Luminex Corporation Receives CE Mark for Revolutionary Newborn Screening Platform
April 26, 2012
AUSTIN, Texas,-- Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX) announced today that it has received CE marking of both the xMAP NeoPlex4 Assay and NeoPlex® System. This unique system revolutionizes the way newborn screening is performed, providing four assays from one blood spot punch, reducing sample requirements and improving laboratory efficiency. Millions of infants have blood drawn from [...]
Reinnervate Ltd and Roslin Cellab announce plans to collaborate
April 26, 2012
Reinnervate Ltd and Roslin Cellab, two leading UK companies in the fields of 3D cell culture and stem cell biology, today announced that they will join forces to develop protocols for the three dimensional growth of human Embryonic Stem Cells (hESCs). ‘This is a great opportunity for two innovative UK companies to combine their expertise [...]
April 26, 2012
Boulder, Colorado, — BiOptix today formally unveiled a new corporate brand identity and tag line: “Kinetics with Confidence,” which is designed to promote the company’s mission to transform how scientists perform label free kinetic analysis on proteins, nucleic acids and small molecules. “BiOptix is rapidly expanding, and we needed a brand and corporate identity that [...]
Neogen launches the fastest molecular pathogen test
April 26, 2012
LANSING, Mich., — Neogen Corporation (Nasdaq: NEOG) has developed the quickest and easiest test system to definitively detect pathogen DNA in food and environmental samples. Neogen’s revolutionary ANSR™ for Salmonella is the first pathogen test available for the system, and will provide results after only 10 minutes of reaction time. Other commercially available molecular amplification [...]
BT for Life Sciences R&D brings Berg Pharma into the cloud
April 26, 2012
BT today announced that Berg Pharma and BT Global Services will be working together to accelerate the process of drug discovery and development, using resources and technology from both companies. The joint effort will focus on the use of innovative approaches to target identification and validation and on lead optimization of novel drug candidates. It [...]
April 26, 2012
Ithaca, NY – Advion, Inc. a leading life sciences systems and consumables developer, continues to expand its global coverage and appoints Yair Technologies as the exclusive Israeli distributor for the expression, a compact mass spectrometer (CMS) approximately half the size, and half the price, of existing single quadrupole mass spectrometers on the market. The newly-released [...]
Sigma® Life Science Introduces Kit for Integrating Transgenes into the Rosa26 Rat Locus
April 26, 2012
ST. LOUIS, -- Sigma-Aldrich ® Corporation (Nasdaq: SIAL) today announced that Sigma Life Science, its innovative biological products and services research business, launched the first kit to precisely and efficiently integrate transgenes into the rat genome. The highly affordable CompoZr® Targeted Integration Kit - Rosa26 integrates transgenes into the conserved, ubiquitously expressed Rosa26 safe harbor [...]
New Genedata Selector for Biofuels will be Showcased at 2012 BIO World Congress
April 26, 2012
Orlando, Florida -- Genedata, a leading provider of advanced software solutions for life science, biotech, and drug discovery research, today announced the new Genedata Selector™ for Biofuels will be showcased at the 2012 World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing. Part of the Genedata Selector family of industry-specific editions, the Biofuels edition is tailored to [...]
April 26, 2012
Austin, TX,-- Today Bioo Scientific announced the release of the patent pending NEXTflex™ Directional RNA-Seq Kits and Barcodes Primer Sets which provide an easy, flexible and non-biased solution for generating directional single, paired-end and multiplexed libraries from mRNA or rRNA depleted total RNA. Using the NEXTflex Directional RNA-Seq Kit, RNA can be sequenced in the [...]
Smiths Detection wins $27M US Chemical Detector Order
April 26, 2012
Edgewood, MD,- Smiths Detection has received a $27 million order from the U.S. Army under the Department of Defense’s Joint Chemical Agent Detector (JCAD) program. Mal Maginnis, President of Smiths Detection, said: “The threat from a wide range of chemical weapons is both real and immediate and one that the military must be fully equipped [...]

