WALTHAM, Mass. – InnoCentive, the global leader in Challenge Driven Innovation, today announced that it has partnered with Life Technologies for the first phase of the $7 million Life Grand Challenges. A Grand Challenge is a well-formed problem – or series of problems – whose solution has high value and far-reaching consequences in the areas […]

Palo Alto, California – PREMIER Biosoft International, as a part of its contract software development services, has delivered OligoArchitect™ for an undisclosed amount from Sigma Aldrich. Sigma Aldrich, with operations in over 40 countries, is a life science and high technology company. Its chemical and biochemical products are used in scientific research and as key […]

Washington, D.C. – Danaher Corporation (NYSE:DHR) announced today that its previously announced tender offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Beckman Coulter, Inc. (NYSE: BEC) for $83.50 per share in cash (“the Offer”) has been extended and will now expire at 12:00 midnight, New York City time, at the end of June 6, […]

Mountain View, CA – Clontech Laboratories, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Takara Bio Inc., today announced the release of the iDimerize inducible dimerization systems. Based on the widely used ARGENT™ technology developed by ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARIA), the iDimerize systems enable precise, real-time control of protein-protein interactions using specific cell-permeable chemical ligands, called dimerizers. […]

Horizon Discovery (Horizon), a leading provider of research tools to support the development of personalized medicines, has announced that it has entered into a three-year collaboration with the Fox Chase Cancer Center (Fox Chase). The focus of the collaboration is to apply rAAV gene targeting in mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells, and for the discovery […]

BERKELEY, Calif. – An alliance of top researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, has formed the UC Berkeley Synthetic Biology Institute (SBI), advancing efforts to engineer cells and biological systems in ways that promise to transform technology in health and medicine, energy, the environment, new materials, and a host of other critical arenas. The […]

AMSBIO has announced the launch of Alvetex® – a unique cell culture scaffold that, for the first time, enables genuine 3D cell culture to be grown routinely and cost-effectively. Already successfully applied to numerous applications including drug toxicity models with liver cells, skin raft assays and bone remodeling studies – Alvetex® provides a stable and […]

Bioo Scientific continues to expand its line of kits designed to increase the flexibility of next generation sequencing library preparation with the launch of the AIR™ DNA Fragmentation Kit. The AIR™ DNA Fragmentation Kit offers a cost-effective procedure for the fragmentation of genomic DNA in next generation sequencing sample prep and has been optimized to […]

Fremont, CA, United States – For both FAST and regular protocols, AnaSpec is pleased to showcase our parent company, Eurogentec’s MESA BLUE qPCR MasterMix Plus for SYBR® Assay – AnaSpec.com. This MasterMix is a unique combination of our high-performance Hotstart MeteorTaq and an inert BLUE dye. The BLUE dye, which does not affect the qPCR […]