TINTAGEL, England – Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced that it has expanded its Maybridge Ro3 Diversity Fragment Library, to make it an even more powerful tool for structure-based drug discovery. The new library adds 1,000 Ro3 compliant molecules, complementing the 1,500 compounds introduced last year. This expansion increases the […]

Cambridge UK – SICM, a high resolution microscopy technique, has been used by a team of researchers to identify a drug that could one day be used to prevent abnormal heart rhythms, or arrhythmia. The study, published in Hepatology[1] this week, was enabled by SICM, which is the result of 7 years of research and […]

ST. LOUIS — Sigma Life Science, the innovative biological products and services research business of Sigma-Aldrich® (Nasdaq: SIAL), today announced a major breakthrough in the development of its proprietary CompoZr zinc finger nuclease (ZFN) technology with the release of more Knockout ZFNs covering the entire genomes of both mice and rats, while reducing the pricing […]

Hamburg: Olympus has introduced its OLYMPUS Stream software for optimising industrial analysis using a microscope. Built-in as part of the system, the instant Extended Focal Imaging (EFI) and manual Multiple Image Alignment (MIA) functions are powerful features that expand the range of imaging possibilities available, while significantly simplifying and speeding up the process. The instant […]

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. — Cynvenio Biosystems, Inc., a developer of high performance cell isolation technology for biomedical research and novel cancer diagnostics, today announced that Amit Munshi and Simon Raab, Ph.D. have joined its board of directors. Mr. Munshi, a leading Southern California biopharma executive, is president and CEO of Percivia, LLC ( www.percivia.com ), […]

Madison, WI & Pleasanton, CA – IntegenX Inc. and Promega Corporation today announced that commercial deliveries of RapidHIT™ 200 Human Identification Systems will include Promega’s nucleic acid purification and short tandem repeat (STR) amplification reagents. Promega’s established STR chemistry will enable users of the automated, self-contained RapidHIT System to produce DNA profiles for human identification […]

Uppsala, Sweden: Gyros AB, a leader in utilization of microfluidic technologies to miniaturize and automate immunoassays, announced today the completion of a development program initiated to fulfill the requirements of scientists using the Company’s immunoassay platform in the biopharmaceutical industry. The development program has seen the release of a number of software modules and services […]

Stellar Biotechnologies, Inc. “Stellar” is pleased to announce they have entered into an agreement for marketing and sales with SAFC(R), a business unit of Sigma-Aldrich (NASDAQ: SIAL) a global leader in biopharmaceutical contract manufacturing. Under the agreement, Stellar will produce KLH commercial intermediate and SAFC will sell, distribute and market cGMP-grade HMW KLH (high molecular […]

GENEVA, Switzerland — SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and GeneBio today announced the launch of neXtProt, an on-line knowledge platform on human proteins. This exceptional resource provides life scientists with a broad spectrum of information on all human proteins via an intuitive interface. With already over 51,000 unique visitors since its first Beta release in […]

PLANEGG, Germany — Biomax Informatics announces a major release of its enterprise platform, the BioXM™ Knowledge Management Environment. The BioXM system integrates information from different data sources to dynamically build semantic networks representing up-to-date knowledge, which can be mined and analyzed. BioXM version 4.0 introduces web-application functionality (web apps) and numerous other enhancements. This next-generation […]