HOLLISTON, MA – Digilab, Inc., a global provider of innovative solutions for life-science research, announced today that Brian Syverud, mechanical engineer, and Chirantan Kanani, application scientist, will be presenting at the 2010 International Conference on Biofabrication on Wednesday, October 6th at 3:20PM at the Sheraton University City Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Syverud and Kanani have […]

Applied BioPhysics, a life sciences instrument manufacturing company in Troy, NY, has been issued a patent entitled “Method and Apparatus for Facilitating Evaluating Migration of Cells in Vitro.” The patent describes a novel method to measure rates of cell migration. Normally when cells are inoculated in a well, the entire bottom surface becomes covered with […]

Parsippany, NJ — Diagnostica Stago, Inc. (DSI) announces exclusive distribution of the Biocytex Cellquant PNH and Redquant PNH assay kits, previously available through Beckman Coulter. Cellquant and Redquant are no-wash, whole blood, single-color, quantitative, research-use-only flow cytometry assays for analysis of granulocytes and red blood cells, respectively, from patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH). The […]

Combination of HaloTag® and HTRF® technologies provides a new, flexible tool for cell surface receptor heterodimerization Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France – Cisbio Bioassays (www.htrf.com), a member of IBA group and global developer of HTRF® (Homogeneous Time-Resolved Fluorescence) technology and services used in assay development and drug screening, announced today that Promega Corporation’s HaloTag® technology is available for […]

FREMONT, Calif. – Biomerix Corporation, a medical technologies company developing and manufacturing innovative regenerative medicine biomaterials, and Synthecon, a leading biotechnology company specializing in the design and manufacturing of rotating cell culture systems, today announced a strategic distribution agreement for three-dimensional cell culture scaffolds developed using Biomerix Corporation’s unique biomaterial technology. The Biomerix 3D Scaffold […]

Paris (france) and New Delhi (india) – cellectis bioresearch, the specialist in Genome customization and subsidiary of cellectis (alternext: alcls), and helix bioservice & consultants pvt ltd (helix biocon), today announced that they will join forces for the promotion of cellectis bioresearch’s meganuclease-based products and services in india. helix biocon is a young company comprised […]

Shrink Nanotechnologies announced today that it is entering the final phase of its commercialization program for its first cell culturing devices for the StemDisc family of stem cell culturing products. Within the last week, Shrink has received the final mold for the initial StemDisc product line. The balance of the design parameters have been completed, […]

SAN DIEGO – Cytori Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:CYTX) has extended the term and modified the focus of its current distribution agreement with GE Healthcare. GE Healthcare’s sales rights allow its sales force to sell Cytori technology in the research markets in select European markets and the US. In turn, Cytori has co-exclusive sales rights into the […]

Group will use BioFlux System for advanced screening applications applicable to women’s reproductive health South San Francisco, California, September 16, 2010 – Fluxion Biosciences, Inc. announced today that a research team from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center has won the 2010 BioFlux Innovation Award competition. Laura Sycuro, Ph.D., a post-doctoral research fellow in the lab of […]

New Dye’s Emission Spectrum Closely Resembles Pacific Orange BREA, Calif. – Beckman Coulter, Inc. introduces Krome Orange, a novel violet-excited organic dye that expands the range of available choices and dye sensitivity limits for violet lasers. Common gating markers can be easily transferred to this fluorochrome, freeing other channels for use with more esoteric markers […]