Baltimore, MD and Cambridge, UK – BD Diagnostics, a segment of global medical technology company BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), and Lab21, a global leader in personalized healthcare diagnostics, announced today that they will collaborate to develop oncology assays for the BD MAX™ fully automated, bench-top molecular system. Under the terms of the [...]

ST. LOUIS, -- Sigma-Aldrich® Corporation (Nasdaq: SIAL) today announced that Sigma Life Science, its innovative biological products and services business, initiated a licensing program aimed at contract research organizations (CROs) and pharmaceutical companies for its novel CompoZr® Transporter Knockout Cell Lines for preclinical ADME screening and safety studies. Complete functional knockouts of transporters in the [...]

CARLSBAD, CA -- International Stem Cell Corporation (OTCQB:ISCO) www.internationalstemcell.com) ("ISCO" or "the Company"), a California-based biotechnology company focused on therapeutic and research products, today announced that its subsidiary, Lifeline Cell Technology (LCT), will begin selling products through Fisher Scientific, Inc.'s ("Fisher Scientific") online catalogue as an Encompass Preferred Supplier. Typically large pharmaceutical companies buy research [...]

Irvine, CA – Newport Corporation, a worldwide leader in lasers and photonics solutions that Make, Manage and Measure Light®, announced today that it has acquired the products and technology of Vistek, a Tempe, Arizona-based manufacturer of advanced vibration isolation solutions. The new products will be offered under Newport’s VIBe family of isolation products, and include [...]

Genetic Technologies Limited (ASX: GTG; NASDAQ: GENE) advises that, in conjunction with its assertion partner Sheridan Ross P.C., the Company has filed patent infringement suits in respect of its non-coding DNA technologies against the following entities in the following jurisdictions: ? Genesis Genetics Institute, L.L.C. (filed in United States District Court for the Eastern District [...]

AB SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies,and Phytronix Technologies today announced the integration of Phytronix's LDTD (Laser Diode Thermal Desorption) ion source with AB SCIEX's DiscoveryQuantTM Software, giving discovery pharmaceutical scientists a faster, more streamlined method development process with automated method optimizationthan previously available for early ADME workflows. The new solution was [...]

BELLINGHAM, Wash.--dissolving dust-free grade (DF) Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate (SDS). Two manufacturing processes, chemical synthesis and enzyme conversion, make up current worldwide acrylamide production. Chemical synthesis of acrylamide involves adding water to acrylonitrile, usually catalyzed by the addition of Copper (Cu+). This widely used production method carries three significant disadvantages including poor yield, unwanted polymerization or [...]

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.-- Fluxion Biosciences, Inc. announced today that it has registered its South San Francisco facility as a medical device establishment with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The company plans to use this facility to manufacture and distribute its IsoFlux System for circulating tumor cell analysis, which will be launched in November. [...]

SAN DIEGO and ST. LOUIS, -- Assay Depot and Rare Genomics Institute have joined together in a unique partnership with 19 life science companies to launch the first Rare Disease Science Challenge: Be HEARD (Helping Empower and Accelerate Research Discoveries). Rare diseases affect over 25 million Americans, yet less than five percent of the 7,000 [...]

CHICAGO - 2012 AAPS Conference -–Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, is featuring a combined FT-IR spectrometer/rheometer that provides a powerful analytical workstation for rapidly optimizing the pharmaceutical manufacturing process. The Thermo Scientific Rheonaut module enables the Thermo Scientific HAAKE MARS III rheometer to be coupled with either a Thermo Scientific [...]