Bioo Scientific Launches Completely Gel-Free or Low Input Small RNA Library Prep Kit
November 25, 2015
Austin, TX -- Bioo Scientific recently launched the NEXTflex™ Small RNA-Seq Kit v3, which improves small RNA analysis by making the library prep protocol completely gel-free or allowing for low-input small RNA library preparation. This kit also reduces the biases associated with small RNA sequencing by using patent pending randomized adapter technology, resulting in small [...]
Oxford Instruments plc Disposal of Austin Scientific (“Austin”)
November 24, 2015
Oxford Instruments plc, a leading provider of high technology tools and systems for industry and research, today announces that it has completed the disposal of its non-core Austin business for a cash consideration of $1.3 million. In the six months to September 2015 Austin had revenues of £1.7 million and made an operating loss of [...]
InSphero Promotes Melanie Aregger to Chief Operating Officer
November 24, 2015
Schlieren, Switzerland - InSphero AG, the leading supplier of easy-to-use solutions for production, culture, and assessment of more organotypic 3D cell culture models, has promoted Melanie Aregger to serve as Chief Operating Officer. Having joined InSphero in November 2013 as Business Development Manager, Ms. Aregger served on the management team and was promoted to Head [...]
Horizon Discovery Group plc and Axol Bioscience Ltd announce strategic partnership
November 24, 2015
Cambridge, UK: Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE:HZD) (Horizon), the international life science company supplying research tools and services to organizations engaged in genomics research and the development of personalized medicines, and Axol Bioscience Ltd (Axol), a biotechnology company specializing in the use of stem cell technology to manufacture disease relevant cell based assay systems, announce [...]
New Retractable Sensor Housings with Intelligent Locking System from METTLER TOLEDO
November 24, 2015
Urdorf, Switzerland - In harsh industrial processes, the safety of workers, the plant and the environment are paramount. Insertion points for in-line sensors can represent a weak spot where leaking process media is a possible hazard. METTLER TOLEDO has developed the InTrac 781/784 series of retractable sensor housings, which are designed to tolerate extreme process [...]
Twin Head Blowdown Evaporator Doubles Productivity
November 23, 2015
Porvair Sciences has announced the MiniVap™ Gemini - an all new entry-level product designed to remove the solvent from two microplates simultaneously. Using a highly efficient evaporator head technology and an innovative manifold design, which directly injects heated nitrogen into each well of two 96-well microplate simultaneously, the MiniVap Gemini enables researchers to remove the [...]
BioPlast Manufacturing to Acquire Kord-Valmark Petri Dish Manufacturing Line
November 23, 2015
Bristol, PA. – BioPlast Manufacturing, a manufacturer of plastic components used primarily for the medical research, clinical diagnostic and biotech environments, announced today that it has acquired Kord-Valmark, a leading manufacturer of quality petri dishes. This acquisition is aligned with BioPlast Manufacturing’s strategy to offer clients a platform of products that are designed and tested [...]
The CCDC Launches the Cambridge Structural Database 2016 and Three Exciting New Software Suites
November 23, 2015
Cambridge, UK and Piscataway, NJ, USA -- The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) announces the launch of the 2016 versions of the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) and the CSD-System, now complemented by three powerful new software suites for researchers worldwide: CSD-Discovery to support the discovery of new molecules, CSD-Materials for the study of crystalline materials, [...]
AstraZeneca expands technological investment in new Cambridge lead discovery centre
November 20, 2015
AstraZeneca today announced three new partnerships that will deliver industry-leading technologies to drive the AstraZeneca MRC UK Centre for Lead Discovery in the search for novel small molecule medicines. The partnerships will ensure state-of-the-art screening and compound management at the facility, which will be located within the company’s new global R&D centre at the Cambridge [...]
November 20, 2015
Woburn- HighRes Biosolutions has entered into a three year agreement with AstraZeneca for the development and deployment of several new modular automated screening systems. These ground breaking systems leverage next generation robotics technology originally developed for the European Space Agency, and bring it to screening and compound management operations. Light weight, yet powerful, the core [...]
