Santa Clara, California – Finesse Solutions, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, a manufacturer of measurement and control solutions for life science process applications, announced the release of TruBio® DV version 4.6 Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) software, which has been developed to harmonize and upgrade an installed base of older, proprietary bioreactor controllers. A SCADA [...]

Center Valley, PA (USA) –– Avantor™ Performance Materials, a global manufacturer and supplier of high-performance chemistries and materials, is now producing pharmaceutical chemicals under current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) from its new production facility in Panoli, India. The Panoli plant manufactures and packages a wide range of Avantor’s Macron Fine Chemicals™ brand of salts and [...]

Madison, WI, USA. Promega Corporation announced today that it has selected MyBio, Ireland’s leading specialist bioscience reagents supplier, to be its new, exclusive distributor in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. From the 9th July 2013 MyBio will provide scientists in Ireland with the complete range of Promega products, combined with on-demand access to [...]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and IPSWICH, Mass., -- As part of its commitment to life science research and scientific education, New England Biolabs (NEB) is pleased to offer free molecular biology reagents to the high school teams participating in the 2013 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition. The iGEM competition encourages innovation in synthetic biology by soliciting [...]

HUBBARD, Ohio -- NanoLogix Inc. (NNLX), an innovator in the accelerated detection, identification and antibiotic sensitivity determination of live bacteria, announces that the US Environmental Protection Agency and NanoLogix have agreed to extend their existing Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) for two years, with the new expiration being mid-2015. The CRADA is focused on [...]

SEATTLE, -- Natural Molecular Testing Corporation (Natural Molecular, NMTC), a privately-owned company providing groundbreaking clinical diagnostic molecular testing and services in the medical genomics field, announced today the launch of their laboratory developed comprehensive Personalized Medicine Panel. This cardiac panel, commercialized by Natural Molecular, is comprised of 42 targets and built using Luminex Corporation's (NASDAQ: [...]

Park Systems, a leading manufacturer of atomic force microscopy (AFM) products, announces the debut of thePark XE7, the scientific industry’s most affordable, research-grade AFM with innovative design features. The Park XE7 provides AFM researchers with a cost-effective solution, which includes Park’s proprietary technology, without compromising quality or functionality, a key distinction from more conventional AFMs. [...]

SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) and Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) today announced ProteomicsDB, a data base that stores protein and peptide identifications from mass spectrometry-based experiments. The proteomic data resulted from the identification of proteins mapping to over 18,000 human genes. This represents 90 percent coverage of the human proteome. Data stored and analyzed within ProteomicsDB [...]

CAMBRIDGE, UK, – Optibrium, a developer of software for drug discovery, today announced the release of version 5.4 of its StarDrop™ software platform. This new release offers enhanced features to guide the design of novel, safe and efficacious drugs by providing access to world-leading technologies for toxicity prediction and bioisosteric transformations. These new optional modules [...]

Oxford Instruments plc, a leading provider of high-technology tools and systems for industry and research, is pleased to announce the appointment of Jennifer Allerton as an Independent Non-Executive Director. The appointment will take effect from 11th June 2013. Jennifer has extensive international business experience, having spent over thirty years in large companies operating across the [...]