StarDrop 5.3 Offers Intuitive Virtual Library Design
November 20, 2012
CAMBRIDGE, UK, – Optibrium™, developer of software solutions for drug discovery, today announces a new version of its StarDrop platform. Version 5.3 introduces new features focused on the design of virtual libraries, guided by StarDrop’s unique multi-parameter optimisation capabilities to prioritise compounds with the best balance of properties for synthesis and testing. Version 5.3 introduces [...]
Post Accelerated Solvent Extraction (ASE) Sample Preparation
November 20, 2012
The Genevac Flip-Flop system is an innovative tool designed to facilitate post ASE® concentration and preparation of samples. Samples are collected in the special Flip-Flop tube, the funnel and vial are fitted, the tube flipped over and second cap removed. Your ASE sample can now be concentrated directly into a GC autosampler vial using a [...]
torchV10 Chosen to Add Value to Enzyme Engineering
November 20, 2012
Welwyn Garden City, UK –– Cresset, innovative provider of chemistry software and services, announces that Es-is Technologies Ltd has chosen to license torchV10 for use in enzyme engineering. torchV10 is Cresset’s desktop molecular design software, widely used by medicinal chemists for drug design. “The decision of Es-is, an enzyme design company, to work with torchV10 [...]
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 [...]

