AUSTIN, Texas – Asuragen, Inc., a leader in the development of molecular diagnostics, announced today that it has received a Notice of Allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) for claims related to the use of miRNAs as normalizers in gene expression studies. Data normalization is necessary to control for sample variability […]

FREMONT, Calif. – DiscoveRx announced today the successful expansion of its industry leading KINOMEscan™ kinase assay panel for kinase inhibitor profiling and screening services. Now with 451 kinase assays in the scanMAX™ assay panel, which will be available for global customers by mid-June 2011, DiscoveRx continues to maintain its leadership position by offering the largest […]

Atlanta, GA – Axion BioSystems (Axion) is pleased to announce a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Research and Development (ORD). This CRADA was established to evaluate the neurotoxic effects of chemicals using Axion’s Maestro, the first high-throughput […]

San Diego, CA – Silicon Kinetics Inc., the innovative proteomics tool company which introduced the world’s first 3D biosensor surface for label-free biomolecular interaction analysis, announced that Dr. John Ervin has been appointed President. Dr. Ervin previously served as Director of R&D and Engineering for the Company. “John will lead the commercial as well as […]

Guildford, UK, and Burlington, Mass. and Budapest, Hungary – IDBS, a global provider of innovative data management, analytics and modeling solutions, and ChemAxon a leading provider of cheminformatics software for the life sciences industry, announce today the extension of their relationship. IDBS is the world’s most advanced R&D data management provider, according to Frost & […]

Tripos®, a leading provider of drug discovery informatics products and services, today announced that Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has selected D360 as its enterprise solution for data integration, visualization, mining and analysis, after a year-long, multi-vendor competitive process. In making the announcement, Tripos’ Chief Executive Officer, Jim Hopkins, said, “We are thrilled with Agios’ decision to […]

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 […]

Singapore – Esco is pleased to announce the release of the newest line of PCR thermal cyclers – The Esco Spectrum 96 Real Time Thermal Cycler. Swift spectrum series combines amplification and detection Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) which is an important tool for the detection of DNA and RNA with applications across all Biotechnology / […]

Ann Arbor, MI and London, UK – NextGen Group plc (AIM:NGG) is pleased to announce that its subsidiary NextGen Sciences Inc, a leader in biomarker discovery, measurement and qualification, has launched the first phase of its multiple protein (multiplex) assays in plasma, for CNS diseases. The plasmamultiplesclerosis15 assay simultaneously measures 15 human plasma proteins that […]

AUSTIN, Texas – Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX), today announced it has signed a global sales and distribution agreement with Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) for its award-winning MAGPIX multiplexing instrument for analysis of proteins for research use. Launched in July 2010, MAGPIX is a compact multiplex analyzer that can quickly, accurately and reproducibly detect 50 […]