New Thermo Scientific Series 8000 CO2 incubators offer complete contamination control for cell culture protection

MILFORD, MA., (Sept 28, 2007) – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced the Thermo Scientific Series 8000 CO2 incubators. Featuring cutting-edge cell culture incubation technologies, this new range of incubators provide stable, precise temperature, humidity and CO2 control, with advanced decontamination technology. A choice of either water jacket (WJ) or direct heat (DH) incubators is offered to meet even the most stringent laboratory and research requirements, offering maximum thermal protection and the flexibility to culture cells with confidence.

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London, 25.09.2007 – Olympus UK Limited is combining its Consumer and Scientific operations into one headquarters in Watford with the move taking place in phases starting late September 2007.

The move is in response to growth in key business areas leading to increased demand for training and demonstration facilities. It will see the company’s Central London and Southall offices close and all functions re-locate to a newly refurbished building close to the M1/M25. The new premises will be more accessible to customers across the country and boast numerous benefits including new and larger demonstration areas plus more on site training capacity for both scientific and consumer products.

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Inverness Medical introduce seasonal respiratory virus tests

Bedford, UK, 25th September, 2007: Inverness Medical has introduced two rapid diagnostic tests for the detection of Influenza (flu) and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) – Clearview Exact Influenza A & B and Clearview RSV – to ensure diagnosis and treatment of these potentially fatal infections are possible in just one patient visit. The Clearview range of rapid Respiratory tests delivers reliable results clinicians can be confident in and help eliminate unnecessary treatment, hospitalisation and administration time.

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BUDAPEST, Hungary, and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 24, 2007 — ChemAxon, a software solutions provider for cheminformatics, and Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced an agreement to maintain the integration between the Kalabie Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) and ChemAxon’s software suite. Agilent acquired the Kalabie ELN from Klee in June 2007. The contract transitions existing agreements between Klee and ChemAxon to Agilent and ChemAxon.

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London, 20.09.2007 – Olympus UK Ltd announced on 12th September 2007 that Alan Trinder – General Manager for Olympus Diagnostic Systems in the UK & Ireland will retire at the end of the month. Alan will be greatly missed both within Olympus and as a leading personality in the UK diagnostics sector.

During his 18 years at Olympus, having joined in October 1989, Alan has been instrumental in the significant growth of the UK division through his extensive knowledge of the clinical chemistry market and laboratory medicine in the UK.

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Medical diagnostics on stand No. C70 at Medica 2007

Bedford, UK, 19th Sept, 2007: With its continued growth as a leading provider of medical diagnostics, Inverness Medical will be presenting its range of new cardiac products on stand C70, Hall 3 at this year’s Medica exhibition. Alongside their successful point-of-care devices, Inverness Medical’s new range will feature Biosite’s portable triage meters that can read and interpret information from patient samples on a variety of cardiovascular diseases. Providing results in as little as fifteen minutes, the unique compact diagnostic meters are ideal for use near to the patient bedside.

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London, 13.09.2007 – Olympus has introduced a new pathology test request management system, RequestVision™, to streamline the complete process of patient test ordering through to laboratory results. Frequently, insufficient appointment lengths, transcription errors and test duplication contribute to considerable bottlenecks in GP workload when dealing with test requests. Within the laboratory, these common issues delay sample processing and ultimately final result delivery by taking up qualified staff’s time with needless data entry. Using innovative barcode technology, RequestVision dramatically reduces administration time and importantly improves patient care by shortening test turnaround times.

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Basel: 22nd October, Frankfurt: 23rd October and Paris: 25th October.

Royston, UK – TTP LabTech today announced a special “hands-on” laboratory instrumentation roadshow to be held in Basel, Frankfurt and Paris in October 2007. The roadshow offers the opportunity to try out the latest in low-volume liquid handling and high content screening systems with the user’s own plates, as well as learning more about compound management, instrumentation development and custom automation.

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Guildford, UK, 11 September 2007 – IDBS, an industry leading provider of drug discovery data management solutions, today announced that Genmab BV (Utrecht, The Netherlands) has extended its use of ActivityBase Xtended Edition (ActivityBase XE) within its Hybridoma Discovery department. Genmab initially purchased ActivityBase XE in 2006 to handle the design, capture, storage and retrieval of their plate-based screening data. Following the successful implementation, Genmab has more than doubled the number of ActivityBase XE licenses.

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Royston, UK – 11 September 2007, Dolomite, the World’s first microfluidic application centre, has appointed Dr Gillian Davis to the position of Commercial Director. In this leading strategic role, Gillian will be instrumental in securing new business opportunities and managing customer relations for Dolomite’s microfluidic capabilities and services.

‘This is an exciting development for us,’ said Mark Gilligan, Managing Director of Dolomite, ‘and reflects the increasing level of interest we are experiencing around the world from customers interested in working with us to bring their microfluidic concepts to market.’

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