MADISON, Wisconsin – May 14, 2012 – DNASTAR® announced that it has received a Phase I SBIR grant award from the National Institutes of Health entitled, “Structural bioinformatics software for epitope selection and antibody engineering”. The funding will support the company’s research and development aimed at producing a superior antibody engineering capability on a desktop […]

EMERYVILLE, Calif. & COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y.– Omicia, a privately held company offering integrated solutions for interpreting human genome sequences, announced today that it has initiated an early access program for its individual genome interpretation product. Through this product, Omicia will enable users to prioritize and identify disease genes and their variants using an intuitive […]

The AMSBIO Cultrex® 3D Culture Cell Harvesting Kit is based on a non-enzymatic approach that prevents biochemical degradation during processing and overcomes the problems associated with extracting cells from 3D culture in BME or Laminin I. The quality of the harvested cells is ideal for Western blotting and RNA and DNA analysis. In 3D culture, […]

HOUSTON, May 10, 2012 — Emerging biotechnology company LaserGen, Inc., focused on commercializing novel technologies for next-generation sequencing (NGS), announced the appointment of Mimi Healy, Ph.D. as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and to the LaserGen Board of Directors. Dr. Healy brings more than two decades of molecular diagnostics, healthcare and biotechnology experience in both US […]

TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems and consumables for life science applications, is pleased to announce that it is collaborating with scientists at The Open University (OU), in Milton Keynes, UK to produce robust 3D human central nervous system (CNS) tissue models for use in drug discovery and pre-clinical testing. The […]

Source BioScience (LSE: SBS), the international diagnostics and genetic analysis business of the United Kingdom, and DNAFORM, a Japanese provider of genomic products and services, announce the launch of the Japanese version of Source BioScience’s GenomeCube® database and webstore. GenomeCube® provides access to a portfolio of 20 million DNA clones and antibodies for research purposes. […]

ROCHESTER, N.Y — Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the release of its Thermo Scientific Laboratory Consumables Catalog, an interactive, online resource that provides customers with a broad portfolio of products used in laboratories every day. Encompassing one of the most comprehensive product offerings in the industry, the interactive […]

Codolet, France, – Cisbio Bioassays (www.cisbio.com), global developer of products, technologies and services used for assay development and drug screening and for in vitro diagnostics, has added three kinase assays to its growing cell-based kinase screening platform. The assays, all based on the company’s powerful HTRF® technology, were designed to provide new, easy and rapid […]

454 Life Sciences, a Roche Company, and SoftGenetics announced today that the two firms have entered into a co-promotion agreement designed to provide users of 454 Sequencing Systems the broad range of next-generation sequencing data analysis options provided by SoftGenetics NextGENe(R) software. NextGENe(R) software is a free standing biologist-friendly software multi-package that is fully compatibility […]