GE Healthcare launches Cytiva™ Plus cardiomyocytes
May 27, 2014
GE’s most biologically relevant human cell model for improved compound safety profiling Identifying potential cardiotoxicity as early as possible in the drug development process can reduce the risk of costly program failures and minimize health risks. Cytiva™ Plus provides a high fidelity human heart cell model that is available in quantities compatible with screening, enabling [...]
May 27, 2014
San Diego, CA -- Rancho BioSciences, the scientific data consulting company, announced today that it is now an affiliate member of the tranSMART Foundation, a non-profit organization providing a global, open-source knowledge management platform for scientists to share pre-competitive research data. Rancho BioSciences has donated 11 manually curated data sets to be used for testing [...]
May 27, 2014
Wellington, New Zealand -- Magritek, a leading worldwide provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, have launched the first six in a series of laboratory experiment manuals to help teach undergraduate students about the practical benefits of using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, NMR. In collaboration with the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences at Victoria University [...]
Yokogawa Releases Plant Resource Manager (PRM®) R3.12
May 27, 2014
Tokyo, Japan -- PRM is a software package that is capable of centrally managing large amounts of data from plant monitoring and control devices and manufacturing equipment, thereby allowing their status to be monitored and diagnosed online. With PRM R3.12, self-diagnostic information is now displayed in a more intuitive, easy-to-understand format based on the NAMUR [...]
The Rigaku BioSAXS-2000 brings a beamline experience to home lab SAXS experiments
May 24, 2014
The Woodlands, TX.-- Rigaku Corporation introduces the BioSAXS™-2000 system, an updated version of its popular 2D Kratky system for small angle X-ray scattering of biological samples. The BioSAXS-2000 includes the new OptiSAXS optic, which captures a larger angle of the X-ray source to provide more than double the flux at the sample position. With the [...]
SP Scientific Invests In Training & Demonstration Laboratory Facility
May 23, 2014
SP Scientific has announced further investment into its state-of-the-art training and demonstration laboratory facility at its Warminster, PA site. The demonstration laboratory will now be able to offer customers and potential clients the opportunity to book an appointment to test / demo SP Scientific’s latest products including the AdVantage Pro, Benchtop Pro and LyoStar 3 [...]
May 23, 2014
Perten Instruments AB of Stockholm, Sweden, announced today that it is releasing a new and innovative software platform for Diode Array based process instruments. Perten Instruments rise to the challenge posed by the ever continued evolution towards seamless integration in a modern industrial automation environment by the release of its Process Plus package. The Process [...]
Transposagen Issued Key U.S. Patent Covering Rat Models of Cancer
May 23, 2014
Lexington, KY -- Transposagen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., based in Lexington, KY, has announced the issuing of Patent No. 8,722,964 entitled, “Genetically Engineered or Transgenic Rats Exhibiting a Cancer Phenotype Due to a Disruption of Germline Tumor Suppressor Genes” on May 13th. The patent has terms extending through October 22, 2030. The patent covers all genetically modified [...]
May 23, 2014
GERMANTOWN, Maryland, and HILDEN, Germany - — QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that its therascreen® KRAS RGQ PCR Kit (therascreen KRAS test) has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to guide the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer patients with Amgen’s Vectibix® (panitumumab). This marks the third FDA approval [...]
MSD Biomarker Assays Selected for Resveratrol Study in Alzheimer’s Disease
May 23, 2014
The study, sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study (ADCS), tests whether resveratrol, a compound found in red wine and red grapes, may be beneficial to patients suffering from mild to moderate dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease. Resveratrol has been shown to have multiple benefits for people with common illnesses associated with aging, but its [...]
