HUNTSVILLE, Ala.- CFD Research Corporation (CFDRC) has been awarded a $1.3M grant from the National Institutes of Health to further develop their novel in vitro Blood-Brain Barrier model. Building upon CFDRC’s patented and commercially available SynVivo platform, SynVivo-BBB is a cell-based microchip which allows co-culture of endothelial cells under physiological flow with neuronal and glial […]

INDIANAPOLIS, IND. – A 561 nm laser option, available for new 561 nm-laser ready Gallios* flow cytometers from Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, will be on view at CYTO 2012, June 23-27 in booth 319 at the Congress Center in Leipzig, Germany. The 561 nm laser option provides researchers with the ability to analyze a greater […]

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CARLSBAD, Calif. and SINGAPORE, — Life Technologies Corporation — (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced that it has established a Global Instrument Center of Excellence in Singapore, to address strong customer demand around the world. The center will design and manufacture Life Technologies products, including next-generation sequencing and molecular diagnostic instruments for thousands of customers within the […]

Co-cultivation can be used in a wide variety of applications, including cell signalling and toxicology testing. A key goal in drug discovery is to identify how to most effectively monitor cell-cell interactions when cells show pathology. Roche Applied Science is now providing the new E-Plate Insert 16 and E-Plate Insert 96, permitting continual impedance-based monitoring […]

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., and YOKOHAMA, Japan -– Fluidigm (NASDAQ:FLDM) today unveiled the details of its new C1™ Single-Cell AutoPrep System to attendees at the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) meeting in Yokohama, Japan. The C1 System, based on Fluidigm’s innovative microfluidic technology, enables a researcher to isolate and process individual cells rapidly […]

STEMCELL Technologies Inc. (STEMCELL) announced today its plans to release a series of new products to advance research and translational applications for human pluripotent stem cells. These novel products, which will be launched at the International Society for Stem Cell Research 2012 Conference in Japan, include: TeSR™-E8™: a highly defined feeder-free culture medium for human […]

CARLSBAD, Calif.,– Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced a partnership with Cellular Dynamics International (CDI), the world’s largest producer of human cells derived from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, to commercialize a set of three new products optimized to consistently develop and grow human iPS cells for both research and bioproduction. The partnership marries […]

Chalfont St. Giles, UK, and Shenzhen, China – GE Healthcare, the healthcare business of GE (NYSE: GE), and BGI, the world’s largest genomics organization, jointly announced today a pioneering multi-year research collaboration in stem cell science. The objective of the collaboration is to help advance the potential global utility of stem cell-derived assays for use […]