Ensures validity and reliability of data from cell culture-based research MANASSAS, Va. — ATCC, the premier global biological materials resource and standards organization and the leading supplier of authenticated cells and advanced cell models, today announced the availability of its new PCR-based service to detect mycoplasma contamination in cell cultures. This growing service portfolio is [...]

THOROLD, ON - Diversigen Inc. (Houston, TX) and Norgen Biotek Corp. (Ontario, Canada) today announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership through which industry and academic researchers will benefit from comprehensive end-to-end logistical, sequencing, and analytical solutions to meet the growing needs for microbiome analyses. Together, the two companies will provide a combined [...]

Consortium chooses Genedata Selector as bioinformatics solution for production of industrial polyketides. Munich, Germany Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for R&D, today announced that the MyBio consortium has chosen Genedata Selector® as its genome management and characterization platform to support its highly innovative R&D work in antibiotics. MyBio is an interdisciplinary consortia [...]

PALO ALTO, Calif.--Science Exchange, the leading marketplace for outsourced R&D™, announces a collaboration with LI-COR Biosciences to offer a suite of molecular imaging services based on LI-COR’s pioneer work in near-infrared fluorescence as a detection method. Based in Lincoln, Nebraska, LI-COR Biosciences is a world leader in innovative imaging systems for proteomics and pre-clinical research. With [...]

Sysmex Corporation (HQ: Kobe, Japan; Chairman and CEO: Hisashi Ietsugu) has established a new subsidiary in Egypt and will begin conducting direct sales and services with the aim of expanding its business in the Middle East. In recent years, Egypt has been setting up healthcare infrastructure in line with the country’s economic expansion and population [...]

SOMERSET, N.J. – Catalent Pharma Solutions, the leading global provider of advanced delivery technologies and development solutions for drugs, biologics and consumer health products, and Berkeley Lights, Inc. (BLI), a leader in digital cell biology, today announced Catalent Biologics will adopt BLI’s Beacon®optofluidic platform to accelerate Catalent Biologics’ cell line development workflow. The Beacon platform is [...]

San Diego, CA – Agena Bioscience announced today that it has entered into a commercial partnership agreement with Zhejiang Dian Diagnostics Co., Ltd (“Dian”), one of China’s largest independent medical laboratories provider. The strategic agreement will enable Dian to promote and broadly commercialize Agena’s MassARRAY® System and DNA testing applications and products throughout their network of [...]

ANTWERP, Belgium--International Conference on Prenatal Diagnosis and Therapy (ISPD), Booth #15--PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today announced a collaboration with Women & Infants Hospital (WIH) of Rhode Island, a Care New England hospital, to evaluate an innovative test method using the Vanadis®NIPT system, PerkinElmer’s Vanadis NIPT system is under development [...]

SMRT Sequencing Chosen for Ambitious Effort to Generate Reference Genomes for 26 Maize Lines MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB), the leading provider of high-quality sequencing of genomes, transcriptomes and epigenomes, today announced that a multi-institutional consortium of maize researchers is using the Sequel® System to create a 26-line pangenome reference collection. Led by faculty [...]

Knockout Validation of Antibodies Confirms Specificity and Ensures Reproducible Results MINNEAPOLIS -- Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH), a family of brands with a unique and leading portfolio of antibody-based reagents for life science and clinical research, has been validating an extensive and growing number of antibodies using recent advances in gene editing technology. The specificity and power [...]