Evaluating iCell Cardiomyocytes on the xCELLigence System Madison, Wisc. – Cellular Dynamics International (CDI) announced today their partnership with ACEA Biosciences to bring early and accurate prediction of potential cardiotoxic side effects to the drug discovery process. The partnership combines CDI’s induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived heart cells, iCell™ Cardiomyocytes, with the xCELLigence™ RTCA System. […]

Linguamatics joins Accelrys ISV program Cambridge, UK – Linguamatics, a leader in enterprise text mining, today announced a partnership agreement with Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL), the leading scientific informatics software and services company, which sees the integration of I2E, Linguamatics’ agile, natural language processing (NLP) based text mining technology with Pipeline Pilot™, Accelrys’ scientific informatics […]

Washington, D.C. and London, UK – Diaceutics Limited (www.diaceutics.com) and London Genetics Limited, an expert in the use of pharmacogenetics in clinical drug discovery and development, today announce a strategic partnership to develop software decision tools that will provide biopharmaceutical companies with rapid and extensive access to the world’s leading academic biomarker research groups. The […]

Reference is made to the stock exchange notification dated 28 May 2010 regarding the merger between NorDiag ASA (“NorDiag”) and its wholly owned subsidiaryGenpoint AS. The merger was motivated by cost synergies. The completion of the merger has now been registered with the Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises. The merger is carried out with accounting […]

Boynton Beach, Florida – Quantachrome Instruments today announced it has completed the acquisition of certain assets of Wenman Scientific, a privately held company that provides capillary flow porometers for pore size measurements. Financial details were not disclosed. Wenman Scientific’s president, Richard Wenman, will immediately join Quantachrome Instruments in the capacity of Manager, Porometer Products. The […]

St. Louis, MO. – Sigma® Life Science, a division of Sigma-Aldrich® Corporation and a leading European manufacturer of oligonucleotides, has signed a three-year contract with Research Councils UK (RCUK) Shared Services Centre Limited to be a prefered supplier for synthetic oligonucleotides. With more than 20 years of experience in oligonucleotide synthesis, Sigma Life Science offers […]

Oxford, UK. Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd is pleased to announce a new agreement to strengthen the Company’s collaboration with the University of Oxford. The Company will fund research in the laboratories of Professor Hagan Bayley and will partner exclusively with the University to develop revolutionary products for molecular analysis from these new discoveries. Research projects […]

Exsor to distribute NanoInk’s nanofabrication equipment and the NanoProfessor Nanoscience Education Program CHICAGO, Ill. – NanoInk, Inc.®, a global leader in nanotechnology, announced today that it has reached an agreement with Exsor Com. e Imp. de Equipamentos de Precisão Ltda. to serve as NanoInk’s exclusive distributor in Brazil for the company’s desktop nanofabrication equipment including […]

New Global Licensing Program Opens Access to Innovative Technologies CARLSBAD, Calif. – Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:LIFE) today announced that it has finalized cell line license agreements with a number of companies to provide rights to Life Technologies’ proprietary CHO (Chinese hamster ovary) cell lines for the production of recombinant proteins used as therapeutic agents and […]

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., and COLLEGE STATION, Texas – ITT Corporation (NYSE:ITT) and O.I. Corporation (NASDAQ:OICO) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for ITT to acquire all outstanding shares of O.I. Corporation, “OI”, for approximately $29 million. OI’s Board of Directors has unanimously approved the transaction, which is subject to approval from […]