Company Announcements

Promethera Biosciences and EMD Millipore announced in March a collaboration to develop an improved ready-to-use, microfluidic perfusion liver assay.

In Vitro ADMET Laboratories and Taconic signed an agreement to commercialize cryopreserved hepatocytes.

NMI Technology Transfer will develop Chromobody-expressing cell types to create novel cell lines for distribution and comarketing by ChromoTek. ChromoTek’s Chromobodies are antibodies fused to fluorescent proteins.

Genetic Technologies executed a settlement agreement with Promega, granting Promega rights to its Intron Sequence Analysis and Genomic Mapping patents.

In March, Abcam appointed Lady Louise Patten to its Board. She is a director for Intu Properties.

Corning extended its collaboration with ATCC to codevelop new applications for their existing products.

In April, Echelon Biosciences acquired California Peptide Research.

Product Introductions

GE Healthcare Life Sciences introduced in March the Xuri MSC Medium and Attachment Solution for serum-free and xeno-free expansion of human mesenchymal stem cells.

QIAGEN announced new capabilities for its GeneGlobe Genes & Pathways biological-assays web portal, integrating biological knowledge through its Ingenuity Target Explorer bioinformatics application.

Hepregen launched a HepatoPac kit designed for use in evaluating metabolic turnover of chemicals in the human liver and a kit specifically for toxicology applications.

Enzo Life Sciences introduced the Amp’d ELISA Signal Amplification Kit, which utilizes a replacement for traditional alkaline phosphatase substrates.

Tempo Bioscience launched a central nervous system product line of human cell types. The products are available with biosensors, which function as reporters of calcium fluctuations in the mitochondria or cytoplasm.

Ibidi introduced Fuse-It reagents, which use membrane-fusion technology for transferring various molecules and particles into living cells.

CANDOR Bioscience introduced the ReadyTector Solution kit for one-step immunodetection on Western blot membranes.

Chromotek introduced the F2H (Fluorescence Two-Hybrid) Kit for protein-protein interaction analysis in live mammalian cells.

Thermo Fisher Scientific released the Thermo Scientific Nunclon Sphera cell-culture surface for the formation of spheroids in suspension.

In April, Molecular Devices launched the EarlyTox Cell Integrity Kit, a fluorescence-based assay for detecting changes in cell viability based on cell integrity.