ST. LOUIS — Sigma-Aldrich® Corp. (NASDAQ: SIAL) today announced that SAFC® Commercial (www.safcglobal.com), its custom manufacturing services business unit, has introduced a new protein quality supplement called EX-CELL® Glycosylation Adjust (Gal+). Specifically designed as a supplement for biological drug production, including biosimiliars, EX-CELL Glycosylation Adjust (Gal+) allows users to easily achieve desired N-linked glycosylation by […]

Berlin (Germany)-– PicoQuant and Nikon present a new level of software cooperation in their FLIM & FCS Upgrade Kit for Nikon A1 and C2 laser scanning microscopes (LSM). A specially developed interface between PicoQuant’s SymPhoTime 64 and Nikon’s NIS-Elements allows direct time-resolved data acquisition out of the Nikon software. The expanded software interface significantly improves […]

MADISON, WIS.-— Cellular Dynamics International (CDI; Nasdaq: ICEL), today announced that the National Eye Institute (NEI), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded the company a $1.2 million contract to manufacture clinically compatible induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and iPSC-derived human retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells. These cells will be manufactured from […]

Billerica, MA -– Seahorse Bioscience and the Moffitt Cancer Center have announced that they have received an SBIR contract through the National Cancer Institute, to develop a reproducible method that will enable the measurement of metabolism of 3D microtissue, and can be used for high-throughput metabolic and pre-clinical toxicity screens. Cancer cells switch their metabolic […]

LE PERRAY-EN-YVELINES, France — tebu-bio (Le Perray, France) has signed an agreement with Spirochrome to bring European researchers access to Spirochrome’s live cell imaging tools through their network of local offices in 9 countries. Spirochrome (Stein am Rhein, Switzerland) has developed higly innovative tools to stain F-actin and microtubules in living cells. Dr. Ali El […]

Albuquerque, NM — IntelliCyt Corporation, a leading provider of innovative, high-throughput, high-content cell- and bead-based screening solutions today announced the completion of the first Technology Access Program (TAP) with the first TAP awardee and partners, Dr. David Sykes and Dr. David Scadden from the Massachusetts General Hospital. The IntelliCyt TAP Program is a collaborative outreach […]

INDIANAPOLIS -– DuraClone IM premixed dry reagent cocktails from Beckman Coulter Life Sciences standardize and streamline workflow for high content flow cytometry in translational research studies involving identification of cellular sub-populations of the human immune system. Based on collaborative work with the ONE Study consortium, these optimized, easy-to-use panels provide worry-free compensation to minimize labor […]

BOTHELL, WA — — BioLife Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLFS), a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of proprietary clinical grade hypothermic storage and cryopreservation freeze media and precision thermal shipping products for cells and tissues (“BioLife” or the “Company”), announced today that Frederick, MD based RoosterBio, Inc., has adopted the Company’s CryoStor clinical grade cryopreservation freeze […]

Manassas, VA — ATCC, the premier global biological materials resource and standards organization, announces the release of ATCC® Minis to support quality control (QC) testing in pharmaceutical and industrial labs, during the PDA 9th Annual Global Conference on Pharmaceutical Microbiology in Bethesda, MD, Booth # 304. Healthcare, personal care product, and cosmetic manufacturers are required […]

SAN DIEGO — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced the selection of three startup companies for the inaugural Illumina Accelerator funding cycle. The companies are Encoded Genomics, Inc., EpiBiome, Inc., and Xcell Biosciences Inc. The Illumina Accelerator is the world’s first business accelerator focused solely on creating an innovation ecosystem for the genomics industry. It is […]