CARLSBAD, Calif., — Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announces plans to invest $18 million in a multi-phase plan to expand its facility in Pleasanton, Calif., where it will implement Current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) capabilities for its genetic analysis products. The project, which executes against Life’s roadmap to broaden its offerings in the growing […]

CINCINNATI — Meridian Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIVO) today announced that it has been recognized by Forbes as one of America’s 100 Most Trustworthy Companies. The list is selected following a comprehensive evaluation of governance and accounting practices of candidate companies having market capitalization over $250 million. The rankings are based on data from GMI Ratings […]

Various data, already presented at academic meetings, indicates that Medicyte’s upcyte® hepatocytes combine the benefits of quantity (generation of up to 2000 vials per donor) with the quality of primary hepatocytes. The new generation of upcyte® hepatocytes show more comparable results to primary cells in in-vitro assays (such as CYP 3A4-Induction, genotoxicity or hepato- and […]

LANSING, Mich.,– Neogen Corporation (Nasdaq: NEOG) announced today that its net income for the third quarter of FY 2013, which ended Feb. 28, increased 27% to $6,652,000, or $0.27 per share, compared to the prior year’s third quarter net income of $5,244,000, or $0.22 a share. Year to date, nine-month net income increased 22% to […]

Paris, Lyon, – At BIOVISION, the world life sciences forum, Veolia Environnement, global leader in water services and expert in environmental services, and bioMérieux, global player in in vitro diagnostic solutions and world leader in industrial microbiology, announced today they have signed an agreement to undertake a research partnership. This partnership aims at developing an […]

Lewisville, TX, – The annual meeting for the American Associate of Cancer Research will be held April 6-10th in Washington, DC. As always, the meeting will be a platform for new ideas, research, and technologies. One of those new technologies has already been creating quite a buzz. Bio-Synthesis, Inc., an AACR exhibitor for over 18 […]

MADISON, WIS., –Cellular Dynamics International (CDI) and Coriell Institute for Medical Research today announced receiving two multi-million dollar grant awards from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). CIRM awarded CDI $16 million to create 3 induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines for each of 3000 healthy and diseased donors. Tissue samples will be taken […]

With the popularity of 3D technology, many areas begin to reach out to try the novel technology. As cell transfection does, it is also stepping forward to 3D transfection system. In past, 2D cell culture was the common way. But it is limited by many aspects which can’t satisfy the strict requirements of devoted scientists […]

BREA, CALIF. –– Professor Wilhelm Einar Stellan Hjertén of the Institute of Biochemistry, Uppsala University in Sweden, received the Arnold O. Beckman Medal and Award, presented on Monday, March 11th at the 29th International MicroScale Bioseparations Symposium (MSB 2013), held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville (UVA). In recognizing outstanding contributions to the field […]

Rockville, MD –– OriGene Technologies, Inc., a leading genome wide product company for research and diagnostic applications, announced the completion of a $21.3 million Series C financing led by Qiming Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers China. OriGene’s previous investor IDG-Accel also participated in this round. “We are pleased with the high level of […]