BioTime Obtains Expanded License to HyStemR Technology

ALAMEDA, Calif -- BioTime, Inc. (NYSE MKT:BTX) announced that the company has amended its license from the University of Utah to expand the field of use for which BioTime is licensed to produce and market products covered by the core patents underlying HyStemR technology. Under the amended license, BioTime now is licensed worldwide for all [...]

BD Acquires Sirigen Group Limited

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., -- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, announced today that it has acquired Sirigen Group Limited, a developer of unique polymer dyes that are used in flow cytometry and can be applied to other technologies. Sirigen's polymer technology is based on Nobel Prize-winning research in conductive plastics [...]

AirClean® Systems launches new Patriot™ ductless fume hoods

AirClean Systems, the North American leader in ductless containment since 1992, announces the introduction of its newest product line: Patriot Ductless Fume Hoods. Patriot ductless hoods incorporate much of the advanced technology of AirClean’s Independence fume hood with the cost effective backbone of AirClean’s AC4000 folding and sliding-sash ductless fume hoods. Patriot ductless fume hoods [...]

Life’s Great Adventure – Lab in a Mini on Tour

Life Technologies (NASDAQ: LIFE) announced the start of its Ion Torrent[TM] Mini Lab Tour across the UK featuring a fully functional benchtop Personal Genome Machine (PGM[TM]) DNA sequencer nestled in the boot of a Mini. Not so long ago, you needed a PhD and a lab full of equipment to sequence the DNA of a [...]

Agilent Technologies Now Offers Single-Vendor Solutions in Supercritical Fluid Chromatography with Acquisition of Aurora SFC Systems Assets

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it has acquired the assets of Aurora SFC Systems, Inc., a leading provider of supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) products for laboratory research and analysis. The acquisition includes the Aurora SFC Systems product line as well as intellectual property. Financial details were not disclosed. Aurora SFC Systems has been [...]

Pall Corp. Adds H. Alex Kim as SVP of Business Development and Strategic Planning

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y., - Pall Corporation (NYSE: PLL) announced today that H. Alex Kim has joined the company as Senior Vice President, Business Development and Strategic Planning. In this newly created position, Mr. Kim is responsible for leading the strategic planning process for Pall’s Industrial and Life Sciences business segments and driving both organic and [...]

Dolomite announces microdroplet IP licence arrangements with Japan Science and Technology Agency

Microfluidics expert Dolomite is pleased to announce it is now a licensee of Japan Science and Technology Agency (“JST”) under JST’s microdroplet generation technology. Dolomite is authorised to grant sub-licences under JST’s microdroplet generation technologies. Dolomite offers a wide range of Droplet-forming devices featuring different junction geometries, channel sizes and surface properties. Droplet based microfluidics [...]

Affymetrix and Singapore-based Start-up PathGEN Dx Sign Partnership for Diagnostic Test Development for Pathogen Detection

SANTA CLARA, Calif. & SINGAPORE -- Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ: AFFX) and PathGEN Dx Pte. Ltd., a spin-off molecular diagnostics company founded by researchers from the Genome Institute of Singapore, today announced they have signed a Powered by AffymetrixTM (PbA) Program agreement. Under this PbA agreement, PathGEN Dx will develop an in-vitro diagnostic kit for comprehensive [...]

GE Healthcare launches ÄKTA™ pure, a new modular chromatography system for protein purification

Chalfont St Giles, UK –– GE Healthcare, the healthcare business of GE (NYSE: GE) announced today the launch of ÄKTA™ pure, a chromatography system for flexible, reliable and intuitive purification of proteins. ÄKTA pure, the latest addition to the industry-leading ÄKTA range of chromatography systems, is an easy-to-use modular system that offers the flexibility to [...]

Macro to Micro Fluorescence In Vivo Imaging with the iBox Explorer2 Imaging Microscope

The iBox® ExplorerTM2 Imaging Microscope now features expanded capabilities for detection of fluorescent markers in small animals. With magnification from whole mouse to individual cells, the iBox Explorer2 provides breakthrough advances for cancer research studies. Researchers can now visualize tumor margins, micro metastasis and more with the wide range of magnifications from 0.17x to 16.5x. [...]

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