BGI, the world's largest genomic organization, announces several bioinformatics analysis pipelines and software, including assembly and binning tools, genetic variation software, as well as two cloud-based green solutions for genomic-based research. In addition, GigaScience, an upcoming research journal published by BGI, announces the launch of its new, freely accessible, large-scale database: GigaDB. The launch of [...]

Scientific Industries Inc., announced that it has acquired from Fluorometrix Corporation, a privately held corporation its license from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (“UMBC”) and related sublicenses, including one with the Company with respect to patents related to the design, development and sale of bioprocessing products, systems and methods. The Company also has engaged [...]

HILLSBORO, Ore. - FEI, a leading instrumentation company providing imaging and analysis systems for research and industry, today announced that it has acquired TILL Photonics of Munich, Germany. TILL provides sophisticated, high resolution, digital light microscopes and high speed imaging systems for live cell fluorescence microscopy. "The Life Sciences market is a key growth opportunity [...]

DELHI, India--AB SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, today announced that it has acquired the mass spectrometry business of Labindia Instruments Pvt. Ltd., a leading life science solutions service provider in India. This acquisition represents AB SCIEX’s increasing investment in India, combining its global resources, world-class scientific expertise and product development leadership [...]

Wetzlar, Germany / Delhi, India. Leica Microsystems, a world leading provider of microscopy systems and total histology solutions, today announced that it has acquired the microscopy and histopathology business of Labindia Instruments Pvt. Ltd., a leading solutions and service provider in India. This transition comes after more than 20 years during which Labindia has successfully [...]

Sunnyvale, CA: Laboratory equipment calibration and sales provider AL-TAR Services, Inc. has announced its new sales channel partnership with Thermo-Fisher Scientific laboratory equipment. The Thermo-Scientific product line includes CO2 incubators, cold storage units, laboratory freezers and low-temperature incubators designed for improving and providing workflow solutions for sample preparation, sample analysis and data interpretation. ACLASS ANSI [...]

GE Healthcare has launched the His Capture Kit and NTA Reagent Kit for time saving and convenient capture of histidine-tagged ligands using Biacore systems. The new His Capture Kit comprises of an optimized protocol and the required reagents for capture by an anti-histidine antibody. Requiring minimum assay development, the kit works in conjunction with a [...]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Xennex Inc. (Xennex) announced today the release of GeneCards®, Version 3.07, available at www.genecards.org. The new GeneCards release includes 68,445 Entries, 32,088 of them with symbols approved by the HUGO gene nomenclature committee. It provides several new features, integrated from a variety of sources, including: Ensembl Pan Taxonomic Compara: Orthologs from non-eukaryotic [...]

Toray Industries, Inc. announces a competition award for groundbreaking research using 3D-Gene™, DNA microarray. It is donated to encourage further progress and achievements of scientists using DNA microarray technology in their research, leading to publishing papers of superior quality. This year, the award is focusing on the research related to microRNA expression, especially from blood [...]

CHANTILLY, Va. - Dynex Technologies, Inc., a global manufacturer of products designed to make diagnostic testing easier, more cost-effective, and less labor intensive, will feature its breakthrough Dynex® Agility™ ELISA microplate sample processing system at the MEDICA 2011 – World Forum of Medicine in Dusseldorf, Germany, from November 16 to 19, 2011. The Agility system [...]