CARLSBAD, Calif. – Life Technologies Corporation today announced that it has acquired Matrix MicroScience, a British manufacturer of large-volume, automated sample preparation systems and consumables for the food safety testing industry. Matrix MicroScience’s technology will be added to Life Technologies’ existing foodborne pathogen detection workflow. The complementary technologies will ultimately help reduce the cost of […]

CLIFTON PARK, NY – Kitware, one of the nation’s fastest growing software companies, has been awarded $730,000 in Phase II SBIR funding from the U.S. Army Engineering Research and Development Center (ERDC.) This funding will be used for the continued development of an end-to-end workbench solution aimed at a wide range of chemists, from students […]

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Ingenuity Systems, a leading provider of information and analysis solutions for life science researchers, today announced the general availability of Ingenuity® iReport™, a stand-alone report that provides the fastest way to get biological meaning from expression data. iReport provides a fully integrated, one-step solution for the statistical analysis and biological interpretation […]

ST. LOUIS– Appistry, Inc., the world’s best company at solving complex, data intensive problems, today announced a strategic partnership with the University of Missouri to further enhance the school’s innovative genomic research. Through the partnership, the University of Missouri will deploy Ayrris/BIO, Appistry’s high-performance pipeline automation technology, to accelerate their Next Generation Sequencing and bioinformatics […]

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. & TORRANCE, Calif.–AB SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, and Phenomenex, a global leader in separation science techniques, today announced a collaboration agreement designed to significantly improve food testing. Critical to the collaboration is the creation of a joint rapid response team responsible for developing the industry’s highest-quality, most cost-effective […]

BOTHELL, Wash. — BioLife Solutions, Inc. (OTCBB: BLFS), a leading developer, manufacturer, and marketer of proprietary hypothermic storage and cryopreservation freeze media for cells, tissues, and organs, today announced that three additional key opinion leaders in the biobanking, drug discovery, and regenerative medicine markets have joined the Company’s Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). The new members […]

WATERLOO, ONTARIO–P&P Optica Inc., a world leader in the development of high performance spectrometers, announced today the release of Iris, a suite of powerful new data analysis software products aimed at improving the usability of spectroscopic instruments. The Iris software suite is available for P&P Optica’s industry leading spectroscopy products as well as other spectroscopic […]

Redwood Shores, Calif. – Oracle Health Sciences today announced availability of Oracle® Health Sciences Omics Data Bank, a molecular data model, which is part of Oracle Health Sciences Translational Research Center. The new data model provides integration and analysis of cross-platform omics data to support translational research. Oracle Health Sciences Translational Research Center enables pharmaceutical […]

REYKJAVIK, Iceland – Scientists at deCODE Genetics and academic collaborators from Iceland, the USA, The Netherlands and Spaintoday report the discovery of variants in the human genome that associate with levels of thyroid stimulating hormone and risk of thyroid cancer.The paper ‘Discovery of common variants associated with low TSH levels and thyroid cancer risk’ is […]

MILFORD, Mass. — Waters Corporation (WAT:NYSE) and Ireland’s National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT) announced today the availability of the world’s first database for glycan analysis by UltraPerformance Liquid Chromatography® (UPLC®). Developed by Professor Pauline Rudd’s research team at NIBRT, the new GlycoBase 3+ Database is the first-of-its-kind repository of chromatographic retention positions […]