Männedorf, Switzerland, – Salzburg, Austria and Berlin, Germany, October 2, 2012 – Tecan and JPT Peptide Technologies GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of BIONTECH AG, today announced a collaborative agreement between the two specialist companies. Within the scope of the agreement, the parties agree to co-promote JPT’s wide range of catalog peptide arrays and profiling capabilities […]

Roche announced today the launch and immediate availability of multiple new SeqCap EZ Library target enrichment products. SeqCap EZ Library is a method that enables the enrichment of the whole exome or custom regions of interest prior to next-generation sequencing. The new products are designed to enhance genetic variant discovery and detection in basic and […]

AMSBIO announces the introduction of CloneCatcher™ Gold DH5G Electrocompent E. coli cells – a new product that exhibits extremely high electroporation efficiencies that approach the theoretical maximum of 3.4 x 1011 cfu/µg pUC19 DNA. Transferring exogenous DNA into E. coli is a standard laboratory method for cloning genes and constructing cDNA, genomic and epitope libraries. […]

DropArray gives scientists the freedom to run cellular assays as their research demands, and not based on the availability of cells or cost of reagents. Developed by Curiox Biosystems, an emerging leader in bioassay technology, DropArray is a patented* system for low-volume cell-based assays. It allows scientists to use a fraction of the cells, media […]

Frederick, MD —— Akonni Biosystems, a life science tools/molecular diagnostics company, has been awarded a $280,784 grant by NIH to develop a fully automated sample preparation workstation for isolating nucleic acids from lysis-resistant targets. The system will initially be used for general research, and eventually in clinical settings. This award enables Akonni to develop a […]

Promega Corporation announces the introduction of a novel cytotoxicity assay that can be used on cell cultures for up to 72 hours, with flexibility for kinetic analysis to determine the onset of cytotoxicity. The CellTox™ Green Cytotoxicity Assay uses an asymmetric cyanine dye as a fluorescent marker that is impermeable to live cells but strongly […]

Billerica, MA — EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, today announced the company is providing The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) with a four-year, $500,000 grant to support leading scientists focused on promising areas of breast cancer research. The fund will be in the form of two grants of $250,000 […]

Paris, France,- Cellectis (Alternext: ALCLS), the French genome engineering specialist, announces in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, one of the most respected scientific journals in the world, the publication of a new approach regarding the targeted modification of DNA. The manuscript unmasks novel perspectives and broadens the scope of TALENs TM technology to new therapeutic […]

MILFORD, Mass.–Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced its Thermo Scientific Mass Spectrometric Immunoassay (MSIA) pipette tips, a collection of immunoaffinity sample preparation products. Robust MSIA™ technology delivers a simplified way to enrich target proteins for downstream mass spectrometric analysis. “Our new MSIA pipette tips provide scientists with an easier […]

Bishops Stortford, United Kingdom, Dotmatics Limited, a leading provider of informatics services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, today announced they have released the latest version of Vortex, their premium data analysis and visualization tool, designed for scientists working in the areas of Chemistry, Biology and Engineering. Vortex provides researchers with the ability to load […]