Palo Alto, CA — Ayasdi has raised $30.6 million in Series B venture funding, led by IVP with participation from Citi Ventures, GE Ventures, and existing investors Khosla Ventures and FLOODGATE also participated in the round. In conjunction with the financing, Steve Harrick from IVP will join Ayasdi’s Board of Directors. Six months after the […]

NORTH BRUNSWICK, N.J.,– Hurel Corporation (“Hurel”), a world-leading provider of advanced artificial tissue constructs and microfluidic cell-based assay platforms, today announced the commercial launch of its innovative in vitro product suite utilizing liver cells of the rat, dog and human species. The announcement coincided with Hurel’s Scientific Advisory Board Chairman Dr. Leslie Z. Benet’s presentation […]

Norovirus is the leading cause of food-borne illness in the US and thus the most common cause of gastroenteritis. Symptoms include severe diarrhea and vomiting. Transmission of the virus occurs via contaminated food, surfaces and infected individuals. Outbreaks develop quickly in contained environments such as nursing homes, schools and cruise ships. Noroviruses are single-stranded RNA […]

Uppsala, Sweden — Gyros AB today announced a partnership with EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA of Darmstadt, Germany, to develop, manufacture and commercialize immunoassay kits for the Gyrolab™ platform. The new, fully validated ready-to-use kits from EMD Millipore will enable clinical researchers and drug developers to generate valuable research data much […]

NEWARK, Del.– SDIX™ (NASDAQ: SDIX) today announced it has completed the sale of the assets of its Life Science businesses to OriGene Technologies for $16 million. Following this transaction, the Company will be renamed Special Diversified Opportunities Incorporated (SDOI). OriGene Technologies is acquiring the intellectual property, current inventory and commercial contracts, as well as its […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — DNAnexus, Inc., a pioneer in cloud-based DNA data management and analysis solutions, today announced the further expansion of its senior leadership team with the appointment of Omar Serang as the company’s first Chief Cloud Officer. Serang joins DNAnexus from Amazon Web Services and will work closely with the product management and […]

CARLSBAD, Calif.,– Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announces the launch of EVOS® FL Auto Imaging System with an on-stage incubator designed to enable time-lapse, high-resolution live cell imaging in a fully automated system that is priced to make high-resolution, fluorescence microscopy simple and accessible for any lab. Priced significantly less than other instruments on […]

South San Francisco, CA Fluxion Biosciences, a leading provider of cell analysis platforms for research and diagnostics, today announced that it has won a 2013 R&D 100 Award for its IsoFlux™ System. The R&D 100 Award places the state-of-the-art IsoFlux System in the prestigious company of previous winners such as liquid crystal displays and the […]

We are happy to announce that Biognosys has closed a distribution agreement with Filgen Inc., the Nagoya based distributor of life science products. The agreement grants Filgen Inc. the right to market and sell Biognosys products on the Japanese market in the next 2 years. Already this year Filgen will introduce Biognosys’ iRT Kit and […]

Lincoln, Nebraska: LI-COR offers VRDye™ secondary antibodies and protein labeling kits for immunofluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry applications. The VRDye products broaden LI-COR’s dye product portfolio, which now spans from the visible to the near-infrared fluorescence spectrum. The new VRDye 490, VRDye 549, and IRDye® 650 secondary antibodies are highly cross-adsorbed and are suitable for […]