London (UK) and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) – SimuGen, a venture-backed pharmacogenomics company focused on predicting human toxicity early on in drug discovery, announced today that it has launched its flagship drug discovery toxicogenomics software product HT-Stream (www.ht-stream.com). HT-Stream is an online high throughput screening software tool for analysing complex in vitro data. Dr Brian O’Keeffe, […]

Shrink Nanotechnologies announced today that it is entering the final phase of its commercialization program for its first cell culturing devices for the StemDisc family of stem cell culturing products. Within the last week, Shrink has received the final mold for the initial StemDisc product line. The balance of the design parameters have been completed, […]

Evaluating iCell Cardiomyocytes on the xCELLigence System Madison, Wisc. – Cellular Dynamics International (CDI) announced today their partnership with ACEA Biosciences to bring early and accurate prediction of potential cardiotoxic side effects to the drug discovery process. The partnership combines CDI’s induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived heart cells, iCell™ Cardiomyocytes, with the xCELLigence™ RTCA System. […]

Paraytec Ltd (York, UK) announce the launch of a new contract services business. Dr Mebs Surve, Business Development Director for Paraytec explained ‘Our new contract analysis and contract research business is based on Paraytec’s ground breaking technologies for sizing biopharmaceuticals and nanoparticles and also for surface dissolution imaging. These services are designed for customers who […]

Earlier this year, the North Review of Drink and Drug Driving Law highlighted the value of a spit test to catch drug drivers. Testing for drugs in saliva is very challenging, but findings announced today by Universal Sensors Ltd (Cambridge, UK) show that its Vantix biosensor technology can detect trace quantities of both cocaine and […]

Enhanced specificity, affinity and reproducibility Naarden, The Netherlands – BAC, the leading provider of antibody-based affinity purification technologies, announces the launch of CaptureSelect® HumanPlasma14 for highly specific, reproducible depletion of the 14 most abundant proteins from human blood plasma or serum. HumanPlasma14 is designed for single-step, single-use depletion of more than 99% of the abundant […]

New Dye’s Emission Spectrum Closely Resembles Pacific Orange BREA, Calif. – Beckman Coulter, Inc. introduces Krome Orange, a novel violet-excited organic dye that expands the range of available choices and dye sensitivity limits for violet lasers. Common gating markers can be easily transferred to this fluorochrome, freeing other channels for use with more esoteric markers […]

Dramatic Time Savings for Biopharma Manufacturing Using Novel qPCR Technology PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. – Pall Corporation (NYSE: PLL), a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, today announced the introduction of the GeneDisc® Rapid Microbiology System for advanced microbial quality monitoring. This system represents Pall’s latest quality assurance innovation for the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. “The […]

Westborough, MA – GenomeQuest, Inc. today announced the appointment of Richard Resnick as Acting CEO of the company. He succeeds former CEO Ron Ranauro, who has resigned. During this transition, Resnick will retain his role as vice president of products and services at GenomeQuest. “I want to thank Ron for his strong contributions over the […]

SAN DIEGO – Cytori Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:CYTX) has extended the term and modified the focus of its current distribution agreement with GE Healthcare. GE Healthcare’s sales rights allow its sales force to sell Cytori technology in the research markets in select European markets and the US. In turn, Cytori has co-exclusive sales rights into the […]