Gene-silencing data now publicly available to help scientists better understand disease Wednesday.
December 11, 2013
NIH data-sharing collaboration with Life Technologies will advance genetic and translational research, therapeutic target discovery For the first time, large-scale information on the biochemical makeup of small interfering RNA (siRNA) molecules is available publicly. These molecules are used in research to help scientists better understand how genes function in disease. Making these data accessible to [...]
JPK launches the fast-scanning & super-resolution NanoWizard ULTRA Speed AFM system
December 11, 2013
JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, announces the release of the next generation of NanoWizard® AFM systems delivering fast-scanning and super-resolution on an inverted microscope. The boundaries for performance of analytical instrumentation are continually being pushed to the limits. In the world of atomic force [...]
December 11, 2013
New York, NY-– Enzo Biochem Inc. (NYSE:ENZ) and Flagship Biosciences LLC, of Boulder, CO, today announced a partnership in tissue-based companion diagnostics that will enable personalized diagnosis and treatment of disease. The firms are working jointly with pharmaceutical clients that require an independent complete solution to the delivery of an in situ hybridization (ISH) companion [...]
December 11, 2013
Columbia, SC --CIRTEMO announced today that the company will unveil an updated Multivariate Optical Element (MOE) platform for fluorochrome discrimination version 2.0 at the 2013 American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) annual meeting. The trade show, to be held in New Orleans’ Ernest N. Morial Convention Center from December 14 through 17, is the largest [...]
Digital Science donates SureChem data of >15million chemical compounds and patents to EMBL-EBI
December 11, 2013
Big news from Digital Science; we are donating the SureChem collection of >15million chemical structures from world patents into the public domain through the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). This is the very first time a world patent chemistry collection has been made publicly available, marking a significant advance in Open Data for use in drug [...]
1st Detect Awarded U.S. Patent for Novel Mass Spectrometer Design
December 10, 2013
AUSTIN, Texas-- 1st Detect Corporation, a subsidiary of Astrotech Corporation (Nasdaq:ASTC), announced today that the United States Patent Office ("USPTO") has allowed the issuance of a key patent for the company's unique ion trap used for chemical analysis and detection. "We are extremely pleased that the USPTO has allowed this patent. This patent is an [...]
New GeneArt® Algae Protein Expression Kits From Life Technologies
December 10, 2013
CARLSBAD, Calif.– Life Technologies Corporation today announced that the company has expanded their GeneArt® Algae Engineering portfolio. The new kits contain features requested by algae biologists and are designed to make work with algae simpler and faster. The GeneArt® kits represent the first commercially available genetic modification and expression systems for photosynthetic microalgae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii [...]
Bruker Corporation Launches ContourSP 3D Optical Microscope for PCB Industry
December 10, 2013
BILLERICA, Mass. - Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) today announced that it has launched the ContourSP large panel metrology system, which more than doubles the measurement throughput of the high-density interconnect (HDI) substrates in multi-chip modules (MCM) over previous generation SP models used by the semiconductor packaging industry. Specifically designed to measure each layer of the [...]
RayBiotech, Inc. Announces Master Services and Supply Agreement With Colorado State University
December 10, 2013
NORCROSS, GA-- RayBiotech, Inc. ("RBI") today announced that it has executed a formal master services and supply agreement with the Proteomics and Metabolomics Core Facility of Colorado State University in Fort Collin, Colorado. Under the terms of the agreement, RayBiotech will provide biomarker discovery and characterization services and products to Colorado State University researchers located [...]
Life Science Company Calbiotech Expands Holdings with Moduline Systems
December 10, 2013
SAN DIEGO-- Calbiotech is proud to announce it recently expanded its holdings by acquiring Moduline Systems, a microplate-dispensing and vial-filling equipment manufacturer. Moduline Systems will become a business unit of Calbiotech, which made the acquisition in an effort to grow the business and expand product offerings. Calbiotech custom-develops and manufactures immunoassay products used by major [...]

