Company Announcements

Sigma-Aldrich announced a corporate partnership with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory Advanced Training Center.

Sigma-Aldrich will exclusively distribute Highlands Stable Isotope’s set of stable isotope–labeled synthetic reagents through its ISOTEC product lines.

International Stem Cell’s Lifeline Cell Technology subsidiary named Veritas as its Japanese distributor.

TriLink BioTechnologies named Cedarlane as a distributor for Canada and the northern US.

Novus Biologicals and SDIX entered into an exclusive partnership to create and disseminate premade Genomic Antibody Technology polyclonal antibodies.

Integrated DNA Technologies partnered with Glycon Partners for sales and support in Australia.

Under a collaboration and research licensing agreement, Stemgent will offer certain research reagents developed or discovered by Pfizer for research applications.

In April, Molecular Transfer, a developer of transfection and transformation reagents, acquired GlobalStem.

Product Introductions

Thermo Fisher Scientific released the Thermo Scientific Pierce Agarose ChIP Kit.

Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced the Thermo Scientific Pierce In Vitro Glycoprotein kit, a protein expression system based on human cell lysates that improves post-translational modification for proteins.

Thermo Fisher Scientific released three new biological assessment cartridges for the Thermo Scientific Cellomics ToxInsight in vitro toxicology platform.

SwitchGear Genomics launched the GoClone miRNA target sets, which utilize luciferase reporter vectors to accurately quantify human 3’ UTR activity.

PerkinElmer introduced nine AlphaScreen SureFire and 19 AlphaLISA “No-Wash” immunoassay kits.

PerkinElmer released the new LANCE Ultra cAMP Detection Kit for screening GPCRs for therapeutic research.

Sigma-Aldrich introduced a p53 knockout rat model for carcinogenicity screening.

Sigma-Aldrich released the CompoZr Targeted Integration Kit, AAVS1 for controlled transgene expression of any gene in any human cell line.

NanoString Technologies launched the nCounter miRNA Expression Assay Kits for multiplexed direct digital detection and counting of miRNAs at single-base resolution without the need for PCR amplification.

EMD Chemicals introduced the StemSelect Small Molecule Regulators 384-Well Library I.

Transposagen Biopharmaceuticals released 170 genetically modified rats and related biomaterials, including a TP53 knockout rat model.