Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that it has entered into a licensing agreement with BioDiscovery, Inc., enabling BioDiscovery customers to access Agilent SureFISH probes directly from BioDiscovery’s Nexus software. Researchers using a variety of cytogenetic microarray platforms can now quickly identify aberrations via Nexus and immediately identify/link to available oligonucleotide-based fluorescent in situ […]

Innsbruck – Austrian BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG has just brought to market a full range of reagents for the mass spectrometry (MS)-based analysis of steroid hormones. The four new products—AbsoluteIDQ® Steroid Calibrators, AbsoluteIDQ Steroid Quality Controls, AbsoluteIDQ Steroid Internal Standards, and the AbsoluteIDQ® Steroid Testmix—enable the LCMS/MS-based simultaneous quantification of up to 17 steroids from […]

LANSING, Mich., – Neogen Corporation (Nasdaq: NEOG) announced today that its net income for the first quarter of FY 2013, which ended Aug. 31, increased 11.8% from the prior year to $6,714,000, or $0.28 per share. This compares to net income of $6,004,000 in the first quarter of FY 2012, or $0.25 per share. First […]

SEATTLE & SAN DIEGO — NanoString Technologies, Inc., a privately held provider of life science tools for translational research and developer of molecular diagnostics, today announced the launch of a Single Cell Gene Expression application that provides researchers with a flexible and highly sensitive approach to discovering differences in cell-to-cell gene expression profiles. The new […]

ChemAxon, a leader in providing chemistry software solutions and consulting services for life science research, announces the opening of its new US East Coast headquarters in Cambridge, MA. Located at the heart of Boston’s biotechnology hub, these new offices will concentrate technical, scientific and consultancy support as well as business development operations. ChemAxon is also […]

St. Joseph, Mich., and Basel, Switz.——Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, and LECO, a global leader in analytical instrumentation and mass spectrometers, have announced their collaboration, which brings to market Genedata Expressionist® MSX software compatibility with LECO High Resolution TOFMS (HRT) instrumentation. Designed for complex sample […]

Cambridge, UK and MA –– Innovative technology design and development firm Cambridge Consultants is working with Singapore-based Clearbridge BioMedics on a groundbreaking device to improve cancer testing and research. The innovative second-generation ClearCellTM System enables tumor cells to be retrieved and detected even faster, and potentially more accurately, from a simple blood sample – paving […]

Welwyn Garden City, UK — Cresset, innovative provider of software and services for molecule designers, unveils sparkV10, the next generation of its bioisostere software tool FieldStere. Building on FieldStere’s industry-leading ability to find structurally novel biologically equivalent replacements for key moieties in molecules, this update provides powerful new capabilities including Cresset’s new XED3 force field, […]

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. –– Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM) today announced it has joined AMDeC (Academy for Medical Development and Collaboration) as a Vendor Partner. This will provide Fluidigm with easy access to almost 20 of the pre-eminent medical research institutions in the New York region through AMDeC’s unique online resource – AMDeC F.I.R.S.T. – while […]

MADISON, Wisconsin –– DNASTAR® announced that it has received a Fast-track Phase I and Phase II SBIR grant award from the National Institutes of Health entitled, “Association Analysis Software for Mining Clinical Next-Gen Sequencing Data”. The funding will support the company’s research and development aimed at expanding its industry-leading sequence assembly and analysis software from […]