BioLegend in San Diego, CA, a leading provider of antibodies and reagents for biomedical research, has been granted ISO 9001:2008 certification for manufacturing and distribution of antibodies, proteins, and chemical reagents for research use, and ISO 13485:2003 certification for manufacture and distribution of antibodies, proteins, and chemical reagents for use in the medical device industry. […]

Leiden, Netherlands/Oxford, United Kingdom, – Dutch biotech company ProteoNic BV and Oxford Expression Technologies Ltd (OET), a leading provider of baculovirus-based protein expression products and services, have extended their partnership by signing a commercial license agreement. OET obtains the right to use ProteoNic’s UNic™ translation enhancing elements in its flashBAC™ system for third party recombinant […]

Zymo Research Corporation, a privately held company located in Irvine, California, has recently expanded its range of tools and services for scientists working in one of the hottest fields of science today – Epigenetics. Zymo Research now offers the most comprehensive suite of services for epigenetic analysis, including genome-wide platforms for profiling DNA methylation and […]

New England Peptide, Inc. (NEP) today announced that it has entered into a licensing agreement with the Atlantic Cancer Research Institute (ACRI). Under the terms of the agreement NEP has acquired the worldwide exclusive rights for Vn96 and a portfolio of other peptide compounds to be used for the research grade enrichment of microparticles, microvesicles, […]

Cambridge, UK: TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems and consumables for life science applications will be unveiling its latest development in 3D cell culture, the RAFT™ 24 well Kit on Booth #1159 at the Society of Toxicology (SOT) Meeting. The kit can produce realistic, reproducible single or multiple 3D cell cultures […]

Madison, WI USA: Promega Corporation announces the launch of Trypsin/Lys-C Mix, Mass Spectrometry Grade. A unique combination of Trypsin Gold and rLys-C proteases, the new mix increases peptide generation with in-solution protein digestion and works with even difficult to digest proteins. Enhanced proteolytic activity achieved through use of Trypsin/Lys-C Mix can result in a 20-40% […]

CAMBRIDGE, England & LONDON — Horizon Discovery (Horizon), a leading provider of research tools to support the development of personalized medicines, today announced it has established three new Centers of Excellence (CoE’s) for gene editing in Asia. The new Centers are at Aichi Cancer Center, Japan, Seoul National University, South Korea, and the National Cancer […]

ALAMEDA, Calif.– BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT: BTX) and its bioinformatics subsidiary LifeMap Sciences, Inc. (“LifeMap”) today announced that they have entered into a definitive collaboration agreement to utilize LifeMap’s computer-based tools to extract information relating to novel potential commercial products from nearly 100 million proprietary gene expression data points generated and owned by BioTime. The […]

CARLSBAD, Calif., — Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) announced today that it has signed a collaborative research agreement and related license with Harvard University under which it has acquired exclusive rights to develop a panel of characterization assays designed to rapidly evaluate human pluripotent stem (hPS) cells for their utility in a variety of discovery […]

Berlin, Germany, – BioGenes GmbH, a global leader in host cell protein (HCP) assay development, announced a strong increase in sales volume in 2012, the year of the company’s 20th anniversary, due to a high demand of specific antibodies and ELISA assays used in drug development processes. In particular, the HCP assay development business showed […]