Heyford Park, Oxford, UK: 2BScientific, a leading life science products distributor, has signed an agreement that will see the company become the exclusive UK and Ireland distribution partner of San Diego-based IMGENEX Corporation, which develops and commercializes novel reagents including antibodies, gene and protein expression systems, and functional genomics arrays. James Bernard, Managing Director of [...]

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it will release the CellVoyager™ CV7000 high-throughput cytological discovery system on October 5. This enhanced system has four times as wide an imaging area as our previous model and surpasses that model's industry leading throughput. The CV7000 will help accelerate the discovery of new drugs and improve the efficiency of [...]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and LA JOLLA, Calif. -- Complete Genomics Inc., the whole human genome sequencing company, and the not-for-profit Scripps Health system today announced a major collaboration that will help further the Wellderly Study, a landmark scientific research initiative aimed at unlocking the genetic secrets of lifelong health. Under the collaboration, Complete Genomics will [...]

Paris (France): Cellectis SA (Alternext: ALCLS), the French genome engineering company, provided an update today regarding its recent patent litigations against Precision Biosciences, Inc. (“Precision”). On November 30th 2010, in the District of Delaware, Cellectis brought suit against Precision for infringement of Cellectis’s U.S. Patent No. 7,842,489. Shortly thereafter, on March 1st, 2011, Cellectis brought [...]

WALTHAM, Mass.--PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced the release of the HCA ImagAmp™ reagent kit for high content screening and analysis applications in life sciences and drug discovery research. High content analysis (HCA), also known as image cytometry, is a powerful tool [...]

Sunquest Information Systems today announced it has acquired the PowerPath® Anatomic Pathology Laboratory Information System (LIS) business of Sweden-based Elekta AB. Sunquest already has leading LIS products in its Sunquest Lab and Sunquest CoPathPlus product lines. The PowerPath acquisition further solidifies Sunquest's leading position in the Anatomic Pathology LIS market. “Sunquest's commitment to Anatomic Pathology [...]

Jakarta, Indonesia - With the world’s fourth largest population, Indonesia boasts the largest nominal GDP of all the ASEAN member states and has enjoyed strong expansion in domestic demand. Against this backdrop, the Indonesian economy is projected to achieve continued positive growth going forward. The energy, electronics and automobile markets offer strong growth prospects based [...]

The Eppendorf PiezoXpert® is designed for piezo-assisted manipulation or microinjection techniques. Digital programmable parameter setting allows the user to perforate cell membranes with the utmost accuracy and reproducibility, improving productivity and yields for many microinjection procedures in transgenics, evelopmental biology, and other cell biology applications. Comprising a control unit, a space-saving piezo actuator and an [...]

Cole-Parmer StableTemp Modular Block Heaters offer laboratory professionals the flexibility to heat different sizes of microtubes, centrifuge tubes, vials, microplates, and PCR strips or tubes. They are designed to handle the incubation and activation of cultures, enzyme reactions, immunoassays, melting/boiling points, and a variety of other laboratory procedures. Each digital or analog heater accepts the [...]

Männedorf, Switzerland – The Tecan Group (SIX Swiss Exchange: TECN) today issued an update regarding an OEM development project (project name used externally: P14) signed with a global diagnostics company in November 2010. The agreement covers the development and supply of a dedicated diagnostics instrument. Tecan had expected to ship the first instruments to the [...]