LabCentral Signs New Agreement in Support of Life-Sciences Startups

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-- LabCentral, an innovative, shared laboratory space designed as a launchpad for life-sciences startups, announced that Life Technologies will provide an innovative technology suite of instruments representing the latest platforms developed by the company under an agreement inked last month. Life Technologies will also provide training and service support to LabCentral-based startups conducting genetic [...]

Jain Foundation Signs Agreement with Cellular Dynamics to Create iPSC Lines from Patients with Muscular Dystrophies

SEATTLE, WAS., and MADISON, WIS. – The Jain Foundation, a non-profit organization whose mission is to cure muscular dystrophies caused by dysferlin protein deficiency, today announced the signing of a Master Service Agreement with Cellular Dynamics International (CDI; Nasdaq: ICEL). CDI will create five induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines from patients with these dystrophies. [...]

ANSYS And Reaction Design Announce Signing Of Definitive Merger Agreement

PITTSBURGH and SAN DIEGO -- ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS), a global leader and innovator of engineering simulation software, announced today that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Reaction Design, a leading developer of chemistry simulation software. The transaction is expected to close in January 2014. Management will provide further details regarding the transaction [...]

Sequenom And Laboratoire Cerba Announce Commercial Launch Of Cerba’s Noninvasive Prenatal Test In France

SAN DIEGO, Calif. and ST. OUEN L'AUMONE, France -- Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM), a life sciences company providing innovative testing and genetic analysis solutions, announced that Laboratoire Cerba has launched its validated noninvasive prenatal test (NIPT) to health care providers and their patients in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and portions of the Middle East and Africa. [...]

Custom Made Ultra High Vacuum Cuvettes

Farmingdale, NY -- NSG Precision Cells introduced a Ultra High Vacuum Cuvette in 2013, significantly bolstering their product line of spectrophotometer and fluorometer cuvettes. With this new product offering, NSG Precision Cells has established itself as the premier lab equipment manufacturer in the American Northeast. Ultra-high vacuum cuvettes (UHV) are precision engineered to reduce refraction [...]

AgileBio releases a new version of LabCollector’s Electronic Lab Notebook: ELN v2.2

Paris, France -- AgileBio, an IT solutions specialist providing web-based software for life sciences, announces the release of a new version of its Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN), a complimentary application for its LIMS, LabCollector. ELN is an efficient and simple notebook to store, organize, find and share all researchers laboratory experiments in a variety of [...]

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Adopts DNASTAR Lasergene Software

MADISON, Wisconsin –– DNASTAR today announced that the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute entered into a multi-year software license agreement with DNASTAR for the use of Lasergene software as its primary sequence assembly and analysis software platform for researchers within its organization. A spokesperson for the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute said, “The Sanger Institute is one [...]

Harvard Bioscience Realigns Global Operations to Create Organizational Efficiencies and Better Position It for Growth

HOLLISTON, Mass. -- Harvard Bioscience, Inc. (Nasdaq:HBIO), a global developer, manufacturer, and marketer of a broad range of tools to advance life science research, today announced the realignment of its global operations to create organizational efficiencies and better position the Company for growth. As part of the realignment, Harvard Bioscience will reduce its global workforce [...]

GE Healthcare scientist paired with Welsh MP to share insights on science and policy-making

CARDIFF, UK –– Dr. Nina Moran from GE Healthcare Life Sciences will be swapping a lab coat for legislation, when she visits Mr. Roger Williams MP for Brecon and Radnorshire, at the House of Commons for a “Week in Westminster” as part of a unique ‘pairing’ scheme run by the Royal Society – the UK’s [...]

BioTek Highlights Improved Workflows With Their Latest Microplate Instruments at ASCB2013

WINOOSKI VT, USA — New microplate instrumentation from BioTek improves workflow efficiencies in detection, liquid handling and automation of these processes. BioTek will be highlighting four new products in Booth #1301 at the American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting, to be held December 14-18 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The patent pending Cytation™ 3 Cell [...]

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