DNA2.0 Adds Piggybac™ Mammalian Expression System To Vector Line
May 24, 2012
DNA2.0, the leading bioengineering solutions provider, today introduced the piggyBac™ Mammalian Expression System, an efficient, one plasmid method to create stable transfectants in mammalian cells. Licensed from Transposagen Biopharmaceuticals Inc., the piggyBac transposon system includes reversible genetic modification and rapid insertion site characterization. DNA2.0 scientists have taken Transposagen’s best-in-class genetic modification system and optimized it [...]
Cole-Parmer Presents Fluid Handling and Lab Equipment at ACHEMA 2012
May 24, 2012
Attendees of ACHEMA 2012, 18-22 June, Frankfurt am Main, will have the opportunity to see a variety of Masterflex® pump systems live at the Cole-Parmer stand (Hall 4.2, N53). This selection of high-performance peristaltic pumps serves the biotechnology, chemical, industrial, research and development, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical industries, among others. In addition to the Masterflex® C/L® [...]
Sigma-Aldrich Pledges $150,000 to SIUE Arts and Sciences
May 24, 2012
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville College of Arts and Sciences Dean Aldemaro Romero today announced that Sigma-Aldrich Corporation has pledged $150,000 over a 5-year period supporting the College’s introduction of a new degree program along with contributing to the new science building on campus. The gift also will result in naming rights for a laboratory in [...]
Cellectricon Launches Cellaxess® Elektra Discovery Platform
May 24, 2012
Cellectricon Launches Cellaxess® Elektra Discovery Platform Cellectricon is pleased to announce the new Cellaxess Elektra Discovery Platform which represents a revolutionary development in automated electric field manipulation of adherent cells. Developed in close collaboration with leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, the platform is highly diverse and can be applied to a wide variety of cellular [...]
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Joins the Illumina Genome Network
May 23, 2012
SAN DIEGO -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced that the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has joined the Illumina Genome Network (IGN) to provide researchers with broader access to whole genome sequencing (WGS) services. IGN and CSHL will work in collaboration to bring together CSHL’s expertise in molecular biology and cancer genomics with Illumina’s industry-leading [...]
Lucigen Corporation Awarded $2.8M SBIR Grant for Point of Care Diagnostics
May 23, 2012
Lucigen Corporation announced today that it has recently been awarded its largest SBIR Phase II grant to date to fund research and development of a point of care diagnostic test for influenza. The National Institutes of Health has awarded Lucigen a total of $2.8M in a Small Business Innovation Research grant to be used to [...]
RUSNANO Board of Directors Approves Company’s First Exit from Investment Project
May 23, 2012
RUSNANO’s Board of Directors has approved the company's first exit from a previously-invested company. RUSNANO sells its 27.6 percent equity stake in Advanced Technologies Center, a leading producer of scanning probe microscopes and atomic scales. The sale to the project applicant, NPP CPT will generate IRR of 29.5 percent on RUSNANO’s investment. RUSNANO’s co-financing enabled [...]
Contur ELN from Accelrys Powers UK’s Largest Trial of Academic Electronic Lab Notebooks
May 23, 2012
SAN DIEGO, -- Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL), a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, today announced it is enabling up to 400 scientists at 16 leading universities in the UK to evaluate the low-cost, easy-to-deploy and use Contur Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) offered by Accelrys' Contur Software subsidiary. The program, which runs through [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Announces New SO3 System to Manage Sulfur Trioxide in Tough
May 23, 2012
FRANKLIN, Mass. – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the new Thermo Scientific® Arke™ SO3 System, designed to help plants control SO3 levels through continuously monitoring. The Arke SO3 System is ideal for users looking to minimize operational costs or improve efficiencies in industrial processes. Continuous monitoring of SO3 [...]
FEI Launches ‘Living Lab’ for Structural Biology Research at NIH
May 23, 2012
Hillsboro, Ore ? FEI (NASDAQ: FEIC), a scientific instruments company, marked the official launch of the new Living Lab for Structural Biology during an event on the NIH campus today. “This event commences the FEI-NIH Living Lab joint scientific projects. FEI has installed the Titan Krios™ transmission electron microscope (TEM), the world’s most powerful commercially-available [...]
