December 22, 2015
BANGALORE - Pandorum Technologies Pvt. Ltd., the Bangalore-based biotechnology startup working on tissue engineering, announced that it has developed artificial tissue that performs the functions of the human liver. These 3D printed living tissues enable affordable medical research with reduced animal and human trials, and will eventually lead to full scale transplantable organs. “This is [...]
MASS SPEC LAB ANNOUNCES NEW ORANGE COUNTY LAB OFFERING MASS SPECTROMETRY SOLUTIONS
December 22, 2015
IRVINE, CALIF. – Mass Spec Lab, a privately-owned, leading-edge analytical business, announced the official company launch and new website. Mass Spec Lab was conceived to address difficult analytical and regulatory challenges in the biomedical device, pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals industries by applying state-of-the-art mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS and GC/MS/MS) operated by seasoned post-doctorate level analytical scientists. [...]
WiLAN Subsidiary Enters Into Settlement Agreement With Keyence
December 21, 2015
OTTAWA, CANADA - WiLAN announced that the Company's subsidiary, Advanced Microscopy, Inc., has entered into a settlement agreement with Keyence Corporation of America. The agreement resolves litigation pending in the District of Delaware. The consideration to be paid to WiLAN and all other terms of the agreement are confidential. About WiLAN WiLAN is one of [...]
Seno Medical Instruments Announces Pilot Study Data of Imagio® Breast Imaging System at RSNA 2015
December 21, 2015
SAN ANTONIO -- Seno Medical Instruments, Inc., the company pioneering the development of an opto-acoustic (OA) device as a new tool to improve the process of diagnosing breast cancer, announced results of its Pilot Study portion of the PIONEER pivotal study. The pilot study demonstrated the potential of the company's Imagio breast imaging system to [...]
PerkinElmer and EpiCypher to Offer Innovative Epigenetics Solutions
December 21, 2015
PerkinElmer, Inc. and EpiCypher are collaborating to offer AlphaLISA® assay kits which measure the binding of the BRD4 and P300 bromodomains to various acetylated histone H2A, H3, or H4 peptides. These kits are designed to help biopharmaceutical and academic researchers perform small molecule drug discovery analysis on epigenetic reader proteins. Bromodomain and Extra-Terminal motif (BET) [...]
December 21, 2015
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Emulate Inc. announced today that it has developed a new living human Lung-Chip system that accurately recreates the unique structure and function of the human lung small airways within microengineered chips - as reported today in the journal Nature Methods. The results demonstrate that the Small Airway Lung-Chip can model complex tissue functions [...]
December 21, 2015
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Emulate Inc. today announced an expanded research collaboration with Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, to deploy Emulate’s Organ-Chips across certain Merck discovery programs to improve models of human inflammatory diseases and better predict the potential human response of therapeutic candidates. The research will focus on using Emulate’s [...]
-Quality Control for portable, rapid, low-cost DNA sequencing
December 21, 2015
Scientists at TGAC have been putting Oxford Nanopore's MinION sequencer through its paces with an open-source, sequence alignment-based genome analysis tool called 'NanoOK'. NanoOK is the first open-source tool that provides comprehensive alignment-based quality control and error profile analysis for the MinION platform. NanoOK's main output is a detailed PDF report featuring graphs and tables [...]
GENEWIZ Acquires the Genomic Services Business of Beckman Coulter
December 21, 2015
South Plainfield, NJ –– Leading global genomics service provider, GENEWIZ, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the genomic services business of Beckman Coulter, which delivers expert genomics sequencing solutions to healthcare businesses, as well as academic and government institutions worldwide (GS). “The genomic services business of Beckman Coulter is an ideal fit with GENEWIZ’s [...]
New Persephone Technology to Be Demonstrated at Genome Conference
December 21, 2015
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- Ceres, Inc. (NASDAQ: CERE), an agricultural biotechnology company, today announced that its genomics team will demonstrate new features of its Persephone software technology at the upcoming International Plant and Animal Genome Conference in San Diego, Calif. Persephone makes it possible for researchers to organize, store, access and explore a diverse array [...]
