KineMatik and Blaze Systems Announce Strategic Alliance

Chicago, IL and Newark, DE. – Today, KineMatik, creator of the eNovator Suite of R&D software products and the leading provider of Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs), and Blaze Systems, creator of the BlazeLink and BlazeLIMS suite of laboratory informatics products, announced a strategic alliance and reseller agreement. Since 1999 KineMatik has helped R&D organizations collaborate, [...]

Center of Innovation recognizes discoveries of IU Bloomington chemist Clemmer

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A symposium this week at Indiana University will mark the establishment of a Waters Corp. Center of Innovation recognizing the work of IU Bloomington chemist David Clemmer in inventing and developing ion mobility mass spectrometry, a key technology for biochemical analysis. The symposium, "Advancements in High Resolution Mass Spectrometry for Biomolecular Characterization," [...]

Genisphere Expands Partnership with LIMR to Collaborate on Nanotherapeutics

HATFIELD, Pa. & WYNNEWOOD, Pa -- Genisphere and the nonprofit Lankenau Institute for Medical Research (LIMR), which are already making progress together on identifying Inflammatory Bowel Disease biomarkers, have partnered to develop nanotherapeutics targeting cancers and eye diseases. "LIMR is fortunate to partner with Genisphere for the development of its cancer nanotherapies,” said George Prendergast, [...]

Nanion’s automated bilayer platform Orbit 16 and Ionera’s MECA bilayer array enable the functional analysis of synthetic DNA-based nanopores

Munich & Freiburg, Germany,; In a landmark publication in Science, research on artificially designed DNA-origami nanopores has been published this week using Nanion's new ORBIT 16 platform running Ionera's MECA bilayer array chip. The team of Prof. Simmel from the Technical University Munich has created nanometer-scale transmembrane ion channels by means of self-assembled DNA-based nanostructures. [...]

DNA2.0 Partners with Newcastle University on Bacillus Subtillis Expression System

DNA2.0, the leading bioengineering solutions provider, today announced a research collaboration with Newcastle University to develop a protein expression system for Bacillus subtillis. Professor Anil Wipat and his colleagues at Newcastle’s Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology and School of Computing Science have undertaken key research on the synthetic biology applications of B. subtillis, and DNA2.0 [...]

Qualified Human Feeder Cells for iPSC Reprogramming

During cellular reprogramming the feeder layer can greatly affect the health of the cell culture and the success of the reprogramming. While a range of inactivated fibroblasts can be used as a support layer for pluripotent cell culture, not all will support mRNA reprogramming. Newborn Human Foreskin Fibroblasts (NuFF-RQ™) have been functionally validated to support [...]

Unleash the Light Within: Olympus LV200 Microscope Sets Standard for Bright Luminescent Imaging of Live Cells

CENTER VALLEY, Pa., – A benchtop commercial microscope system designed to acquire very low-light bioluminescence images has now been introduced in North America by Olympus America. The LV200 stand-alone microscope system is already being used to capture images of living cells and tissues by researchers in Europe and Japan. When used with some of the [...]

For Further Enhancement of Business Structures, Azbil Corporation decides an equity participation in Europe’s Telstar, S.A., which will become an azbil Group Company.

TOKYO, ? Azbil Corporation has announced that to further cultivate and expand business in the Life Automation business field, it will newly launch a “Life Science Engineering (LSE) business” which will provide “next-generation solutions that integrate manufacturing equipments with environmental systems, inspired by automation technologies” to markets that contribute to people’s health. As the center [...]

Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology Acquires HGV Vosseler

Oberkochen, Germany, --With the acquisition of HGV Vosseler GmbH & Co. KG in Öhringen, Germany, Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology (IMT) is strengthening its presence in the market for process control and inspection in car making. With HGV Vosseler, we have acquired the best technology available on the market. The products have a good reputation with [...]

Era7 Bioinformatics expands to U.S., Opens office in Cambridge, Mass.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. –– Era7 Bioinformatics, a Next Generation Sequencing provider based in Spain, announced today the opening of its first U.S. office, located in the Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Era7 expects to have three employees in Cambridge by the end of 2013. “When we first thought about expanding our company outside of [...]

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