Company Announcements

Sigma-Aldrich now exclusively distributes Stemgent’s portfolio of lentivirus-based delivery systems for the generation of induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells.

Cisbio Biosassays established sales operations in China and South Korea in November 2009.

Representatives of febit, GENEART, Ginkgo BioWorks, Biosearch Technologies and Sutro Biopharma are among the founding members of the Synthetic Biology Industry Association, which was established in November 2009.

GenVault entered in a supply and resale agreement with Life Technologies in November 2009.

Tebu-bio will distribute Cellectis bioresearch’s kits in Europe, and will exclusively distribute them in countries where it has a physical presence.

Product Introductions

Cellectis bioresearch launched the cGPS CHO-S CEMAX protein production kit for targeted integration into suspension cell cultures.

Cellectis bioresearch introduced the cGPS NIH-3T3 kit for the modification of the NIH-3T3 cell line to study gene function.

VisEn Medical released the OsteoSense 800 and VivoTag 800 fluorescence molecular imaging agents.

Corning Life Sciences introduced the Osteo-Assay Surface for bone-cell assays, which comes preapplied in 24- and 96-well plate formats.

Millipore launched the MILLIPLEX MAP EpiQuant assay panels, a family of phosphotyrosine multiplex assays for cell-signaling research for the simultaneously measurement of more than 40 analytes in one well.

Playtypus Technologies released the Oris Pro Cell Migration Assay, which uses a nontoxic biocompatible gel to form a cell-free zone on cell culture surfaces.

PerkinElmer expanded its “No Wash” ALPHA (amplified luminescent proximity homogeneous assay), introducing 46 cell-signaling pathway and biomarker research assay kits (22 AlphaScreen SureFire and 24 AlphaLISA “No Wash” immunoassay kits), bringing the number of ALPHA-based kits to 142 assays.

Cisbio Bioassays launched Tag-lite ligands to enable the nonradioactive binding of chemokines.

GE Healthcare introduced the FTA DMPK cards for the collection and storage of blood samples for use in pharmacokinetic and toxicokinetic studies.

Bioo Scientific released the T3 Conjugation Kit for targeted in vivo delivery of siRNA or other RNAi agents.

ProImmune launched the CFSE T cell proliferation assays for immunogenicity risk assessment.

Cellular Dynamics launched iCell cardiomyocytes for drug-candidate toxicity screening. They are derived from iPS cells.