New York, NY, – New York Genome Center (NYGC) today announced the formal commencement of their collaborative relationship with Illumina, initiated in November 2011, when Illumina was selected as the Center’s lead sequencing technology provider. As a next step in this collaboration, the Center will begin taking delivery of Illumina HiSeq 2000 and 2500 sequencing […]

Stockholm, Sweden and Chalfont St Giles, UK – Karolinska University Hospital Sweden and GE Healthcare Life Sciences today announced a joint research collaboration to drive advances in technologies and workflows for use in the rapidly emerging field of cell therapy. The three year collaboration will combine Karolinska University Hospital’s world-class clinical expertise in cell therapy […]

ALAMEDA, Calif.– BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT: BTX) today announced that its subsidiary LifeMap Sciences, Inc. has entered into a license agreement with Yeda Research and Development Company Ltd, the technology transfer arm of the Weizmann Institute of Science, to market a new database called MalaCards. A database of human diseases that is based on the […]

WEST BOYLSTON, Mass., and SOUTHBRIDGE, Mass.,— Enginasion and TransCytos announced today that their collaboration has resulted in a prototype ‘transfection’ technology that is designed to have a dramatic and positive impact on the drug-research industry. Enginasion’s product development partner, TransCytos, is developing a novel transfection instrument, Cytofector R1™, based on a breakthrough, patent-pending hydrodynamic transfection […]

INDIANAPOLIS,– Prosolia, Inc. and AB SCIEX announced today that they have entered into a license agreement for technologies developed by Dr. Gary Van Berkel and his colleagues of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Dr. Van Berkel is an innovator in the field of mass spectrometry and is the recipient of several awards for his contributions […]

CINCINNATI, OH and HANNOVER, GERMANY and BOTHELL, WA, — Marina Biotech, Inc. (OTCQX: MRNA), a leading nucleic acid-based drug discovery and development company, and Girindus Group today announced that they have entered into a strategic alliance where Girindus will have exclusive rights to develop, supply and commercialize certain oligonucleotide constructs using Marina’s Conformationally Restricted Nucleotide […]

SAN DIEGO, — Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL), a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, today announced a strategic content sourcing collaboration with the Intellectual Property & Science division of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. Further expanding Accelrys’ dynamic partner network, the agreement accelerates innovation, speeds […]

ALAMEDA, Calif.– BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT: BTX) and its subsidiary LifeMap Sciences, Inc. today announced that they have completed the acquisition of XenneX, Inc. through a merger of XenneX into LifeMap Sciences. The definitive merger agreement was previously announced on April 20, 2012. LifeMap Sciences now holds the exclusive, worldwide licenses to market GeneCards® and […]

Shoreview, MN- TSI, a worldwide leader in precision measurement instrumentation, announces the acquisition of the laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) technology and product line from Photon Machines Corporation (Redmond, WA). Photon Machines’ LIBS systems and technology conduct elemental analysis of materials including solids, liquids, gases, utilizing configurable laser and spectrometer instrumentation. This product line is able […]