MADISON, Wis. - Gentel Biosciences, a leader in proteomics profiling tools, announces today the introduction and use of the SilverQuant trademark for its protein array technology platform. Gentel acquired the SilverQuant trademark from Eppendorf AG, Hamburg Germany for worldwide commercial use. The acquisition was completed on March 31, 2011. According to Dan Clutter, Gentel’s Vice [...]

ATCC (American Type Culture Collection), the world’s largest and most diverse bioresource center, now offers a complete solution to successfully grow normal human primary mesenchymal stem cells derived from human umbilical cord matrices (Wharton’s Jelly) — invaluable tools used for research studies that include developmental biology, regenerative medicine, cell therapy, and tissue engineering. Human Wharton’s [...]

Scientific instrument manufacturers, Biochrom (Cambridge, UK) is pleased to announce the opening of their India Liaison Office in New Delhi this April, 2011. Customers throughout the region will now benefit from local supplier representation to enhance and compliment the established distributor network in the supply of Biochrom spectrophotometers, amino acid analyzers and microplate instrumentation, as [...]

HAWTHORNE, Calif. - OSI Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:OSIS), a vertically-integrated provider of specialized electronic products for critical applications in the Security and Healthcare industries, today announced that its security division, Rapiscan Systems, has been awarded a pan-European contract valued at approximately $12 million by DHL, one of the world’s leading logistics and air cargo companies. The [...]

Bridgewater, NJ - LABVANTAGE today announced that a global contract research organization (CRO) has selected LABVANTAGE Risk Free BioBanking Solution to support its research and development service operations. Under this agreement, LABVANTAGE will implement its out-of-the-box BioBanking Solution within a guaranteed, definite duration and fixed costs. The CRO is headquartered in the United States with [...]

Phillipsburg, New Jersey - AvantorT Performance Materials announced a definitive agreement to acquire POCH S.A. from Kulczyk. Completion of the sale is dependent on obtaining the necessary clearance from the Polish competition authority, and is subject to customary closing conditions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Avantor Performance Materials, formerly Mallinckrodt Baker, manufactures and [...]

MILFORD, Mass. - SeraCare Life Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: SRLS) announced today the addition of differentiated Cryo-M Human Monocytes to their AccuCell™ peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) portfolio. SeraCare’s Cryo-M cells provide researchers with a high quality, specialized and unstimulated cell line to study gene expression, immune and inflammatory responses. This product is manufactured from standardized, [...]

WOLFENBÜTTEL, Germany & BEVERLY, Mass. - BIOBASE announced its launch of a new custom annotation tool designed to aid in functional annotation of next generation sequences from uncharacterized genomes. The BioKnowledge Transfer (BKT) tool, part of the PROTEOMETM product, enables researchers to input novel protein sequences and easily extract functional information based on those sequences. [...]

OXFORD, United Kingdom - Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd., the UK-based developers of nanopore technology for the direct, electronic analysis of single molecules, today announced that it has raised £25 million ($41 million) in new funding via a private placement of ordinary shares in the Company. The funds will support further development, external technology validation and [...]

Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (TOKYO:8036, Hitachi High-Tech), a cutting-edge technology company of Science & Medical Systems, Techcomp Holdings Ltd (SGX:T43, Techcomp), China's leading company for highly advanced scientific and laboratory equipment, and have announced that they have renewed the captioned agreement for a period of 5 years. Under this agreement, Hitachi High-Tech will cooperate with Techcomp [...]