Tokyo, Japan — Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that its confocal image single-cell drug discovery support system has been selected for the Japan Science and Technology Agency’s (JST) next-generation technology transfer program (NexTEP). NexTEP was created to promote efforts by companies to find practical applications for the technologies (including those covered by patents) and research findings […]

BOTHELL, Wash.– BioLife Solutions, Inc. BLFS -0.76% , 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”), today announced that the Company’s CryoStor clinical grade cell freeze media was evaluated in a multicenter biobanking study […]

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.– Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM) has begun accepting applications to an early access program for its upcoming imaging mass cytometry platform. Prototypes of the product are expected to begin shipping to early access partners by the end of this year. The technology – laser ablation of a sample in combination with inductively coupled […]

Hercules, CA — – Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a global provider of life science research and clinical diagnostics products, announced today that Joel McComb has been appointed to its Board of Directors. Mr. McComb has 25 years of life science and diagnostics business experience. Since mid-2010 he founded three technology companies in […]

Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Allerød, Denmark – Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHIA) today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Unisensor, an innovator in the field of optical analysis of fluids for diagnostic applications in health care, as well as other industries. The Unisensor technology and team will strengthen Philips’ innovation capabilities […]

This software is designed for easy-to-use analysis of FCS files (including list mode data files) obtained on standard flow cytometers. The wizard takes you step-by-step to help you get meaningful data from your experiments rapidly and easily. A USB dongle, which comes with each LEGENDplex™ kit, is required for full access. Each dongle provides 2600 […]

CARLSBAD, CA — International Stem Cell Corporation (OTCQB: ISCO) (www.internationalstemcell.com) (“ISCO” or “the Company”), a California-based biotechnology company focused on therapeutic and research products, today announced that its subsidiary, Lifeline Cell Technology, has expanded its sales network by adding a number of new distributors in Asia and Oceania. “Expanding our footprint in the fast-growing Asian […]

BOSTON & SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.– In work published in Nature this month, scientists at the Broad Institute and Fluidigm Corporation used the C1TM Single-Cell Auto Prep System to prepare cells for single-cell sequencing – enabling the discovery of a subpopulation of “precocious” cells expressing antiviral genes earlier than the majority of dendritic cells exposed […]

PITTSBURGH — Cell biologists have a new imaging and analysis software available to them that offers speed, flexibility and efficiency for large-scale, high-throughput biology, including complex morphological analyses of cells, cell structure, and aggregations of cells in colonies. While robust, the platform is also simple enough to be applied to everyday assays such as viability […]

Sphere Fluidics has just secured £1.4 million in a First Close of a new investment round. The latter will finally complete in early September 2014 with more potential funding already in the pipeline. “This is the first tranche of funding that we will use to develop a brand new, single cell analysis instrument called Cyto-Mine. […]