BioTime and Subsidiary LifeMap Sciences Announce Data Mining Collaboration
March 4, 2013
ALAMEDA, Calif.-- BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT: BTX) and its bioinformatics subsidiary LifeMap Sciences, Inc. (“LifeMap”) today announced that they have entered into a definitive collaboration agreement to utilize LifeMap’s computer-based tools to extract information relating to novel potential commercial products from nearly 100 million proprietary gene expression data points generated and owned by BioTime. The [...]
Foundation Medicine Receives Accreditation from the College of American Pathologist
March 4, 2013
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., - Foundation Medicine, Inc. today announced that it has received accreditation from the Commission on Laboratory Accreditation of the College of American Pathologists (CAP) based on the results of a recent on-site laboratory inspection. The U.S. federal government recognizes the CAP Laboratory Accreditation Program as being equal-to or more-stringent-than the government’s own inspection [...]
Horizon Discovery Establishes Three New Centers of Excellence in Asia
March 4, 2013
CAMBRIDGE, England & LONDON -- Horizon Discovery (Horizon), a leading provider of research tools to support the development of personalized medicines, today announced it has established three new Centers of Excellence (CoE’s) for gene editing in Asia. The new Centers are at Aichi Cancer Center, Japan, Seoul National University, South Korea, and the National Cancer [...]
March 4, 2013
Houston, Texas (CERA Week 2013) —— Picarro Inc. (Twitter: @Picarro), today announced Picarro Surveyor™ for natural gas emissions, the world’s first mobile and cloud processing platform for measuring fugitive methane emissions across an entire natural gas production field. The new solution allows natural gas producers and hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) engineering firms to accurately identify and [...]
March 4, 2013
Bishops Stortford, UK, – Dotmatics, leading supplier of enterprise life science informatics solutions, announces the appointment of Shanghai Budou Technology as their Chinese distributor. The partnership will make Dotmatics’ versatile informatics platform available to a large new market and will provide local support to Dotmatics’ existing Chinese customer base. “Our integrated enterprise informatics systems are [...]
Chemical Ionization (HR-CI) Source Introduced by LECO for Pegasus® GC-HRT
March 4, 2013
St. Joseph, Mich.—LECO Corporation is pleased to announce a chemical ionization (HR-CI) source for the Pegasus GC-HRT (high resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometer). This field upgradable option empowers users to dramatically change their high resolution GC/MS information with never before seen mass accuracy and resolution on pseudomolecular ions. The Pegasus GC-HRT is available with both electron [...]
March 4, 2013
CARLSBAD, Calif., -- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) announced today that it has signed a collaborative research agreement and related license with Harvard University under which it has acquired exclusive rights to develop a panel of characterization assays designed to rapidly evaluate human pluripotent stem (hPS) cells for their utility in a variety of discovery [...]
TriLink BioTechnologies Awarded SBIR Phase I Grant
March 1, 2013
SAN DIEGO, -- TriLink BioTechnologies, Inc. (TriLink, trilinkbiotech.com) was recently awarded a Phase I SBIR Grant of approximately $130,000 by the National Institutes of Health to develop an approach to RNA sample preparation for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) using TriLink's expertise in nucleic acid chemistry. This is the sixth Phase I grant TriLink has been [...]
March 1, 2013
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – Xylem Inc. (NYSE: XYL), a leading global water technology company focused on addressing the world’s most challenging water issues, announced today that it has acquired MultiTrode Pty Ltd, a privately held Australia-based water and wastewater technology and services company, for approximately $26 million. The actual terms of the transaction were not [...]
March 1, 2013
A new $7.5 million gift from Shimadzu Scientific Instruments to The University of Texas at Arlington will support one of the most significant installments of advanced scientific equipment in the United States, propelling the University to new heights of discovery and innovation. Students work in the Shimadzu Center for Advanced Analytical Chemistry, one of three [...]
