Core Informatics opens UK office, adds European industry veteran to leadership team
December 2, 2013
Branford, CT and London, England –— Core Informatics, a leading provider of data management solutions to clients engaged in scientific research, announced the establishment of Core Informatics UK Limited, the rapidly growing company’s first international subsidiary. Based in London, the unit will help provide direct support to Core Informatics’ rapidly growing group of European clients [...]
BioNJ Renews Strategic Laboratory Supply Purchasing Alliance with Fisher Scientific
December 2, 2013
TRENTON, N.J. -- BioNJ, the trade association for New Jersey’s life science industry, today announced it has renewed its 16-year Primary Supplier Agreement with Fisher Scientific, part of Waltham-based Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. This agreement enables BioNJ Members to achieve significant savings on laboratory supplies and a variety of other services. “Our Members have already [...]
Ventria Bioscience Appoints Margaret Glick, Ph.D., CPA as Vice President of Finance
December 2, 2013
FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- Ventria Bioscience today announced that Margaret B. Glick, Ph.D., CPA has been appointed as the company’s new vice president of finance. Dr. Glick will oversee all financial and related administrative functions for the company. “Maggie comes to Ventria Bioscience with expertise in private and public corporate finance as well as organizational [...]
Appistry Expands Genetic Analysis Offerings Powered by Broad Institute Tools
December 2, 2013
ST. LOUIS – Appistry, Inc., a leading provider of high-performance computing and analytics solutions for next-generation medicine, announced the expansion of its Cancer Genome Analysis (CGA) Suite to include additional tools for next-generation sequencing (NGS) analysis from the Broad Institute. The first addition to the suite is a method for estimating contamination levels in cancer [...]
Award-Winning Cytation™ 3 Now Offers Expanded Imaging Features!
December 2, 2013
WINOOSKI VT, USA — BioTek’s innovative Cytation™ 3 Cell Imaging Multi-Mode Reader combines automated digital microscopy and conventional multi-mode microplate detection in one modular, compact instrument, and now offers even more new features to drive workflow efficiencies and data collection. "We've seen an overwhelming response to the introduction of Cytation 3, as evidenced by the [...]
Neogen introduces NeoFilm™ for simple microbial tests
December 2, 2013
LANSING, Mich. – Neogen Corporation (Nasdaq: NEOG) announced today that it has introduced a "clearly better" test system for microbial counts. Neogen's new NeoFilm™ microbial tests require only the inoculation of a fabric sample pad and an incubation period. Following incubation, the sample pad is evaluated for bacterial colony growth. NeoFilm tests are available for [...]
December 2, 2013
Otsu/Shiga Japan - Takara Bio Inc. announced today the launch of several new research reagents relating to adeno-associate virus (AAV) vectors for gene transduction that will become available for sale on December 16, 2013 through Takara Bio's sales network. The most important feature of the AAV vectors that attracts gene therapy researchers is that the [...]
JHL Biotech Selects GE’s FlexFactory™ Biomanufacturing Platform for Taiwan Facility
December 2, 2013
CHALFONT ST GILES, UK and HSINCHU, TAIWAN –– GE Healthcare Life Sciences, (NYSE: GE), and JHL Biotech today announced that GE Healthcare has completed installation of its FlexFactory™ biomanufacturing platform at JHL Biotech’s Research Center and manufacturing plant in Hsinchu, Taiwan. The new manufacturing platform will follow current good manufacturing practices (cGMP) and be fully [...]
RainDance Technologies Names Alfred G. Merriweather Chief Financial Officer
December 2, 2013
BILLERICA, Mass –– RainDance Technologies, Inc., a genomics tools company enabling development of ultra-sensitive and non-invasive methods for early detection of cancer and inherited diseases, today announced that Alfred G. (Alf) Merriweather has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Merriweather brings more than 25 years of executive level experience in private and public company [...]
Human Stem Cell-Derived Neural Progenitors & Neurons
November 29, 2013
AMSBIO has introduced a new range of neural progenitor cells, and cerebral cortical neurons, derived from human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. Despite the large investment and interest in neuroscience traditional methods of studying the human nervous system and disease pathogenesis and mechanisms required the generation of animal models. However, these methods are time consuming, [...]

