AYR, Scotland,— Neogen’s ANSR™ for Salmonella has been validated and approved in accordance with the current and stringent criteria of a NF Validation study carried out according to the EN ISO 16140 standard. This new validation (NF Validation by AFNOR certi? cation NEO 35/02-0513) follows the kit’s initial approval by AOAC International and testi? es […]

Prague, Czech Republic, – Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced it has provided access to Reaxys, an online workflow solution for research chemists, for five Czech universities: the University of Pardubice, the Masaryk University, the Palacky University in Olomouc, the Tomas Bata University in Zlín and […]

WALTHAM, Mass. –– prkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, announced today that it is opening direct operations in Turkey, headquartered in Istanbul. The new sales and service site will support key markets in Turkey including environmental testing, chemical and petrochemical analysis, pharmaceutical applications, and […]

Cambridge, UK, :Horizon Discovery (Horizon), a leading provider of research tools to support the development of personalized medicines, today announced the final closing of its Series C funding round. The latest £6.9m ($10.5m) placement for ordinary shares brings to a close a cumulative total for the round of £18.2m ($29.1m) and will enable Horizon to […]

Gaithersburg, Md.—— OpGen, Inc., today announced the company has entered into a strategic collaboration with Applied Maths NV, the market leader in bioinformatics and analytical solutions for public health and research laboratories, to provide advanced software tools for microbial genomics and molecular strain typing. Under the agreement, Applied Maths has incorporated a Whole Genome Mapping […]

Scientists from Peking University, China and OriGene Technologies jointly published that multiple lineage specifier genes can replace OCT4 and SOX2, the core regulators of cell pluripotency. The authors further proposed a “seesaw model” to illustrate the complex process of the pluripotency state and lineage specification. The results were published in the May 23rd issue of […]

Ebersberg, Germany – Eurofins MWG Operon, the genomics division of Eurofins Scientific, the global leader in bio-analytical testing, announces the acquisition of Entelechon GmbH. Entelechon is a globally operating provider of gene synthesis, serving the pharmaceutical industry as well as academic and public research institutes. Founded in 1999 in Regensburg, Germany, Entelechon was one of […]

ALAMEDA, Calif — BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT: BTX) today announced that it has agreed to sell up to an aggregate of 2,180,016 common shares and 545,004 warrants to purchase common shares, in “units” with each unit consisting of one common share and one-quarter of a warrant, at an offering price of $4.155 per unit. BioTime […]

(Innsbruck, — For more than 25 years, Dr Fischer-Knuppertz has held various leading positions in the diagnostics and pharmaceutical industries. Most recently, 56-year-old FischerKnuppertz, who holds a PhD in veterinary medicine, was General Manager with Fisher Scientific and before that had held leading positions at Roche Diagnostics. In the field of iagnostics, FischerKnuppertz brings not […]

Malmö, Sweden, — Umetrics announces a new version of SIMCA-online 13.1, a state of the art, off-the-shelf, Windows based software solution, providing multivariate process monitoring for continuous and batch processes. A key feature of SIMCA-online 13.1 is the ability to centralize multivariate analysis of process data in one off-the-shelf solution. SIMCA-online 13.1 has a robust […]