Sigma Life Science launches range of engineered cell lines exploiting CompoZr(R) zinc finger nuclease technology St. Louis – Sigma Life Science, the innovative biological products and research services business of Sigma-Aldrich(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: SIAL), today announced the global release of a pioneering range of engineered mammalian cell lines. This new product range combines Sigma’s proprietary […]

ALAMEDA, Calif – BioTime, Inc. (NYSE Amex:BTIM) announced today that its Chief Financial Officer, Steven A. Seinberg, has resigned his position effective September 17, 2010. Mr. Seinberg, who is an attorney, will be returning to the practice of law at a private firm. Mr. Seinberg has agreed to assist BioTime in transition tasks on a […]

Madison, Wisconsin – Promega Corporation announces it will provide FuGENE® HD Transfection Reagent throughout the life science market. The comprehensive, direct use offering from Promega means any life scientist can utilize FuGENE technology with no licensing requirements. FuGENE HD enables the transfection of DNA into many cell types with high efficiency and little-to-no toxicity. FuGENE […]

Since April 2009, ReproCELL has been manufacturing iPS cell-derived cardiomyocytes for drug toxicity testing as the world’s first drug discovery support business provider founded on iPS cells. The prospective new offering of neuronal cells is the second line of products to be introduced by the company, and is a considerable expansion of their scope of […]

HTG Announces Appointments of John Wineman as Vice President New Business Development–Western Region and Thomas Vasicek, Ph.D. as Vice President Clinical Programs and Product Innovation TUCSON, Ariz. – HTG, Inc., provider of the quantitative Nuclease Protection Assay (qNPA™), today announced the appointments of John Wineman as Vice President New Business Development, Western Region and Thomas […]

Accelerating R&D of regenerative medicine*1 materials to promote business application FUJIFILM Corporation (President and CEO: Shigetaka Komori) has decided to accept the third-party allocation of new shares worth 4 billion yen from Japan Tissue Engineering Co., Ltd.(President: Yosuke Ozawa; “J-TEC” hereinafter), the provider of tissue-engineered regenerative medical materials in Japan. After the allocation, Fujifilm is […]

Simsbury, CT, – As part of its business growth and diversification strategy, Ensign-Bickford Industries, Inc. “EBI” announced today that its subsidiary, EB Analytics, Inc. has acquired EnviroLogix Inc. (“ELIX”). ELIX is a Portland, Maine-based developer and manufacturer of rapid QuickStixTM and QuickScanTM agricultural test kits and readers. The terms of the transaction were not released. […]

CARLSBAD, Calif. – MO BIO Laboratories, Inc., the leader in soil, water and microbial nucleic acid purification, announced today that the company’s DNA isolation products were used to analyze DNA from microbes sampled from the oil plume created by the Deepwater Horizon explosion. The study published this week in the journal Science, examined the prevalence […]

The CometAssay® Electrophoresis System and new CometAssay® Neutral Control cells from AMSBIO enable investigators to consistently optimize neutral Comet assays for highly reproducible results, and to standardize neutral electrophoresis methods between individual users and laboratories. This is in addition to the already established standardized procedure and reagents for the alkaline Comet Assay. The Comet assay […]

OCEANSIDE, CA – International Stem Cell Corporation (OTCBB:ISCO), www.internationalstemcell.com, announced today that the recent action of a federal district judge blocking federal funding of embryonic stem cell research is not expected to have negative effects on ISCO’s therapeutic programs using its human parthenogenetic stem cells. According to ISCO’s Chairman Ken Aldrich, “Because we have never […]