RainDance Technologies Appoints Laura Deming Senior Vice President of Product Development

LEXINGTON, Mass. - RainDance Technologies, Inc., today announced the appointment of Laura L. Deming as Senior Vice President of Product Development. In her new role, Ms. Deming will oversee the long-range product planning process and provide overall leadership for product strategy, development and delivery across all of the company’s advanced microdroplet-based technologies for the life [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Simplifies Water, Environmental and Pharmaceutical Regulatory Compliance and Transforms Process Efficiencies at Nova Biologicals

PHILADELPHIA - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that Nova Biologicals, one of the nation’s largest providers of laboratory testing and consultancy services to the water, environmental, medical device and pharmaceutical industries, has implemented an integrated Thermo Scientific LIMS (laboratory information management system) and NextDocs DMS (document management system) [...]

TTP LabTech Partner with Leading Crystallographer

At the Society for Biomolecular Screening (SBS) conference 2011, TTP LabTech has announced an exciting collaboration with a world leader in membrane protein crystallography. Here, Professor Martin Caffrey, Trinity College, Dublin, renowned for automating and miniaturizing the in meso method, has highlighted a number of attractive features of the new mosquito® LCP instrument. The mosquito® [...]

PerkinElmer Announces Expansion of First-in-Class Epigenetic Research Tools for Drug Discovery

ORLANDO, Fla. - At the 17th annual Society for Biomolecular Sciences 2011 conference in Orlando, PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced the expansion of its epigenetic detection reagents portfolio specifically validated for drug discovery and life sciences research. “The development of novel therapies [...]

BioFocus and Almac Collaborate to Offer Fluorescent Lifetime Assays

BioFocus announced today that it has entered into collaboration with Almac allowing BioFocus customers with compound screening and profiling requirements to access Almac’s FLEXYTE™ fluorescence lifetime (FLT) assays. Integrating the assay technology allows BioFocus to offer an FLT platform that will complement its current target class capabilities, provide access to previously inaccessible epigenetic targets and [...]

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Awards Grant to SRI International and Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc. to Develop Computational Tools

Menlo Park, Calif. - SRI International, an independent nonprofit research and development organization, and Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD), provider of a web-based drug discovery software platform, announced that they have been awarded a grant to support the first year of a software development project focused on tuberculosis drug discovery efforts. The Phase I Small Business [...]

WaferGen Launches High-Throughput SmartChip Human MicroRNA Panel V2

Fremont, Calif., and San Carlos, Calif. - WaferGen Biosystems, Inc. (OTCBB:WGBS), a leading developer of state-of-the-art genomic analysis systems, today announced the launch of its industry-leading SmartChip Human microRNA Panel V2 for gene expression profiling on the SmartChip Real-Time PCR System. The SmartChip Human microRNA Panel V2 is a component of the company’s platform technology, [...]

New Assay Provides Real-time Insights into Chemotaxis

Billerica, MA — EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA* of Germany, today announced the introduction of the Millicell µ-Migration Assay Kit. This innovative slide-based platform can be used to visualize and measure the effects of chemoattractants on the migration of adherent cells in real time. The kit is ideal for studying metastatic [...]

TriLink Enters Into Distribution Agreement With TATAA Biocenter

SAN DIEGO - TriLink BioTechnologies, Inc. (TriLink) announced that it has entered into a distribution agreement with TATAA Biocenter (TATAA) to sell its CleanAmp™ Products. The Scandinavian based TATAA develops and performs a broad spectrum of hands-on qPCR courses worldwide, in addition to providing tailor-made products for real-time PCR applications. As an innovative approach to [...]

New 96-well 3D Tissue Model Production System for Cell-based Screening Previews on TAP Biosystems Booth 1107 at the SBS

TAP Biosystems, (formerly The Automation Partnership), the leading supplier of innovative automation and consumables for life science applications today announced it is introducing a 96-well version of its RAFT™ (Real Architecture for 3D Tissue™) system for the generation of consistent multi-cellular 3D tissue models on Booth 1107 at the Society of Biomolecular Screening (SBS) Conference. [...]

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