SEATTLE, --(NASDAQ: AMZN) - Amazon.com, Inc. today announced AmazonSupply (www.amazonsupply.com), a new website dedicated to offering a broad selection of parts and supplies to business, industrial, scientific and commercial customers at competitive prices. Customers can shop for items by product, material and brand across 14 categories, including: • Lab & Scientific • Test, Measure & [...]

Named for its metabolic utilization of urea, it possesses a small simple genome. Ureaplasma parvum is the genus found in the human urogenital tract. Its presence has been associated with several conditions including urethritis, pelvic inflammatory disease, congenital pneumonia and neonatal meningitis. ViroStat introduces a set of new monoclonal antibodies to U. parvum that have [...]

SKOKIE, Ill. – NanoProfessor®, a division of NanoInk®, Inc. focused on nanotechnology education, announced today that in conjunction with the City Colleges of Chicago, two City Colleges of Chicago students have been selected to participate in the NanoProfessor Internship Program. Bridget Basan, of Chicago and a student at Wilbur Wright College, and Paulina Szadkowska- Kociszewski, [...]

SANTA CLARA, CA: NextBio today unveiled NextBio Clinical, an extension of the company's existing life sciences platform to translational medicine applications such as biomarker discovery and clinical trial optimization. Adding curated genomic, molecular and clinical profiles from thousands of individual patients to the platform's existing repository of data from animal and cell line models, NextBio [...]

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 [...]