Darmstadt, Germany – Merck KGaA and its Life Science division Merck Millipore have sent thousands of state-of-the-art water test kits to Thailand in an effort to ensure the safety of municipal drinking water following months of devastating flooding in that region. In addition to the product shipment, the company has donated €110,000 to assist flood […]

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, helps you to decrease your time to market with its custom coating service. The complete custom coating capabilities of MicroWell plates are detailed in the new interactive and searchable Thermo Scientific immunoassay plate guide. Thermo Fisher Scientific’s proven strengths in surface treatment, […]

BUDAPEST, Hungary–ChemAxon, a leader in providing chemical software development platforms and desktop applications for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, announces the addition of a PDF Document Viewer to its open access chemicalize.org service. Researchers can now highlight and display chemicals mentioned in text PDFs such as patents and scientific papers, explore their properties and download […]

Cambridge, UK – Horizon Discovery (Horizon), a leading provider of research tools to support the development of personalized medicines, announced it has entered into a three year Technology Access Agreement with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), both divisions of the National Institutes of Health. The focus of […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. & MAASTRICHT, Netherlands – Agilent Technologies Inc. /quotes/zigman/216117/quotes/nls/a A -0.80% and the Agilent Technologies Foundation today announced that Dr. Chris Evelo and the department of bioinformatics at Maastricht University are the recipients of an Agilent Thought Leader Award supporting development of software to integrate different types of biological data. The goal of […]

Grenoble, France – CYTOO SA, a company that specializes in cell-based assays, announced today the closing of a series C funding round of USD 10M (EUR 7M). New investors, Sham and Entrepreneurs Fund (EF), led the round. Existing investors AURIGA Partners and Jacques Lewiner, co-founder and president of the supervisory board at CYTOO, also participated. […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Molecular Devices, LLC, announced the release of IonWorks® Barracuda Software v2.0 for the IonWorks® Barracuda Automated Electrophysiology System. Featured enhancements include multiple protocol mode, the ability to review data on the fly in assay development mode, dual voltage offset correction, and enhancements to raw data display and scaling. The software can also […]

LEXINGTON, Mass. – RainDance Technologies, Inc., the Digital Biology™ Company, today announced that the British Columbia Cancer Agency has purchased the company’s new ThunderStorm™ System. RainDance’s ThunderStorm System is a fully-automated and walkaway high-throughput targeted sequencing solution that enables researchers to process up to 96 samples per run on a proven platform that generates higher-quality […]

Monza, Italy – LABVANTAGE today announced the opening of the new training center in its Monza headquarters, located approximately 12 miles northeast of the capital city of Milan. The establishment of this training center facilitates travel plans for LABVANTAGE European customers and offers training conducted in Italian and English. “Inaugurating a strategic business development center […]

Columbus, OH – Rescentris, Inc. today announced the release of Version 4.5 of its leading Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) software product CERF to its global customer base. CERF is a scalable, cross-platform ELN used by organizations to replace paper-based lab recordkeeping and enable controlled access and sharing of research knowledge. ELNs improve research productivity and […]