Guildford, UK, and Burlington, Mass. – IDBS, a global provider of innovative data management, analytics and modeling solutions, today announced it is expanding its business in Burlington, Massachusetts, and establishing its U.S. Healthcare headquarters in that office. At the recent 2011 BIO International Convention in Washington, D.C., Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, Dr. Susan Windham-Bannister, President […]

AMSBIO has announced a package of initiatives to support the Glycobiology research community following the recent announcement by Seikagaku Corporation that they plan to discontinue their research reagents and glycobiology biochemicals business as of September 30th 2011. As a specialist in high purity reagents for glycobiology and glycoanalysis for over 20 years – AMSBIO has […]

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. – Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL), a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire its long-time Brazilian distribution partner, Engefiltro. The acquisition will strengthen Pall’s capabilities to support customers in the fast-growing Latin American market. The transaction is expected to be completed by […]

SANTA CLARA Calif. – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that it is accepting entries for two systems biology research grants, both intended to spur development of open source data-integration tools. Each grant will provide $75,000 to a single academic or non-profit research lab in 2011. Grant 1: Validating Protein Pathway Information – Integrating […]

Toronto, Canada and Sunnyvale CA, USA – DVS Sciences, Inc., a privately held innovator and manufacturer of highly multi-parameter single-cell analyzers and reagents for biological research and clinical applications, announced today that it has secured US $14.6 million in a Series A venture financing round. The proceeds will be used to accelerate the company’s commercial […]

Porvair Sciences Ltd. has reported a 20% increase in business from German-speaking markets in the first 6 months of 2011 compared to same period in 2010. Steve Knight, Director of Sales & Marketing commented “Following last year’s launch of our strategy of increased support for Germany, Austria & Switzerland, we have seen growth in demand […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Molecular Devices, LLC, a leader in bioanalytical systems for drug discovery & development, life science research, and bioassay/test development, today announced that the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) has accredited the Laboratory Quality System under ISO/IEC 17025 for validation plate calibration and re-calibration processes. Molecular Devices is one of the first […]

SAN DIEGO – Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced availability of its new TruSeq Custom Enrichment kits which enable researchers to economically design and target genomic regions of interest ranging from 700 kilobases (Kb) to 15 megabases (Mb) of cumulative DNA. The TruSeq Custom Enrichment kits leverage the same underlying assay design as Illumina’s TruSeq Exome […]

Carlsbad, CA – LabArchives is continuing with the rapid development of their flagship Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) with the release of a new version containing the ability to create, edit, and view mathematical equations in MathML and TeX format. This latest release is immediately and automatically available to all hosted LabArchives subscribers. The company also […]

SAN DIEGO – Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACCL), a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, today announced a new release of the Discovery Studio® life sciences modeling and simulation software. The release incorporates the first commercially available software for predicting protein-protein aggregation to advance biotherapeutics research. In addition, a major update to the software’s 3D-molecular […]