Paris – Cellectis (Alternext: ALCLS), the French genome engineering specialist, announced today that the Paris Tribunal de Grande Instance has dismissed the claims filed by Taconic Artemis and Taconic Farms Inc. in December 2008 against Cellectis’ termination for breach of its license to homologous recombination patents. The third chamber of the Tribunal de Grande Instance […]

Uppsala, Sweden – Biotage (STO: BIOT), a leading supplier of tools and technology for analytical and medicinal chemistry, announced the introduction of high-performance, AFFINILUTE MIP (Molecularly Imprinted Polymers) columns for analytical sample preparation. Highly selective extractions with AFFINILUTE MIPs are considerably simplified resulting in faster, more robust and ultimately lower cost sample preparation. AFFINILTE MIP […]

Effectively July 1, Roche Applied Science (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) Industrial Business was relaunched under the name Roche Custom Biotech. The switch will be accompanied by a complete makeover of the Industrial Business appearance. Besides the new name and slogan – “Expertise you can trust” – there will also be a new web appearance, […]

DNAdvance SP Delivers High Yield with Oragene•DNA Samples Orange County, Calif., and Ottawa, Ont. – Beckman Coulter Genomics today announced the development of a new version of the DNAdvance System for use with DNA Genotek’s Oragene*•DNA samples. DNAdvance SP, from Beckman Coulter Genomics, is an extraction kit for the isolation and purification of DNA from […]

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India – Ocimum Biosolutions, a global integrated genomics company, today announced that it now offers cutting edge solutions using miRNA microarray technology. A wide range of miRNA microarray kits and assays including human, mouse, rat and other systems are available immediately on Ocimum’s proprietary OciChip™ platform. The epoxide coated microarray slides are […]

SAN DIEGO – Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced that it has appointed Nicholas J. Naclerio, Ph.D., to the position of senior vice president, Corporate Development, reporting to Jay Flatley, president and chief executive officer. In this capacity, Dr. Naclerio will be responsible for all Corporate and Business Development activities, including licensing, strategic planning and acquisitions. […]

pJmammalian Vectors Provide Superior Expression, Come Without IP Restrictions and are Free to Gene Synthesis Customers Menlo Park, CA – DNA2.0 , the leading gene synthesis and protein engineering company, today announced the availability of pJmammalian expression vectors, the latest offering in DNA2.0’s unique and powerful family of expression vectors. Along with pJexpress bacterial expression […]

Fremont, Calif. — WaferGen Biosystems, Inc. (OTCBB:WGBS), a leading developer of state-of-the-art genomic analysis systems, today announced that it has received commitments from certain investors to purchase approximately $7 million of previously unissued securities in a registered direct offering. The investors include the Chairman and CEO, Alnoor Shivji, who has agreed to purchase $1 million […]

Collaboration Aimed at Helping Build ‘Life Sciences Corridor’ in the Midwest COLUMBIA, Mo. – IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the University of Missouri today announced a life sciences research initiative using IBM high performance computing technologies to advance the school’s bioinformatics research projects. The goal of the initiative is to develop a first-of-a-kind cloud computing environment […]

Munich, Germany – ibidi GmbH, a supplier of solutions for Bio-Microscopy (so-called ‘µ-Slides’), releases the µ-Slide Chemotaxis 3D, a chamber for chemotaxis and migration studies of non-adherent cells in 3D gel matrices. This new slide allows the motion tracking of non-adherent chemotactically active cells like lymphocytes, dendritic cells or macrophages in different gel matrices (e.g. […]