Appointment of 20-Year Life Science and Drug Discovery Veteran Strengthens Company’s Expertise in Discovery and Research Reagents WALTHAM, Mass.–PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI – News), a leader in Health Sciences and Photonics, today announced that Alan Fletcher, Ph.D., has joined the Company as vice president, business development for PerkinElmer’s Life and Analytical Sciences business. In this […]

CARLSBAD, Calif.–Invitrogen Corporation (NASDAQ:IVGN), a leading provider of essential life sciences technologies for research, production and diagnostics, announced today it has entered into an exclusive agreement with Brendan Technologies (OTCBB:BDTE) to customize its StatLIA® assay analysis software to facilitate the analysis of protein samples. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Brendan’s StatLIA® software […]

Lonza and Bar Harbor BioTechnology, Inc. (BHB) announce that an exclusive sales agreement has been signed between the two companies. Beginning 08 July 2008 Lonza will be the sole global distributor of StellARray™ Gene Expression System products from Bar Harbor BioTechnology. The strategic alliance between the two companies combines the Cell Discovery business of Lonza […]

ROCHESTER, N.Y.–Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that it will implement an average price increase of 5.3% for certain laboratory consumables products it manufactures, such as specialty laboratory plastic ware and liquid handling products. The pricing change is in response to increases in raw material and energy costs that […]

Transgenic Animals to be Developed for Therapeutic and Diagnostic Applications ST. LOUIS and RICHMOND, Calif., July 9 — Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (Nasdaq: SIAL) and Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGMO) today announced a research and license agreement to provide Roche (SWX: ROG) with non-exclusive, worldwide rights for the use of its proprietary zinc finger nuclease (ZFN) technology […]

Partnership to provide expertise and applications support in plant biotechnology ST. LOUIS, July 8 — Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL) and Metahelix Life Sciences today announced a partnership under which Metahelix will assist in developing applications data for Sigma-Aldrich’s plant bioscience product line, and provide expert technological guidance regarding usage. The efforts of this collaboration will occur […]

ST. JOSEPH, Mich., July 8 — GeneGo, Inc., the leading systems biology tools company, announced today that Keck Microarray Center at Yale has become a certified GeneGo Center of Excellence (COE). Yale researchers will have access to GeneGo’s MetaCore, training and advanced support. The W. M. Keck Foundation Biotechnology Resource Laboratory (Keck Lab), one of […]

ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 8 — Accuri Cytometers Inc., a life sciences company developing revolutionary bench-top flow cytometer systems, today announced the completion of a $13 million Series C financing led by Fidelity Biosciences and Flagship Ventures. Current investors including Baird Venture Partners and Arboretum Ventures also participated in the financing. Accuri will use the […]

PENZBERG, Germany–The Cancer Genomics Group at Barts and The London Medical School is researching leukemia with the aquisition of the state-of-the-art Genome Sequencer FLX System paired with the Roche NimbleGen Sequence Capture arrays. Researchers, led by Professor Brian Young, will use the combined technology of 454 Sequencing and NimbleGen Sequence Capture Arrays to uncover the […]

Reagent Kits Will Strengthen Affymetrix’ Diagnostic Product Portfolio SANTA CLARA, Calif. & AUSTIN, Texas–Affymetrix Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX – News) and Asuragen Inc., a leading molecular biology diagnostic company and service provider, today announced an agreement to license, develop and manufacture in vitro transcription (IVT) reagent kits for clinical molecular diagnostic applications. The new IVT reagent kits […]