Tedia Company, Inc., of Fairfield, OH, the largest producer of OEM high-purity solvents in North America, has entered into a joint venture with a Chinese firm to operate the largest high-purity solvents manufacturing plant in Asia. Tedia is the first international company to invest directly in a high-purity solvents manufacturing facility in China. Tedia will [...]

Basel, Switzerland, Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for drug discovery and life science research, today announced Axxam is advancing its high-throughput screening services with Genedata Screener. Axxam, a leading contract research and discovery company, focuses on collaborative research programs for the life science industry. With Genedata Screener’s flexible configuration capabilities and rich [...]

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & TORONTO, DVS Sciences, Inc., a privately held innovator and manufacturer of novel CyTOF® multi-parameter single-cell analyzers and MAXPAR® reagents for biological research and potential clinical applications, today announced that Joseph Victor has been appointed President and CEO and a Director. Mr. Victor has more than 25 years of experience fostering product innovation [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced an expanded set of capabilities for its popular 6000ILM atomic force microscope. Designed to facilitate molecular imaging, live-cell imaging, force studies and mechanical stimulus studies, the Agilent 6000ILM AFM is a versatile single-system solution that seamlessly integrates the capabilities of an atomic force microscope with those of [...]

SAN DIEGO, ForteBio®, Inc., a leading supplier of label-free technology that accelerates the development of biotherapeutic and pharmaceutical products, today announced the launch of BLItz™, a revolutionary new platform that will enable scientists – for the first time – to conduct label-free analyses of proteins using small sample volumes easily and cost-efficiently at their lab [...]

Dunedin, FL, Advances in high-performance sensor materials and optoelectronics have enabled novel optical sensors for use in applications in life sciences, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, food and beverage processing and more. Compared with traditional electrochemical sensing techniques such as galvanic sensors, Ocean Optics (www.oceanoptics.com) optical sensors can be made in small and customizable form factors, allow non-intrusive [...]

Billerica, MA, EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA* of Germany, today announced launch of the innovative Muse™ Cell Analyzer system for real-time quantitative assessment of cell concentration, cell health, apoptosis, and cell cycle with greater accuracy and precision than manual hemocytometry or image-based automated analysis. By providing real-time, multi-dimensional information on cell [...]

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--The Premier healthcare alliance today announced a new agreement for specialty distribution-research has been awarded to VWR International, LLC, a global laboratory supply and distribution company with worldwide sales in excess of $3.6 billion in 2010. This is a new contract category for Premier which was established for research facilities. It includes items that [...]

NDIANAPOLIS, Roche announced today that it has entered into a collaborative agreement with ChanTest Corporation, a leading ion channel screening provider, to perform cardiac safety testing of potential drug compounds using Roche's xCELLigence System RTCA Cardio Instrument and iCell® Cardiomyocytes, human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell-derived cardiomyocytes provided by Cellular Dynamics International (CDI). Over the [...]

San Francisco, CA and Chalfont St Giles, UK, UCSF and the Cell Technologies business of GE Healthcare Life Sciences have begun a unique collaboration aimed at overcoming the lack of blood-forming stem cells available to patients suffering from life-threatening diseases such as lymphoma, myeloma, leukemia or sickle cell anemia. The goal of the $840,000, three-year [...]