BERLIN and BURLINGTON, Mass. – caprotec bioanalytics GmbH, a privately held biopharmaceutical company offering the proprietary Capture Compound Mass Spectrometry (CCMS) platform technology for the analysis of small molecule – protein interactions, today announced a second closing of EUR 1 million ($1.4 M) to its Series B financing, increasing total equity for the round to […]

MILANO, Italy – At the 21st Annual Meeting of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (www.congrex.ch/ECCMID2011), Bruker introduces single-use MALDI BiotargetTM sample plates for the mass spectrometry-based MALDI Biotyper workflow for microbial identification of a wide range of microbial species by means of specific proteomic fingerprints. Due to its very fast result […]

Lincoln, Nebraska: LI-COR is working with BellBrook Labs to create competitive immunoassay kits for high-throughput screening (HTS). Building upon the success of prior incorporation of LI-COR’s IRDye® QC-1 quencher conjugate into its Transcreener® ADP2 FI Assay, BellBrook Labs has chosen to use the same quencher conjugate in its Transcreener GDP FI Assay. The Transcreener GDP […]

St. Louis, MO. – Sigma Life Science, the innovative biological products and services research business of Sigma-Aldrich® (Nasdaq:SIAL), and King’s College London, today announced an exclusive license to develop and commercialize new technology for the identification and validation of microRNA (miRNA) targets in research and clinical diagnostics. For more detailed information, visit www.wherebiobegins.com/targetid. miRNAs function […]

GILBERTSVILLE, Pa. – Rockland Immunochemicals (www.rockland-inc.com) has produced a new Anti-NF-?B monoclonal antibody (catalog number 200-301-065) validated by several assays relevant for discovery including immunofluorescence microscopy (IF), immunohistochemistry (IHC), western blotting (WB) and ELISA (E). The NF-?B p65 antibody was produced by using our electrofusion hybridoma technology. NF-?B is located in the cytosol complexed with […]

VINELAND, N.J. – Designed for analytical research and clinical diagnostic testing, Laboratory Supply Distributors Corp. announces the 96-Well Multi-Tier™ Micro Plate System. Its unique, patented design allows for more flexibility and ease of use. An improvement on existing 96-Well systems, the Multi-Tier Plate can be built using spacers to hold vial capacities of 0.5ml, 1.0ml, […]

Bioo Scientific launched the patent pending NEXTflex™ Small RNA Sequencing Kit which provides an easy, flexible, cost-effective solution for generating single and multiplexed libraries from small RNA using Illumina GAIIx and HiSeq 2000 sequencing platforms. The NEXTflex Small RNA Sequencing Kit allows users to generate libraries directly from as little as 1 ?g of total […]

ROCKFORD, Ill. – Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today introduced four Thermo Scientific Pierce Calibration Solutions for the calibration of Thermo Scientific Mass Spectrometers, including the Thermo Scientific LTQ Orbitrap series and the Thermo Scientific TSQ Vantage series. The Pierce® Calibration Solutions are ready-to-use liquid formulations that consist of highly purified […]

Momentum Corporate Finance has advised the Shareholders of Tocris Bioscience on its £75 million sale to Techne Corporation. One of the largest South West based deals for 2011 has been announced with the £75 million sale of Bristol based Tocris Bioscience to US based Techne Corporation. Bristol based Momentum Corporate Finance conducted an international auction […]

Minneapolis – Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) (Techne) announced today that it has acquired 100% ownership of Tocris Holdings Limited and subsidiaries (Tocris), a leading supplier of reagents for non-clinical life science research. Tocris’ products are used in both in-vitro and in-vivo experiments, to understand biological processes and diseases. The business is focused on making biologically […]