CARLSBAD, Calif. – Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:LIFE) today announced an unprecedented program that streamlines the detection of three common contaminants of mammalian cell culture-based biopharmaceutical manufacturing. The Applied Biosystems Cell Culture Rapid Methods Program applies core technologies from across the company to combine one sample preparation step with one instrument platform for real-time PCR based […]

MADISON, WISCONSIN – Promega Corporation has partnered with SignalChem Pharmaceuticals to launch a flexible and complete kinase solution for the profiling of lead compounds against kinases representative of all major families of the kinome. By using this single platform, scientists can easily profile lead compounds in their own laboratories in a cost-effective manner with no […]

Genovis launches a new kit for mass spectrometry preparation of IgG – Mass Spec Kit – that contains both the FabRICATOR® ( recombinant IdeS ) and the IgGZERO™ (recombinant EndoS) enzymes. Using this kit makes it possible to perform both deglycosylation and fragmentation of IgG. The kit processes 1 mg IgG in one hour and […]

DNAdvance SP Delivers High Yield with Oragene•DNA Samples Orange County, Calif., and Ottawa, Ont. – Beckman Coulter Genomics today announced the development of a new version of the DNAdvance System for use with DNA Genotek’s Oragene*•DNA samples. DNAdvance SP, from Beckman Coulter Genomics, is an extraction kit for the isolation and purification of DNA from […]

Uppsala, Sweden – Biotage (STO: BIOT), a leading supplier of tools and technology for analytical and medicinal chemistry, announced the introduction of high-performance, AFFINILUTE MIP (Molecularly Imprinted Polymers) columns for analytical sample preparation. Highly selective extractions with AFFINILUTE MIPs are considerably simplified resulting in faster, more robust and ultimately lower cost sample preparation. AFFINILTE MIP […]

Paris – Cellectis (Alternext: ALCLS), the French genome engineering specialist, announced today that the Paris Tribunal de Grande Instance has dismissed the claims filed by Taconic Artemis and Taconic Farms Inc. in December 2008 against Cellectis’ termination for breach of its license to homologous recombination patents. The third chamber of the Tribunal de Grande Instance […]

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India – Ocimum Biosolutions, a global integrated genomics company, today announced that it now offers cutting edge solutions using miRNA microarray technology. A wide range of miRNA microarray kits and assays including human, mouse, rat and other systems are available immediately on Ocimum’s proprietary OciChip™ platform. The epoxide coated microarray slides are […]

pJmammalian Vectors Provide Superior Expression, Come Without IP Restrictions and are Free to Gene Synthesis Customers Menlo Park, CA – DNA2.0 , the leading gene synthesis and protein engineering company, today announced the availability of pJmammalian expression vectors, the latest offering in DNA2.0’s unique and powerful family of expression vectors. Along with pJexpress bacterial expression […]

Celsis In Vitro, Inc. (Celsis IVT) announced today that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Invitrogen Corporation (Invitrogen) and CellzDirect, Inc. (CellzDirect) in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago and has moved for a preliminary injunction. Invitrogen, the parent of CellzDirect, is itself a wholly-owned subsidiary […]

AMSBIO has released 4 new homogeneous 384-well format AlphaScreen assay kits – JMJD2A, JMJD2B, JMJD2C, PRMT5 and G9a (a histone methyltransferase). In the desire to make the search for new drugs more economically viable, pharmaceutical companies are seeking rapid, sensitive assays where all the reaction reagents are added in a single automated step. Homogeneous assays […]