Flowerplate Cells will love it(pressebox) Aachen, 09.10.2008 – m2p-labs GmbH launches it’s new micro bioreactor platform, the Flowerplate, at the Biotechnica fair in Hannover (7.-9. October 2008). With this development m2plabs sets a new standard in micro bioreactors. The Flowerplate was selected from a multitude of different microreactor geometries in an intensive research project in […]

GAITHERSBURG, Md. & HYDERABAD, India–Ocimum Biosolutions has announced issuance of United States Patent No. 7,428,554 which covers the company’s proprietary system and method for determining matching patterns within gene expression data and US Patent No. 7426441, which covers methods for determining renal toxins. The US Patent No. 7,428,554 covers a method for determining matching patterns […]

Swedish Start-up Offers Label-free Drug Screening Services to European Drug Discovery Researchers CORNING, N.Y., October 15, 2008 — Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) today announced that Actar AB, a part of the Karolinska Institutet innovations system, confirmed their ability to provide label-free drug screening services via the Corning® Epic® System. Actar is the first and only company […]

MUKILTEO, Wash., Oct. 15, 2008 — CombiMatrix Corporation (NasdaqGM:CBMX – News) announced today that microRNA expert Dr. Muneesh Tewari has joined the Scientific Advisory Board of CombiMatrix. Dr. Tewari is in the Human Biology division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. “I am delighted to have Dr. Tewari on our Scientific Advisory Board,’ said […]

InforSense Ltd., the leading provider of next generation business and scientific intelligence tools, today announced it has successfully completed a pilot project at world leading pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to enable virtual drug discovery through virtual outsourcing of data analysis via secure Grid technology. The project is sponsored by SIMDAT — a program funded by […]

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 15 — Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL), a leading life science company and member of The RNAi Consortium (TRC), proudly welcomes the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to the RNAi Partnership Program (https://sigma-aldrich.com/rpp). The RNAi Partnership Program provides new members with access to cutting-edge products in Sigma-Aldrich’s functional genomics portfolio, including shRNA libraries developed by […]

Symyx Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMMX) today announced the release of version 1.0 of Symyx Chemistry Extensions for KNIME. The Symyx Chemistry Extensions enhance KNIME’s open-source, no-fee data pipelining software with Symyx’s high-value, industry-leading chemistry capabilities. This enables R&D organizations to deliver low-cost, agile chemistry extensions and services supporting scientific workflows. “Our chemistry users have said […]

Collaboration closes the loop from image acquisition to image analysis Munich, Germany – October 15, 2008 – Definiens, the number one Enterprise Image Intelligence™ company, and Hamamatsu, a world-leading manufacturer of devices for the generation and measurement of infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light, today signed a partner agreement for the European market. Under the terms […]

Ludesi Corporation, developer of the award-winning Ludesi Image Analysis Service and the Ludesi REDFIN software for two-dimensional electrophoresis gels, today announced that researchers at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, National Eye Institute at National Institutes of Health in Bethesda Maryland, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been able to discover […]

Cardiff, UK, 14 October 2008 – Q Chip Ltd, a leading developer of microencapsulation solutions, has officially opened its new corporate headquarters and R&D facility in Cardiff. The expansion into new headquarters marks a significant step in the steady expansion Q Chip has experienced since its foundation. In summer 2007 Q Chip successfully completed a […]