interference commonly occuring aggregates
Nanostream enters European market
(September 2007)
As part of its growth strategy in Europe, Netherlands office will facilitate sales of Nanostream's micro parallel liquid chromatography products and assay development services to European scientists
Isothermal titration calorimeter is faster
(August 2007)
Researchers can now achieve gold standard binding affinities with only 200ul of sample by using the new iTC200 Isothermal Titration Calorimeter from MicroCal
New syphilis test speeds diagnosis
(August 2007)
Newmarket Laboratories, part of the Lab21 Group, has developed a new diagnostic test for syphilis that is rapid, accurate and easy to use
Tecan workstations help automate cancer research
(August 2007)
Researchers at the life sciences company Genomic Health, California, USA, have chosen Tecan's liquid handling workstations to automate the development of Genomic's multi-gene expression assay
Outsourcing of assay development speeds discovery
(July 2007)
By employing a separation-based approach, Nanostream says it has the capability to develop a variety of challenging assays including kinase assays, lipid-modifying enzyme assays and protease assays
Workstation for assay development flexibility
(July 2007)
Cybio says its new generation flexible assay processor CyBi-NanoJetFap is the ideal assay workstation for assay development or cell based assays
Smartscreen is like Assay Platform, but smaller
(July 2007)
Although the system has not been formally launched, such is the interest in the smaller sibling of the Assay Platform that one has already been sold and there are several more sales in the pipeline
Southern hemisphere monoclonal antibody production
(July 2007)
Tecan and Monash Antibody Technologies Facility announce a partnership to create one of the largest, most sophisticated monoclonal antibody production systems in the world today
Biomarker alliance with AstraZeneca
(June 2007)
Cancer Research Technology and the University of Manchester announce the establishment of an alliance with AstraZeneca to develop serological pharmacodynamic (PD) biomarkers
Kinase assay platform extended to Tyrosine enzymes
(April 2007)
Cisbio international, a developer of HTRF technology and services used in assay development and drug screening, announced the launch of HTRF Kinease TK at the SBS Conference in Montreal, Canada
Liquid handling for high-throughput operations
(April 2007)
The Equator HTS and Latitude are based on Deerac's spot-on low-volume dispensing technology, which uses a time-pressure valve design to provide high speed dispensing for low volume plates
Transgenomic takes up SpectruMedix challenge
(April 2007)
Transgenomic will provide Spectrumedix instrument service and consumables support in the United States and other areas as well as continue the offering to its Spectrumedix customers in Europe
Nanosys and Bruker in Naldi-Tof collaboration
(March 2007)
Companies to launch nanotechnology-enabled small molecule chemical analysis chips for high-throughput laser desorption ionisation mass spectrometry
AnaSpec introduces 55 new catalogue peptides
(February 2007)
This week AnaSpec, one of the world's largest providers of custom and catalogue peptides, introduced 55 new peptides for drug discovery research
Thermo equipment to aid biomarker discovery
(November 2006)
Thermo Electron has entered into a collaborative research and development agreement with the Research in Immune Tolerance in Transplantation (RITT) programme
The next generation of kinetic cell-based assays
(October 2006)
Molecular Devices has introduced FlexStation 3 next- generation multi-detection benchtop reader with fluidics, based on the SpectraMax M5 multi-detection system with the addition of liquid handling
Detection for fluorescence polarisation and Fret
(October 2006)
Molecular Devices announced in February 2006 the launch of its Imap time resolved fluorescence resonance energy transfer (TR-Fret) homogeneous detection system for its proprietary Imap platform
Simple and flexible hit to lead identification
(October 2006)
Nanostream will host a webinar on 'A simple and flexible system for hit to lead identification' on Wednesday, October 4 at 11:00am EST
Triple laser microplate cytometer suits HCS
(September 2006)
TTP LabTech initiated the second generation of high content screening (HCS) systems with the launch of the triple laser Acumen eX3 microplate cytometer at SBS 2006
Bench-top system helps qualify drug candidates
(September 2006)
Caliper Life Sciences has launched the Desktop Profiler, a bench-top system for kinase profiling, at the Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) conference and exhibition in Seattle
Expanded list of serine/threonine kinases
(August 2006)
Cisbio international expands its list of serine/threonine kinases validated using HTRF Kinease; company's universal kinase assay platform now validated on 104 kinases
Optimal performance to speed up assay development
(August 2006)
Varioskan Flash is a spectral scanning multimode reader with fluorescence intensity, time-resolved fluorescence (TRF), photometric, and luminometric detection technologies
$1.9M grant by France's National Research Agency
(August 2006)
Will be used to fund the company's intracellular molecular imaging (IMI) project, one of 70 selected from 400 applications for funding in the area of biology and healthcare technological innovation
Major new immunoassay analyser launched
(August 2006)
Olympus Life and Material Science Europa has launched its new immunoassay system, the Olympus AU3000i high performance analyser for measurement of heterogeneous assays, to an enthusiastic audience
Assay for all labs focused on GPCR-based targets
(May 2006)
Cisbio international announced the release of its second IP-One assay, IP-One Elisa, at the 4th Annual GPCR (G-Protein Coupled Receptors) Congress in Barcelona, Spain
SCIpharm conference highlights
(May 2006)
SCIpharm is organised 'by the industry for the industry' as Graham Dixon, chairman of the SCIpharm organising committee emphasises
All five HRC DNAs in convenient 96 well panels
(May 2006)
European Collection of Cell Cultures releases all five Human Random Control (HRC) DNA (480 HRC individual DNAs) in convenient 96 well panels
Antibody, antigen and assay development products
(April 2006)
Biodesign International/OEM Concepts has just issued a new combined catalogue featuring over 5000 products
Control of 96 single-channel pipetting heads
(April 2006)
Visitors to SCIpharm 2006 will be able to learn more about Caliper Life Sciences's range of automated, robotic systems including the new Sciclone i1000 high volume liquid handling workstation
Advanced screening station for life science
(April 2006)
Advanced instrument perfectly combines the modularity and flexibility of a microscope-based set-up with the automation, throughput, reliability and reproducibility demands of screening applications
Upstate and Cisbio announce launch of HTRF Kinease
(March 2006)
New kits for rapid kinase assay development mark second product collaboration between the two companies
Collaborating on cell biology for life sciences
(February 2006)
Agreement involves high content screening (HCS) technology and specific HCS assays such as cytoplasm-nuclear translocation, characterisation of cellular toxicity, and receptor internalisation