Reagent Proteins business unit will offer reagent, preclinical and cGMP grade proteins to the drug development community SAN DIEGO – Pfenex Inc. today announced the launch of a new business division, Reagent Proteins. Reagent Proteins will enhance the development scientists’ ability to source complex reagent grade proteins at a competitive price. Reagent Proteins will initially […]

Provider of Cutting-Edge Tools for Biological Research to Acquire Distributor, Establish Closer Ties with Customers in India New Delhi, Delhi, India – Life Technologies, a global biotechnology company based in Carlsbad, Calif., today announced a definitive agreement to acquire certain assets of Labindia, a long-time distributor of its products. The transaction is expected to allow […]

Funding Will Allow The Company To Continue Its Efforts On The Licensing And Design Of Planned Uranium De-Conversion And Fluorine Extraction Processing Facility IDAHO FALLS, Idaho – International Isotopes Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: INIS) announces completion of a private placement on October 29, 2010 that will immediately provide the company with approximately $5.8 million in […]

RICHMOND, Va.–Commonwealth Biotechnologies, Inc. (“CBI”) (CBTE.PK) is pleased to announce that it has signed a Share Purchase Agreement to sell its Australian subsidiary, Mimotopes Pty Ltd to Leadtec Systems Australia Pty Ltd. (“Leadtec”) for a cash consideration of $950,000 and an earn out potential of $100,000 if Mimotopes reaches certain milestone earnings in 2011. The […]

Jena, Germany – SCHOTT has added a 96-well nitrocellulose-coated microplate to its extensive line of Nexterion® microarray substrates. The product combines nitrocellulose, the surface of choice for protein microarrays, with the high-throughput 96-well microplate format; making automated parallel assays a reality. The MTP-NC96 conforms to the SBS standard microplate format commonly used for high-throughput screening […]

Techulon Inc., a life sciences company based in the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center, has signed an exclusive license with Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. to market a new, traceable DNA delivery platform created to deliver genetic medicine to cells while carrying a beacon so scientists can follow its progress. The new material will join […]

Cellecta announces the DECIPHER Project–an open source platform for genome-wide RNAi screening and analysis that provides free-of-charge access to shRNA libraries and software for genome-wide functional screening for researchers from academic and non-profit institutions. Mountain View, CA – Cellecta, Inc., a provider of screening services for gene function analysis and therapeutic drug target discovery, announced […]

Sigma Advanced Genetic Engineering (SAGE™) Labs to use Proprietary Technologies to Create Genetically Engineered Rat Models to Better Understand Autism and Identify New Therapeutic Approaches St. Louis, MO. – Sigma Life Science, the innovative biological products and services research business of Sigma-Aldrich® (Nasdaq:SIAL), today announced a partnership between its SAGE Labs division and Autism Speaks […]

EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA* of Germany, today announced the introduction of a rapid kit for bisulfite conversion, which is a critical first step in mapping the differences in genomic DNA methylation patterns. Aberrant DNA methylation can result in inappropriate activation or silencing of specific genes and is associated with errors […]

The two companies will co-market assay kits optimized for the Gyros immunoassay platform Uppsala, Sweden: Gyros AB, a leader in utilization of microfluidic technologies to miniaturize and automate immunoassays, announced today that the company has entered into a global collaboration agreement with Cygnus Technologies Inc., focused on the development of assay kits optimized for the […]