GLASGOW, Scotland — Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced the opening of its first Customer Experience Centre in Russia in partnership with Khimexpert, an authorized distributor of the company, providing customers with access to the latest cutting-edge technology. Located in Moscow, the center is equipped with the most advanced genetic analysis systems and qualified […]

ST. LOUIS — Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL) today announced that SAFC® Commercial (www.sigma-aldrich.com/safc), its custom manufacturing services business unit, has engineered additional traits into its CHOZN® Platform cell line, increasing the utility of the CHOZN® portfolio of products and services. Two novel host cell lines have been added to the CHOZN® portfolio, yielded through SAFC’s […]

Molndal, Sweden — Cellectricon, a leading provider of advanced cell-based screening technologies and services, has announced the two winners of its Cellaxess® ACE project grant, supporting cutting-edge research in cell biology. The grant was awarded for project proposals utilizing Cellectricon’s Cellaxess ACE technology for the delivery of non-genetic material to adherent cells and cultures. The […]

Stratedigm announced the commercial launch of its S1000EXi flow cytometers on August 28, 2013. The “EXi” model offers Stratedigm’s most advanced technology to date and sets a new gold standard for high performance, benchtop analyzers. Architected based on the revolutionary EX model, the S1000EXi incorporates newly developed, patent pending second-generation Smart Detect™ and Laser Trimming™ […]

BOSTON—BioProcess International 2013 – The new portfolio of Thermo Scientific versatile animal-derived component-free (ADCF) and serum-free media enhances performance for transient transfection media and includes the Thermo Scientific HyCell TransFx-H for use with HEK293 cells and HyCell TransFx-C for use with CHO cell lines. In an internal study, HyCell TransFx media demonstrated high transfection efficiencies […]

CORNING, N.Y. — Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) today announced it has expanded its microcarrier product line for bioprocess scale-up with the addition of four new Corning® Microcarriers for large-scale vaccine and cell therapy manufacturing. Corning Life Sciences will showcase its latest microcarrier innovations in booth #800 at the upcoming Bioprocess International Conference in Boston, Sept. 16-19. […]

Munich, Germany – The CardioExcyte 96 is a high resolution device recording contractility in intact cardiomyocyte networks utilizing non-invasive impedance measurements. The system allows cost-efficient, early compound safety profiling using stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes, freshly dissociated cardiomyocytes or beating 3D-cell clusters. Cardiac safety assessment is a vital part of drug development since late withdrawals of compound […]

Florence – Real hope in identifying new tools in the fight against cancer. Menarini has completed its acquisition of Silicon Biosystems which has patented DEPArray ™, the first technology of its kind that is able to automatically isolate rare single cancer cells in blood while keeping them intact, alive and capable of reproducing themselves by […]

BILLERICA, Mass.– EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA of Darmstadt, Germany, today announced a $30,000 donation to charity: water in recognition of World Water Week. As a leading supplier of products, services and solutions including water purification to the Life Science industry, access to clean water is an important charitable initiative for […]