San Diego, CA and Ottawa, Canada – Fate Therapeutics, Inc. has forged a collaboration and license agreement with BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, through its BD Biosciences segment, for the joint development and worldwide commercialization of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) tools and technologies for drug discovery and development. […]

MorphoSys AG (FSE: MOR; Prime Standard Segment, TecDAX) announced today that its research and diagnostic antibodies unit AbD Serotec has signed a two year contract for the supply of custom monoclonal antibodies with Research Councils UK Shared Services Centre Limited (RCUK SSC Ltd). RCUK SSC Ltd has been set up by the seven Research Councils […]

AMSBIO has announced the launch of the first of a new generation of cell migration assays designed specifically for fully automated high throughput screening (HTS) utilizing high content screening (HCS) and high content imaging (HCI) systems. The new Oris™ Pro 384 Cell Migration Assay uses a non-toxic biocompatible gel (BCG) to form a centrally located […]

Custom siRNA Synthesis Offers Research Labs Unique Flexibility for Designing Experiments. Huntsville, AL – Eurofins MWG Operon now offers siMAX siRNA synthesis directly to customers in the US and Canada and through its vast distributor network throughout the Americas. The launch of siMAX siRNA for use in RNAi gene silencing experiments is designed to offer […]

Charlottesville, Virginia – Global Cell Solutions (GCS) and VWR International, LLC, a global laboratory supply and distribution company, announced they have entered into a non-exclusive North American distribution agreement. Under the terms, VWR will distribute GCS’s portfolio of GEM™ magnetic microcarrier products offered with a wide variety of cell adhesion coatings. The magnetic GEM microcarrier […]

Agilent Achieves Seven Year Supply Assurance While Caliper Locks In A Long-term and Growing, Higher Margin Revenue Stream HOPKINTON, Mass. – Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALP), a leading provider of life science tools, announced today that it has renewed its supply agreement for microfluidics chips with Agilent Technologies. Under the new seven year supply […]

Exiqon A/S (NASDAQ OMX: EXQ), a leading supplier of high-value gene expression analysis products, today announced the extension of the miRCURY™ LNA microRNA PCR product line with the launch of a novel bioinformatics software for the design of custom qPCR assays for microRNA quantification. The new on-line microRNA qPCR assay design software supports the need […]

Epicentre Biotechnologies announced the availability of the new ScriptSeq™ mRNA-Seq Library Preparation Kit (Illumina-compatible). Madison, Wis. – Today, Epicentre Biotechnologies announced the availability of the new ScriptSeq™ mRNA-Seq Library Preparation Kit (Illumina-compatible). The kit uses a unique, patented terminal-tagging technology that simplifies strand-specific tagging and the preparation of directional mRNA-Seq libraries from rRNA-depleted or poly(A) […]

Roslin, UK – Arrayjet today announced that the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, has chosen its Marathon Inkjet Microarrayer for its Protein Array Technologies Group. Headed by Dr Peter Nilsson, the group, which will also serve as an Arrayjet reference site, is based in the Department of Proteomics and forms part of the […]

CARLSBAD, Calif. – Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE), a provider of innovative life science solutions,today announced that it has signed an exclusive license agreement for ErrASE, a commercially available DNA error-correction kit developed by Novici Biotech LLC to increase accuracy and accelerate the pace of research in the field of synthetic biology. Under the terms […]