New York, Eagle Genomics and Cycle Computing today announced that they have jointly won a competitive bid by the Pistoia Alliance to support the development of a proof-of-concept (PoC) system to meet the future needs of pharmaceutical R&D IT. A four-month project, the Eagle Genomics & Cycle Computing proof-of-concept system is one of three accepted […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the latest generation of its Automated Compliance Engine for Agilent Enterprise Edition compliance services. The updated software enables delivery of even more reliable, secure and cost-efficient analytical instrument qualification services to the pharmaceutical industry. As a result, Agilent Enterprise Edition is able to get systems […]

SAN DIEGO, At the 1st annual Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening Conference in San Diego, PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced the launch of four new cellular assay kits to help identify and characterize possible drug candidates targeting epigenetic enzymes related […]

Billerica, MA, BD Biosciences, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), announced today the availability of the new BD Mosaic™ Mesenchymal Stem Cell Serum-Free (hMSC SF), a complete cell culture environment for human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) derived from bone marrow. The BD Mosaic hMSC cell culture environment is designed to provide cell expansion […]

SUNNYVALE, CA, Thermo Fisher Scientific is pleased to announce a new version of its web-based ProteinCenter software which includes more than 223 million protein-protein interactions in its database and direct support for the popular Cytoscape open source platform. (Cytoscape is used to visualize complex networks in proteomics data.) This new version of ProteinCenter includes plug-ins […]

SAN DIEGO, Illumina, Inc., a leading developer, manufacturer, and marketer of life science tools and integrated systems for the analysis of genetic variation and function, today announced that its Board of Directors thoroughly reviewed Roche’s unsolicited tender offer with the assistance of its financial and legal advisors and unanimously determined that the $44.50 per share […]

Searching for appropriate tumor cell models often entails a time-intensive review of the literature and genomic databases. To enable cancer researchers, ATCC (American Type Culture Collection) has introduced a collection of Tissue-Specific Tumor Cell Panels. These powerful new tools combine well-characterized adherent cell lines that were selected for their genomic mutations as found in the […]

WALNUT CREEK, CA, Genome Designs, Inc. today announced that it has received seed financing from undisclosed private investors and started operation. Founded by veterans of Argonne National Lab, NCBI, Integrated Genomics and Ariadne, the company is taking on the challenge of functional annotation of the next-generation sequencing projects for the life science community. “Our long-term […]

LA JOLLA, CA AND IPSWICH, MA, Synthetic Genomics, Inc. (SGI), a privately held company commercializing and developing genomic-driven solutions to solve a variety of global needs, and New England Biolabs, Inc. (NEB), today jointly announced that they have entered into a non-exclusive licensing agreement whereby NEB will commercialize the Gibson Assembly™ Master Mix. This product […]

CHICAGO, IL, NanoInk’s® NanoFabrication Systems Division announced today that it introduced a new contract services program dedicated to the development of live single cell array assays. This offering supplements NanoInk’s portfolio of Dip Pen Nanolithography® (DPN®)-based systems and tools used for micro and nanopatterning applications to include a service component. Life scientists now have even […]