Cambridge, UK – Horizon Discovery Ltd. (Horizon), a leading provider of research tools to support the development of personalized medicines, announces a strategic partnership agreement with Promega Corporation, the leader in innovative life science research technologies. The partnership centers on the delivery of endogenous gene reporting capabilities, in the form of Promega’s luciferase and HaloTag® […]

San Diego, CA, USA – Oxford Expression Technologies (OET), the award-winning specialist provider of recombinant protein expression solutions, has opened a new US hub site. The inauguration of this new hub, which is operated by San Diego based biotech company Abcore Inc, will not only allow customers in the United States to purchase OET products […]

SAN CARLOS, Calif. & SAN FRANCISCO–NuGEN Technologies Inc. and Ion Torrent, a unit of Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:LIFE), today announced the release of three new products developed by NuGEN for the Ion Personal Genome Machine™ (PGM™). Ion PGM customers can now order the NuGEN Encore® NGS Library Systems for Ion Torrent from the Ion Torrent […]

MANASSAS, Va.–ATCC, the recognized leader in biological materials management and processes for cell provisioning, has been awarded funding for 5 years from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD to establish a Physical Sciences-Oncology Centers (PS-OC) Bioresource Core Facility (PBCF). The goal of the PBCF is to create a facility […]

SiMPore Inc. has been awarded a phase 1 SBIR grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a microarray cell culture system. SiMPore will examine methods to create micro-patterned walls in order to expand SiMPore’s ultrathin membrane offerings from 4-wells, currently available in CytoVu® imaging slides, into a microarray format of 96 or […]

HOPKINTON, Mass., Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: CALP), a leading provider of tools and services for drug discovery and life sciences research, today announced that its Caliper Discovery Alliances and Services (CDAS) unit has launched a new services offering based on a panel of cellular assays that measure the effects of drug candidates on functional […]

LINCOLN, Neb.–LI-COR® Biosciences announces the release of its Odyssey CLx Infrared Imaging System as the latest addition to its line of imaging systems. The Odyssey CLx features a new autoscan function that saves time and removes the need to re-image data to find the correct intensity. This new function eliminates image saturation and offers a […]

HERCULES, CA, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO) and (NYSE: BIO.B), a multinational manufacturer and distributor of life science research and clinical diagnostics products, announced today that Deborah J. Neff has been appointed to its Board of Directors. Ms Neff, a 25-year veteran of healthcare and life sciences industries, is President and Chief Executive Officer of […]

Solon, Ohio, AMRESCO, LLC, a company offering a diverse range of biochemicals and reagents for life sciences, has added ZYP-5052, Autoinduction Media to their product line. The formulation, based on the work of Dr. Studier at Brookhaven National Laboratory, simplifies culture handling by utilizing differential metabolism of sugars by E. coli to automatically induce protein […]

Issaquah, Washington and Chalfont St Giles, UK – Applied Precision Inc., a GE Healthcare company, today announced the launch of DeltaVision OMX Blaze™, a research microscopy system designed to reach the next level in the evolution of super-resolution imaging by employing a proprietary, ultra-fast, illumination module and the latest advanced high-speed camera technologies. The new […]