Santa Ana, Calif. — MP Biomedicals, LLC, a leading provider of life science reagents, fine chemicals and diagnostic products for over 50 years, announced today it has launched a new website. The new website was developed after extensive research into customer needs and online purchase behaviors and is designed to simplify product search and online […]

Minneapolis – Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH), d/b/a Bio-Techne, announced today that it has made a $10 million equity investment in CyVek, Inc. (CyVek), with a commitment to acquire CyVek if certain future milestones are met. CyVek has developed a transformative immunoassay technology, CyPlexTM, which integrates an innovatively designed microfluidic cartridge with a state-of-the-art analyzer to […]

Cambridge, UK: TAP Biosystems, (now part of the Sartorius Stedim Biotech Group), a leading supplier of innovative cell culture and fermentation systems for life science applications, today announced a new NCI 60 application for its CompacT SelecT™, a system that automates cell culture and processing in T-flasks and microplates. The details of the application, which […]

SEATTLE — NanoString Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:NSTG), a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced that it has entered into a term loan agreement with Capital Royalty L.P. and certain of its affiliates. The agreement provides NanoString with up to $45 million of available borrowing capacity. “Together with the […]

Salem, NH — On April 1, 2014 ALPCO began offering a new specialized panel of flow cytometry reagents from Cytognos S.L., a supporting participant of the EuroFlow™ Consortium. The Plasma Cell Screening Tube (PCST) can be used to help discriminate between aberrant and clonal plasma cells. Also included in this suite of products are ASR […]

SAN DIEGO, California, and HILDEN, Germany — QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced two important new product launches which address workflow challenges in next-generation sequencing (NGS) applications. QIAGEN will present these and several other innovative solutions for NGS applications at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting from April […]

Ann Arbor, MI — 3D Biomatrix, a leader in three-dimensional cell culture products, is pleased to announce expansion of their 3D cell culture kit line, developed with Cayman Chemical, to include a new assay, Perfecta3D® LDH Cytotoxicity Assay Kit, for measuring the viability of 3D spheroids. Researchers have long tested drug compounds and other factors […]

ST LOUIS, MO – Appistry, Inc., a leading provider of high-performance computing and analytics solutions for next-generation medicine, today released the latest commercial version of the Broad Institute’s Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK). GATK 3 provides new functionality and best practices to tackle modern challenges in next-generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis. “The Broad Institute has described […]

Fremont, CA — Boasting a total of 23 amidite delivery systems with up to 19 capable of low volume, 192 oligos can be synthesized as 20 bases in as little as 2 hours. The overall synthesis time can be further cut by up to 35%**** when enabling the double reagent dispensing option. This increases reagent […]

BILLERICA, Mass. –– RainDance Technologies, Inc., an innovative genomics tools company making molecular testing of complex diseases more standardized and readily available, today announced that it has closed a $16.5 million Series E financing round extension. New investors include GE Ventures and Northgate Capital; all existing financial investors also participated in this round of financing. […]