Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Thermo Fisher), a leading manufacturer of products used in scientific research, has agreed to sell assets to GE Healthcare to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its proposed $13.6 billion acquisition of Life Technologies Corporation (Life) would likely substantially lessen competition. The FTC complaint challenging the transaction alleges that the deal, […]

AMSBIO has introduced a range of ready-to-use human and mouse lentivirus products for miRNA and anti-miRNA expression (miRNA inhibition). Lentiviral expression vectors are the most effective vehicles for delivering genetic material to almost any mammalian cell—including non-dividing cells and whole model organisms. miRNAs are endogenous non-coding RNAs that are highly conserved in mammals and that […]

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. & PARIS — Precision BioSciences, Inc. and Cellectis SA FR:ALCLS +0.54% , today announced that they have reached an agreement to settle patent litigation involving engineered I-CreI meganuclease technology. As part of the settlement, the companies will cross-license certain genome engineering patents and drop their on-going lawsuits and patent challenges. This […]

Schlieren, Switzerland & Cambridge, USA — InSphero starts 2014 with a new Director of Global Marketing: Randy Strube, Ph.D. joined the company in January 2014 to strengthen InSphero’s marketing team. With Dr. Strube, InSphero won a technically skilled and very experienced life science professional to continue its remarkable growth over the past years. Previously, Dr. […]

Cambridge, UK – Horizon Discovery™ (Horizon), a leading provider of research tools to support translational genomics and the development of personalized medicines, today announced it has entered into a large-scale licensing agreement with a Japanese medical university. The agreement covers a limited use label license for academic use of 250 of Horizon’s X-MAN™ genetically defined, […]

SAN DIEGO — Organovo Holdings, Inc. (NYSE MKT: ONVO) (“Organovo”), a three-dimensional biology company focused on delivering breakthrough 3D bioprinting technology, today announced that it has performed its first 3D Liver tissue delivery. The achievement marks the delivery of Organovo’s 3D Liver tissue to a laboratory outside of the company to a key opinion leader […]

BOSTON – Cambridge Isotope Laboratories, Inc. (CIL), the world’s leading supplier of stable isotopes and stable isotope-enriched small molecules, is working together with Nexomics Biosciences, a structural biology and protein production contract research organization, to provide isotope-labeled proteins to life science research organizations. Scientific research guided by stable-isotope-enriched protein reagents has become common place in […]

Porvair Sciences has announced a new Chromatrap Enzymatic Shearing Kit that contains all the necessary reagents and buffers for up to 10 chromatin preparations. The success of a ChIP assay is highly dependent on the quality of chromatin prepared. The Chromatrap® enzymatic shearing kit – allows you to determine optimal shearing conditions for your chromatin […]

WILMINGTON, Mass. – Kapa Biosystems, Inc., a leading supplier of reagents for the life science market, today announced several high-profile additions to its management team, along with the relocation of its corporate and international headquarters to larger facilities in Wilmington, Mass. and Cape Town, South Africa respectively. Combined, these new locations offer more than 25,000 […]

Rainbow Scientific Inc. partners with Kem-En-Tec Diagnostics to offer ECO-TEK™ product line. Windsor, CT. ECO-TEK products, the only commercially available line of environmentally safe immunoassay reagents, are now available exclusively from Rainbow Scientific, Inc., the North Americans partner of Kem-En-Tec Diagnostics. ECO-TEK reagent formulations contain no biological hazards (such as BSA) or chemical hazards (including […]