FREMONT, Calif., – WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: WGBS) announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a Notice of Allowance for U.S. Patent Application 14/075,631, with both method and system claims to extract liquids containing single cell Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) libraries from multi-well arrays. With the allowance of this application, WaferGen […]

Albuquerque, New Mexico – IntelliCyt Corporation, a leading developer of integrated solutions that accelerate drug discovery and life science research, announced a new addition to the iQue® Screener PLUS platform featuring a 561-nm solid state laser. The iQue Screener platform is an integrated instrument, software, and reagent system that integrates the cell profiling workflow from […]

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced that it has completed development of the CSU-SR confocal scanner unit and will release this new product to the market in September. The CSU-SR can be used in combination with a conventional optical microscope to observe the physiological responses of organelles and other intracellular structures with super resolution, a Yokogawa first. […]

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., – Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM) announced the opening of a new customer inspiration center in Markham, Ontario, Canada. Providing researchers with firsthand experience on the Helios™ system, the latest mass cytometry instrument using CyTOF® technology, the customer inspiration center will be open to investigators around the world seeking to incorporate mass cytometry […]

Cologne, Germany, – Lonza introduced the 4D-NucleofectorTM LV Unit to its transfection platforms. The new unit expands the proven 4D-Nucleofector™ System to closed, larger-scale transfection of up to 1×109 cells. Transfection protocols can be established in smaller scale using the 4D-Nucleofector™ X Unit and smoothly transferred to larger scale without the need for re-optimization. With […]

Mölndal, Sweden, 7 June 2016 Cellectricon AB, a leading provider of advanced cell-based Discovery Services, today announced a commercial collaboration with UK-based research company Neurexpert Ltd. Under the agreement, Cellectricon and Neurexpert will co-promote their combined CNS drug discovery expertise, with a particular focus on synaptic function assays, for research into treatments of central nervous […]

FREMONT, Calif. and KUSASTSU, Japan, – WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: WGBS), a publicly held genomics technology company (“WaferGen”), announced that it has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement in Japan with Takara Bio Inc. (“Takara”, TSE: 4974), a leading Japanese and global biotechnology and life science reagents company. The agreement is for promotion and technical […]

Munich, Germany, – Fuse-It-mRNA enables immediate mRNA transfer and a highly efficient protein synthesis in difficult-to-transfect cells. With this innovative reagent, ibidi offers an easy and efficient method for endosome-independent mRNA transfer, accompanied by an extremely low cytotoxicity, in primary cells (e.g., neurons or HUVEC) or stem cells. The Fuse-It liposomal carrier, which includes the […]

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., – BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, continues to reinforce its commitment to making flow cytometry easier and more affordable with the introduction of its newest cell sorter, the BD FACSMelody™ system. Built for benchtop use, the new BD FACSMelody sorter is easy to learn, […]

Vienna and Grambach/Graz, Austria, – Evercyte GmbH, the leading provider of immortalized human primary-like cells and VTU Technology, the globally acting protein expression expert announced today that they have entered into a collaboration agreement on the development of recombinant media supplements for cell culture applications. The first conjointly developed recombinant product – Vascular Endothelial Growth […]