BELLSHILL, SCOTLAND: Link Technologies Ltd (www.linktech.co.uk), an ISO 9001:2008 certified specialist oligonucleotide reagent manufacturer, has expanded its range of lipophilic modifiers for the effective delivery of oligonucleotides into cells. As oligos continue to be of interest in drug discovery, offering exciting potential as therapeutic agents, there is an increasing demand for improved oligo delivery techniques. [...]

Ancaster, Canada-- For the last 25 years, Affinity Biologicals is renowned worldwide for its scientific range of products used in thrombosis and hemostasis research and diagnostics. The company is also known for producing a comprehensive line of human plasma products that includes immune-depleted, factor-deficient plasmas. The polyclonal antibody based ELISA kits offered by the company [...]

WOBURN, Mass. -- Covaris, Inc., the leader in focused acoustic technologies for the life sciences, has been awarded an International Collaborative Industry Program (ICIP) grant from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center for the development of a one-step sample preparation device for use in molecular diagnostics, as part of a $640,000 collaborative project with Coris BioConcept [...]

Hiden Analytical announces a new range of surface and surface interface diagnostic tools. Based on the UHV Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) technique the new tools provide for high performance surface elemental and contamination analysis together with depth profiling with nanometer scale depth resolution. SIMS Workstation Hiden surface diagnostics systems are designed to work well [...]

Bishops Stortford, UK. Dotmatics, a leading provider of scientific informatics solutions and services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, has announced that its chemical drawing App, Elemental, has reached over 100,000 downloads. Available to download for free from Apple’s iTunes store, the intuitive and innovative tool enhances scientist’s productivity, optimising the time spent drawing structures [...]

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Advanced Photonix® (NYSE MKT: API), the leading supplier of terahertz systems, is pleased to announce that a European supplier of process control equipment has placed a volume purchase order for the T-Gauge® terahertz product platform. The systems will provide critical thickness measurement in a scanning configuration for process control. The T-Gauge® [...]

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 extension of the tender offer by its wholly owned indirect subsidiary, 3DS Acquisition Corp., to purchase all outstanding shares of Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL) (Accelrys) [...]

Redwood City, CA - Bina Technologies, the standard for high-performance genomic analysis, today introduced Bina Desktop, a brand new deployment of its genomic analysis platform, Bina Analytics. Designed especially for clinical and academic researchers, Bina Desktop analyzes large, complex Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) data sets quickly, easily, and accurately, without requiring a team of bioinformaticians, and [...]

Santa Barbara, CA – Anasys Instruments reports on a new publication from their nanoIR users at NIST which assess the chemical composition of a metal-organic framework with nanoscale resolution. The publication may be accessed in the leading journal “Angewandte Chemie International Edition.” Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST), in collaboration [...]

ROCKVILLE AND BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – Strand Genomics Inc. (Strand) and BioHealth Innovation, Inc. (BHI) today announced a strategic partnership designed to expand the Strand Centers for Genomics & Personalized Medicine into the U.S. This effort is intended to help revolutionize access to genomic interpretation services in cardiovascular disease, oncology, rare diseases, and many other indications. [...]