December 8, 2015
BALTIMORE, MD – University of Maryland (UM) Ventures and Pataigin, LLC, announced today that the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) has granted Pataigin worldwide, exclusive licensing rights to UMB patents and technology to develop a method to quickly and accurately identify dangerous pathogens. Robert Ernst, Ph.D., associate professor of microbial pathogenesis at University of Maryland [...]
KKR partners with LGC to facilitate future expansion and growth
December 8, 2015
KKR announced that it has agreed to acquire LGC, the international life sciences measurement and testing company, from its current owners Bridgepoint, for an undisclosed amount. KKR will partner with LGC to provide capital and operational support to facilitate future growth. LGC provides a range of measurement products and services which underpin the safety, health [...]
Implant Sciences Announces First Shipment of ETD Systems for U.S. Airport Deployment
December 8, 2015
WILMINGTON, Mass. -- Implant Sciences Corporation (OTCQB:IMSC), a leading manufacturer of explosives trace detection (ETD) solutions for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) applications, reported that the Company has delivered its first shipment of QS-B220 desktop Explosives Trace Detectors (ETDs) to airports across the United States. These units are a part of the 1,170 unit order [...]
Arcadia Biosciences and BGI to Create Global Non-GM Genetic Resource for Rice
December 8, 2015
DAVIS, Calif. and SHENZHEN, China – Arcadia Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq:RKDA), an agricultural technology company, and BGI, the world’s largest genomics organization, announced a collaboration to create an extensive rice genetic resource library to advance food crop research and development. Under the agreement, BGI and Arcadia will combine their resources and capabilities to create, sequence and [...]
December 8, 2015
Asynt has announced the ReactoMate "Datum" - a new compact benchtop Controlled Lab Reactor (CLR) system that offers the flexibility to accommodate reaction vessels from 100ml to 5 litres. Reaction vessels from Asynt, and its partner AG!, can be easily exchanged on the ReactoMate "Datum" allowing chemists to quickly change between reactor vessel sizes thereby [...]
High Efficiency Gene Expression with Pre-packaged Adenovirus
December 8, 2015
AMSBIO has launched a comprehensive collection of pre-packaged human full-length cDNA ORF and miRNA adenoviruses. Featuring over 1,240 pre-packaged human miRNA precursor adenoviruses and 30,000 pre-packaged human full-length cDNA ORF adenoviruses the collection will considerably enhance high throughput drug discovery, improve functional genomic studies, and make life science research more cost-effective and efficient. Recombinant adenoviruses [...]
Instantly see the true nature with HyVolution for confocal microscopy
December 8, 2015
Mannheim, Germany. Leica Microsystems launches the HyVolution true confocal super-resolution technology for the Leica TCS SP8 confocal microscope platform, extending its imaging portfolio in the sub-diffraction regime. HyVolution allows researchers to achieve everything at the same time: They can resolve structures down to 140 nm with multiple colors, with high imaging speed, and high signal-to-noise [...]
Extended offering of prepacked ReadyToProcess chromatography columns
December 8, 2015
ReadyToProcess high-performance bioprocessing columns are supplied prepacked and ready for use. With a robust column design and validated packing methods, the columns exhibit high lot-to-lot consistency. ReadyToProcess columns are available with a range of BioProcess media (resins) in four different sizes. To strengthen the offering of prepacked ReadyToProcess columns for purification of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs), [...]
Scaling Up Screening in 96- & 384-Well Microplates
December 8, 2015
INTEGRA reports on how researchers at the Health Innovation Research Institute at RMIT University (Bundoora, Australia) are using VIAFLO II electronic pipettes in conjunction with a VIAFLO ASSIST to scale-up their screening of venoms and small compounds. The Health Innovations Research Institute (HIRi) is an RMIT University initiative that seeks to address key health issues [...]
Soft x-ray and extreme ultraviolet monochromator
December 8, 2015
McPherson’s grazing incidence wavelength dispersive optical spectrometer allows rapid analysis of spectral light in the ~1 to 300nm wavelength region (4 to 1200 eV.) Beside high-harmonic laser generation experiments, the Model 248/310 is also useful for measuring ion- or discharge light sources and astrophysics detector calibration. At FLASH, the Free Electron Laser experiment at DESY [...]
