Franklin Lakes, N.J. — BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE:BDX), a leading global medical technology company, announced the election of Dr. Claire Pomeroy to its Board of Directors. Dr. Pomeroy, 58, is an expert in infectious diseases and a long-time advocate for public health and patients, especially those with HIV/AIDS. She is currently President of […]

Hamburg – The nano-experts from the Center for Applied Nanotechnology (CAN) GmbH expand their product portfolio by CANdots® Series G – His Detect, which is a ready-to-use reagent for the detection of poly-histidine tagged proteins in Blot assays. It is easy to handle, highly sensitive as well as time saving compared to standard methods available […]

CHELMSFORD, Mass. and LARKSPUR, Calif. — Brooks Automation, Inc. (Nasdaq:BRKS), a global provider of automated sample storage systems for compound management and biorepositories, and BioCision, LLC, a leader in advanced technology to improve biomaterial sample handling and standardization, today announced they have established a relationship to support the development of technologies to improve temperature control […]

Austin, TX — Bioo Scientific is releasing the NovareDx™ EHDV Strip Test Kit, the first commercial strip test for the detection of Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease Virus (EHDV), an orbivirus that infects most wild and domestic ruminants. EHD is endemic in many countries, particularly affecting white-tailed deer in North America. The NovareDx EHDV Strip Test Kit […]

Columbia, Maryland — In Vitro ADMET Laboratories, LLC (IVAL) and Taconic announced an agreement today under which IVAL will prepare cryopreserved hepatocytes derived from Taconic’s knockout and genetically humanized mouse models for use in preclinical drug development research. The resulting plateable cryopreserved hepatocytes will be a commercial product available from either company. Using hepatocytes from […]

Schlieren, Switzerland and Rockville, Maryland — InSphero AG today announced a collaboration with the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) to identify anti-cancer agents with cytotoxic activity in 3D culture models. The project includes development of multi-cell type spheroids (MCTS) by InSphero in the company’s 96- and 384-well GravityPLUS™ […]

CARLSBAD, Calif. — MO BIO Laboratories, Inc., the leader in microbial, stool, plant, and soil nucleic acid purification, announces the launch of the BiOstic® FFPE Tissue RNA Isolation Kit. This newest kit features a very efficient protocol which includes complete lysis and extraction of total RNA from formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissues without the use of toxic […]

Portland, ME — MBS MAB230P, monoclonal antibody to the polyhistidine (HIS) tag has been incorporated into the second generation Forte Bio Anti-HIS biosensors for rapid quantitative measurement of HIS tagged proteins. MAB230P was selected by ForteBio after demonstrating high specificity and excellent sensitivity, detecting HIS tagged proteins in nanogram quantities. The antibody is broadly reactive, […]

Innsbruck — A team of researchers in Georgetown, Washington DC, and Rochester, New York, has developed the world’s first blood test capable of predicting Alzheimer’s disease. The first-of-its-kind study, recently published in Nature Medicine, used the AbsoluteIDQ® p180 test kit by BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG, a leading Austrian biotech company specialized in targeted metabolite quantification. […]