SANTA ANA, Calif. – AquaStar Holdings, Inc. (Pink Sheets: RPPR) is pleased to announce that the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, SUTIMCo, Inc., has retained the services of Mr. Ed Ellsworth as Vice President of Business Development. Mr. Ellsworth will assist with the development and positioning of the numerous University conceived technologies that SUTIMCo manages. Mr. Ellsworth, […]

ALAMEDA, Calif. – BioTime, Inc. (NYSE Amex:BTX), a biotechnology company that develops and markets products in the field of regenerative medicine, today announced that two human embryonic stem (hES) cell lines, ESI-014 and ESI-017, developed by a BioTime subsidiary have been approved by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for inclusion in the NIH Human […]

MILPITAS – Sage-N Research, Inc., the world leader in computational proteomics, today announced that it entered into an exclusive license agreement with the U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) to commercialize a revolutionary new platform for rapid and sensitive detection and identification of pathogenic microorganisms in fluid media. This license allows the integration of […]

FREDERICK, Md. – Akonni Biosystems, Inc., today announced that it has appointed Jan Smilek as its Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately. Akonni, founded in 2003, is developing and commercializing novel nucleic acid extraction and microarray-based testing systems designed to rapidly and economically analyze biological samples. These systems will be used in clinical laboratory and research […]

MADISON, WISCONSIN – The Promega App is now available in a new format optimized for easy use on both iPhone and iPad, and it’s supplemented with more tools for scientists and students. New content in version 3.0 includes a Restriction Enzyme Finder, a new Biochemical Buffers chapter, and additional instructional videos on transfection and PCR […]

HOPKINTON, Mass. – Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: CALP), a leading provider of tools and services for drug discovery and life sciences research, hosted its 2011 annual Customers Owners Group (COG 2011) meeting on May 17 and 18 at its Hopkinton headquarters. This thought-leadership conference brought together leaders in research, drug discovery, and diagnostics to […]

ORANGE COUNTY, CALIF. – The CESI 8000 High-Performance Separation-ESI Module with OptiMS Technology from Beckman Coulter, Inc. consists of the first commercial CESI sprayer combined with new capillary electrophoresis instrumentation specifically designed for mass spectrometry (MS). This gives researchers a robust, high-sensitivity interface of capillary electrophoresis (CE) with MS, while providing a broad range of […]

SAN DIEGO – Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM), a life sciences company providing innovative genetic analysis solutions, today announced it and its subsidiary Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine® (Sequenom CMM) have secured a $30.0 million financing commitment from Silicon Valley Bank’s San Diego-based team. Sequenom will use proceeds from the facility to support the development and […]

EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA of Darmstadt, Germany, today announced the availability of the first-of-its-kind interactive Histone Modification mobile app. This free app allows researchers to explore a comprehensive collection of core histone modifications and access detailed information on their biological significance and epigenetic implications with links to published references. “By […]

TUCSON, Ariz. – BioVigilant Systems, Inc., (www.biovigilant.com), inventors of Instantaneous Microbial Detection™, today announced the introduction of its next-generation IMD-A®family of rapid biologic detection systems for real-time environmental air monitoring in pharmaceutical manufacturing environments. BioVigilant’s IMD-A 300 and IMD-A 350 systems can detect immediately the presence of bacteria in the drug manufacturing process, in contrast […]