Expands VisEn’s Leading Fluorescence Molecular Imaging Agent Portfolio to Enable Breakthrough Readouts of Cathepsin-K Biomarkers in Research and Drug Development BEDFORD, Mass., July 7 — VisEn Medical Inc., a leader in fluorescence in vivo imaging from research through medicine, announced today the commercial launch of its new Cat-K FAST(TM) imaging agent for measuring and monitoring […]

FORTUNE Small Business Again Lists Meridian Bioscience as One of America’s Fastest-Growing Small Companies CINCINNATI–Meridian Bioscience, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio (NASDAQ: VIVO) announced today that FORTUNE Small Business has ranked Meridian Bioscience, Inc. number 34 on their ninth annual FSB 100 list of the fastest growing small public companies in America. The list appears in the […]

(Troy, N.Y., July 6th, 2009) – Evident Technologies announced a filing in chapter 11 reorganization today and has asked the Bankruptcy court in Albany, New York to approve a debtor in financing package of $ 1.35 million. The filing was prompted by Evident’s inability to continue paying the exorbitant costs associated with a patent infringement […]

Companies to develop innovative research tools to advance the study of Alzheimer’s disease Cobham, UK and Billerica, MA – Proteome Sciences plc (LSE PRM) and Millipore Corporation (NYSE MIL) today announced they have signed an exclusive license agreement to develop new products that will help to advance the study of Alzheimer’s disease. Under the terms […]

Shepshed, LEICESTER, UK. July 2nd, 2009. CyGEL Sustain (Biostatus Ltd., UK) now makes it simpler to image zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryos for microscopy, high content screening and for site-specific micro-injections, even from only a few hours post-fertilization. This thermo-reversible mountant is a liquid when cooled below room temperature and sets to a clear, optically-inert gel […]

For reversible capture of biotinylated molecules to a sensor chip for analysis in Biacore™ systems GE Healthcare announces the launch of Biotin CAPture Kit for fast, cost-effective, and convenient capture of a biomolecule to a sensor chip surface and subsequent analysis in Biacore systems, including unstable molecules or molecules for which no regeneration protocol can […]

New Indexing Technology Offers Optimal Combination of Throughput and Cost for Low-Complexity Sample Screening SAN DIEGO–Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN – News) today launched GoldenGate Indexing, a high-throughput genotyping solution that utilizes multi-sample indexing technology. Researchers may now screen up to 16 times as many samples per reaction as the standard GoldenGate Assay, increasing throughput from 288 […]

Exiqon A/S (NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen: “EXQ”) today announced the two winners of their 2009 North American Grant Program. Exiqon had recently announced the development of a new research grant program, open to researchers from academic and non-profit institutions across North America, engaged in microRNA research. (PRWEB) July 1, 2009 — Exiqon A/S (NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen: […]

Rubicon Genomics Introduces PicoPlex Single Cell Whole Genome Amplification Kit for Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnostics and Stem Cell and Cancer Cell Research ANN ARBOR, Mich.–Rubicon Genomics, Inc., a developer of pre-amplification products that enable optimal performance of the most advanced genetic analysis tools, announced today the release of its PicoPlex™ Single Cell Whole Genome Amplification (WGA) […]

amsbio has announced a new kit for the extraction of high quality RNA from FFPE (Formalin-Fixed and Paraffin-Embedded) tissues that can be applied not only to PCR but also microarray applications. Traditional methods of formalin-fixation of tissues often result in severe RNA fragmentation, as well as in RNA-RNA, RNA-DNA and RNA-protein cross-linking, which impairs RNA […]