PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. – Pall Corporation’s (NYSE:PLL) board of directors has elected Larry Kingsley as Chairman of the Board. Mr. Kingsley has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of Pall and a member of the company’s board of directors since October 2011. He succeeds Ronald L. Hoffman, who will assume the role of Lead […]

New York, NY — Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the release of Pathway Studio Web Plant. This web-based research solution helps plant scientists explore breeding through trait analysis, and enables them to make more informed decisions at critical stages of crop production and protection research. […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — ARRAYit Corporation (OTCQB: ARYC) reports today that researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute (NCI) and Northeastern University have used the ARRAYit Microarray Platform to discover biomarkers important in the treatment of prostate cancer. Pioneering authors Dr. Christopher T. Campbell, Dr. James L. Gulley, Dr. Oyindasola Oyelaran, Dr. […]

Porvair Sciences new generation Krystal™ glass bottom plates are precision manufactured using a proprietary process resulting in excellent light transmission and an ultra-flat optical plane (+/- 15µm) making them perfect for imaging growing cells. The complete range of 24-, 96- and 384-well Krystal glass bottom microplates is available sterilised for tissue culture to optimise cell […]

Bishops Stortford, UK. Dotmatics, a leading provider of informatics solutions for pharma, biotech, chemical, agrochemical and academic industries, has announced the release of the new chemical drawing software, Elemental Draw. Elemental Draw is designed to increase the productivity of chemists in the industry and in academia. Elemental Draw is now available for download as a […]

Center Valley, PA (USA) –– Avantor™ Performance Materials has added three new amino acids to its portfolio of J.T.Baker® brand amino acids, used in cell cultures, drug formulations and nutritional products. The company now offers all 20 standard amino acids needed by the human body to produce proteins. The new J.T.Baker® L-alanine, L-aspartic acid, and […]

Intel, imec and five Flemish universities (UA, UGhent, KULeuven, UHasselt, VUB) announced the planned foundation of the ExaScience Life Lab on the imec campus in Leuven, with which Janssen Pharmaceutica will collaborate in the future. The ExaScience Life Lab will combine Intel’s supercomputing expertise with Flanders’ extensive expertise in life sciences and biotechnology. The objective […]

PETALUMA, CA – Biosearch Technologies, Inc. (Biosearch), a leading supplier of sophisticated oligonucleotide components to the rapidly growing molecular diagnostics industry announced today that it has acquired exclusive worldwide rights to turboFISH technology – A Method for Rapid Single Molecule RNA FISH. With this turboFISH license, Biosearch maintains exclusive access to continuing Stellaris® RNA FISH […]

Newton, NJ and Westwood, MA – Thorlabs announced today the acquisition of CompuCyte Corporation, a developer of Laser Scanning Cytometry (“LSC”) products for high-content cellular and tissue-based analysis. Founded by Dr. Louis Kamentsky, CompuCyte introduced Laser Scanning Cytometry technology to provide an essential imaging complement to traditional flow cytometry techniques. The technology combines the advantages […]

Salzburg, Austria and Jena, Germany – Sony DADC BioSciences, the world leader in the manufacturing of microstructured polymer products, and SCHOTT AG, an international technology group with more than 125 years of experience in the areas of specialty glass, materials and advanced technologies, have pooled their expertise to develop a novel glass-polymer cell detection slide […]