Budapest, Hungary; Cambridge, MA & Richmond, VA — Global biotechnology company Omixon, headquartered in Budapest with US offices in Cambridge, MA, has announced a collaboration with Global Genomics Group (G3) to validate its Target HLA™ software to determine HLA genotypes from whole genome sequencing (WGS) datasets. G3 is providing the WGS datasets and the corresponding […]

Bibby Scientific, one of the largest manufacturers of quality bench top science equipment, has purchased 100% of the share capital of PCRmax, a UK based sales and distribution Company set up specifically to capture a significant market share of the standard (PCR) and quantitative PCR (QPCR) markets. They are also the registered owners of the […]

Buffalo, NY — Reichert Technologies, a unit of Ametek Ultra Precision Technologies, today announced its offering of professional and support services for researchers performing surface plasmon resonance (SPR) experiments. Reichert’s global network of experts helps customers obtain the highest quality data from their SPR experiments by installing equipment, training researchers, performing contract services and consulting. […]

North Brunswick, NJ, USA — Hurel Corporation (“Hurel”), a world-leading provider of in vitro liver models and microfluidic assay platforms that improve the predictive reliability of pre-clinical drug development, today announced that Johnston Associates, Inc. of Princeton, New Jersey (“JAI”) has become a participating investor in the Company’s Series A-3 Preferred Stock financing. Hurel’s lead […]

San Diego, CA — FBXL11 (KDM2A) and FBXL10 (KDM2B) are F-box and Jumonji domain-containing enzymes that specifically demethylate mono- and di-methylated lysine 36 of histone H3 (H3K36) in a Fe(II) and ?-ketoglutarate (?KG)-dependent manner. Unlike most methyllysine histone modifications, methylation of H3K36 is associated with active chromatin and gene transcription. FBXL10 was also reported to […]

Manassas, VA -– ATCC, the premier global biological materials resource and standards organization, is pleased to announce two important appointments to the senior leadership team. Barbie Bigelow has joined ATCC as Executive Vice President of Strategy and Technology and Dr. Maryellen de Mars also joins as the Senior Director for the Standards Resource Center. Both […]

AMSBIO has introduced a Dicer siRNA Generation Kit that mimics the natural RNA interference process by using recombinant human dicer enzyme, a double-stranded RNA-specific endonuclease, to cleave in vitro transcribed dsRNA templates into a pool of 22 bp siRNAs. The new kit allows easy and cost-effective generation of a large number of small interfering RNAs […]

Lakewood, N.J. — Animal Origin Free (AOF) STEMxyme® collagenase/neutral protease (Dispase®) Blends 1 and 2, produced by Worthington Biochemical Corporation, are now available for primary and stem cell isolation, regenerative medicine, biopharmaceutical and cell bioprocessing applications. These new, specialized combinations of AOF Clostridium histolyticum collagenase and AOF Bacillus polymyxa neutral protease (Dispase®) offer a minimum […]

Boston, Mass., – Intellimedix announced today that it is introducing a new exome product for the research market that will incorporate and leverage the exome sequencing service of BGI Tech Solutions Co., LTD, a subsidiary of BGI, the world’s largest genomics organization, along with Intellimedix’s proprietary analysis algorithms. The product, to be called “Enhanced Accelerated […]

CHALFONT ST GILES, UK –– GE Healthcare Life Sciences (NYSE:GE) today launched Amersham WB system, a fully integrated system for quantitative SDS-PAGE and Western blotting of proteins using fluorescence detection. Developed by scientists at GE Healthcare’s Centre of Excellence in Protein Science in Uppsala, Sweden, the Amersham WB system is designed to drive down the […]