June 24, 2012
Sunnyvale CA, and Mountain View, CA USA, – DVS Sciences, Inc., a privately held innovator and manufacturer of novel CyTOF® multi-parameter single-cell analyzers and reagents for biological research, today announced a business agreement with Cytobank, Inc., a privately held developer of cloud based scientific, informatics and software solutions for the flow cytometry market. The CyTOF [...]
BD Biosciences Launches BD FACSJazz™ Cell Sorting System
June 23, 2012
San Jose, CA – BD Biosciences, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), today announced the launch of the BD FACSJazz™ Cell Sorting System, a next-generation flow cytometer that simplifies cellular isolation and analysis for researchers requiring high sample integrity. Occupying 20” x 20” (51 cm x 51 cm) of benchtop space, [...]
Rapid, Reliable Isolation and Processing of Individual Cells for Genomic Analysis
June 22, 2012
Fluidigm recently unveiled the details of its new C1™ Single-Cell AutoPrep System to attendees at the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) meeting in Yokohama, Japan. The C1 System, based on Fluidigm's innovative microfluidic technology, enables a researcher to isolate and process individual cells rapidly and reliably for genomic analysis. For the first time, [...]
NeuroTherapeutics Pharma (NTP) licenses Dotmatics’ informatics platform
June 22, 2012
Dotmatics Limited, a leading provider of scientific informatics solutions and services to the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology industries, announces that NeuroTherapeutics Pharma, Inc has licensed and deployed the Dotmatics informatics platform. NTP’s increasing need for an informatics system, to manage their chemistry and related data, led them to assess and evaluate available solutions in the market. [...]
Agilent Technologies Completes Acquisition of Dako, Danish Cancer Diagnostics Company
June 21, 2012
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that its acquisition of cancer diagnostics company Dako has been completed. Agilent, which paid $2.2 billion in cash for Dako (on a debt-free basis), expects the acquisition to help strengthen Agilent's position in life sciences, with a focus on product development to help in the fight against cancer. [...]
Aushon Launches Cira™ Multiplex Protein Biomarker Platform
June 21, 2012
BILLERICA, MA – Aushon announced the launch of Cira, a new multiplex immunoassay platform that achieves the sensitivity and reproducibility of singleplex ELISA, while substantially improving ease of use and leveraging the benefits of parallel analysis. The system’s revolutionary design produces faster results at a lower cost per sample and higher throughput without compromising the [...]
Marvin Green Joins NeTLIMS as Chief Operating Officer
June 21, 2012
Jersey City, NJ -- NeTLIMS™ NJ, LLC, a provider of advanced Laboratory Information Systems (LIS), has named Marvin Green as Chief Operating Officer of the company. In this role, Green will focus on client, personnel and operations management for NeTLIMS. Before joining NeTLIMS, he was president and co-founder of Hunter Green Associates, an IT consulting [...]
Bruker Announces Contract Award for JPEO-CBD IPDS-LR Program
June 21, 2012
BILLERICA, Mass -- Bruker today announced the award of a contract for an additional 40 systems from the Improved Point Detection System – Lifecycle Replacement (IPDS-LR) program through the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense (JPEO-CBD) for use by the United States Navy. The overall effort is being managed by the Joint [...]
CFDRC Developing Cell-based Microchip to Study Drug Interactions with the Blood-Brain Barrier
June 21, 2012
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.- CFD Research Corporation (CFDRC) has been awarded a $1.3M grant from the National Institutes of Health to further develop their novel in vitro Blood-Brain Barrier model. Building upon CFDRC’s patented and commercially available SynVivo platform, SynVivo-BBB is a cell-based microchip which allows co-culture of endothelial cells under physiological flow with neuronal and glial [...]
June 21, 2012
Munich, Germany, — Definiens®, the leading provider of image analysis and data mining solutions for quantitative digital pathology, today announced the release of Definiens Image Miner™ 2. The new product provides researchers in the life sciences with deeper insights into underlying biology by integrating image with data analysis. Image Miner 2 makes the wealth of [...]
