Beverly, MA, USA and Nijmegen, the Netherlands — Alpaqua Engineering, LLC, a provider of innovative genomic tools and solutions, announces today it has entered into a non-exclusive distribution agreement with NimaGen, B.V., a leading provider of high quality, molecular biology products. In the terms of the agreement, NimaGen will distribute Alpaqua’s full line of magnet […]

Branford, CT –- Core Informatics, provider of the premier cloud-based scientific informatics platform, today announced that Kevin Cronin has joined the company as Chief Commercial Officer. Mr. Cronin brings 25 years of experience leading sales and marketing teams that demonstrated outstanding growth and success serving pharmaceutical, agrochemical, consumer and chemical companies. He joined Core from […]

CHELMSFORD, Mass. — Brooks Automation, Inc. (Nasdaq:BRKS) announced today that it has acquired FluidX Ltd. FluidX, headquartered near Manchester, England, is a provider of biological sample storage tubes and complementary bench-top instruments. The company was acquired for a cash payment equal to approximately $16 million. “FluidX is an important building block for Brooks Life Science […]

HERCULES, CA — Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO) and (NYSE: BIO.B), a global provider of life science research and clinical diagnostics products, today announced the recent appointment of Mr. John Goetz as Chief Operating Officer. In his new role Mr. Goetz is responsible for all operating functions of the company on a global basis, including […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Stemgent Inc. announced today that it has completed the sale of its stem cell reagents and services business to ReproCELL in a cash transaction for approximately $8.5 million. Stemgent is selling the stem cell reagent and services business in order to focus on expanding its human tissue-based brand, Asterand Biosciences. Asterand has […]

Belfast, Northern Ireland — Bitplane, an Oxford Instruments company and microDimensions today announce a partnership to bring Voloom®, from microDimensions, to the wider life sciences market via the Bitplane sales channels. Voloom is an intuitive and automated software solution for the alignment and reconstruction of whole slide scanner images (and other series of 2D images) […]

Windsor, CT — Rainbow Scientific, Inc. (RSI), a North American distributor of scientific research products, recently opened an online store to add customer convenience in ordering its comprehensive cell culture product lines developed and manufactured by Biological Industries, Inc. Products available through its online store include Biological Industries’ Nutristem® serum-free, xeno-free reagents for human mesenchymal […]

Avacta Group plc (AIM: AVCT), the global provider of proprietary diagnostic tools, consumables and reagents for human and animal healthcare, announces that Avacta Life Sciences has launched its on-line catalogue of Affimer reagents. There are currently 40 products in the Affimer catalogue. In May of this year, Avacta raised £10m through a placing of ordinary […]

CAMBRIDGE, MA -— IFI CLAIMS® Patent Services, the leading producer of global patent databases, analytic solutions and innovative web services, and ChemAxon, a leading provider of chemical informatics software for the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries, announced a collaboration to deliver IFI’s global patent data over ChemAxon’s recently introduced ChemCurator software platform. ChemCurator is a […]

Budapest, Hungary –– ChemAxon, a leader in providing chemistry software solutions and consulting services for life science research, launches ChemCurator, an application to extract chemical information and generate Markush structures from documents. Markush structures are essential in securing an organizations intellectual property, however generating and understanding Markush structures is a difficult and time consuming process. […]