ST. LOUIS — Sigma-Aldrich® Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL) today announced that SAFC® Commercial (www.sigma-aldrich.com/safc), its custom manufacturing services business unit, has entered a commercial sales and service contract with leading biopharmaceutical company, BeiGene(www.beigene.com). Located in Beijing, the innovative oncology company purchased SAFC’s off-the-shelf, turnkey CHOZN cell line production platform and cell line engineering services to support […]

Cologne, Germany / Basel, Switzerland -– Lonza and CytoMate Technologies BV have entered into a global distribution agreement for CytoMate’s newly developed CytoSMART™ Technology, which has been designed for easy and affordable live cell imaging. The CytoSMART™ Technology enables researchers to take time-lapse videos and images of their cell culture. The images taken with the […]

WALTHAM, Mass. — PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced a collaboration with Johnson & Johnson Innovation to provide JLABS @South San Francisco (JLABS @SSF), a newly-opened life science incubator, with instruments and lab services to address the research needs of resident startups. […]

Palo Alto, Calif., USA –– Cellular Research, Inc. today announced the commercial launch of its ultrasensitive Precise™ Assays for targeted RNA-Seq experiments using single cells. Early access customers and collaborators will present data using the assays at the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) Conference taking place this week in Marco Island, Fla. Based […]

Recent collaboration among scientists at Genentech, Inc., and Fluidigm Corporation demonstrated that SNP profiling performs comparably to STR profiling for cell line authentication and contamination detection. Many journals identify labor-intensive STR profiling as a requirement for publication, yet SNP profiling has proven a better alternative, offering equivalent-quality results in less time at a better price. […]

ALAMEDA, Calif. — ESI BIO, the stem cell products division of BioTime, Inc., providing stem cells and stem cell research reagents world-wide, and Pivotal Scientific Ltd, a company specializing in developing the international growth of biotech enterprises, announced an alliance agreement to develop business opportunities and manage ESI BIO’s growing network of new international distributors. […]

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM) will provide attendees at the 16th annual Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) meeting the first glimpse of PolarisTM, an integrated single-cell research system, in addition to other new products. This exciting new product is the first to integrate cell selection, isolation, dose, culture and molecular […]

Madrid, Spain and Heidelberg, Germany — SYGNIS AG (Frankfurt: LIO1; ISIN: DE000A1RFM03; Prime Standard) today announced that it has signed a non-exclusive distribution agreement for its proprietary TruePrime™ Single Cell WGA Kit with D-MARK BIOSCIENCES for the North American market. Under the terms of the agreement, SYGNIS grants D-MARK BIOSCIENCES the non-exclusive rights to promote, […]