Santa Clara, CA – Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ: AFFX) today launched the Affymetrix® SNP 6 Core Reagent Kit, a comprehensive workflow solution that provides pre-mixed and validated reagents for nearly every step in the SNP 6.0 assay. This convenient kit eliminates the need for mixing tedious buffers, reduces the need to order from multiple vendors, and […]

ST. PAUL, Minn. – 3M Food Safety today announced the launch of 3M™ Petrifilm™ Aqua Plates, bringing the modern, reliable convenience of food microbiology testing to the global water and beverage processing industries. The new product builds upon the 3M™ Petrifilm™ Plate, the trusted and standard microorganism testing tool for food processers throughout the world […]

Germantown, MD., and Hilden, Germany – QIAGEN (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt, Prime Standard: QIA) announced today the proposal of two international leaders in life sciences and healthcare – Dr. Vera Kallmeyer, M.D., Ph.D., and Elizabeth E. Tallett – for election to its Supervisory Board. The Supervisory Board will propose these two independent candidates based on their […]

NEW YORK – The research and development team at Epigentek has developed a new method to directly measure histone demethylase (HDMT) activity/inhibition via a straightforward detection of HDMT-converted products, rather than by-products. This method is incorporated into commercially available kits under the Epigenase(TM) brand for histone demethylase activity/inhibition assay kit series which provide ultra-sensitive assays […]

MADISON, Wis. – In addition to reliable high efficiency transfection reagents, Mirus Bio has expanded its transfection expertise with the development of the Reagent Agent(SM) – a new online tool designed to determine the best solution for delivery of any nucleic acid into any cell type, including hard-to-transfect cell lines and primary cells. Search results […]

Uppsala, Sweden – Using the same immunoassay platform, both product and impurities can be quantified during process development and production of biotherapeutics Gyros AB, a leader in utilization of microfluidic technologies to miniaturize and automate immunoassays, announced today that Cygnus Technologies Inc. has launched a third immunoassay kit specifically designed for compatibility with the company’s […]

Uppsala, Sweden: Gyros AB, a leader in utilization of microfluidic technologies to miniaturize and automate immunoassays, announced today that Cygnus Technologies Inc. has launched a third immunoassay kit specifically designed for compatibility with the company’s Gyrolab™ xP workstation. The new kit enables scientists to test for the presence of Protein A, an impurity that can […]

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. – Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL) will present a suite of advanced filtration products to optimize laboratory processes at the 2011 Pittcon Conference and Expo. Scientists from around the world will gather at Pittcon 2011 to learn about the latest technology and instrumentation for life sciences. The conference will take place at the Georgia […]

WILMINGTON, Mass. – Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. (NYSE: CRL) today announced that it has entered into a marketing and distribution agreement with Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE), the world’s leading biopharmaceutical company, to provide certain Pfizer-developed genetically modified research models to the global biomedical research community. Under this agreement, Charles River will supply a number […]

Mountain View, CA – Today, Cellecta, Inc. released the 3rd Module of the DECIPHER Project Pooled shRNA Library which targets an additional 5,000 human genes. This new Human Library Module adds additional cell surface, extracellular, DNA binding targets, and other genes to the well-annotated signal transduction and disease-associated genes primarily targeted with the first two […]