The company has established a competitive program to provide financial assistance to students who are pursuing an undergraduate degree or equivalent in a STEM field (science, technology, engineering and math) at five premier institutions globally: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of Wisconsin-Madison; University of California-Berkeley; Imperial College London and Fudan University in Shanghai. These schools […]

Vienna, Europe, — and CeMM, the Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, today announced that they are making available their large collection of human cell lines that are deficient for single genes, which they have been building over the past three years as part of a public The partnership, through Haplogen, […]

Billerica, MA, – Seahorse Bioscience will provide the Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute with its novel XF technology, which measures cell metabolism, to boost research to enable a greater understanding of cancer metabolism and its role in disease progression. The recently named Director of the Beatson Cancer Metabolism Research Unit, Eyal Gottlieb, Ph.D., will lead […]

ALAMEDA, Calif.– BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT: BTX), a biotechnology company that develops and markets products in the field of regenerative medicine, today announced the expansion of its senior management team with the appointment of Lesley Stolz, Ph.D. as Executive Vice President, Corporate Development. Dr. Stolz has more than 18 years of life science industry experience […]

CARLSBAD, Calif.,– Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced that its stockholders voted to adopt the previously announced merger agreement providing for the acquisition of Life Technologies by Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE: TMO) at the Special Meeting of Stockholders held earlier today. More than 98 percent of votes cast at the Special Meeting were in […]

Sunnyvale, California, – Molecular Devices® today announced the launch of its Fura-2 QBT™ Calcium Kit. This new kit combines the calcium indicator Fura-2 with Molecular Devices’ proprietary masking technology to provide a fast, simple, and reliable ratiometric fluorescence-based assay for detecting and quantitating changes in intracellular calcium. Utilizing Molecular Devices’ masking technology, the Fura-2 QBT […]

GAITHERSBURG, Md.– MaxCyte, Inc., the pioneer in scalable, high performance cell transfection systems, is hosting a series of events at Cambridge Health Institute’s BioProcessing Summit to be held August 19-23, 2013, at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel in Boston, MA. MaxCyte will present data in a scientific podium presentation emphasizing the use of MaxCyte flow […]

BOTHELL, WA —— BioLife Solutions, Inc. (OTCQB: BLFS), a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of proprietary clinical grade hypothermic storage and cryopreservation freeze media for cells and tissues, andcontract aseptic media manufacturer, today announced an expansion of its relationship with Vancouver, BC-based STEMCELL Technologies Inc. Since August 2009, STEMCELL Technologies has distributed BioLife’s best in […]

SIRION Biotech announced today its novel lentivirus portfolio for the most sophisticated in vitro applications. Besides its (1) non-toxic transduction enhancer coined LentiBOOST(TM) , SIRION Biotech offers (2) premade lentivirus vectors and (3) custom ser-vices. The latter allows for all possible modifications and applications ranging from complex and multiple genes expression to TET- inducible all-in-one […]

DENVER, CO – ViroCyt, LLC, the leader in the field of rapid virus quantification, disclosed today the addition of two new distributors to its growing international network. Biotech Europe will sell and support ViroCyt’s Virus Counter in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) as well as the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). CESCO Bioengineering Ltd. will […]