GE alliance awarded contract to design new plant-based manufacturing facility in Brazil

Chalfont St Giles, UK and Newark, DE –– GE Healthcare (NYSE: GE) and iBio, Inc. (NYSE MKT: IBIO), today announced GE Healthcare has signed a contract to design a new plant-based multipurpose manufacturing facility for Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz inBrazil. The design project is the first contract for the global alliance between GE Healthcare and iBio, announced in [...]

UK-Based West Midlands Regional Genetics Laboratory (WMRGL) Selects Cartagenia BENCHlab CNV Solution for Clinical Data Storage, Analysis

Boston, MA and Birmingham, UK –— Cartagenia, the world leader in providing genetic labs and clinicians software-based workflow support for variant assessment, lab reporting, and integration of diagnostic knowledge-bases, announced today that it has signed a license agreement for its cloud-based BENCHlab CNV solution for genetic variant storage and analysis with West Midlands Regional Genetics [...]

Beth Chain returns to laboratory sales and marketing – this time for J.G. Finneran Associates

Beth Chain Sedeyn is the new Sales and Marketing Manager for J.G. Finneran Associates, a manufacturer and supplier of unique and innovative products for chromatography, biotechnology and environmental research communities. Known for building customer relationships and managing sales channel partners, Ms. Sedeyn is bringing her experience and skills to the Vineland, NJ-based company. In addition [...]

St. John’s Research Institute Honored by Waters Center of Innovation Program

Milford, Mass. –– At a ceremony at St. John’s Research Institute (Bangalore, India) Waters announced the selection of the St. John’s Research Institute for its Centers of Innovation Program for research in the field of structural proteomics. It is the first institution in India to receive the designation of a Waters® Center of Innovation. Under [...]

BINDER GmbH celebrates its 30th anniversary

BINDER GmbH is looking back at its 30 years of success. Raised in a family of entrepreneurs, the course of the company founder Peter Michael Binder was set from early on. From a grandfather's shoe factory once run by the Binder brothers, an aspiring company has emerged 120 years later with the potential of becoming [...]

Launching of CanCELL™ cell lines, featuring knock-out of the major cancer relevant oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes

Paris (France)- CanCELL™ cell lines are featuring gene knock-outs of the major cancer relevant oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes. This new product line answers identified market needs in oncology research and drug discovery. CanCELL™ cell lines were generated by applying Cellectis bioresearch proprietary TALEN™ technology on the most commonly used cell lines for colorectal and [...]

BINDER-Innovation Prize 2013 awarded to Dr. Stephan Grill of the Max Planck Institute in Dresden, Germany

As is tradition, the German Society for Cell Biology (DGZ) in Heidelberg has recognized outstanding research in the field of basic cell biology this year with the BINDER Innovation Prize with a 4,000 Euro endowment. Among the many scientific papers, the work from Dr. Stephan Grill of the Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex [...]

Appistry Releases New Version of the GATK

St. Louis, MO -- Appistry, a leading provider of big-data software solutions, announced today the availability of the first fully supported commercial release of the Broad Institute's industry-standard NGS analysis software, the Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK). The release marks the first official release of the software by Appistry, following the announcement last October that the [...]

PI hires William Culpi as Engineering Chief – PI miCos USA Products by PI USA

William Culpi will be working on custom designs and on the integration of complex precision positioning systems for OEMs and research customers among other responsibilities. Before joining Physik Instrumente, William who holds several US patents, was VP of Engineering at MICOS USA where he developed a line of piezo positioning systems. Prior to MICOS USA, [...]

Smiths Detection Opens New Training & Service Center for the Americas

Edgewood, MD, - Smiths Detection has completed a new Training & Service Center for the Americas at its U.S. headquarters in Edgewood, Maryland. This major facility will greatly improve product training and service capabilities for customers throughout both continents, helping them maximize the use of Smiths Detection systems as part of an overall layered approach [...]

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