Biomedical informatics company Aridhia today announced that it is a lead commercial partner alongside Life Technologies Corporation, a global biotechnology tools company, in the Stratified Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre (SMS-IC). The SMS-IC is a unique collaboration bringing together expertise from within Scottish industry, academia and the NHS to drive forward a new age of stratified [...]

Seoul, South Korea, and Cambridge, Mass., –Seegene and Selventa today announced that they have entered into a strategic collaboration to develop novel molecular diagnostics in underserved diagnostic markets including autoimmune, cancer and infectious diseases. The synergistic combination of Selventa’s Systems Diagnostics (SysDx™) multi-omic analytics platform and Seegene’s TOCE™ and DPO™ multiplex PCR technology will result [...]

Materials and biophysical characterization company Malvern Instruments Ltd. (Malvern, UK) and NETZSCH Grinding & Dispersing (headquartered in Selb, Germany), a worldwide manufacturer of industrial wet and dry grinding, mixing, dispersing and kneading equipment, have entered into a cooperative marketing agreement. Both organizations serve a broad range of market sectors from pharmaceuticals, ceramics, nano-technology applications, food [...]

SANTA BARBARA, CA and BERGISCH GLADBACH, GERMANY, —Miltenyi Biotec announced today that it has completed acquisition of Owl biomedical, Inc., an emerging company developing and commercializing microchip-based cell sorting systems using fully-closed disposable cartridges in an easy-to-use format. The acquisition underscores Miltenyi’s commitment to bringing comprehensive solutions to the research and clinical cell therapy markets. [...]

Appistry, Inc., which provides a big-data computing environment that supports life-science and medical analytics and workflows, announced today a collaborative partnership and value-added reseller agreement with LifeMap Sciences, Inc., a subsidiary of BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT:BTX). The intent of the partnership is to integrate LifeMap’s GeneCards® and MalaCards databases of human genes and diseases into [...]

Torrance, CA - Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the research and manufacture of advanced technologies for the separation sciences, announces that Serena Lazzaro, the company's global marketing manager for food safety and quality, was selected as a trainer for a recent workshop conducted jointly by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and [...]

BEVERLY, MA – – Xylem’s OI Analytical brand is pleased to announce the launch of a new on-line cyanide analyzer for gold milling applications. The new CNSolution™ 9310, when incorporated into the gold milling process, can facilitate significant cost savings for mill operators. Most gold occurs at very low concentrations in ores; less than 10grams/ton [...]

COSA Xentaur Corporation announces formation of a European subsidiary with the acquisition of Hygrocontrol GmbH as of April 1, 2013, a leading manufacturer of high end relative humidity and temperature measurement instruments. The new company, Hygrocontrol COSA Xentaur GmbH, is located in Hanau, Germany and will evolve into the center of European operations for COSA [...]

SAN DIEGO,--Organovo Holdings, Inc. (OTCQX ONVO) ("Organovo"), a creator and manufacturer of functional, three-dimensional human tissues for medical research and therapeutic applications, presented at the 2013 Experimental Biology conference in Boston, Massachusettsdata on the company's in vitro three-dimensional liver. "We have achieved excellent function in a fully cellular 3D human liver tissue. With Organovo's 3D [...]

IPSWICH, Mass.,-- New England Biolabs (NEB), a leader in the production of reagents for the life science industry, announces the release of CutSmart Buffer. This latest development from NEB supports an industry-leading portfolio of over 200 restriction enzymes that exhibit 100% activity in a single buffer. With CutSmart Buffer, it is significantly easier to set [...]