WUJIANG, CHINA, Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) today announced the official opening of a new state-of-the-art manufacturing and distribution facility for Corning Life Sciences in China’s Yangtze River Delta. The grand opening ceremony was held just over a year after Corning’s Board of Directors approved the approximately $40 million (USD) capital expenditure plan in July 2010. […]

Ann Arbor, MI, 3D Biomatrix, a leader in the development of three-dimensional (3D) cell culture products, has developed protocols to precisely calibrate the Beckman Coulter Biomek FX Laboratory Automation Workstation software for use with Perfecta3DTM Hanging Drop Plates. Because the Plates work with existing equipment, the protocols allow users to easily utilize the Biomek FX […]

ST. LOUIS, Sigma-Aldrich® Corporation (Nasdaq: SIAL) today announced that Sigma Advanced Genetic Engineering (SAGETM) Labs, an initiative of Sigma Life Science, in partnership with Autism Speaks, will present data on the biological and behavioral characterization of the first rats genetically engineered to model autism. The novel rat models of autism mimic specific symptoms and pathologies […]

Bluechiip Limited [ASX BCT] – which has developed a ground-breaking wireless tracking solution for the healthcare and life science, security, defence and manufacturing industries – today announced it has signed a Collaborative Evaluation and Trial Agreement (“Agreement”) with ATCC, a recognized leader in biological materials management and processes for cell provisioning based in the USA. […]

OMAHA, Neb. & PARIS–Transgenomic, Inc. and ScreenCell, a privately-held company, today announced the signing of a perpetual, worldwide collaboration and distribution agreement for ScreenCell’s Isolation Devices and Dilution Buffers, designed for the collection of Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs) in peripheral blood. ScreenCell® offers innovative, single-use devices to isolate by size and characterize all possible tumor […]

San Diego, CA, USA – Oxford Expression Technologies (OET), the award-winning specialist provider of recombinant protein expression solutions, has opened a new US hub site. The inauguration of this new hub, which is operated by San Diego based biotech company Abcore Inc, will not only allow customers in the United States to purchase OET products […]

Cambridge, UK – Horizon Discovery Ltd. (Horizon), a leading provider of research tools to support the development of personalized medicines, announces a strategic partnership agreement with Promega Corporation, the leader in innovative life science research technologies. The partnership centers on the delivery of endogenous gene reporting capabilities, in the form of Promega’s luciferase and HaloTag® […]

MANASSAS, Va.–ATCC, the recognized leader in biological materials management and processes for cell provisioning, has been awarded funding for 5 years from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD to establish a Physical Sciences-Oncology Centers (PS-OC) Bioresource Core Facility (PBCF). The goal of the PBCF is to create a facility […]

Mass., New England Biolabs (NEB), a world leader in the production and supply of reagents for the life science industry, has made its popular web tools, Double Digest Finder and Enzyme Finder, available as the “NEB Tools” app for Android™ phones and tablets. These tools, designed to help set up restriction enzyme experiments, have already […]

Bristol, UK, Ascent Scientific together with Children’s Medical Research Institute and The University of Newcastle today announced that they have entered into a license, supply and distribution agreement for the highly potent dynamin inhibitor Dyngo-4a™. This novel compound joins a range of dynamin inhibitors that can be used for investigating cellular processes such as endocytosis. […]