The tranSMART Foundation and BT Collaborate to Deliver Fast, Flexible Cloud-Based Applications to Life Science Organizations

Wakefield, Massachusetts and Irving, Texas -- The tranSMART Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides a global, open-source knowledge management platform for scientists to more easily share pre-competitive translational research data, and BT today announced that BT will join the tranSMART Foundation. This is an extension of their joint initiative announced last year to unlock the [...]

Protea Enters Into Collaborative Research Agreement With the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Protea Biosciences Group, Inc. (OTCQB:PRGB) ("Protea") announced today it has begun a collaborative research initiative with the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Dana-Farber) that uses Protea's next generation LAESI direct molecular imaging technology to analyze cancer cells. The initial focus is early stage lung adenocarcinoma. The studies [...]

Rancho BioSciences and IDBS to Change the Way Companies Improve the Quality of their Translational and Clinical Research Data

San Diego, CA and Boston, MA -- Rancho BioSciences, the scientific data consulting company today announced a partnership with IDBS at Bio-IT World Conference & Expo. The collaboration enables the companies to provide mutual customers with manual data curation services for IDBS’ E-WorkBook products in the translational science and clinical research arenas. The curation activities, [...]

Morpho Partners with IntegenX to Offer Rapid DNA Identification Technology

Paris, France / Pleasanton, CA -- Morpho (Safran), a biometric solutions provider, is joining with IntegenX, a provider of rapid DNA technology, to offer DNA identification solutions offering DNA profiles in about 90 minutes. Morpho will partner with IntegenX to market its RapidHIT System to law enforcement and government agencies in select countries around the [...]

Dassault Systèmes Successfully Completes Acquisition of Accelrys

VÉLIZY-VILLACOUBLAY, France — — Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, world leader in 3D design software, 3D Digital Mock Up and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions announces the completion of its acquisition of Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL) (Accelrys). After the previously announced completion of the tender offer by its wholly owned indirect [...]

New Genedata Screener for Surface Plasmon Resonance Co-developed with AstraZeneca Announced at 2014 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo

Boston, Mass -- Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced the new Genedata Screener® for Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) at the 2014 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo. Co-developed with AstraZeneca, Genedata Screener for SPR is built on the established enterprise platform Genedata Screener. The first-in-class [...]

Bina Technologies Introduces Annotation Platform to Bring Scientific Context to NGS Data Sets Quickly

Redwood City, CA - Bina Technologies today announced the early release of the Bina Annotation Platform, the newest addition to Bina’s highly scalable and accurate genomic analysis product suite. With this addition, Bina allows users to perform secondary analysis (alignment, variant calling) as well as annotation and filtering on their NGS datasets in an integrated, [...]

New ATR Accessory Enables Cost Effective Analysis of Materials and Mixtures in Minutes

MADISON, Wis. – Industrial, government and academic laboratories operating on a limited budget can now quickly obtain high-quality spectroscopic data and perform complete mixture analyses using a new attenuated total reflectance (ATR) accessory and accompanying FT-IR spectrometer. Combining the new Thermo Scientific iD7 ATR accessory with the Thermo Scientific Nicolet iS5 FT-IR spectrometer and Thermo [...]

InDevR and Applied Microarrays Partner to Offer Vidia™ and ampliPHOX® Readers as Part of Full Microarray System Solution

BOULDER, CO -- InDevR Inc., a Boulder-based biotechnology company, and Applied Microarrays, Inc., a Tempe-based contract microarray manufacturer have partnered to deliver a complete system solution for multiplexed assays. The platform includescustom protein and DNA arrays, reagents and protocols, a fluorescent scanner for slides or plates (Vidia™) and a colorimetric scanner for lower throughput applications [...]

OGT to launch cancer sequencing panel at ACGS

Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), The Molecular Genetics Company, will launch its new SureSeq™ Solid Tumour Panel at the Association for Clinical Genetic Science (ACGS) meeting at Birmingham UK, on the 29-30th April. Fully validated on formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) samples, the new 60-gene next generation sequencing (NGS) hybridisation-based enrichment panel offers researchers accurate and reliable solid [...]

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