Santa Clara, CA – Cell Biosciences, Inc. today announced the issuance of Patent No. 7,846,676 for “Methods and Devices for Analyte Detection” by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patent represents a key element of intellectual property related to NanoPro assay technology. It is one of several within a family directed towards the […]

International Stem Cell Corporation (OTCBB:ISCO), www.internationalstemcell.com, announced today that it had entered into an agreement with Aspire Capital Fund, LLC, to provide, at the Company’s sole option, up to $25 million of equity capital over the next three years. As part of this transaction, Aspire purchased, upon execution of the agreement, 333,333 shares of ISCO […]

HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA – InQ Biosciences, a provider of innovative technologies for cell growth and research, announced today it will commercially release its InQ Cell Research System during the first quarter of 2011. InQ is the first fully integrated system that creates a high-fidelity in vitro environment for studying stem cells –as well as nerve, brain […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif., and PRINCETON, N. J. – The Agilent Technologies Foundation today announced that David Botstein and his colleagues, Joshua Rabinowitz, Benjamin Garcia and Leonid Kruglyak, received an Agilent Thought Leader Award in support of their work in systems biology. Dr. Botstein is professor and director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and […]

PHILADELPHIA -The American Society for Cell Biology, in collaboration with Glencoe Software, Inc. and the Open Microscopy Environment (OME), today announce the launch of The Cell: An Image Library at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology. In 2009 the ASCB was awarded a $2.5M stimulus grant through the National Institutes […]

BISHOPS STORTFORD, UNITED KINGDOM – Dotmatics, a provider of informatics tools and scientific data management solutions to the international pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, is very pleased to announce that it has licensed its entire Informatics suite to Lycera Corporation, including their own note book. Stephen Gallagher, Chief Executive Officer of Dotmatics said “We have enjoyed […]

Scientific breakthrough by Sigma Advanced Genetic Engineering (SAGE™) Labs enables creation of more sophisticated models of human disease ST. LOUIS – Sigma Life Science, the innovative biological products and services business of Sigma-Aldrich® (Nasdaq: SIAL), today announced that its SAGE Labs initiative has successfully used its proprietary CompoZr® Zinc Finger Nuclease (ZFN) technology to generate […]

BOLOGNA, Italy – Silicon Biosystems, S.p.A., a provider of specialized molecular and cell biology technology, today announced that it has formed a U.S. subsidiary operation, Silicon Biosystems, Inc. to be headquartered in San Diego, CA. The newly formed business will focus on commercial operations and the development of the North American research and clinical diagnostics […]

Benchtop System Prepares Samples for the Life Technologies SOLiD Sequencer DANVERS, Mass. – SPRIworks Fragment Library System III from Beckman Coulter Genomics automates the preparation of libraries for the Life Technologies SOLiD* Sequencer. With the introduction of this third system in a series, researchers can use the SPRIworks system to automate library preparation for the […]

Applikon Biotechnology has established an agreement with InDevR, Inc. to distribute the ViroCyt™ Virus Counter®, a novel, easy-to-use instrument for rapid quantification of virus samples. The Virus Counter provides a direct measurement of virus particle concentration within minutes. Unlike conventional plaque titer assays, which take days to complete, the Virus Counter provides accurate and quantitative […]