ALAMEDA, Calif. — LifeMap Sciences, Inc., a subsidiary of BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT: BTX), announced today the release of LifeMap Discovery™ version 1.5 (discovery.lifemapsc.com). LifeMap Discovery™ is a state-of-the-art roadmap of embryonic development and stem cell biology. The product integrates embryonic development and stem cell biology, molecular, cellular, anatomical, and disease-related information, and provides data-mining […]

ST. LOUIS — Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL) today announced that Sigma Life Science, its innovative biological products and services business, will be launching the genetically-modified HepaRG human liver cell line, licensed from Biopredic, for hepatotoxicity and drug metabolism assays. Currently undergoing beta-testing by multiple contract research and pharmaceutical organizations, the assays will be publicly available […]

Agreement supports further development of organoids as next-generation drug screening platform Utrecht- The HUB Foundation for Organoid Technology announced today that it has signed a licensing agreement with STEMCELL Technologies Inc. for the manufacturing and worldwide distribution of cell culture media for growing Organoids. Organoids are mini-organs grown in tissue culture from small pieces of […]

CORNING, N.Y. – Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) today announced its new Corning® 96- and 384-Well Spheroid Microplates and the Corning® High-Content Imaging Cyclic Olefin Copolymer (COC) Microplates. Corning Life Sciences will showcase its latest innovations in booth #1029 at the Society for Laboratory Automation & Screening (SLAS) 2014 Conference, Jan. 18-22, in San Diego, Calif. […]

MILPITAS, Calif. — Biovision is very excited to introduce the Human CellExp™ Recombinant Proteins product line (https://www.biovision.com/proteins-and-enzymes-1263/human-cell-expressed-recombinant-proteins-2315/) complementing our Proteins and Enzymes (https://www.biovision.com/proteins-and-enzymes-1263/) portfolio. Proteins, especially therapeutic proteins were initially extracted from human and animal tissues or blood. However, limitations in availability of the biological material, and the potential pathogen contaminations, led to the development […]

MARCY L’ETOILE, France — bioMérieux (Paris:BIM), a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, announces that it has finalized its acquisition of 100% ownership in BioFire Diagnostics Inc., a privately held U.S.-based company specialized in molecular biology. The agreement to purchase BioFire was first announced on September 4. Created over 20 years ago, […]

Cambridge, UK: Scientific Digital Imaging’s [SDI’s] Syngene Division, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis solutions is delighted to announce the new G:BOX Chemi XRQ multi-functional image analysis system is now available.Utilising the latest imaging technology and software, the G:BOX Chemi XRQ system is ideal for scientists needing a cost-efficient system for quickly and easily imaging […]

This week a Scanning Ion Conductance Microscope (SICM) was received by Shanghai-based Genetimes for installation in the Faculty of Basic Medicine of Zhe Jiang University in Hangzhou (China). “SICM devices allow nanoscale topographic imaging of live cells without destroying the fine structures on the cell membrane or disrupting cellular processes. No other approach can currently […]

Cambridge, UK and Adelaide, Australia,TGR BioSciences Pty Ltd (TGR), a life sciences company focused on the development of rapid, high sensitivity ELISA systems using their CaptSure technology, and Innova Biosciences (Innova), a specialist provider of bioconjugation systems, announced that they have entered into an agreement to promote and co-market each other’s highly complementary technologies, providing […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it has signed a co-marketing agreement with Picometrics Technologies to provide biopharmaceutical customers with combined solutions for capillary electrophoresis (CE), laser induced fluorescence (LIF) detection and mass spectrometry. In addition to classic CE-LIF analysis technology, this collection of tools provides the only online CE-LIF-MS […]