Source BioScience (LSE: SBS), the international diagnostics and genetic analysis business of the United Kingdom, and DNAFORM, a Japanese provider of genomic products and services, announce the launch of the Japanese version of Source BioScience’s GenomeCube® database and webstore. GenomeCube® provides access to a portfolio of 20 million DNA clones and antibodies for research purposes. […]

Codolet, France, – Cisbio Bioassays (www.cisbio.com), global developer of products, technologies and services used for assay development and drug screening and for in vitro diagnostics, has added three kinase assays to its growing cell-based kinase screening platform. The assays, all based on the company’s powerful HTRF® technology, were designed to provide new, easy and rapid […]

ROCHESTER, N.Y — Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the release of its Thermo Scientific Laboratory Consumables Catalog, an interactive, online resource that provides customers with a broad portfolio of products used in laboratories every day. Encompassing one of the most comprehensive product offerings in the industry, the interactive […]

The AMSBIO Cultrex® 3D Culture Cell Harvesting Kit is based on a non-enzymatic approach that prevents biochemical degradation during processing and overcomes the problems associated with extracting cells from 3D culture in BME or Laminin I. The quality of the harvested cells is ideal for Western blotting and RNA and DNA analysis. In 3D culture, […]

TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems and consumables for life science applications, is pleased to announce that it is collaborating with scientists at The Open University (OU), in Milton Keynes, UK to produce robust 3D human central nervous system (CNS) tissue models for use in drug discovery and pre-clinical testing. The […]

HOUSTON, May 10, 2012 — Emerging biotechnology company LaserGen, Inc., focused on commercializing novel technologies for next-generation sequencing (NGS), announced the appointment of Mimi Healy, Ph.D. as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and to the LaserGen Board of Directors. Dr. Healy brings more than two decades of molecular diagnostics, healthcare and biotechnology experience in both US […]

Exiqon A/S (NASDAQ OMX: EXQ), a leading supplier of high-value gene expression analysis products, today announced the launch of a microRNA qPCR Focus Panel for preclinical toxicology research. The new Toxicology Focus microRNA PCR Panels allow scientists engaged in toxicology research to apply a panel of qPCR microRNA assays optimized for analysis of microRNAs present […]

Charlottesville, VA – ZyGEM Corp. Ltd., a developer and marketer of innovative products for the analysis of DNA and RNA, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Quanta BioSciences to incorporate ZyGEM’s advanced enzymatic RNA extraction technology into Quanta’s leading reagents for quantitative PCR sold to customers worldwide. The collaboration will enable […]

DANVERS, MASS. – Beckman Coulter, Inc. has obtained a CLIA Certificate of Registration, along with Massachusetts State Licensure, allowing Beckman Coulter Genomics to begin accepting clinical samples for genetic sequencing – the most technically complex CLIA category – and to provide those results to physicians for their use in treating, diagnosing and preventing disease in […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif — Affymetrix, Inc., (NASDAQ:AFFX) and eBioscience, Inc., a privately-held San Diego, CA-based company with an industry-leading position in flow cytometry and immunoassay reagents for immunology and oncology research and diagnostics, today announced they have amended their existing definitive agreement dated November 29, 2011 under which Affymetrix will acquire eBioscience. Under the terms […]