LILLE, France–At the 15th Annual Society for Biomolecular Sciences Conference today, PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and their environment, announced a cellular imaging and analysis software relationship with Accelrys, Inc., a leading provider of scientific business intelligence software and services. The collaboration is aimed at providing researchers […]

Bagnols-sur-Cèze and Lille, France – April 27, 2009 – Cisbio Bioassays (www.htrf.com), member of IBA group and global developer of HTRF® (Homogeneous Time-Resolved Fluorescence) technology and services used in assay development and drug screening, today announced the launch of Tag-lite™, its new cellular platform for cell surface receptor study and screening, at the Society for […]

New Proprietary Surface Coatings Create More Physiologically-relevant Cellular Assays WOBURN, Mas.–SRU Biosystems today announced the expansion of its line of plate-based BIND® Biosensors. SRU Biosystems’ plate-based BIND® Biosensor line now includes microplates with the following surfaces: unmodified titanium oxide, surfaces for biochemical applications, streptavidin, and a new line of two proprietary extracellular matrix coatings for […]

LILLE, France–At the 15th Annual Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) Conference , PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced the introduction of several new technologies in automation and detection, cellular imaging and analysis, and drug discovery and research reagents for advancing drug discovery and […]

Full Suite of Advanced Label-free Readers Addresses the Trend of Increased Label-free Technology Usage Throughout Academia and Industry WOBURN, Mass.–SRU Biosystems today announced the expansion of its family of bench top BIND® Readers, enabling researchers in academia and government institutions, as well as biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, access to the benefits of SRU’s label-free BIND® […]

Chemical Structure Similarity and Substructure-Enabled Text Mining Available in I2E Platform New Capability on Show at Bio-IT World ‘09, Boston, April 27-29 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo ‘09 Linguamatics Booth no. 315 ChemAxon Booth no. 312 CAMBRIDGE, UK–Linguamatics, a leader in enterprise text mining for the life science and other markets, today announced a partnership […]

Novus Biologicals, a Colorado based company supplying research reagents to the scientific community is opening its first international office in Cambridge, UK. The company is negotiating space in Cambridge Science Park, and has started the search for a divisional manager to head up the operation. Novus has worked with East of England International, a UK […]

SAN DIEGO–SEQUENOM, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM) today announced that as a result of the continuing weak outlook in 2009 for capital equipment sales, particularly in the USA, the company has implemented cost cutting initiatives in the Genetic Analysis (GA) business to ensure the unit remains financially strong and approaches cash flow breakeven. These measures are expected […]

Aims to Characterize Substrate Recognition Mechanism and Screen for Potential Drug Compounds that Inhibit Amyloid Build-up Montara, California, April 22, 2009 – Molecular Sensing, Inc. (MSI) today announced that it has entered into a Life Science Early Access Program (LEAP) research agreement with VIB to use MSI’s proprietary Back-Scattering Interferometry (BSI) technology to study ligand […]

Affymetrix® Microarray Technologies Help Scientists Understand the Genetic Risk of Heart Attacks SANTA CLARA, Calif.–Affymetrix, Inc. (Nasdaq:AFFX) today announced that its GeneChip® genotyping technology played a part in the recently announced discoveries of six new genes associated with susceptibility to heart attacks. Scientists from the University of Lübeck, Germany, and Massachusetts General Hospital, USA together […]