Upland, Calif. – Claremont BioSolutions, LLC (ClaremontBio) announced today the official release of its HisExpress™ disposable columns for rapid His-tagged protein purification in less than three minutes. The HisExpress™ column is one of two products being officially released to the market in July that focus on the need for a quick and simple method of […]

SAN DIEGO – Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced availability of its new TruSeq Custom Enrichment kits which enable researchers to economically design and target genomic regions of interest ranging from 700 kilobases (Kb) to 15 megabases (Mb) of cumulative DNA. The TruSeq Custom Enrichment kits leverage the same underlying assay design as Illumina’s TruSeq Exome […]

BERLIN and BURLINGTON, Mass. – caprotec bioanalytics GmbH announced today the appointment of Marc Voigt as Managing Director, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Voigt joins caprotec from Medical Enzymes AG where he served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Business Officer. Previous to that, he was Chief Financial Officer and Chief Business […]

SDIX™ (NASDAQ: SDIX), a leading supplier of rapid detection solutions to the $1 billion food pathogen testing market, today announced that the Company is expanding the development of its E. coli pathogen testing platform to include the top six shigatoxin-producing E. coli (STEC) types. Shigatoxins represent a group of bacterial toxins that are involved in […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX) today began shipping its FDA-cleared Gene Profiling Reagents. Affymetrix also announced the availability of the new Gene Profiling Array cGMP U133 P2, a version of the widely cited Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array, as another component to its GeneChip®Instrument System, which is used by Affymetrix partners for […]

SAN DIEGO and IPSWICH, Mass. – Comprendia, leading developer of web 2.0 and social media tools for the life sciences, sponsored by molecular biology reagents provider New England Biolabs, Inc. (NEB), is introducing an online resource that will support epigenetics research. Epigenetics is a quickly growing field with important implications for oncology, neurology, metabolism and […]

MADISON, Wis. – Mirus Bio has initiated the Mirus Research Award Program to recognize the excellent research being conducted in the face of continued national grant funding reductions and decreased R&D budgets. Eligible labs and institutions will be selected based on the quality of the submission, research area, and the proposed novel use of Mirus […]

Lyon, France – genOway (ALTERNEXT-NYSE EURONEXT: ALGEN ; ISIN :FR0004053510; https://www.genoway.com) and bluebird bio (CAMBRIDGE, Mass. USA, https://www.bluebirdbio.com), report today genOway acquisition of an exclusive worldwide license for the RMCE technology (developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in the field of genetically modified rodents. RMCE technology, combining a recombinase system with genetic modification, enable […]

GERMANTOWN, Maryland and FUKUSHIMA PREFECTURE, Japan – A new international scientific expedition led by the University of South Carolina and supported by the biotechnology company QIAGEN is seeking to measure the genetic impact of radioactivity on animals and plants in areas surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan. The initiation of field work […]

CARLSBAD, Calif. and BANGALORE, India – Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) announced today that it has launched a regional distribution hub in India to address strong customer demand in the South Asia region. The new India Distribution Center (IDC), located in Bangalore, will boost the availability, timely delivery and quality of Life Technologies’ products to […]