CORNING, N.Y. – Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) today announced it has expanded its product line for bioprocess applications with the addition of the Corning® 5L Erlenmeyer flask, designed to help scale up suspension culture with space efficiency in mind. The flasks are sterile and ready to use, ideal for shaker culture applications and storage. Corning designed […]

Singapore — “We are confident that the combination of NUS capabilities and our technical platform expertise will pave the way to shape discoveries that contribute to making people’s lives better.” Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, and the National University of Singapore (NUS) today announced that they have inked a Memorandum […]

INDIANAPOLIS – – Beckman Coulter Life Sciences has entered into an agreement to acquire Xitogen Technologies Inc. together with Cytojene Corporation. Xitogen, a flow cytometer developer based in Suzhou and Dalian, China, will provide Beckman Coulter Life Sciences with both a strong operational base in the growing China market and a high quality research instrument […]

ALAMEDA, Calif. — BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT: BTX) announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Deborah Andrews and David Schlachet to the Board of Directors. David Schlachet serves as a director of several public and private companies. Mr. Schlachet is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Syneron Medical Ltd., an Israeli aesthetic […]

BioPORTER is the first and only lipid-based protein delivery system that efficiently transports proteins into living cells. Comprising a unique cationic lipid mixture that interacts non-covalently with the protein, BioPORTER creates a protective vehicle for immediate protein delivery. BioPORTER makes studying protein functionality faster and easier than ever before by bypassing the traditional DNA transfection, […]

AMSBIO announces ClioCell™ – an ex-vivo device for removal of dying and dead cells, improving viability and quality of cell populations and their subsequent productivity. The system comprises super-paramagnetic nanoparticles which have been coupled with proprietary elements that bind to dead and dying cells and cell debris. The resultant product selectively initiates dead-cell removal, emulating […]

SAN DIEGO — A new high-content screening software platform enables cancer researchers to uncover more about basic and advanced cellular function to accelerate cell-based research. The Thermo Scientific HCS Studio 2.0 is a high-content quantitative imaging and analysis software platform for a range of cancer research applications, including angiogenesis and migration/invasion, as well as the […]

Schlieren, Switzerland and Kyoto, Japan — InSphero AG and Dainippon SCREEEN (Kyoto, Japan) announced today they have reached a distribution agreement for InSphero to begin marketing Dainippon’s Cell3iMager in North America and Europe. Dainippon selected InSphero based on their in-depth know-how pertaining to 3D microtissue biology and applications. The Cell3iMager is fully compatible with InSphero‘s […]

Ann Arbor, MI — 3D Biomatrix, a leader in three-dimensional cell culture products, is pleased to announce expansion of their 3D cell culture kit line, developed with Cayman Chemical, to include a new assay, Perfecta3D® LDH Cytotoxicity Assay Kit, for measuring the viability of 3D spheroids. Researchers have long tested drug compounds and other factors […]

Cambridge, UK: TAP Biosystems, (now part of the Sartorius Stedim Biotech Group), a leading supplier of innovative cell culture and fermentation systems for life science applications, today announced a new NCI 60 application for its CompacT SelecT™, a system that automates cell culture and processing in T-flasks and microplates. The details of the application, which […]