MILFORD, Mass.-- SeraCare Life Sciences, a provider of high quality biological materials that help optimize diagnostic performance, reliability and repeatability across the IVD lifecycle, today announced seven new AccuSpan™ molecular linearity panels for the detection of Adenovirus (ADV), Varicella Zoster Virus (VZV), JC Virus (JCV), Herpes Simplex Virus 1 (HSV1), Herpes Simplex Virus 2 (HSV2), [...]

AstraZeneca today announced that MedImmune, its global biologics research and development arm, has entered into an agreement to acquire Definiens, a privately-held company that has pioneered a world-leading imaging and data analysis technology, known as Tissue Phenomics™, which dramatically improves the identification of biomarkers in tumour tissue. Definiens’ proprietary Cognition Network Technology® was developed by [...]

PROVO, Utah -- Tute Genomics announced today that it has added its genome annotation and interpretation platform to BaseSpace Apps, Illumina's dedicated applications store and informatics community dedicated to advancing genomic analysis. Tute provides users with a simple and intuitive interface to aid in identification and prioritization of functionally significant genetic variants. Tute annotates single [...]

CARLSBAD, Calif.-- Researchers can now more efficiently study predictive cell models and human disease with the launch of a new high-efficiency transfection reagent for mRNA delivery in neurons and primary cell types. Lipofectamine MessengerMAX offers up to a five times the efficiency of DNA reagents and enables researchers to easily transfect biologically relevant cell models [...]

WASHINGTON, DC –– Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) announced today, the evolution of their maXis™ line of ultrahigh-resolution quadrupole time-of-flight (UHR-qTOF) mass spectrometers, bringing industry-leading resolution and mass accuracy to the liquid chromatography, time-of-flight MS market space. The system, announced at IBC’s 18th annual Well Characterized Biologicals Conference, is designed to deliver outstanding resolution and mass [...]

Washington D.C. -- The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a clinical diagnostic and life science research company based in California with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) when its subsidiaries made improper payments to foreign officials in Russia, Vietnam, and Thailand in order to win business. An SEC investigation found that Bio-Rad Laboratories [...]

RADNOR, Pa. -- VWR Corporation (NASDAQ: VWR), a leading, independent provider of laboratory products, services and solutions, announced today that the underwriters of its initial public offering have exercised their over-allotment option to purchase an additional 3,826,700 shares at the initial public offering price of $21.00 per share, resulting in gross proceeds of approximately $80.4 [...]

DARMSTADT, Germany -- EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA of Darmstadt, Germany, has introduced the SNAP i.d.(R) 2.0 Protein Detection System for Immunohistochemistry (IHC), which streamlines immunohistochemistry workflows and significantly decreases slide handling time. The system enables parallel processing of up to 24 tissue slides at a time, making it easier to [...]

PRINCETON, NJ –– Certara®, the leading global technology-enabled drug development and drug safety consultancy, today announced the launch of version 1.4 of its Phoenix® product family at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Annual Meeting and Exposition being held at the San Diego Convention Center from Nov. 2-6. Phoenix is the premier PK/PD software [...]

Billerica, MA — EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, announces that EMD Millipore’s Chromocult® Coliform Agar (CCA) has been used by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO®) as the only suitable culture medium to develop a revised standard for enumerating coliform bacteria and E. coli in water samples to replace [...]