CARLSBAD, Calif. & SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.–Invitrogen Corporation (NASDAQ:IVGN), a provider of essential life science technologies for research, production and diagnostics, announced today its partnership with BayBio, a leading voice for the life sciences industry in Northern California. “BayBio is a vital voice for California’s life sciences industry and is an effective leader in the […]

Accelrys Delivers Improved Efficiencies and Cost Reductions to Becton Dickinson Customers Through a New OEM Agreement Tuesday November 11, 6:30 am ET SAN DIEGO–Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACCL – News), a leading provider of scientific business intelligence software and services and Becton Dickinson, a leading global medical technology company, have entered into an agreement under which Becton-Dickinson […]

WEST CHESTER, PA, November 11, 2008 – VWR International, LLC, a leading global laboratory supply company, has signed a distribution agreement with Corning Incorporated, effective January 2009. This agreement will significantly extend VWR’s product offerings as well as enhance VWR’s ability to provide customers with the product choices they need to support their critical research […]

Affymetrix, Inc. (Nasdaq:AFFX) today announced the DMET™ Plus Premier Pack, the most comprehensive method for standardizing drug metabolism studies. The DMET (Drug Metabolism Enzymes and Transporters) Plus Panel features the most biologically relevant content identified by key opinion leaders from industry and academia in a cost-effective format. The DMET Plus Panel contains markers in all […]

PENZBERG, Germany–The xCELLigence System from Roche Applied Science enables researchers to monitor and quantitatively assess cell attachment and spreading in real-time. The technique is non-invasive and does neither require lab- and cost-intensive cell labeling nor cell lysis or fixation. With this quick and economical method, the user can monitor the effect of matrix proteins on […]

Billerica, Massachusetts—November 11, 2008— Millipore has announced the availability of 11 new flow cytometry kits for chemokine receptor quantification. The FlowCellect™ Chemokine Receptor Surface Expression Quantification Kits are the first flow cytometry kits or their kind. They provide rapid, sensitive assessments in various cell types. Such assessments create a new standard in cell biology research, […]

Guildford, UK, 11 November 2008 – IDBS is proud to announce that preclinical contract research organization (CRO) PharmaLegacy Laboratories (Shanghai, China) has selected the E-WorkBook Suite to increase its R&D productivity and deliver significant competitive advantage to clients. Providing speciality pharmacology services in oncology, bone, inflammation and immune diseases, PharmaLegacy sought a 21 CFR Part […]

The BTX Model ECM830 Electroporation Generator was used to transfect in vivo tissues to show active immunization for the treatment of various autoimmune disorders. This novel technique was found to be a cost-effective and potentially prophylactic method for the treatment of autoimmune disorders. The wide range of voltages, pulse lengths and multiple pulsing capability of […]

GenomeQuest, Inc., the leader in sequence informatics, today announced researchers at the University of California, Davis used its recently announced On-Demand Informatics Solution to process and analyze next-generation sequencing data, successfully leading to identification of a new RNA virus from a declining Syrah grapevine cultivar. The virus-hunting project was led by UC Davis researchers from […]

Institute Accelerates Reconstruction of Key Protein Complexes Using MATLAB and Parallel Computing Toolbox NATICK, Mass.–The MathWorks today announced that the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry is using MATLAB, Parallel Computing Toolbox, MATLAB Distributed Computing Server, and other MathWorks tools to accelerate its workflow and drastically reduce research and development time. Researchers at the department of […]