UNION, NJ and MANASSAS, VA — The Institute for Life Science Entrepreneurship (ILSE), a non-profit translational science research integrator, accelerator and incubator, and ATCC, the premier global biological materials resource and standards organization, announced today a collaboration to establish The ATCC Center for Translational Microbiology at ILSE (the “Center”). The focus of the Center will […]

ST. LOUIS — Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL) a leading life science and high technology company, today announced a $50,000 product donation to the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology, a large-scale initiative to replicate key findings from recent high-impact papers in the field of cancer biology. The project is a collaboration between the online research marketplace Science […]

SEATTLE, WA – Adaptive Biotechnologies, a leader and pioneer in next generation sequencing (NGS) of T-cell and B-cell receptors in the immune system, announced today the completion of Adaptive’s Series F financing round with a $195 million investment to support several strategic growth initiatives. This round was led by Matrix Capital Management and included other […]

MADISON, WISCONSIN — Promega Corporation announces the launch of NanoBRET™ Protein Interaction Assays, which use a new Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer (BRET) technology that enables scientists to quantitatively measure protein:protein interactions in live cells. Traditional methods for studying interactions between proteins are commonly performed in vitro using only protein fragments and do not provide data […]

STEMCELL Technologies Inc. has today announced that it has signed a license agreement with the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences for the rights to commercialize BrainPhys™ Neuronal Medium. BrainPhys™ medium, described in a recent publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (C. Bardy et al., Epub ahead of print), was invented by […]

PerkinElmer’s chemagicTM research instrumentation and kits are now available with the Covaris “truXTRAC FFPE DNA microTUBE Kit for chemagen Technology” for DNA/RNA purification powered by Adaptive Focused Acoustics® (AFA™) technology. “truXTRAC™ FFPE DNA microTUBE Kit for chemagen Technology” rapidly removes paraffin and rehydrates FFPE tissues in aqueous buffer. This preparation is optimized to work with […]

Middleton, Wis.-– Lucigen Corporation announced today that it has signed an exclusive distributorship agreement with Sigma-Aldrich Corporation’s (NASDAQ: SIAL) India subsidiary, Sigma-Aldrich Chemicals Private Ltd., to expand commercialization of life science reagents in India. The synergy between the two companies will provide researchers in India an enhanced customer experience, strong technical support, and easy access […]

NEW YORK — L’Oreal USA, the largest subsidiary of the world’s leading beauty company, has announced a partnership with 3-D bioprinting company Organovo Holdings, Inc. (NYSE MKT: ONVO) (“Organovo”). Developed between L’Oreal’s U.S.-based global Technology Incubator and Organovo, the collaboration will leverage Organovo’s proprietary NovoGen Bioprinting Platform and L’Oreal’s expertise in skin engineering to develop […]

Madrid, Spain and Heidelberg, Germany -– SYGNIS AG (Frankfurt: LIO1; ISIN: DE000A1RFM03; Prime Standard) today announced a distribution agreement with Cambridge Bioscience for the commercialization of SYGNIS’ proprietary product portfolio in the UK and Ireland. Since the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, the UK life science industry is one of the world leaders with […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Hitachi Chemical Diagnostics, Inc. is pleased to announce the United States launch of the ExoComplete™ 96-Well Plate Kit and ExoComplete™ Tube Kit, an integrated, fast and easy system for exosome collection to mRNA purification. The products were introduced during the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (“ISEV”) Annual Meeting, April 23 – […]