SAN DIEGO – Assay Depot announced today that it raised $1.7 million from private investors. The funds will be used to expand the company’s cloud-based pharmaceutical research platform. “We’ve brought together the capabilities of the most popular consumer websites to create a web-based research platform that helps scientists innovate,” said Kevin Lustig, President and CEO […]

LANSING, Mich. – Neogen Corporation (NASDAQ: NEOG) has received approval from the FDA and National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments (NCIMS) for its quick and easy BetaStar® Plus assay, developed for use in the United States to detect dairy antibiotic residues, including ceftiofur, in milk. This approval allows milk producers and processors in the U.S. […]

Darmstadt, Germany – Merck Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA, today announced a simple quick test in its product portfolio can detect EHEC (enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli) in food. This strain of bacteria has already infected hundreds in Germany and other regions in recent weeks. The infection is thought to be spread primarily through […]

DENVER (ASMS) – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced the Bond Elut DMS (Dried Matrix Spotting) samplepreparation card for dried blood-spotting bioanalysis. The proprietary design delivers a number of advantages over conventional cellulose-based cards. Dried blood-spotting analysis is an emerging technique in biological research. It allows researchers to substantially reduce costs and time-consuming steps […]

Ottawa, ON – DNA Genotek Inc. a leading provider of products for biological sample collection, stabilization and preparation, today announced that its Oragene•DNA product has been selected by Existence Genetics LLC for their newly launched predictive medicine service. Predictive medicine is a rapidly emerging field of medicine that entails predicting disease and instituting preventive measures […]

Hercules, CA – Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. today announced the launch of new magnetic bead–based multiplex immunoassays for TGF-?, rat cytokines, rat diabetes, and mouse TH17 cytokines. New assays are built on Luminex’s MagPlex platform to take advantage of the magnetic beads workflow that simplifies assay preparation and reduces variability in results. Magnetic bead–based assays are […]

San Antonio, TX, United States – BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, today celebrated the grand opening of its new North American Professional Service Center in San Antonio, Texas. The site currently employs 125 BD associates and is expected to bring a total of nearly 300 new jobs to the […]

ALAMEDA, Calif. – BioTime, Inc. (NYSE Amex:BTX), a biotechnology company that develops and markets products in the field of regenerative medicine, today announced that two human embryonic stem (hES) cell lines, ESI-014 and ESI-017, developed by a BioTime subsidiary have been approved by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for inclusion in the NIH Human […]

FREMONT, Calif. – DiscoveRx announced today the successful expansion of its industry leading KINOMEscan™ kinase assay panel for kinase inhibitor profiling and screening services. Now with 451 kinase assays in the scanMAX™ assay panel, which will be available for global customers by mid-June 2011, DiscoveRx continues to maintain its leadership position by offering the largest […]

MADISON, WISCONSIN – The Promega App is now available in a new format optimized for easy use on both iPhone and iPad, and it’s supplemented with more tools for scientists and students. New content in version 3.0 includes a Restriction Enzyme Finder, a new Biochemical Buffers chapter, and additional instructional videos on transfection and PCR […]