October 5, 2015
Darmstadt, Germany, – Merck Millipore, the Life Science business of Merck, announced a collaboration with celares GmbH to provide pegylation services to customers developing protein-based therapeutics and biosimilars. The new service offering enabled by the collaboration includes feasibility studies, process and analytical development, and scale-up from milligram to gram quantities required for pilot and subsequent [...]
BioTime, Inc. Agrees to Sell $5.1 Million of Equity
October 2, 2015
ALAMEDA, Calif. - BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT and TASE: BTX), a clinical-stage regenerative medicine company with a focus on pluripotent stem cell technology, today announced that it has agreed to sell 1,600,000 of its common shares, no par value, at an offering price of $3.19 per share to its largest shareholder, Broadwood Partners, L.P. (“Broadwood”). [...]
October 2, 2015
CARPINTERIA, Calif. -- Dako, an Agilent Technologies company and a worldwide provider of cancer diagnostics, today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of a new companion diagnostic assay that can reveal whether a patient with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is likely to respond to a new form of treatment. The [...]
October 2, 2015
Asynt has developed DrySyn NMR Heating Blocks to enable safe, effective and uniform heating of up to 10 NMR tubes on a conventional hotplate stirrer. This new DrySyn unit allows you to use standard NMR tubes as a reaction vessel for applications including catalyst screening experiments and reaction monitoring as well as studying broad peaks, [...]
DeNovix launches suite of dsDNA quantification assays improving sensitivity and dynamic range
October 2, 2015
DeNovix Inc, a developer and manufacturer of instrumentation and assays for the life sciences launches three new dsDNA fluorescence quantification kits. The new kits are able to accurately measure sample concentrations covering a range of 0.5 pg/µL to 4000 ng/µL, providing a 20X increase in sensitivity and greatly enhanced dynamic range over existing technology. “Genomics [...]
LUCIGEN CORP ANNOUNCES ILLUMINA CSPro CERTIFICATION FOR NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING
October 2, 2015
Middleton, Wis. – Lucigen Corp announced today that it has successfully completed Illumina CSPro™ certification for next generation sequencing (NGS), gaining entry to an elite group of Illumina genomics service providers globally. Illumina Inc., a San Diego-based company, provides leading-edge genetic analysis tools to genomics centers worldwide. Illumina CSPro is the collaborative service provider partnership [...]
TA Instruments grants Dr. Ruth Cardinaels with the “Distinguished Young Rheologist” Award
October 1, 2015
New Castle, Delaware - TA Instruments is pleased to announce the latest recipient of the “Distinguished Young Rheologist” award: Dr. Ruth Cardinaels, Assistant Professor in the Polymer Technology Group at Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands). Dr. Cardinaels employs in-situ and time-resolved structure characterization techniques in combination with diagnostic flow types. Her research attempts to [...]
HTG Molecular Launches Next-Generation Sequencing-Based Immuno-Oncology Assay
October 1, 2015
TUCSON, Ariz. -- HTG Molecular Diagnostics, Inc. (Nasdaq:HTGM), a provider of instruments and reagents for molecular profiling applications, announced the availability of the HTG EdgeSeq Immuno-Oncology Assay (research use only) for digitally measuring the mRNA expression of 549 genes implicated in the host immune response to tumors. Automated on the HTG EdgeSeq system, HTG EdgeSeq [...]
iLab Solutions Hires Vincenzo Di Bernardo as New Manager of System Integrations
October 1, 2015
Boston, MA -- After consulting for iLab Solutions, the industry leader in core facility management software, Vincenzo Di Bernardo has formally joined the growing iLab team. Di Bernardo is no stranger to the facility management world, having worked with a broad range of universities and research laboratories. He makes a strong and invaluable asset to [...]
Merck Creates Greater Scope for Developing Ideas – Innovation Center opened
October 1, 2015
Darmstadt, Germany – Merck, a leading company for innovative and top-quality high-tech products in the healthcare, life science and performance materials sectors, today opened its Innovation Center in Darmstadt, thus establishing a new platform for innovations from around the world and from the Rhine-Main region. The two-floor building, which has a surface area of over [...]
