Knome Appoints Gary A. Cohen as Senior Vice President and General Counsel
June 11, 2012
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-- Knome, Inc., the human genome interpretation company, today announced that it has appointed Gary A. Cohen, JD, MPH, as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the company. In this role, Mr. Cohen will be responsible for all legal functions of the company and will join the Knome executive management team. Knome [...]
June 11, 2012
NanoProfessor, a division of NanoInk, Inc. focused on nanotechnology education, announced today that Inter American University of Puerto Rico in Bayamón has chosen the NanoProfessor Nanoscience Education Program to serve as the foundation for its new nanoscience education program. The Bayamón campus will become the first location in Puerto Rico to implement the NanoProfessor Program. [...]
Accelrys European Science Symposium Highlights Advanced Data Analysis and Predictive Science
June 11, 2012
SAN DIEGO, -- Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL), a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, announced its first European Science Symposium with a focus on advancing scientific innovation through improved predictive science and data analysis. Taking place on June 20 at the Sheraton Brussels Hotel, this free event provides the opportunity for scientists to [...]
Sony to launch ‘Cell Sorter,’ an instrument for cell analysis which utilizes Blu-ray Disc technology
June 11, 2012
Tokyo, Japan, June11, 2012 - Sony today announced that it will begin taking orders for Cell Sorter SH800 starting this fall. Cell Sorter SH800 is the first ‘flow cytometer’ cell analysis instrument developed by Sony for the optical analysis of cells. This product successfully automates optical alignment and sorting set-up by utilizing Sony's technologies cultivated [...]
June 11, 2012
OMAHA, Neb. – Transgenomic, Inc. (OTC/BB: TBIO) announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office has issued patent number US 8,137,919 entitled “Method of Determining the Sensitivity of Cancer Cells to EGFR Inhibitors including Cetuximab, Panitumumab and Erlotinib”. The patent was exclusively licensed to Transgenomic by the Montefiore Medical Center (Bronx, NY, US) and includes [...]
BioTek Receives European Patent for Microplate Washer Technology
June 11, 2012
BioTek announces receipt of European Patent EP 2 093 572 B1, covering the ultrasonic cleaning and maintenance feature used in their microplate washers. Known as Ultrasonic Advantage™, this unique cleaning technology is incorporated into most of BioTek’s microplate washers including the 405™ Touch, 405 LS, ELx405™ Select Deep Well Microplate Washers and the EL406™ Microplate [...]
SAFC Announces Launch of New Integrated Chiral Offer
June 11, 2012
ST. LOUIS, -- Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL) today announced that its custom manufacturing and services business unit, SAFC® (www.safcglobal.com), will consolidate its global chiral chromatography screening and small scale purification operations and locate them at its Pharmorphix® Solid State Research Laboratories in Cambridge, UK, to support its new integrated chiral chemistry offer. The Cambridge facility [...]
June 11, 2012
SAN DIEGO, -- Fate Therapeutics, Inc. in collaboration with BD Biosciences, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), today announced the introduction of the first induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-related product resulting from the collaboration between the two companies. BD™ SMC4 is a patent protected, pre-formulated cocktail of small molecules for improving cellular reprogramming [...]
Syapse Launches Application to Make Omics Data Actionable in Clinical R&D
June 11, 2012
Palo Alto, CA -- Syapse announced today the commercial launch of Discovery, its cloud-based application for making omics data actionable in clinical research and development. Discovery combines a powerful platform for aggregating and structuring biomedical data with intuitive data mining, workflow, and reporting features, enabling biopharma and diagnostics companies to leverage the increasing amount of [...]
Accelerated Development of Crystallisation Methods
June 11, 2012
Asynt has supplied the Wilson Structural Chemistry Research Group at the University of Bath (Bath, UK) with a custom DrySyn heating block system. The adapted DrySyn system, designed by Asynt in conjunction with the University of Bath, is being used to help simplify and accelerate development of crystallisation methodology to selectively control polymorph formation, and [...]
