Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and SomaLogic Inc. (a privately held biotechnology company) announced today that they have entered into an agreement to expand access to SomaLogic’s unbiased protein biomarker discovery platform. The companies will initially place SomaLogic’s SOMAscan proteomic assay, which employs custom Agilent microarrays in its workflow, in select academic and contract research […]

Milford, Massachusetts, – SeraCare Life Sciences, a provider of high quality biological materials that help optimize diagnostic performance, reliability and repeatability across the IVD lifecycle, completed its implementation of SAP® enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. The SAP® system integrates the company’s inventory planning and control, purchasing, production management, quality management and financial reporting systems into […]

Lincoln, Nebraska: August 8, 2013, Lincoln, Nebraska: LI-COR now offers custom dye labeling and synthesis services, allowing researchers to contract with LI-COR to label proteins, antibodies, peptides, and small molecules. These services assist researchers with unmet needs that go beyond LI-COR’s basic offerings. Each LI-COR custom service offers the choice of a dye or quencher […]

SIRION Biotech announced today its novel lentivirus portfolio for the most sophisticated in vitro applications. Besides its (1) non-toxic transduction enhancer coined LentiBOOST(TM) , SIRION Biotech offers (2) premade lentivirus vectors and (3) custom ser-vices. The latter allows for all possible modifications and applications ranging from complex and multiple genes expression to TET- inducible all-in-one […]

MILFORD, Mass. –– Waters Corporation (WAT: NYSE) today announced that VICAM®, a Waters® Business, introduced a first of its kind Mobile Application that provides instant access to global mycotoxin regulations. The App, available for download on Google Play, iTunes Store or www.commodityregs.com, enables instant searchable results for mycotoxin limits by geography and commodity or food […]

VALENCIA, Calif., — Sanguine BioSciences, a biotechnology company enabling personalized medicine research, today announced a distribution partnership with AMS Biotechnology (AMSBIO) to make its products and services available to researchers in Europe. Sanguine collects and de-identifies biospecimen, medical history and other data from patients diagnosed with severe and chronic diseases for use in biomarker research. […]

INDIANAPOLIS — PerFix-Expose1 and PerFix-nc1, innovative new reagent kits for intracellular staining from Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, minimize sample manipulation for a streamlined workflow that delivers high quality results. Developed for use on Beckman Coulter’s Gallios1 and Navios2 series flow cytometers and compatible with all Beckman Coulter Life Sciences’ fluorochromes, the kits enable a clear […]

Northeastern’s University’s Marine Sci­ence Center will soon house a tissue col­lec­tion from the world’s most rare, strange, and remark­able ocean crea­tures. Based on the part­ner­ship between North­eastern, Ocean Genome Legacy and New Eng­land Bio­labs, the uni­ver­sity will be home to the Ocean Genome Legacy Center of New Eng­land Bio­labs—a pub­licly acces­sible biorepos­i­tory of DNA sam­ples […]

Growing concern amongst regulatory bodies about human resistance to common antibiotics is driving expansion for veterinary residue testing. Amongst its findings the recent joint European Food Safety Authority / European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control Report on antimicrobial resistance data among zoonotic and indicator bacteria in 2011 indicated high resistance to Tetracycline’s in Salmonella […]

Millville, NJ – WHEATON® and Irvine Scientific have collaborated to introduce a high yield, small-scale solution for bioproduction. The solution consists of a WHEATON® CELLine™ bioreactor flask paired with Irvine Scientific’s BalanCD™ CHO Growth A animal component-free, chemically-defined medium. Scientists may now quickly set up and perform small-scale antibody and protein production while decreasing the […]