ChromoTek GmbH (Munich, Germany) has announced today the signing of a license agreement granting Bayer Pharma AG (Bayer) the right to use ChromoTek’s proprietary Cell Cycle Chromobody® Technology for drug profiling by High Content Analysis. Under the terms of the agreement, Bayer will apply Chromobody® technology for real time monitoring of cell cycle progression in […]

Minneapolis, Minnesota –– The Board of Directors of Techne Corporation announced today that Charles Kummeth has been appointed as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and a director of the Company, effective upon the commencement of his employment, which is expected to be April 1, 2013. Gregory J. Melsen, who has served as the Company’s interim […]

Ebersberg, Germany, – Eurofins MWG Operon, international market leader for custom DNA sequencing services from single reads to complete sequencing projects, has launched a new prepaid solution for premixed samples in tubes: SmartSeq Kit. Pooling together purified DNA with the appropriate sequencing primer before sending samples off is a common practice by researchers worldwide. The […]

Billerica, MA – EMD Millipore’s Discovery and Development Solutions business, part of the Life Science division of Merck KGaA of Darmstadt, Germany, today announced Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) certification of its contract research lab located in St Louis. EMD Millipore Discovery and Development Solutions is a leading provider of outsourced bioanalytical services, focused on […]

LANSING, Mich., – Neogen Corporation (NASDAQ: NEOG) has seen a spike in sales of its rapid meat speciation test kits as beef processors scramble to respond to the unscrupulous use of horse meat, and other species of meat, in the economic adulteration of beef products. Neogen offers easy and accurate meat speciation testing options that […]

Uppsala, Sweden, – Molecular tools specialist Olink today launched Proseek®Multiplex – a new generation of multiplexed protein biomarker immunoassays based on its proprietary Proximity Extension Assay (PEA) platform. Until now, it has been impossible to scale up conventional assays due to increased antibody cross-reactivity when large numbers of assays are run simultaneously. Now with the […]

Austin, TX, — Bioo Scientific’s newest version of the MaxSignal® Enrofloxacin ELISA Test Kit offers the ability to rapidly screen fish and shrimp samples for enrofloxacin contamination. With a detection limit of 0.1 ppb for seafood samples, the MaxSignal® Enrofloxacin ELISA Test Kit was developed specifically to meet the demanding seafood importation standards of Canada. […]

Collagen Antibody-Induced Arthritis (CAIA) has been widely used since 1998 when 4-clone cocktail (Arthrogen-CIA® arthritogenic monoclonal antibodies) kits first appeared. In order to induce consistent arthritis more effectively in various mouse strains including CAIA low responder C57BL/6 mice, and a variety of unpredictable knockout and transgenic mice with C57BL/6 (H-2b) or 129/Sv (H-2b) backgrounds, a […]

Chromotek GmbH (Munich, Germany) offers nanobody based real time assays to visualize and measure the action of candidate drugs or other substances of interest on important regulatory processes in living cells. Presently, four Chromobody® plasmids are available for analyzing the cell cycle, apoptosis, DNA methylation and cytoskeleton dynamics. A major advantage of the new Chromobody® […]

Corning Incorporated has agreed to pay the United States $5.65 million to resolve claims that it knowingly presented false claims to the United States for laboratory research products sold to federal agencies through Corning’s Life Sciences division. Corning, a New York based corporation, creates and makes glass and ceramic components for consumer electronics, mobile emissions […]