Basel, Switzerland -- Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced that the Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology (IKP) has selected Genedata Expressionist® as the bioinformatics platform for pharmacogenomics- and oncology-related translational research. IKP, one of the premier clinical research facilities in Germany, focuses on [...]

(CHELMSFORD, MA). Spectro Inc. and Lockheed Martin Corporation have signed an exclusive licensing agreement for Lockheed Martin’s LaserNet Fines® (LNF) fluid imaging and classification technology. The agreement will enable Spectro, a leading developer and manufacturer of analytical tools and software for fluid and machine condition monitoring, to enhance its present products and develop and manufacture [...]

Westbrook, Maine – Artel, the leader in liquid handling quality assurance, announced today that it has acquired exclusive rights to the LabGauge product line from Louisville, Kentucky-based StackWave. The software will be used with Artel’s MVS® Multichannel Verification System to deliver increased information availability and management. The prototype technology was described in an article, “High-Throughput [...]

New York, NY. The New York Genome Center (NYGC) announced the acquisition from Illumina of a HiSeq X Ten system, which is expected to enable ultra-high throughput sequencing of whole human genomes. This advanced technology is designed to provide a prompt readout of the entire genome, dramatically enhancing the turnaround for valuable genomic information. With [...]

TORONTO — Microbix Biosystems Inc. (TSX: MBX), an innovator of biological products and technologies, announced today it has signed a letter of intent to finance the development of the LumiSort® prototype instrument for its semen sexing technology. LumiSort® is a completely new instrument-based livestock sex selection technology that will significantly improve the yield and quality [...]

ST. LOUIS, Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (Nasdaq: SIAL) was named today for the first time to the "Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World" list in an announcement made earlier at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The St. Louis-based Company was ranked 20th, one of the highest rankings among its peers. "We are excited [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. Agilent Technologies Inc. A) today announced a global partnership with the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) to support the International Year of Crystallography 2014, a 12-month program co-organized by the IUCr and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The program includes international school visits, workshops, technology-sharing and a photo [...]

Newton, Mass. -- Empiriko, an innovative clinical intelligence company, today announced the availability of its Biomimiks™ technology, a game- changing biomimetic platform that mimics the in vivo metabolism mediated by liver enzymes (cytochrome P450) to enable pharmaceutical researchers to conduct rapid and iterative in vitro and ex vivo drug metabolism studies to predict the metabolic [...]

ST. LOUIS, MO –Certara™, a leading provider of software and scientific consulting services to improve productivity and decision-making from drug discovery through drug development, today announced that Professor Geoff Tucker, its vice president of translational sciences, and co-founder of Simcyp™ and head of its consultancy, has been named president-elect of the International Society for the [...]

PITTSBURGH,Gateway Analytical announced today that they have acquired the RapID SPE-ls raman.ID + metal.ID? system, the latest technology in automated particle identification. This acquisition enhances existing analytical service offerings to the pharmaceutical and materials science industries, and makes Gateway one of only two analytical service laboratories in the United States that can offer this advanced [...]