Beauvoir – Stiplastics, an industrial SME which designs, develops, manufactures and markets technical products and innovative devices principally made of injected plastic material, particularly for the healthcare market, launches the fifth generation of its Hemobox® carry case and associated accessories. A case which is continually evolving to offer enhanced safety and productivity The first Hemobox® […]

Allentown, PA — The National Science Foundation awarded a $186,032 grant to Cedar Crest College that will give biology students the opportunity to work with top-of-the-line instrumentation, providing a competitive edge in the marketplace post-graduation. Associate Professor and Director of the Genetic Engineering Program, K. Joy Karnas, Ph.D., and Associate Professor and Director of the […]

LANCASTER, Calif.– Simulations Plus, Inc. (SLP), a leading provider of simulation and modeling software for pharmaceutical discovery and development, today announced that Ms. Momoko Beran has notified the board of directors of her plan to retire effective as of January 15, 2014. The board of directors has appointed John R. Kneisel as new Chief Financial […]

GOETTINGEN, Germany — The shareholders of UK company TAP Biosystems Group plc approved Sartorius’ takeover offer at the shareholder meetings held yesterday. The cash offer made through Sartorius’ wholly-owned subsidiary Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH valued TAP Biosystems Group plc at approximately €33 million. The transaction is expected to close at the end of 2013. The […]

Cambridge, UK — Horizon Discovery (Horizon) has won “Licensing Deal of the Year” at the Scrip Awards 2013, for their agreement with AstraZeneca to explore Horizon’s first-in-class kinase target program HD-001 as a means of developing novel therapies for multiple cancer types. The Scrip Awards are highly prestigious, recognizing excellence in both pharma and biotech […]

CONSHOHOCKEN, PA – Instem, a leading provider of IT solutions to the global early development healthcare market, announced today that it has acquired Perceptive Instruments (“Perceptive”) as it continues to consolidate the life sciences IT marketplace. Located in Suffolk, United Kingdom, Perceptive develops, manufactures and supplies image analysis and data processing solutions that are primarily […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Arrayit Corporation (OTCBB:ARYC), a life sciences and molecular diagnostics leader, announces today that the Company has sold a $129,548 NanoPrint™ LM60 Enterprise Level Microarray Printer to a leading research laboratory in Tel Aviv, Israel. Arrayit NanoPrint™ instruments enable microarray manufacturing in a high-throughput and highly automated manner using advanced linear drive motion […]

CORALVILLE, IA — Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), the world leader in oligonucleotide synthesis, has launched the latest addition to its portfolio of next generation sequencing (NGS) products, xGen® Universal Blocking Oligos. By incorporating these oligos into target capture experiments, users can decrease the complexity and increase throughput of their target capture experiment without degradation of […]

Ann Arbor, MI — 3D Biomatrix, a leader in three-dimensional cell culture products, is pleased to announce that they have collaborated with Cayman Chemical to develop and supply a new assay kit for measuring the viability of 3D spheroids. The kit, Perfecta3D® Cell Viability Kit, is one of the first viability assays optimized for 3D […]

Exiqon A/S (NASDAQ OMX: EXQ), a leading supplier of high-value gene expression analysis products, today announced the launch of fully customizable qPCR arrays that allow for simultaneous detection of any microRNA, mRNA and lncRNA. As more scientists engage in next generation sequencing the need to verify gene expression discovered by sequencing grows. Researchers studying specific […]