BellBrook Labs announced the launch of an improved Transcreener AMP2/GMP2 Assaythat uses a new monoclonal antibody, allowing more sensitive detection of hundreds of enzymes of potential therapuetic interest including ligases, synthetases, phosphodiesterases and sialyltransferases. These and related enzymes are being targeted for a diverse range of diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular disease and infectious diseases, and [...]

ALAMEDA, Calif. & CAMBRIDGE, Mass.,--BioTime, Inc. (NYSE Amex:BTX) and its wholly owned subsidiary LifeMap Sciences today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement to acquire XenneX, Inc. through a merger of XenneX into LifeMap Sciences. The acquisition is expected to close within thirty days. XenneX holds the exclusive, worldwide licenses to market GeneCards(R) and [...]

Jena, — Analytik Jena AG (Frankfurt DE0005213508, Prime Standard: AJA) has acquired the remaining shares in its subsidiary AJ Roboscreen GmbH and is now its sole owner with 100.0%. The Jena-based manufacturer of analytical instrumentation technology, life science instruments and optoelectronics has thus integrated another subsidiary further into the Group. "We are pursuing a very [...]

Recently deployed at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Braunschweig, Germany, the new Convey-CLC bio solution substantially accelerates and extends HZI’s ability to manage and analyze next generation sequencing (NGS) data. The integration of Convey’s compute architecture with CLC Genomics Server and CLC Genomics Workbench provides distinct advantages to genomics researchers. “The combination of [...]

Billerica, MA, – Seahorse Bioscience, the leader in cellular bioenergetic measurements, announced the launch of its newest stress test kit at the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2012. The XF Glycolysis Stress Test Kit is the first Standard for measuring glycolytic capacity in cells. Cells rely on two major pathways, mitochondrial respiration [...]

Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (Nasdaq: SIAL) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have entered into a licensing agreement through which Sigma-Aldrich will offer two widely-used membrane scaffold proteins used in Nanodisc technology, developed by Professor Stephen Sligar, Director of the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology. “The Nanodisc technology is enabling life science researchers to elucidate [...]

NeTLIMS™ NJ, LLC, a provider of advanced Laboratory Information Systems (LIS), is releasing a new automatic printing system, AutoPrinter, for its AutoLims® advanced laboratory information system. Designed for remote printing, AutoPrinter does away with the need for faxes and standalone remote printers. Based on Web services, the solution can communicate with any Windows-supported printer and [...]

At today’s Annual Shareholders’ Meeting in Goettingen, Germany, shareholders approved all board proposals by a large majority. Thus, the Annual Shareholders' Meeting passed the resolution to pay dividends of 0.82 euro per preference share (previous year: 0.62 euro) and 0.80 euro per ordinary share (previous year: 0.60 euro). Accordingly, the total amount of dividends to [...]

Salisbury, UK, -- NanoSight, leading manufacturers of unique nanoparticle characterization technology, reports on the work of Professor Tuan Vo-Dinh’s group at Duke University where they apply Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA) to characterize metal nanoparticle construct materials for use in biosensing, imaging and cancer therapy. The Vo-Dinh Lab is a part of the Departments of Biomedical [...]

3M Food Safety announced today that its new 3M™ Molecular Detection Assay – Salmonella has received AOAC-PTM Certification (#031208) from the AOAC Research Institute’s Performance Tested MethodsSM Program. The 3M™ Molecular Detection System was first introduced in December 2011 as an innovative combination of two technologies – isothermal DNA amplification and bioluminescence detection – that [...]