DSP to be Applied to Transplant Research of Regulatory T Cell Therapy in Kidney Transplantation SEATTLE -- NanoString Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:NSTG), a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced that the University of Oxford has been selected as the winning recipient of a grant for a GeoMx™ Digital Spatial Profiler (DSP) [...]

Merck today officially opened a state-of-the-art M Lab™ Collaboration Center in Brazil, serving the Latin America region.  SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL New collaboration center to provide support from pre-clinical through full-scale production in a non-GMP environment Hands-on customer access to Merck’s product portfolio, technical expertise São Paulo, Brazil, October 4, 2018 – Merck, the vibrant science and technology company, [...]

Combining high-performance automated microfluidics with easy-to-use software to streamline CNV detection for translational and clinical research SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM) today announced that it has entered into a non-exclusive distribution agreement with DNA Software, Inc. to provide CopyCount-CNV™ software for use with the Fluidigm Biomark™ HD system. Copy number variation (CNV) plays an important role [...]

New database enables the rapid screening and identification of drugs by Direct Analysis in Real Time (DART®) mass spectrometry. SAUGUS, Mass. -- IonSense, Inc. has announced that in collaboration with Cayman Chemical, Inc. they have built and validated a mass spectral database of 1000 compounds for the rapid screening of drugs of abuse using Direct [...]

Do you want better reproducibility and lower variability in your scratch wound assays? AutoScratch automatically creates reproducible scratch wounds in confluent cell monolayers grown in 96- and 24-well microplates, eliminating the variables inherent in manual scratch methods. Operation is simple with pushbutton activation, easily replaceable scratch tips and automated pre-programed cleaning and decontamination routines to [...]

WINOOSKI VT, USA — BioTek introduces the new AutoScratch™Wound Making Tool to facilitate two dimensional (2D) collective cell migration and invasion applications. With a simple pushbutton operation, the AutoScratch automatically creates consistent scratches of equivalent size and area in confluent cell monolayers grown in 24- or 96-well microplate format. This eliminates variability found in manual scratch [...]

California, U.S.A. – We are proud to announce that Greg McGiffney has joined Purolite as Regional Sales Manager for the Western territory in the U.S.A. Greg will work with existing customers and develop new business in Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. He will report to Oliver Baumann, Sales Director – [...]

ArcticZymes has secured its first supply agreement for the utility of Salt Active Nuclease High Quality (SAN HQ) in the cGMP manufacturing of viruses for gene therapy. ArcticZymes’ Novel SAN HQ enzyme offers gene therapy and vaccine customers a more cost effective and technically superior solution for removing contaminating DNA during the manufacturing process of therapeutic viruses. This represents [...]

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. -- Pall Corporation, a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, has progressed a strategic partnership with the University College London (UCL) Biochemical Engineering department with the creation of the UCL-Pall Biotech Centre of Excellence (CoE) for research and training. The UCL-Pall Biotech CoE will be operational from September 2018 through 2024 with a management committee [...]

To celebrate the ground-breaking publication of Riffyn SDE in the journal Scientific Data, Riffyn is launching Open Access which provides free use of the SDE for next-generation design and publishing of experiments Oakland, CA, USA - Riffyn, a global provider of cloud-based experiment design and data analytics software, has launched Riffyn Open Access which provides [...]