The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Uses IDBS to Improve Understanding of Childhood Diseases Translational Research Solution Delivers Fast Analysis of Clinical and Genomic Data for Diabetes, Asthma, Autism, and Brain Cancer Studies GUILDFORD, UK and CAMBRIDGE, MA — IDBS, the leading worldwide provider of research data management and analytics solutions to R&D organizations, today announced […]

New equity investment fund to invest in high potential healthcare technology companies; Supports GE’s global Healthymagination initiative, focusing on cost, access and quality. Fairfield, CT, USA – GE (NYSE: GE) announced today the formation of the “GE Healthymagination Fund”, a new equity fund that will make investments in highly promising healthcare technology companies. The fund […]

HONOLULU — At the 59th annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics, Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced its 2010 roadmap for the Infinium whole-genome genotyping platform, offering products capable of analyzing up to five million (5M) variants per sample. As part of this announcement, Illumina outlined an ongoing collaboration with leading researchers to […]

KNOXVILLE, TN and WOBURN, MA — Protein Discovery, Inc. and New Objective, Inc. today announced that they have entered into a strategic co-marketing and development agreement designed to enable and expand key applications for intact protein analysis using mass spectrometry (“top down” proteomics). The companies intend to co-market their respective product lines focused on “sample […]

Latest success for Nottingham biopharma cluster Nottingham, UK – CellAura, the leading producer of fluorescence reagents for drug discovery and life sciences research, today announced a development partnership with Cisbio Bioassays. Under the terms of the agreement, CellAura will provide pharmacologically validated reagents to Cisbio Bioassays that will be applied to Cisbio Bioassays’ Tag-lite™ range […]

GE Healthcare Expands Life Cycle Asset Management Solution with Integration of Asset Disposal Service Chalfont St. Giles, UK – GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announces a strategic collaboration with GoIndustry DoveBid (GoIDB). The partnership enhances GE Healthcare’s asset disposal capabilities and expands its ability to provide critical business intelligence to […]

TORONTO – MDS Inc. (TSX: MDS – News; NYSE: MDZ – News), a leading provider of products and services to the global life sciences markets, today announced that Company shareholders have approved the sale of its MDS Analytical Technologies business, a leading global supplier of drug discovery and life sciences research tools, to Danaher Corporation […]

Cambrex Continuous-Flow Microwave-Assisted Organic Synthesis Technology Wins 2009 Silver Innovation Award EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Cambrex Corporation (NYSE: CBM) announced today that it won the Silver Innovation Award at the 2009 CPhI Event for its Continuous-Flow Microwave-Assisted Organic Synthesis (CFMAOS) technology. The award was accepted by Dr. Jayne E. Muir (Market Research & New Technologies […]

Seeks Researchers to Evaluate New Knockout Rat Models ST. LOUIS — Sigma-Aldrich® (Nasdaq: SIAL – News) today announced the launch of the SAGE(TM) Priority Partners Program, through which the Company plans to build a network of researchers to evaluate the ‘knockout’ rat models it is developing to support pre-clinical research work across a number of […]

Appointment of Two Leading Biotechnology Research Experts – Company Progressing Toward Commercialization of its StemDisc™ and CellAlign™ Technologies CARLSBAD, Calif. — Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. (“Shrink”) (OTCBB:INKN), an innovative nanotechnology company developing products and licensing opportunities in the solar energy production, medical diagnostics and sensors and biotechnology research and development tools businesses, today announced that Bruce […]