GLOSTRUP, DENMARK–(May 1, 2009) – Dako, Reagent Partnership Division, has entered into a five-year agreement with Fisher HealthCare, a division of Thermo Fisher Scientific. Under this agreement, Fisher Healthcare has been granted the exclusive right to distribute Flow Cytometry reagents in the US acute care market, including hospitals and reference labs. Dako, Reagent Partnership Division, […]

The new VisDat (Virtual Slide Date Transfer) module of the PALM RoboSoftware makes it possible for the first time to connect molecular and digital pathology. This is particularly beneficial for researchers in molecular biology and medicine as well as for pathologists. VisDat enables users to precisely transfer certain areas marked on digitized tissue sections to […]

CAMBRIDGE, England–ReNeuron, a leading UK-based stem cell company, today announced the publication of a paper in the journal Biotechnology Letters demonstrating successful automation of the manufacturing of its ReN001 neural stem cell line for stroke in TAP’s CompacT SelecT™ automated cell culture system. The research was conducted in collaboration with the REMEDI project at Loughborough […]

PENZBERG, Germany–To understand overall infectivity, virus progression and disease-onset it is important to perform a detailed examination of cytopathogenic effects. Depending on the type of virus and cells as well as the time point of infection (e.g. during the growth or the stationary phase) different cytopathogenic effects might be observed. One of the most common […]

Chalfont St. Giles, UK, April 29th, 2009 – Cytori Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CYTX) and GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), today announce an agreement by which GE Healthcare will commercialize Cytori’s StemSource® technology in the North American stem cell banking and research markets. The StemSource technology includes automated equipment to process stem […]

LILLE, France–At the 15th Annual Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) Conference today, PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, and Cerep SA, a leading provider of drug candidate screening and profiling technologies, announced the expansion of their kinase assay offering. Close to 200 new kinase assays […]

Tecan and innovatis are working closely together under a new collaborative agreement to jointly market their robotic cell culture workstations and cell detection devices. The collaboration concentrates on Cellavista, innovatis’ new automated image-based platform technology for cellular analysis, which has bright field and fluorescent capabilities and can process microplates, microscope slides and robot-friendly cell culture […]

STEMCELL Technologies, Inc. (https://www.stemcell.com) today announced the release of MesenCult®-ACF Medium (https://www.stemcell.com/product_catalog/hu_mesencult-acf.aspx), the first defined, animal component-free (ACF) and serum-free medium for culturing human mesenchymal stem cells (https://www.stemcell.com/technical/29018_Mesenchymal.pdf) (MSCs). Vancouver, B.C. (PRWEB) April 28, 2009 — STEMCELL Technologies, Inc. today announced the release of MesenCult®-ACF Medium, the first defined, animal component-free (ACF) and serum-free medium […]

LILLE, France–At the 15th Annual Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) Conference , PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced the release of 16 new G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) and ion channel cell lines. With these latest offerings, PerkinElmer’s GPCR cell lines portfolio is […]

Pittsburgh, PA., (April 28, 2009) – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the availability of HCSDiscover, a new data mining tool for High Content applications. Developed by Genedata AG, a leading provider of in silico solutions for pharmaceutical R&D and related life sciences, in collaboration with Thermo Fisher Scientific, […]