NEW YORK — FireflySci Inc. (FFS) is the newest company in the cuvette manufacturing industry. In just a short time, they are quickly starting to dominate the cuvette market and are now expanding into micro flow cell manufacturing for flow cytometers, cell sorters, and particle analyzers. A micro flow cell is the heart and soul […]

ibidi now offers the µ-Slide 8 Well Grid-500, a chambered coverslip with a 500 µm relocation grid. With this product, ibidi has combined two of its outstanding technologies: the µ-Slide 8 Well—ibidi’s most popular open µ-Slide with 8 independent wells for cell culture and high resolution microscopy, and the Grid-500—a laser-imprinted grid with a 500 […]

MADISON, WIS. — Cellular Dynamics International, Inc. (CDI), a FUJIFILM company, today an nounced an exclusive agreement with SeouLin Bioscience Co., Ltd., for the distribution of CDI’s products in the Republic of Korea. Under the terms of the agreement, SeouLin Bioscience will distribute CDI’s iCell® catalog of products. CDI’s iCell products are human induced pluripotent […]

Kyoto University, ReproCELL in conjunction with the Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences,announced the release of “ReproCryo DMSO free”, our high-performance cryopreservation solution for human ES/iPS cells required in regenerative medicine, and start to commence sales of the product. In regenerative medicine, the long-term freeze-preservation and banking of large quantities of human ES/iPS cells is an […]

Albuquerque, NM — IntelliCyt Corporation, the leading provider of innovative, high-throughput, high-content cell and bead-based screening solutions today announced its latest TAP awardee and partner, Dr. G. Reid Asbury, CEO of SpectraGenetics, Inc. The IntelliCyt TAP Program was created to collaborate with pioneering scientists and commercial partners to advance the frontier of cell- and bead-based […]

BEVERLY, Mass. — Thrive Bioscience announced today it closed a $4.0 million round of seed financing from angel groups, strategic partners and industry veterans to accelerate commercialization of previously unavailable solutions that advance drug discovery, research and delivery of new therapies by improving one of the most important research processes – cell culture. Investors in […]

ST. LOUIS — Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL) announced today it has secured unconditional approval from Brazil’s Council for Economic Defense (CADE), the final outstanding approval required for the planned acquisition of Sigma-Aldrich by Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany (the “Transaction”). This clearance, which will be effective after a waiting period of 15 days, follows recently received […]

ST. LOUIS — Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL) announced today it has secured unconditional approval from Brazil’s Council for Economic Defense (CADE), the final outstanding approval required for the planned acquisition of Sigma-Aldrich by Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany (the “Transaction”). This clearance, which will be effective after a waiting period of 15 days, follows recently received […]

Wetzlar, Germany. Markus Lusser is the new President and Director of Leica Microsystems, headquartered in Wetzlar, Germany. This appointment became effective July 1, 2015. He succeeds Andries Peter Jan van den Broek who has left the company. Before joining Leica Microsystems, Markus Lusser was Vice President Global Sales and Customer Support with Sciex. Sciex produces […]

Merck announced that approvals have been secured from all relevant jurisdictions for its planned acquisition of U.S.-based life science company Sigma-Aldrich. Unconditional approval from Brazil’s Council for Economic Defense (CADE), which was the final outstanding country, was received. This clearance becomes effective after a common waiting period of 15 days. It follows recently received antitrust […]