BOTHELL, WA — BioLife Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLFS), a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of proprietary clinical grade cell and tissue hypothermic storage and cryopreservation freeze media and related cloud hosted biologistics cold chain management app for smart shippers today announced that manufacturing process validation has commenced to support the launch of a new product, […]

Sunnyvale, California — Cell viability assays are critical to a broad spectrum of research areas ranging from understanding the mechanisms of cell death to the development of apoptosis-related therapeutics. The EarlyTox cell viability assay kits have been optimized for highly sensitive and accurate microplate-based detection which provide a complete solution for evaluating cell viability. Tailored […]

Marietta, GA – Medtown Ventures, LLC (“Medtown”), a venture development firm that specializes in the capitalization and commercialization of promising life science companies today announced that it has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Georgia Tech Research Corporation for a new adhesive-signature based stem cell selection and isolation technology. To focus on the commercialization […]

Franklin Lakes, NJ — BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, announced today an updated sustainability strategy and goals for 2020 as part of the release of its 2014 Sustainability Report. The company’s new goals reflect a broader and more integrated agenda than in past years, recognizing four strategic […]

Brooklyn, NY — Flow cytometry cells are in high demand in the hematology, HPLC, particle counting, and flow cytometer field. Manufacturers invest hundreds of thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of manpower in researching the best components to go into their machines. The unbelievably devastating news for these dedicated engineers is that their hard […]

Schlieren, Switzerland — InSphero AG, the world’s leading developer of easy-to-use solutions for organotypic 3D cell culture models and body-on-a-chip systems, has secured CHF 20 million in financing from the family investment office of a globally active entrepreneur represented through HP WILD HOLDING AG based in Zug, Switzerland. InSphero is using the Series C financing […]

Schlieren, Switzerland — InSphero AG, the world’s leading developer of easy-to-use solutions for organotypic 3D cell culture models and body-on-a-chip systems, has secured CHF 20 million in financing from the family investment office of a globally active entrepreneur represented through HP WILD HOLDING AG based in Zug, Switzerland. InSphero is using the Series C financing […]

TAP Biosystems, now part of the Sartorius Stedim Biotech Group, has reached an agreement with Lonza Bioscience to supply, exclusively, the growing market need for the RAFT 3D cell culture system as a Lonza product. In the period since its introduction, the RAFT system has been used to create a wide variety of tissue models […]

Madison, WI and Redwood City, CA – Stem Cell Theranostics (SCT) announced that they have successfully completed a research collaboration with Thermo Fisher Scientific focused on advancing the development of cardiac disease models derived from induced pluripotent stem cells using Thermo Fisher Scientific’s suite of work flow reagents and SCT’s patient biobank and proprietary disease […]

Tokyo, Japan — Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it has obtained a label-free image analysis technology from Chip-Man Technologies Oy* of Finland. With this technology, detailed computer analyses can be conducted of live cell images that have been taken with a microscope using a label-free technique. Formerly, this was only possible using fluorescence labeling. In […]