Leading Informatics Platform Enhanced to Support Larger Numbers of Scientists, Streamline Workflows, Improve Collaboration, and Reduce Associated Operating Costs SAN DIEGO, CA–Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACCL – News), a leading scientific informatics software and services company, today announced the release of Accelrys Pipeline Pilot™ 8.0. This latest release of Accelrys’ scientific informatics platform has been further developed […]

OCEANSIDE, Calif.–International Stem Cell Corporation (OTCBB:ISCO), www.intlstemcell.com, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement dated May 4, 2010 (‘the Agreement”) with Socius CG II, Ltd. (“Socius”), pursuant to which Socius has committed to purchase a single tranche of up to $10 million in non-convertible Series F Preferred Stock (the “Preferred Stock”) from ISCO. […]

NewswireToday – /newswire/ – Austin, TX, United States, 05/05/2010 – Bioo Scientific launched the MaxSignal® Trifluralin ELISA kit to analyze meat and fish samples for trifluralin contamination. Bioo Scientific today announced the availability of its MaxSignal® Trifluralin ELISA kit. This kit is the only commercially available ELISA which rapidly and affordably screens meat and fish […]

SAN DIEGO — Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ:SQNM) today announced that on May 3, 2010, following a hearing, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California entered an order approving the stipulation of settlement reached in the class action securities lawsuits consolidated under the caption In re Sequenom, Inc. Securities Litigation, Master File No. 3:09-cv-00921 […]

Fluidigm Corporation has announced the release of a new protocol for the Access Array™ System that enables sequencing of amplicon libraries using GS FLX Titanium Series reagents on the 454 GS FLX sequencing system. The Access Array integrated fluidic circuit (IFC) automatically generates emPCR-ready libraries by simultaneously combining 48 samples and 48 primer sets to […]

FREMONT, Calif. — — WaferGen Biosystems, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board:WGBS.ob – News), a leading developer of state-of-the-art genetic analysis systems, today announced that the University of Texas, Health Science Center at Houston, is the 10th early-access customer of the SmartChip Real-Time PCR System. The SmartChip System is designed to advance genome research results through the […]

EL SEGUNDO, CA, AND COPENHAGEN, DK, 5 May 2010 – BioDiscovery, Inc., a leader in integrated software solutions for microarray-based research, and Exiqon A/S, a leader in microRNA analysis products and services, announced today an OEM Agreement incorporating BioDiscovery’s array analysis and visualization software with Exiqon’s arrays. The agreement allows Exiqon to package BioDiscovery’s array […]

Extends VisEn’s Leading Fluorescence Molecular Imaging Agent Portfolio to Enable Expanded Imaging Applications in Research and Drug Development BEDFORD, Mass. — VisEn Medical Inc., a leader in fluorescence imaging from research through medicine, announced today the commercial launch of its new VivoTag® 645 red fluorescent dye for optimized labeling of biomolecules in a broad range […]

OTTAWA — — DNA Genotek, a leading provider of products for biological sample collection, stabilization and preparation, today announced that The Anthony Nolan Trust, the UK’s largest bone marrow donor registry, has selected Oragene DNA for a pilot project aimed at increasing donor recruitment. Bone marrow donor registries, also known as HLA registries, use HLA […]

Sunnyvale, CA -– In a slow economy, pharmaceutical and biotech companies facing increasing pressure to reduce costs, risk, and time-to-market, and maximize efficiencies have converged on a sound business strategy: outsource non-core functions such as peptide manufacturing. To help meet rising outsourcing demands and the life sciences industry’s quality concerns, American Peptide Company, a leading […]