Epigenetics: Changing the Way We Think about DNA

Zymo Research Corporation, a privately held company located in Irvine, California, has recently expanded its range of tools and services for scientists working in one of the hottest fields of science today – Epigenetics. Zymo Research now offers the most comprehensive suite of services for epigenetic analysis, including genome-wide platforms for profiling DNA methylation and [...]

ProteoNic and Oxford Expression Technologies Sign UNic™ License for Use in flashBAC™ Protein Expression Platform

Leiden, Netherlands/Oxford, United Kingdom, – Dutch biotech company ProteoNic BV and Oxford Expression Technologies Ltd (OET), a leading provider of baculovirus-based protein expression products and services, have extended their partnership by signing a commercial license agreement. OET obtains the right to use ProteoNic’s UNic™ translation enhancing elements in its flashBAC™ system for third party recombinant [...]

Real Time Genomics Announces Formation of its Scientific Advisory Board

Real Time Genomics, Inc., the genome analytics company, today announced the formation of its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) to provide guidance and expertise as the company develops tools to improve the accuracy and utility of genomic sequencing in the research of human disease. Founding members of the SAB include Dr. George Weinstock, Associate Director of [...]

Tecan’s OEM partner Dako unveils new platform at global congress

Männedorf, Switzerland - The Tecan Group (SIX Swiss Exchange: TECN) announced today that its OEM partner Dako, an Agilent Technologies Company and worldwide provider of cancer diagnostics, unveiled the new advanced staining platform at the 2013 USCAP congress in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Earlier this week, it was presented to a global gathering of pathologists and [...]

Electron Magnetic Resonance shrinks to fit the undergraduate curriculum

Oxford Instruments have created the EMR Education Pack to facilitate the reintroduction of Electron Magnetic Resonance (EPR/ESR) to the undergraduate curriculum. The pack has been designed to be used with the AffirmoEX, the world's smallest, simplest-to-use, and most affordable benchtop EMR instrument. The EMR Education Pack comprises three elements: a PowerPoint presentation introducing the concepts [...]

PolyScience to Exhibit Its Latest Liquid Temperature Control Solutions at Pittcon 2013

PolyScience, a leading manufacturer of liquid temperature control solutions, will be exhibiting its newest circulating baths, immersion circulators, recirculating chillers, general purpose water baths, and other temperature control products at the 64th Annual Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy in Philadelphia on March 17 through 21, 2013. Included in the products on display [...]

Route-Enabled FluidScan® Q1100 Handheld Infrared Oil Analyzer Provides Direct, Immediate Measurement of Lubricant Condition

Lubrication abnormalities are a major cause of equipment downtime and failure. To prevent those costly occurrences, the FluidScan Q1100 handheld infrared oil analyzer from Spectro Inc. enables users to determine when oil is no longer fit for use due to liquid contamination or degradation. The compact instrument provides direct, immediate measurement of water, total acid [...]

NEW 24-well RAFT Kit for Realistic 3D Cell Culture Models for Toxicology Research

Cambridge, UK: TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems and consumables for life science applications will be unveiling its latest development in 3D cell culture, the RAFT™ 24 well Kit on Booth #1159 at the Society of Toxicology (SOT) Meeting. The kit can produce realistic, reproducible single or multiple 3D cell cultures [...]

Kinexus Identifies Over 966,000 Phosphorylation Sites in the Human Proteome

VANCOUVER, - Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation, a world-leader in molecular intelligence research, announced a major upgrade in its PhosphoNET KnowledgeBase (www.phosphonet.ca) for the study of cell communication systems. This open-access website now features data on over 177,000 experimentally-confirmed human phosphorylation sites (P-sites) and 789,000 additional P-sites predicted with a powerful algorithm trained with over 22,000 kinase-substrate [...]

Affymetrix Names GenoSplice as Its Preferred Data Analysis Service Provider Increasing Accessibility for Bioinformatics in Genomic Research

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-- Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX) announced a co-marketing agreement today naming GenoSplice, Inc. as its preferred data analysis service provider for the new GeneChip® Human Transcriptome Array 2.0, the most comprehensive microarray available for alternative splicing detection. GenoSplice, a leader in genomic data analysis and alternative splicing, has developed a dedicated expression analysis solution, [...]

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