ZNA technology provides for increased affinity for nucleic acids Strasbourg, France — Polyplus-transfection SA, a company developing innovative solutions for molecular and cellular biology, announced today that metabion GmbH, a company specialized in custom synthesis of biopolymers, has signed a non-exclusive agreement to manufacture and commercialize Polyplus-transfection’s Zip Nucleic Acid (ZNA (TM)) oligonucleotides, a new […]

Sigma(R) Life Science to Leverage its Novel, Award-Winning Innovation, Technology and Products to Help Understand Life ST. LOUIS — Sigma-Aldrich® (NASDAQ:SIAL – News) today unveiled its new Sigma® Life Science brand and website platform, designed to elevate the Company’s current focus on biology and provide a single destination where researchers can access deep biological knowledge […]

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.–ArtusLabs, Inc. (www.artuslabs.com), the leader in scientifically-aware data management systems, today announced that Icagen, Inc. (www.icagen.com), a leading biopharmaceutical company, has selected ArtusLabs’ Ensemble Electronic Lab Notebook™ (E2LN™) platform for use with its Chemistry organization. “The Ensemble ELN is accessible via a Web browser and may provide opportunities for integration with other […]

Efforts Will Help Reunite Haitian Children With Families CARLSBAD, Calif.–The Life Technologies Foundation, a non-profit arm of Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:LIFE – News) and DNA – PROKIDS today announced that DNA samples will be collected in Haiti from parents who have reported their children missing in hopes of reconciling families and combating the trafficking of […]

Matthews, North Carolina — CEM Corporation, a leading global provider of microwave laboratory instrumentation, is pleased to announce the formation of a new subsidiary headquartered in Tokyo with an additional office in Osaka, Japan. CEM Japan will be responsible for all sales, marketing, technical support and service of the Company’s entire line of laboratory instrumentation […]

Matthews, North Carolina — CEM Corporation, a leading global provider of microwave laboratory instrumentation, is pleased to announce the introduction of a new platform for pressurized microwave digestion that can process a typical 0.5g sample of organic material in 10 minutes or less, including cool down, in a sequential format that allows individual method programming […]

Assay allows for detection of expanded alleles and full mutations AUSTIN, Texas–Asuragen, Inc. announced today the results of a collaborative study with scientists at the M.I.N.D. Institute at the University of California Davis evaluating a new PCR technology that reproducibly reports mutations associated with Fragile X syndrome (FXS). The study, titled “A novel FMR1 Method […]

New RNAGEM™ Tissue DNA Extraction Kits Produce Consistent, Linear, 100% Reproducible Results Solana Beach, Calif., & Hamilton, New Zealand — ZyGEM Corp. Ltd., a provider of innovative enzyme-based products for DNA and RNA extraction and other life sciences applications, today announced the launch of its new RNAGEM™ Tissue RNA extraction kits. This product represents a […]

Routine Testing of Seafood to Verify Species and Labeling ORLANDO, Fla.–Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A – News) today announced a system that speeds and simplifies the use of DNA to identify fish species in food products, making this highly-accurate technique feasible for routine verification of seafood labeling and detecting species substitutions. The Agilent Fish Species Identification […]

febit’s powerful biomarker discovery platform further strengthened with validated content identified with the Applied Biosystems SOLiD deep sequencing instrument LEXINGTON, Mass. (USA), and HEIDELBERG, Germany — febit today announced that an updated version of the company’s Geniom Biochip containing 58 new discovered sequences in addition to all of the Homo sapiens microRNAs (miRNA) from miRBase […]