Microsaic Systems plc (AIM: MSYS), the developer of chip-based mass spectrometry instruments, is pleased to announce its collaboration with SCPA GmbH (“SCPA”), and the integration of Microsaic’s 4000 MiD® compact mass spectrometer with SCPA’s universal PrepCon 5 preparative data and control software. The PrepCon 5 software can now be used in conjunction with the 4000 [...]

This announcement includes inside information Oxford Instruments plc, a leading provider of high technology solutions, information and services for industry and research, today announces that it has agreed to sell its Industrial Analysis business to Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (‘HHT’) for a consideration of £80 million on a cash and debt free basis. HHT will acquire [...]

One vector targets two genes, creating a combinatorial knockout to speed up the pace of genomic discoveries  HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- The simultaneous knockout of two genes can help identify functional relationships between genes, which can lead to a better understanding of biological systems and can have direct implications for cancer therapeutic development as well as other [...]

HATFIELD, Pa. -- Genisphere LLC, provider of the 3DNA® drug delivery platform, has signed a collaborative and sponsored research agreement with the University of Maryland, through Dr. Silvia Muro. The overall goal of the partnership is to study the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of various 3DNA designs and formulations after in vivo administration. Additional aims involve targeting diseases [...]

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. -- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced that it has non-exclusively licensed its patented stochastic labelling technology to Roche for multiple commercial applications. BD's patented stochastic labelling technology incorporating molecular indexes (known also as UMIs or molecular barcodes), enables the precise counting of individual biological [...]

CORNING, N.Y. | CORNING INCORPORATED | Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) has expanded its ADME/Tox product offerings to include Corning®TransportoCells™ HEK293-derived ABC transporter membrane vesicles and Corning Supersomes™ Ultra Human Aldehyde Oxidase (AO) enzyme. Building on its large line of Corning Gentest™ in vitro transporter models, TransportoCells provide an innovative cell model for solute carrier (SLC) transporter studies. Corning has now developed ATP-binding cassette [...]

Experience correlative and advanced 3D microscopy OBERKOCHEN/Germany On 24 April 2017 ZEISS opened the new ZEISS Microscopy Customer Center Europe at the Oberkochen site. This is the most comprehensive ZEISS Customer Center including light, electron and X-ray microscopy in a single location: here users from Industry and Academia can try out correlative workflows between the [...]

Today Biognosys announces the re-launch of its blood proteomics portfolio based on targeted proteomics technology. The existing PlasmaDive™ and PlasmaDeepDive™ Assay Panels will now be offered in 3 sizes for 20, 48 or 96 samples and will come with a license for SpectroDive™ software. In addition, stable isotope labeled standard (SIS) reference peptides needed for [...]

Billerica, Massachusetts — MilliporeSigma announced today that the company will sponsor the Startup Program at LabCentral, a biotechnology incubator, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. LabCentral is a private, non-profit organization that provides entrepreneurs and innovative life-sciences startups with lab space and resources to nurture the next generation of biotech companies. It comprises approximately 125 scientists and entrepreneurs. MilliporeSigma’s [...]

TUCSON, Ariz. -- US-based scientific camera designer and manufacturer Photometrics and Netherlands-based microscope system developer Confocal.nl have created a partnership to offer a new sub diffraction-limited confocal microscope system. The Confocal.nl Re-scan Confocal Microscope (RCM) combined with the Photometrics Prime 95B™, the world's first back-illuminated Scientific CMOS camera, provides an ideal solution for super-resolution imaging. The [...]