Milford, Mass. – SeraCare Life Sciences (Nasdaq: SRLS), a global life sciences company providing vital products and services to facilitate the discovery, development and production of human diagnostics and therapeutics, announced it has expanded its cellular product line with the addition of Cryo-M Human Monocytes and Cryo-T4 Human CD4+ T-Cells to its AccuCell® Peripheral Blood […]

NEWARK, Del.–SDIX™, a leading supplier of rapid detection solutions to the $1 billion food pathogen testing market, today announced the publication of a scientific paper entitled “RapidChek® SELECT™ Salmonella Enteritidis Test System for the Detection of Salmonella Enteritidis in Poultry House Drag Swabs, Shell Egg Pools, and Chicken Carcass Rinsates”. The publication was released by […]

Chalfont St Giles, UK – GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), today announced it has reached an agreement to acquire PAA Laboratories, a developer and supplier of cell culture media for biomedical research and the fast-growing biopharmaceutical and vaccine manufacturing industry. The acquisition of PAA Laboratories will allow GE Healthcare to expand […]

GE Healthcare Life Sciences new Whatman Indicating FTA™ DMPK Cards enable simple and effective collection of colorless biosample fluids, such as plasma, urine and CSF, for use in pharmacokinetic and toxicokinetic studies. These new cards enable room temperature storage of dried biosample spots and only require a low sample volume (10-20 µl), making them ideal […]

MADISON, WIS. – Cellular Dynamics International (CDI) announced today the recent launch of its Innovative Research Grant Program. This grant program will advance researchers’ understanding of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), the terminal cell types derived from them, and the role and applications of this new in vitro cellular model in basic research, drug discovery […]

SEATTLE, Wash. – NanoString Technologies, Inc., a privately held provider of life science tools for translational research and developer of molecular diagnostics, today announced the availability of the nCounter® Rat miRNA Expression Assay Kit for use on its nCounter Analysis System. The nCounter Rat miRNA Expression Assay Kit enables researchers to perform direct digital detection […]

ATLANTA – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the release of Thermo Scientific Bioservative, a sample preservation matrix that does not require refrigeration. Bioservative™ ensures the cell viability of microbiological samples for up to seven days and delays the breakdown of RNA, DNA and peptides within a sample for […]

SHANGHAI and TAIPEI — QIAGEN today officially opened its new subsidiary in Taiwan, QIAGEN Taiwan Co., Ltd., and began direct sales in the market. To mark the event, QIAGEN held an inauguration ceremony at the Sheraton Hotel, Taipei, attended by 100 distinguished guests, including local government officials, prominent key opinion leaders and customers. Establishing the […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–Firefly BioWorks, Inc., a manufacturer of universally compatible multiplex assays, announced today it was awarded a $2M Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Cancer Institute for microRNA profiling. MicroRNAs are an emerging class of biomarkers that are proving to be important indicators for early diagnosis of cancer and other […]