London, UK and Budapest, Hungary – The IP Solutions business of Thomson Reuters®, the leader in intellectual property research and analysis solutions, and ChemAxon, the leader in cheminformatics software for the life sciences industry, today announced a strategic partnership whereby Thomson Reuters is providing its chemical IP Data Feeds – Markush Structures and patent data […]

YOKOHAMA, Japan – ReproCELL, Inc. (CEO: Chikafumi Yokoyama PhD) announces today that the company will enter a collaborative R&D agreement with the National Institute of Biomedical Innovation (NIBIO; Director General: Koichi Yamanishi; Osaka, Japan), which could offer new hepatocyte derived from human iPS (induced pluripotent stem) cells used for an effective in-vitro drug screening for […]

Fluidigm has launched a new comprehensively featured website (www.fluidigm.com) designed to offer a wide variety of useful information to life science organisations involved with gene expression, single cell research, SNP genotyping, target resequencing, NGS sample preparation and determination of copy number variation. Intuitively designed the website provides ready access to detailed technical information relating to […]

Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra – Global Pharmaceutical and Chemical Company, Merck Limited, opened its new Application and Technology Centre at Nerul, Navi Mumbai. Spread over 1700 sq. ft., the state-of-the-art Centre will enable Merck to offer customized application and technology solutions to its customers in fields ranging from drug discovery to automobile and decorative paints. Mr. […]

San Jose, CA, (PR.com)– AnaSpec is pleased to expand their GFP antibodies offerings. The new GFP antibodies include two monoclonals raised in mouse and a third, a polyclonal raised in chicken. Purified green-fluorescent protein (GFP) was used as antigen. Antibody reactivity was confirmed by ELISA and specificity was confirmed by Western Blot using GFP protein. […]

STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Contur Software joins PRIME, a Research Program funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), as informatics partner. The goal of PRIME is to develop a platform for improved modeling of immune processes. PRIME (Program for Research on Immune Modeling […]

CINCINNATI, OH – Siloam Biosciences, Inc., a lab on a chip diagnostic & life sciences company, is pleased to announce the hiring of G. Randall Durnell, PhD, MBA, as the company’s new Vice President of Commercial Operations. “We are very pleased that Randy has agreed to join our organization. He brings with him an in-depth […]

MADISON, WISCONSIN – The new Renilla-Glo™ Luciferase Assay brings the convenience of the “add, mix, measure” assay format to applications using the sea pansy (Renilla reniformis) luciferase. The assay is ideal for screening in applications where a smaller molecular size reporter gene, compared to the typical firefly luciferase, is desirable. The extended signal half-life and […]

ALAMEDA, Calif. – BioTime, Inc. (NYSE Amex: BTX) today announced a material transfer agreement (MTA) with the University of California (UC) system to make five research-grade human embryonic stem (hES) cell lines available to UC system researchers. These lines are genetically identical to a bank of GMP-compliant hES cell lines that will be made available […]