Hamburg, Germany — The Executive Board of Eppendorf AG is reshaping in order to be optimally equipped to meet the future demands of the market. Dr. Dirk Ehlers, Chairman of the Executive Board of the Eppendorf Group, will leave the company by mutual agreement. Detmar Ammermann (Chief Financial Officer) will represent the Executive Board as […]

Cambridge, UK — Horizon Discovery™ Group plc (LSE:HZD) (Horizon), the international life science company supplying research tools to organizations engaged in genomics research and the development of personalized medicines, today announced it has entered into a non-exclusive license agreement with the Broad Institute to access intellectual property related to the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system. Under […]

Hoboken, N.J. -– John Wiley & Sons, Inc., a global provider of knowledge and knowledge-enabled solutions that improve outcomes in research, professional practice, and education, announced today that it has acquired SimBioSys Inc., a provider of scientific software tools that facilitate the drug discovery process. Terms were not disclosed. SimBioSys is a pioneer in the […]

Farmingdale, NY — Epigentek today announced the debut of Pre-Sure(TM), a commercialized kit for quickly validating and qualifying whether antibodies are suitable for use in chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP). Officially known as the Pre-Sure(TM) ChIP Antibody Validation Kit, the innovative product is part of the company’s effort to improve the integrity of ChIP-grade antibodies in the […]

Göttingen, Germany — Western Blot is widely used in research to separate and identify proteins. In this technique a mixture of proteins is separated based on molecular weight through gel electrophoresis. The content of the gel is then transferred to a membrane producing a band for each protein. The protein of interest is then detected […]

Palo Alto, California –- PREMIER Biosoft, a next generation leader in bioinformatics, today announced the release of Enterprise Edition of SimGlycan® v. 5.0, a comprehensive high throughput tool to provide support for glycan quantitation using Thermo Scientific™ aminoxyTMT™ for MS/MS glycan data analysis workflows. Additionally, it can be used for processing of LC-MS data for […]

LOUGHBOROUGH, UK –– A new highly diverse library of screening compounds is designed to maximize efficiency and productivity for researchers in early phase small molecule drug discovery. By delivering exceptionally diverse coverage of the space spanned by all possible drug-like molecules and associated characteristics, the Maybridge HitCreator library provides a greater hit probability than larger, […]

BOULDER, CO –- ViroCyt, LLC, the leader in rapid virus quantification, announced today that Michael Olszowy, PhD, has joined the team as Chief Technology Officer. Dr. Olszowy is a formally trained cellular and molecular immunologist with 16 years of experience developing and commercializing life science technologies. Most recently, he held a number of increasingly senior […]

Gardner, MA.-– Today, New England Peptide, Inc. (NEP) and SISCAPA Assay Technologies, Inc. (SAT) announced a collaboration for the manufacture and sale of Stable Isotope Standard (SIS) peptides for use in SISCAPA® protein quantification assays. Under the terms of the agreement, NEP will manufacture peptide standards suitable for use with SAT’s SISCAPA assays. The peptides […]

MADISON, WISCONSIN — Promega Corporation launches a new assay validated for assessing the viability of cells in three-dimensional (3D) microtissue model systems. CellTiter-Glo® 3D Cell Viability Assay penetrates large 3D microtissue samples to provide more accurate determination of viable cells. The assay has been validated on a range of 3D microtissue model systems, generated using […]