Morrisville, NC - Centice Corporation, a pioneer in chemical verification and identification using Raman spectroscopy and computational sensor technology, announced today the promotion of Dr. Prasant Potuluri to Chief Strategy Officer. In addition to his current role as CTO, he will have the primary responsibilities of corporate development and technology business relationships. His responsibilities will [...]

BROOKLYN, NY - Despite the longstanding decline of Brooklyn-based manufacturing, and challenges in the economy as a whole, Micro Essential Laboratory is adding manufacturing capacity to keep up with demand for its products. Micro Essential Laboratory has been manufacturing pH paper in Brooklyn for decades, operating in the shadow of global power houses like pharmaceutical [...]

PENZBERG, Germany - At the "Developments in Real-Time PCR" Symposium in Prague, June 13th - 17thhttp://www.qpcrsymposium.eu/ , Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) officially presented the latest addition to the company's real-time PCR portfolio of LightCycler(R) instruments. The LightCycler(R) Nano instrument is being targeted at users expecting top performance in times of tight budgets. At [...]

Measurement and analysis instrument manufacturer SII NanoTechnology Inc., a 100% subsidiary of Seiko Instruments Inc., will release the SEA1300VX, an fluorescent X-ray Analyzer which determines the content of Cadmium in rice etc. in few minutes without preparation. The instrument will be released in July 1st , 2011. Fluorescent X-Ray Analyzer SEA1300VX SEA1300VX Fluorescent X-Ray Analyzer [...]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Knome, a life sciences company that interprets genomes to identify the genetic factors that influence disease risk, cancer progression and drug response, today announced the release of kGAP 2.0™, the second version of the company’s genome interpretation engine. kGAP 2.0 underlies the genome interpretation and comparison services that Knome provides researchers who [...]

Tecan is pleased to announce the signing of a new government services partnership agreement with Technical Communities, Inc. The agreement authorizes Technical Communities to distribute Tecan’s innovative liquid handling platforms, including the Freedom EVO® series and the Freedom EVOlyzer®, as well as Sunrise™ and Infinite® series microplate readers, and HydroFlex™ and HydroSpeed™ washers, to US [...]

CARLSBAD, Calif. - International Stem Cell Corporation (OTCBB:ISCOE) announces the discovery of a novel, patent-pending technology to produce unlimited numbers of liver cells (hepatocytes) that are free of contamination with potentially dangerous undifferentiated cells. The technology is based on the natural, physiological properties of the cellular environment, and does not require any additional purification of [...]

MANASSAS, Va. - ATCC, the premier biological materials resource and standards organization, and iPS Academia Japan, Inc. (Kyoto, Japan) (AJ) today announced a worldwide non-exclusive licensing agreement for AJ’s induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell patent portfolio. The portfolio arises from work by Professor Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA) [...]

PHILADELPHIA - Fox Chase Cancer Center, one of the nation's leading cancer research and treatment institutions, today announced it has entered into an agreement with Life Technologies Corporation that will underpin a new program to provide next-generation sequencing analysis of solid tumors. The agreement is a foundational element in the planned Cancer Genome Institute at [...]

The NEW ElectroPrep System from Harvard Apparatus is an extremely versatile patented sample prep technology based on electro-dialysis. The ElectroPrep can be used for electro-dialysis, electro-elution, electro-filtration, electro-fractionation or electro-concentration for running a sample simultaneously into multiple molecular weight cut off (MWCO) fractions…. in as little as three minutes. This ElectroPrep System is ideal for [...]