Pre-clinical research could generate proof of principle for future cell therapies to treat other neurodegenerative diseases, including spinal cord injury CARLSBAD, Calif. –The University of California, San Diego, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies and LifeTechnologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced the initiation of studies which may lead to the future development of cell transplant […]

Systems Complement the Beckman Coulter Cell Analysis Portfolio Orange County, Calif. — Beckman Coulter, Inc., has entered into a strategic alliance with CaridianBCT, under the terms of which Beckman Coulter will market CaridianBCT cell therapy products in specific, targeted markets. CaridianBCT and Beckman Coulter will launch CaridianBCT’s Quantum Cell Expansion System, a closed system that […]

AnaSpec, Inc. and Bioeasy Diagnostica today announced a non-exclusive distributor agreement that will allow Bioeasy Diagnostica to distribute AnaSpec’s catalog and custom products throughout Brasil. Fremont, CA — AnaSpec, Inc. and Bioeasy Diagnostica today announced a non-exclusive distributor agreement that will allow Bioeasy Diagnostica to distribute AnaSpec’s catalog and custom products throughout Brasil. AnaSpec’s Director […]

Enables fast, reliable and cost-effective screening of fragment libraries Dundee, Scotland — The University of Dundee announced today that it has become the first facility worldwide to take delivery of Biacore™ 4000. Biacore 4000 is a powerful solution for large-scale, label-free molecular interaction analysis in drug discovery, from early screening to characterization. The University of […]

Sunnyvale, CA – Dionex is pleased to announce the expansion of its UltiMate® 3000 system software compatibility with the introduction of new drivers for the Waters Empower™ 2 Chromatography Data System (CDS) software. With the Dionex HPLC systems now fully UHPLC compatible, all laboratories can use UHPLC technology for all analytes, and with the new […]

Madison, WI USA — Cellular Dynamics International (CDI) and Promega have entered into a research collaboration with the goal of bringing more relevant and highly predictive toxicity testing to the drug discovery process. Pharmaceutical discovery scientists will now be able to combine bioassays with human cardiomyocytes to improve prediction of unintentional, detrimental side effects that […]

Fully-validated SIRT1 Enhances Drug Discovery Investigation Wakefield, MA, and Worcester, MA — BIOCIUS Life Sciences Inc., developers of the RapidFire® high-throughput mass spectrometry system, and BlueSky Biotech, service provider of discovery biologicals, today announced their collaboration to offer the industry’s only Sirtuin (SIRT, silent mating type information regulation homolog) enzyme preparations fully-validated in a label-free […]

CLC bio, Ion Torrent, and Aarhus University Hospital – Departments of Molecular Medicine and Clinical Genetics, have received a 2 million USD grant from the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation. The goal of the 3-year project is to develop an integrated software and hardware solution for molecular diagnostics that will be able to intelligently use […]

Liège, Belgium — Eurogentec is pleased to announce today that its majority shareholders have entered into an agreement with Kaneka by which the latter will acquire a majority stake in Eurogentec S.A. The Delwart Family remains on the Board of Directors as an important minority shareholder. Through this agreement, Eurogentec becomes the spearhead of Kaneka […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. and CORALVILLE, Iowa — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) have partnered to provide a complete solution for qPCR studies. The combination of the Mx3005P qPCR system and Brilliant qPCR reagents from Agilent with PrimeTime qPCR Assays from IDT provides customers a fully supported solution that is ideal […]