Compugen Announces $15 Million Funding Agreement for Its Keddem Subsidiary
November 19, 2012
Tel Aviv, Israel – Compugen Ltd. (Nasdaq: CGEN) announced today the signing of an agreement with a private U.S.-based investment company pursuant to which up to $15,000,000 in milestone related equity financing will be made available to Keddem Bioscience Ltd., currently a wholly owned subsidiary of Compugen. This financing will be used to further develop [...]
November 19, 2012
REYKJAVIK, Iceland - deCODE Genetics and Illumina, global leaders in analyzing and understanding the human genome, together with scientists from the National Hospital of Iceland and collaborators from Holland, Germany and the United States, reported today in the New England Journal of Medicine the identification of just the second gene variant found to confer high [...]
Takara Bio Partners with Pathogenica For HAI Sequencing Service in Japan
November 19, 2012
Otsu/Shiga, Japan -- Takara Bio Inc. has announced an agreement with Pathogenica Inc., based in Boston, to market and distribute the Pathogenica HAI (Hospital Acquired Infection) BioDetection Kit in Japan. The kit is currently being sold for research use and is the first DNA sequencing analysis product that enables identification of infectious diseases with sequence-specific [...]
November 19, 2012
CHELMSFORD, MA – Industries in which high value equipment assets are used such as in mining, military, oil and gas, transportation, and construction, will benefit from the latest software release from Spectro, Inc. SpectroTrack, Version 2.0, is an information management system (IMS) that provides a comprehensive, historical view of fluid conditions for a single piece [...]
OpGen Announces Expanded Adoption of Argus® Whole Genome Mapping System
November 19, 2012
Gaithersburg, Md.—— OpGen, Inc., a commercial stage DNA analysis company, today announced the Argus® Whole Genome Mapping System continues to gain broad adoption among genome sequencing centers worldwide. Five leading international genomic sequencing centers have joined the growing list of centers utilizing OpGen’s technology to enhance their next-generation sequencing capabilities. The centers include The Genome [...]
November 19, 2012
SYDNEY, Australia, -- At the 2012 triennial International Small-Angle Scattering Conference (https://sas2012.com), Bruker launches the METALJET™, a novel and extremely bright microfocus X-ray source for structural biology applications. The unique METALJET is now offered exclusively by Bruker as a source option for D8 VentureTM protein crystallography systems and for NanostarTM Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) [...]
BioCat and ALPCO Diagnostics Sign Exclusive Distribution Agreement
November 19, 2012
Heidelberg, Germany, - BioCat, a distributor of research reagents and cutting-edge technologies in the fields of genomics, proteomics, and cell biology, announces the signing of an exclusive distribution agreement with ALPCO Diagnostics. The agreement names BioCat as the exclusive distributor for ALPCO products in Germany. Representatives of BioCat and ALPCO met in the course of [...]
Sigma-Aldrich Aligns Into Three New Market-Focused Business Units
November 19, 2012
ST. LOUIS, -- Effective January 1, 2013, Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL) will align its organization into three market-focused business units that are defined by the customers and markets they serve. This new organization will enable Sigma-Aldrich to better address the needs of its global customers and to further drive global sales growth. Frank Wicks will [...]
LifeMap Sciences, a Subsidiary of BioTime, Announces Release of GeneCards® Version 3.09
November 19, 2012
ALAMEDA, Calif.-- LifeMap Sciences, Inc., a subsidiary of BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT: BTX), announced today the release of GeneCards®, Version 3.09, on November 18, 2012. The new release is available at www.genecards.org. LifeMap Sciences holds the exclusive worldwide license to market GeneCards® from Yeda Research and Development Company Ltd., the commercial arm of the Weizmann [...]
CO2/O2 Controller Ideal for Hypoxia and Hyperoxia Live-Cell Imaging Experiments
November 19, 2012
Warner Instruments is pleased to introduce the Bold Line CO2 - O2 Gas Controllers, part of the complete line of gas controllers from Okolab. Warner Instruments is the Authorized Distributor for Okolab products in the US. • Digitally controls O2 and CO2 concentration • Fully integrated with Bold Line Temperature Controllers The Bold Line combination [...]

