Bioline Launches New EPIK™ miRNA Panel Assays
September 4, 2015
CINCINNATI -- Bioline, The PCR Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Meridian Bioscience, Inc. VIVO, +0.76% is proud to announce the worldwide release of the EPIK™ miRNA Panel Assays, developed for miRNA profiling of cancer samples, biofluids, and stem cells. The EPIK miRNA Panel Assays are the result of a collaboration between MiRXES in Singapore and [...]
BioTime Announces Dual Listing on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange
September 4, 2015
ALAMEDA, Calif. & TEL AVIV, Israel -- BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT: BTX), a biotechnology company focused on the development and commercialization of cell-based therapies, announced today that the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) has approved the new listing of BioTime's common shares beginning on Tuesday, September 8, 2015 under the ticker symbol BTX. Based on [...]
September 3, 2015
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. –– Gen9, Inc., a pioneer in the development of scalable technologies for synthesizing and assembling DNA, and iGEM, the International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition, today announced a collaboration to provide the synthetic biology community with the highest-quality, freely available DNA parts. The iGEM Foundation, which is dedicated to education and competition, advancement of [...]
Simulations Plus Awarded New Cooperative Agreement with FDA
September 3, 2015
LANCASTER, Calif. -- Simulations Plus, Inc. (NASDAQ: SLP), the leading provider of consulting services and software for pharmaceutical discovery and development, today announced that it had been notified by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that the company has been awarded a second cooperative agreement for $200,000 per year for up to three years. [...]
Trajan unlocks portable potential of Dried Blood Spot sampling with hemaPEN™
September 3, 2015
Melbourne, Australia: In a world where health care costs are escalating and demands on health care systems are becoming overwhelming, Trajan Scientific and Medical (Trajan) today announces the innovation of hemaPEN™, a prototype blood collection and storage device. Harnessing the benefits of Dried Blood Spot (DBS) sampling in an intuitive and safe portable format, hemaPEN [...]
Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award 2015 Granted to Professor Petra Dittrich
September 3, 2015
Darmstadt, Germany – Merck announced today that the 2015 Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award for Analytical Science will be given to Professor Petra Dittrich from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich (Switzerland) for her pioneering work on immunological assays combined with microfluidic platforms for single-cell analysis. The award, which is worth € 15,000, [...]
September 3, 2015
MELBOURNE, Australia & SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- A partnership among Monash University, the University of Melbourne, the University of Newcastle and the Hudson Institute of Medical Research, working with single-cell biology leader Fluidigm Corporation(NASDAQ:FLDM), today established Australia's first Single-Cell Genomics Centre of Excellence. The Centre will be housed at Monash Health Translation Precinct's (MHTP) [...]
Ginolis announces agreement to acquire business of Wegera Oy
September 3, 2015
Ginolis, the manufacturing solutions provider for diagnostic disposables, and Wegera, an Oulu-based machine and assembly service provider, today announced an agreement under which Ginolis Ltd.’s subsidiary, Ginolis Tools, will acquire the business of Wegera Oy. "We have worked together with Wegera for a number of years and are very excited about this acquisition.” states Ginolis [...]
3M’s Next Generation Molecular Detection Assay for Listeria monocytogenes Earns AOAC-PTM Validation
September 3, 2015
ST. PAUL, Minn. –– 3M Food Safety announced today that its 3MTM Molecular Detection Assay 2 – Listeria monocytogenes has been approved by the AOAC® Performance Tested MethodsSM program (Certification 081501). The approval certifies that the next generation test kit is now equivalent or better than standard reference methods. Achieving AOAC PTM status required a [...]
2015 Norman R. Alpert Research Prize Winners Announced
September 3, 2015
WINOOSKI VT, USA — Dr. Nicholas H. Heintz, CMB Program Director at the University of Vermont, recently announced the winners of the 2015 Norman R. Alpert Research Award. Brian Cunnif and Kheng Newick won as co-first authors for their publication, "Disabling Mitochondrial Peroxide Metabolism via Combinatorial Targeting of Peroxiredoxin 3 as an Effective Therapeutic Approach [...]
