January 14, 2014
MADISON, WISCONSIN -- Promega Corporation announces ViaFect™ Transfection Reagent, a tool for efficient DNA transfer into a wide variety of cell lines, including challenging suspension cells and stem cell-derived lines. ViaFect Transfection Reagent allows researchers to develop transfection-based assays in the cell line most relevant for their biology of interest. Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived [...]
Dr. Ian Gilham Appointed Chairman of the Board for Horizon Discovery
January 14, 2014
Cambridge, UK: Horizon Discovery (Horizon), a leading provider of research tools to support the development of personalized medicines, today announced the formal appointment of Dr. Ian Gilham as Chairman of its Board of Directors. Dr. Gilham’s healthcare industry career spans thirty years encompassing all aspects of successful company growth and development. Dr. Gilham was Chief [...]
Sequenom Laboratories Expands Access to MaterniT21™ PLUS Test
January 14, 2014
SAN DIEGO -- Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM), a life sciences company providing innovative testing and genetic analysis solutions, announced today its wholly owned subsidiary, Sequenom Laboratories, entered into an agreement to offer access to its MaterniT21™ PLUS laboratory-developed test to Mayo Medical Laboratories. "We are delighted to expand our offerings to our national clients to [...]
AMETEK SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS SELECTS BLUE SCIENTIFIC AS EXCLUSIVE UNITED KINGDOM DISTRIBUTOR
January 14, 2014
OAK RIDGE, TN– The Scientific Instruments business unit of AMETEK Advanced Measurement Technology has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with Blue Scientific, a leading European scientific instrument distribution business based in Cambridge, United Kingdom, that specializes in instruments for research, development and process control in both academic and industrial applications. Blue Scientific is a [...]
Illumina Introduces the HiSeq X™ Ten Sequencing System
January 14, 2014
SAN DIEGO -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today broke the ‘sound barrier’ of human genomics by enabling the $1,000 genome. This achievement is made possible by the new HiSeq X Ten Sequencing System. This platform includes dramatic technology breakthroughs that enable researchers to undertake studies of unprecedented scale by providing the throughput to sequence tens of [...]
January 13, 2014
GAITHERSBURG, Md. --MaxCyte®, Inc., the pioneer in scalable, high-performance cell transfection systems, will be leading a series of events at Cambridge Healthtech Institute’s 13th Annual PepTalk to be held January 13-17, 2014, in Palm Springs, CA. The highlighted event will be the introduction of the 2014 MaxCyte STX® Scalable Transfection System, a smaller footprint version [...]
January 13, 2014
Quantachrome Instruments is pleased to announce that its Autosorb iQ surface area and pore size analyzers have been chosen to equip the new NIST (National Institute of Standards) FACT (Facility for Adsorbent Characterization and Testing) laboratory in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA. Several of Quantachrome’s instruments will be utilized for FACT research , and training initiatives. FACT [...]
ProteinSimple Launches Second Generation, High Throughput Simple Western Systems
January 13, 2014
Santa Clara, CA - ProteinSimple today launched Sally Sue and Peggy Sue, the next generation of high throughput Simple Western instruments. These instruments drive the sensitivity of the current high throughput Simple Western systems to performance levels well beyond any traditional Western. The Simple Western is a Western with none of the hassle. No messy [...]
MIMETAS and Galapagos to Develop Human Disease Models On-a-Chip
January 13, 2014
Leiden, the Netherlands - MIMETAS and Galapagos (Euronext: GLPG) have entered into a research collaboration on the development of organ-on-a-chip-based human disease models for new medicine development. The companies will collaborate to develop miniaturized 3D cell culture models that mimic specific aspects of human diseases. These models will be applied to the identification and improvement [...]
University of Sussex selects Dotmatics’ Studies Notebook to assist their Drug Discovery research
January 13, 2014
Bishops Stortford, UK.Dotmatics, a leading provider of scientific informatics solutions and services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, is pleased to announce today that the Translational Drug Discovery Group at the University of Sussex has selected Dotmatics’ fully searchable and web-based Electronic Laboratory Notebook, Studies Notebook, to complement their existing Dotmatics data management platform. The [...]
