HOUSTON, — Texas Children’s Hospital is the first institution in North America to acquire a Leica Microsystems Gated Stimulation Emission Depletion (G-STED) microscope. The new microscope allows researchers to take never before seen, super-resolution photos below 40 nanometers within a cell and is the only microscope in the world that can acquire images at this […]

Billerica, MA, – Seahorse Biosciences has licensed a patent, entitled “Methods, Compositions and Kits for Assaying Mitochondrial Function”, developed in the laboratory of Dr. Nagendra Yadava, the John Adams Investigator at the Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute (PVLSI) and Dr. Alejandro Heuck, PhD, an assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of […]

CENTER VALLEY, Pa., — Olympus America Inc. has been named the sole North American distributor of the CV1000 Cell Voyager, an all-in-one, medium-to-high-throughput live cell imaging system from Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan. Olympus will offer the compact, easy to use, spinning-disk laser confocal microscope, which is designed for long-term time-lapse imaging, to scientists in […]

Scientifica has been shortlisted for The BlackBerry Growth Strategy of the Year award at this year’s National Business Awards in partnership with Orange. Uckfield-based Scientifica develops and manufactures high quality equipment for electrophysiology researchers and its export success was recently recognised with a Queen’s Award for Enterprise (International Trade 2012). Going up against the likes […]

MADISON, WIS., – CeeTox and Cellular Dynamics International (CDI) today announced the introduction of a new, highly predictive cardiac safety screening service that utilizes human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell-derived cardiomyocytes. The Cardiac Arrhythmia Assessment Screen™ (CAAS) combines CeeTox’s expertise with in vitro toxicity screening and CDI’s iCell® Cardiomyocytes to provide a comprehensive profile of […]

London, UK, — Plasticell, the UK stem cell differentiation specialist has licensed EMD Millipore, the Life Science Division of Merck KGaA, to distribute a superior, single-application osteogenic medium discovered using the award winning, massively parallel combinatorial screening system, CombiCult®. The osteogenic medium is serum- and xeno- free, more consistent and more potent than currently available […]

Cambridge, UK, and Manassas, Virginia,: Horizon Discovery Ltd (Horizon), a leading provider of research tools to support the development of personalized medicines, today announced it has signed a licensing and distribution agreement with the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) for a select set of panels of X-MAN™ isogenic cell lines. Under the terms of the […]

WALTHAM, Mass. – PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI), a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced the publication of its 2011 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report. The report details the Company’s progress against its global sustainability goals set in 2010 for environmental health and safety (EHS), community […]

Ann Arbor, MI — Essen BioScience Inc., a global provider of life science research tools and services, today announced the launch of its new live-cell imaging system, IncuCyte ZOOM™, as well as an expanded line of novel CellPlayer™ reagents specifically developed by Essen for use on the platform. The IncuCyte ZOOM™ is the 2nd generation […]

Cambridge, UK,: Horizon Discovery Ltd (Horizon), a leading provider of research tools to support the development of personalized medicines, today announced it has signed an agreement with Domainex to support Domainex’s TBK1/ IKK? oncology research and development program, which is conducted in collaboration with The Institute of Cancer Research, London. Under the terms of the […]