CAMBRIDGE, Mass. –– Era7 Bioinformatics, a Next Generation Sequencing provider based in Spain, announced today the opening of its first U.S. office, located in the Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Era7 expects to have three employees in Cambridge by the end of 2013. “When we first thought about expanding our company outside of […]

Munich & Freiburg, Germany,; In a landmark publication in Science, research on artificially designed DNA-origami nanopores has been published this week using Nanion’s new ORBIT 16 platform running Ionera’s MECA bilayer array chip. The team of Prof. Simmel from the Technical University Munich has created nanometer-scale transmembrane ion channels by means of self-assembled DNA-based nanostructures. […]

CENTER VALLEY, Pa., – A benchtop commercial microscope system designed to acquire very low-light bioluminescence images has now been introduced in North America by Olympus America. The LV200 stand-alone microscope system is already being used to capture images of living cells and tissues by researchers in Europe and Japan. When used with some of the […]

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, — –CelKineâ„¢ is a dedicated sub-brand of GenScript USA relating cytokine business and products. CelKine’s website, (www.celkine.com), has been officially launched today. Customers can now order cytokine products online quickly and easily. CelKineâ„¢ supplies a comprehensive spectrum of cytokines and growth factors with high bioactivity. Compared with the cytokine products available on […]

INDIANAPOLIS, IND. –– Beckman Coulter Life Sciences is expanding their flow cytometry portfolio with the addition of 14 new human monoclonal antibodies from Trillium Diagnostics LLC. The analyte specific reagents (ASRs) provide high specificity, convenience and flexibility in flow cytometry. A new cell permeabilization reagent is also being offered. The new monoclonals include human anti-hemoglobin […]

Houston, TX — LabAnswer, the nation’s leading laboratory informatics consultancy, announced today that Guy Talbot has joined the company as a Principal Informatics Consultant, with a focus on strategic services and project leadership. With the addition of Talbot’s expertise, LabAnswer clients will benefit from improved scientific data management using LabAnswer’s innovative processes and services. LabAnswer’s […]

San Francisco – The Agency for Science, Technology and Research’s (A*STAR) Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) today announced the launch of a research collaboration with Appistry, a leading US-based provider of high-performance computing and analytics for managing and storing “big data.” “We are excited about this collaboration as it leverages on our computational genomics platform,” […]

3D Biomatrix, a leader in three-dimensional (3D) cell culture products, is pleased to announce today that its 96- and 384- well Perfecta3D® Hanging Drop Plates are now available for purchase in Australia and New Zealand from Cell Systems Biology. The Perfecta3D Hanging Drop Plates help researchers focused on cancer research and drug development, toxicology testing, […]

Nano3D Biosciences (N3D), a life sciences technology company that specializes in three dimensional (3D) cell culturing products for the drug discovery, toxicology and life science research markets announced today that its technology was recently used in a breakthrough stem cell study. The Bio-Assembler’s fusion of magnetic levitation and nanoparticle assembly technology allows it to produce […]

Exiqon A/S (NASDAQ OMX: EXQ), a leading supplier of high-value gene expression analysis products, today announced the launch of the miRCURY™ RNA Isolation Kit – Biofluids for extraction of small RNAs from serum, plasma, urine and other biofluids. The product is the first ever specifically optimized for such applications. The new biofluids kit allows scientists […]