INDIANAPOLIS – VersaComp Antibody Capture Bead kits from Beckman Coulter Life Sciences are designed to set compensation for multicolor flow cytometry experiments by allowing researchers to utilize the same reagents used in their experiments. Two vials are provided. One contains positive beads, microspheres which capture conjugates in single-color stains, and the second contains negative beads, […]

Ebersberg, Germany – Eurofins MWG Operon, the genomics division of Eurofins Scientific, the global leader in bio-analytical testing, announces the acquisition of Entelechon GmbH. Entelechon is a globally operating provider of gene synthesis, serving the pharmaceutical industry as well as academic and public research institutes. Founded in 1999 in Regensburg, Germany, Entelechon was one of […]

Cambridge, UK, :Horizon Discovery (Horizon), a leading provider of research tools to support the development of personalized medicines, today announced the final closing of its Series C funding round. The latest £6.9m ($10.5m) placement for ordinary shares brings to a close a cumulative total for the round of £18.2m ($29.1m) and will enable Horizon to […]

WALTHAM, Mass. –– prkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, announced today that it is opening direct operations in Turkey, headquartered in Istanbul. The new sales and service site will support key markets in Turkey including environmental testing, chemical and petrochemical analysis, pharmaceutical applications, and […]

Scientists from Peking University, China and OriGene Technologies jointly published that multiple lineage specifier genes can replace OCT4 and SOX2, the core regulators of cell pluripotency. The authors further proposed a “seesaw model” to illustrate the complex process of the pluripotency state and lineage specification. The results were published in the May 23rd issue of […]

ALAMEDA, Calif — BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT: BTX) today announced that it has agreed to sell up to an aggregate of 2,180,016 common shares and 545,004 warrants to purchase common shares, in “units” with each unit consisting of one common share and one-quarter of a warrant, at an offering price of $4.155 per unit. BioTime […]

(Innsbruck, — For more than 25 years, Dr Fischer-Knuppertz has held various leading positions in the diagnostics and pharmaceutical industries. Most recently, 56-year-old FischerKnuppertz, who holds a PhD in veterinary medicine, was General Manager with Fisher Scientific and before that had held leading positions at Roche Diagnostics. In the field of iagnostics, FischerKnuppertz brings not […]

AUSTIN, Texas, — Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX) today announced it has extended their global supply and distribution agreement with EMD Millipore—the Life Science division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. This long-term agreement strengthens the partnership and facilitates development of life science and protein assays by EMD Millipore for Luminex’s flexible platform. “We are very pleased […]

LARKSPUR, Calif., — BioCision, a leader in sample handling, announced today a new collaboration with ATCC, the world’s leading provider of authenticated biological material. ATCC debuted the first product in this collaboration, the alcohol-free CoolCell® LX cell cryopreservation container, at the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) 2013 meeting in April. BioCision and ATCC are […]

Hercules, CA —— Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. today announced the launch of its SsoAdvanced universal supermixes that deliver superior real-time PCR (qPCR) performance under any reaction conditions on any qPCR instrument. The new SsoAdvanced universal supermixes include the SsoAdvanced™ universal SYBR® Green supermix and the SsoAdvanced universal probes supermix. Both supermixes include Bio-Rad’s patented Sso7d fusion […]