One of Europe’s most respected proteomics experts commits to new system Sydney, Australia: Gelcompany has made the first sale of its new High Performance Electrophoresis (HPE) FlatTop Tower system into Switzerland. The buyer is Professor Denis Hochstrasser, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Chairman of the Department of Genetics and Laboratory Medicine, and Director of […]

Acquisition Will Enhance SAGE Labs’ Rodent Husbandry Capabilities; Adds New Models to Product Portfolio and Strategic Location for Animal Distribution ST. LOUIS — Sigma-Aldrich® (Nasdaq:SIAL – News) today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Ace Animals, Inc., a Berks County, PA.-based provider of high quality research rodents to the biomedical industry. Ace Animals […]

Uppsala, Sweden — Olink Genomics AB, An Uppsala-based genomic company, has recruited Fredrik Dahl as company CTO. Dr. Fredrik Dahl will lead the company R&D efforts, with focus on developing the Selector Technology™ and related products. Fredrik Dahl has a track record in inventing, developing, and transferring molecular biology concepts into production scale products. Before […]

CEDRA Corporation, a division of Worldwide Clinical Trials, invests in Gyrolab workstation. Gyros AB, a leader in the automation of miniaturized immunoassays, confirmed today that CEDRA Corporation has become the first North American Clinical Research Organization to incorporate a GyrolabTM xP workstation into their offering for the biopharmaceutical industry. The workstation will be used specifically […]

For screening and characterization of small molecules and fragments in Biacore™ SPR systems GE Healthcare announces the launch of Sensor Chip CM7. Designed for use with GE Healthcare’s Biacore™ systems, Sensor Chip CM7 has the high immobilization capacity required to support fragment-based screening of small molecules. Sensor Chip CM7 offers improved screening data quality as […]

CARY, N.C. — SciQuest, Inc., the global software leader empowering enterprises to realize the potential of strategic procurement, today unveiled a comprehensive methodology that provides leaders with a framework to build and execute a sound business plan to improve existing procurement processes, systems and protocol. This new service, the Procurement Business Assessment (PBA), enables life […]

CUPERTINO, Calif.–NextBio, developer of an innovative platform that enables life science researchers to search, discover, and share knowledge locked within public and proprietary data, today announced that Dr. Russ Altman of the Stanford University Medical School has joined the company’s Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Altman is Professor of Bioengineering, Genetics, and Medicine as well as […]

WaferGen Announces Ghent University as an Early-Access Customer and New Collaborator for SmartChip(TM) Real-Time PCR System UGent to validate biomarker signature for childhood cancer neuroblastoma to aid in detection and therapy; to evaluate various disease states with microRNA; and to explore other applications FREMONT, Calif. — WaferGen Biosystems, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board:WGBS.ob – News), a […]

Supports New Scientific Algorithms and Integration With Latest Version of GOLD Docking Program SAN DIEGO, CA–Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACCL – News), a leading provider of scientific business intelligence software and services, today announced the release of Accelrys Discovery Studio®2.5.5, the most advanced computational chemistry and biology software application for drug discovery available today. This release, powered […]

ST. LOUIS — Sigma-Aldrich® (Nasdaq:SIAL – News) today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Pfizer under which Sigma-Aldrich will sell approximately 100 Pfizer-developed small molecule compounds to life science researchers for target characterization, assay development, screening and in vivo animal model applications. Under the agreement between the two companies, the Pfizer compounds, […]