Agreement supports further development of organoids as next-generation drug screening platform Utrecht- The HUB Foundation for Organoid Technology announced today that it has signed a licensing agreement with STEMCELL Technologies Inc. for the manufacturing and worldwide distribution of cell culture media for growing Organoids. Organoids are mini-organs grown in tissue culture from small pieces of […]

CARLSBAD, Calif. Life Technologies Corporation today announces the launch of Lipofectamine® 3000, the company’s most efficient and versatile transfection reagent for nucleic acid delivery in the broadest spectrum of cell lines. The product increases efficiency up to 10-fold in difficult-to-transfect cells, which is key for researchers working with more biologically relevant cell models. “Its superior […]

CORNING, N.Y. – Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) today announced its new Corning® 96- and 384-Well Spheroid Microplates and the Corning® High-Content Imaging Cyclic Olefin Copolymer (COC) Microplates. Corning Life Sciences will showcase its latest innovations in booth #1029 at the Society for Laboratory Automation & Screening (SLAS) 2014 Conference, Jan. 18-22, in San Diego, Calif. […]

Cambridge, UK and Adelaide, Australia,TGR BioSciences Pty Ltd (TGR), a life sciences company focused on the development of rapid, high sensitivity ELISA systems using their CaptSure technology, and Innova Biosciences (Innova), a specialist provider of bioconjugation systems, announced that they have entered into an agreement to promote and co-market each other’s highly complementary technologies, providing […]

MILPITAS, Calif. — Biovision is very excited to introduce the Human CellExp™ Recombinant Proteins product line (https://www.biovision.com/proteins-and-enzymes-1263/human-cell-expressed-recombinant-proteins-2315/) complementing our Proteins and Enzymes (https://www.biovision.com/proteins-and-enzymes-1263/) portfolio. Proteins, especially therapeutic proteins were initially extracted from human and animal tissues or blood. However, limitations in availability of the biological material, and the potential pathogen contaminations, led to the development […]

CINCINNATI — Meridian Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIVO) today announced weaker than expected preliminary operating results for the first quarter ended December 31, 2013. Fiscal 2014 First Quarter Preliminary Outlook Due to factors including reduced hospital admissions and declining C. difficile incidence rates in hospitals putting further pressure on an already competitive market, Life Science shipments […]

From: Tanya Samazan [mailto:tsamazan@strategic-directions.com] Agreement supports further development of organoids as next-generation drug screening platform Utrecht,- The HUB Foundation for Organoid Technology announced today that it has signed a licensing agreement with STEMCELL Technologies Inc. for the manufacturing and worldwide distribution of cell culture media for growing Organoids. Organoids are mini-organs grown in tissue culture […]

Cambridge, UK: Horizon Discovery (Horizon), a leading provider of research tools to support the development of personalized medicines, today announced the formal appointment of Dr. Ian Gilham as Chairman of its Board of Directors. Dr. Gilham’s healthcare industry career spans thirty years encompassing all aspects of successful company growth and development. Dr. Gilham was Chief […]

The Combipack™ from Porvair Sciences has been introduced for laboratories tasked with protein precipitation sample preparation. Comprising five colour coded Porvair P3 protein precipitation plates and five 1ml deep well collection plates the Combipack™ contains all the elements required to accelerate the traditionally troublesome procedure at a budget price. Biological samples commonly contain proteins that […]

MADISON, WISCONSIN — Promega Corporation announces ViaFect™ Transfection Reagent, a tool for efficient DNA transfer into a wide variety of cell lines, including challenging suspension cells and stem cell-derived lines. ViaFect Transfection Reagent allows researchers to develop transfection-based assays in the cell line most relevant for their biology of interest. Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived […]