Boston — The Broad Institute has selected St. Louis-based Appistry, Inc., to distribute to users at for-profit companies the world’s most widely used software for data processing and variant calling of next-generation sequencing data, the Genome Analysis Toolkit or GATK, and to provide those users with commercial-grade customer support. First developed and introduced by the […]

Cyprotex PLC (AIM:CRX), the preclinical ADME-Tox services company, today announces a new licensing agreement with Sigma® Life Science (“Sigma”), the innovative biological products and services business of Sigma Aldrich® Corporation (NASDAQ:SIAL). Sigma Life Science has applied its exclusive CompoZr® Zinc Finger Nuclease technology to the ADME-Tox field to create a range of proprietary cell-based assays […]

Nikon Instruments Inc., an innovator of advanced optical instruments, today announced the release of the third generation Perfect Focus System. This new generation, consisting of two new models will be debuting at Neuroscience 2012. The new models of the TI-ND6-PFS-S Perfect Focus Unit have been optimized for UV-Visible imaging and Visible-IR Imaging for multi-photon microscopy. […]

Genetic Technologies Limited (ASX: GTG; NASDAQ: GENE) advises that, in conjunction with its assertion partner Sheridan Ross P.C., the Company has filed patent infringement suits in respect of its non-coding DNA technologies against the following entities in the following jurisdictions: ? Genesis Genetics Institute, L.L.C. (filed in United States District Court for the Eastern District […]

BELLINGHAM, Wash.–dissolving dust-free grade (DF) Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate (SDS). Two manufacturing processes, chemical synthesis and enzyme conversion, make up current worldwide acrylamide production. Chemical synthesis of acrylamide involves adding water to acrylonitrile, usually catalyzed by the addition of Copper (Cu+). This widely used production method carries three significant disadvantages including poor yield, unwanted polymerization or […]

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.– Fluxion Biosciences, Inc. announced today that it has registered its South San Francisco facility as a medical device establishment with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The company plans to use this facility to manufacture and distribute its IsoFlux System for circulating tumor cell analysis, which will be launched in November. […]

ST. LOUIS, — Sigma-Aldrich® Corporation (Nasdaq: SIAL) today announced that Sigma Life Science, its innovative biological products and services business, initiated a licensing program aimed at contract research organizations (CROs) and pharmaceutical companies for its novel CompoZr® Transporter Knockout Cell Lines for preclinical ADME screening and safety studies. Complete functional knockouts of transporters in the […]

The Microscopy business group at Carl Zeiss is presenting a new microscopy technology at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. Lightsheet Z.1 provides biologists with a new method of imaging dynamic processes in living organisms. Observing life Biologists can use the new microscopy system to observe the development of entire organisms […]

Cambridge, UK –– Population Genetics Technologies Ltd., a company dedicated to the development of innovative approaches for genetic analyses and biomarker discovery, has today launched the Populus Award 2012. Inviting abstracts from researchers undertaking a range of population genetics studies, the award will provide the successful applicant with funding and practical support for their sequencing […]

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. & MÖLNDAL, Sweden — Cellectricon AB and Fluxion Biosciences today announced that they have settled the patent infringement litigation that Cellectricon commenced against Fluxion in 2009. Cellectricon and Fluxion have agreed to file a stipulation of dismissal with the United States District Court for the Northern District of California for all […]