As of 1 June 2010, Lukas Utiger, currently COO Lonza Life Science Ingredients, will become new COO of Lonza Bioscience, located in Walkersville, Maryland, USA. He will replace Anja Fiedler who resigned due to personal health reasons. We wish Lukas a successful transition to his new responsibilities and his new location. Stefan Borgas, CEO, will […]

The Automation Partnership (TAP), a world leader in the design and development of innovative automation for life science applications, is pleased to announce it will be unveiling RAFT (Real Architecture for 3D Tissue), its innovative system for generating reproducible, 3D collagen tissue constructs on TAP Stand 1 at the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International […]

ANN ARBOR, Mich.–Essen BioScience Inc., a global provider of life science research tools and discovery services, today announced the launch of its CellPlayer™ Cell Migration 96-well assay kit for the IncuCyte™ Live-Cell Imaging System. The expanding line of kinetic CellPlayer assays for the IncuCyte also includes a co-culture assay for Angiogenesis. The CellPlayer Cell Migration […]

OCEANSIDE, Calif.–International Stem Cell Corporation (OTCBB:ISCO), www.intlstemcell.com, announced today that it had entered into a strategic alliance with The Automation Partnership (TAP), www.automationpartnership.com, to automate and scale up the production of stem cell-derived human corneal tissue. The alliance has been formed to create instrumentation for ISCO and its partners and affiliates to produce development and […]

Sunnyvale, CA — Molecular Devices today announced that European Patent Office (EPO) has upheld Molecular Devices foundational planar patch-clamp patent (EP No 1 040 349 B1). The board will issue a written decision to this effect in the near future. The ruling will be the final determination of the EPO and cannot be appealed. “Molecular […]

STOCKHOLM & OULU, Finland–KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm and Biotechnology start-up BioSilta Oy of Oulu Finland have been collaborating over the last year to optimise protein screening in a range of microwell plate formats. The technique utilises EnBase Flo the newly developed Enzymatic Release media technology from BioSilta. EnBase® shall be implemented in the […]

The Smart Solution for Superior Contrast in Fluorescence Imaging Wetzlar, Germany. Resolution and contrast are crucially important for fluorescence applications in widefield microscopy. Undesired haze effects that reduce contrast can be minimized by using the smart principle of structured illumination. The result: fluorescence images with excellent contrast, superb axial resolution and ultra-sharp 2D sections of […]

Customers in Germany now have access to Chip-Man Technologies’ novel Cell-IQ live cell imaging and analysis platform through life science specialists Ionovation GmbH. Ionovation is a technology company with a strong background in imaging and optical techniques, making it the ideal partner for Chip-Man Technologies. Chip-Man Technologies’ unique Cell-IQ system is a powerful tool for […]

Madison, WI – Platypus Technologies announces that it has been awarded an Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies (IMAT) grant for $396,000 from the National Cancer Institute. This 2-year funded project will enable the Company to expand its current Oris™ assay format into a 384-well cell migration assay suitable for High Throughput Screening (HTS) of chemical libraries […]

Vegetable-based system offers gentler, more efficient and contamination-free dissociation PR Log (Press Release) — Sera Laboratories International Ltd (Sera Lab), the serum specialist, has introduced the novel SplitKits cell dissociation system, the first specifically designed for use in both serum-based and serum-free methodologies. Developed using a vegetable-based component rather than trypsin, SplitKits avoid any risk […]