SINGAPORE — Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL), a leading Life Science and High Technology company, today announced the opening of its Asia Pacific headquarters and state-of-the-art Cell Culture Technical Center in Singapore. Located at Biopolis Research Park, the facility will provide customized support to meet customer needs, leveraging the Company’s industry leading scientific capabilities. “Our new […]

Darmstadt, Germany — Merck, a leading company for innovative and top- quality high-tech products in healthcare, life science and performance materials, today announced that Udit Batra, currently CEO and President of Merck Millipore, has been appointed to lead the combined life science business of Merck Millipore and Sigma- Aldrich once the acquisition of Sigma-Aldrich has […]

Tokyo, Japan — Yokogawa Solution Service Corporation announces that it will join the Smart Cell Processing project, a joint undertaking of industrial, administrative, and academic organizations in Japan and the UK that is being led by Tokyo Electron Limited, and will work with Tokyo Electron to develop a total quality management system for the automated […]

Shimadzu Corporation today announced that it has developed a cell analysis method, which allows simultaneously analyzing 95 components contained in pluripotent stem cell culture solutions in only 17 minutes using a high-performance liquid chromatograph-mass spectrometer. With this method, Shimadzu is contributing to the establishment of quality control technology for pluripotent stem cells. The development of […]

Sunnyvale, CA — Molecular Devices, a leader in bioanalytical systems for drug discovery, life science research, and bioassay development, today announced the launch of the injector-ready SpectraMax® i3x Multi-Mode Microplate Reader. Designed with today’s constantly changing research priorities in mind, the SpectraMax i3x allows researchers to easily add new detection mode cartridges such as the […]

South San Francisco, California — Nodality, Inc., which is focused on solving drug development challenges, announced today the availability of its new PathPro™ Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) panels. These panels are designed to characterize cell pathways associated with disease signaling at the single cell level and to analyze the activity of therapeutics commonly used or […]

TOKYO and MADISON, Wis. — FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation (President: Shigehiro Nakajima,) (TSE: 4901) (“Fujifilm”) and Cellular Dynamics International, Inc. (CEO: Robert J. Palay,) (NASDAQ: ICEL) (“CDI”), a leading developer and manufacturer of fully functioning human cells in industrial quantities to precise specifications, today announced that the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement wherebyFujifilm […]

Munich, Germany -– ibidi GmbH, a leading supplier of cell-based assay and imaging tools, announces their latest innovation, the µ-Slide Membrane ibiPore Flow. This new product will enable researchers to culture single or multiple cell types on a porous glass membrane and then analyze the cells using high resolution microscopy—something that is not currently possible […]

Basel, Switzerland — Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced a collaboration with Bayer Pharma AG to develop a new workflow management system to support the automation of the Cell Line Development (CLD) process for mammalian cells used to produce biopharmaceuticals. Genedata’s new CLD Data […]