Combination of Technologies Set to Increase Success Rates in Drug Development MorphoSys AG (FSE: MOR; Prime Standard Segment, TecDAX) announced today the acquisition of the private German company Sloning BioTechnology GmbH, a biotechnology company developing new methods of synthetic biology. The transaction will make MorphoSys the sole source of Sloning's state-of-the-art Slonomics technology, which dramatically [...]

Extensive progress acknowledged following the opening of the Brazilian subsidiary Royston, UK – Leading chemistry automation product innovator, Syrris received outstanding praise in a recently published article (1). Secretary of State for Business, Vince Cable, paid tribute to Syrris for the extensive progress in its Brazilian exports, following the opening the subsidiary office in January [...]

Strengthening Company's Informatics Offerings for Environmental Laboratories PHILADELPHIA - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that it has extended its relationship with EM2 Solutions to more comprehensively serve the needs of environmental testing organizations. EM2 Solutions has been a member of the Thermo Scientific Global Partner Alliance since 2009, [...]

Bridgewater, NJ. - LabVantage today announced the grand opening of LabVantage Innovation Center, an open-source community for SAPPHIRE and SQL*LIMS customers. LabVantage Innovation Center allows source codes, materials, and applications to be freely shared within LabVantage’s customer base. The center is accessible in VantageCare, LabVantage’s customer care site, developed on the SAPPHIRE Laboratory Information Management [...]

SAW Instruments Make a Noise in Biological Detection Biotechnica, Germany - SAW Instruments GmbH has today launched its unique sam5 biosensor instrument for advanced real-time biomolecular interaction and kinetic studies, at Biotechnica, Hannover, 5-7 October. The sam5 is a peerless biosensor utilising Surface Acoustic Wave technology for the detection of real-time binding and structural events. [...]

SOUTH BEND, Ind. – GoInformatics, Inc., an innovator in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) for academia, healthcare, and other biotech industries, announces the release of golims™, an evolution in LIMS for small to medium-sized laboratories. Increasing demands for regulatory compliance, data security, function integration and collaboration are driving the entire research informatics market. golims™ aggregates [...]

Product Developed Under License and Alliance Agreement with Geron MENLO PARK, Calif. - Geron Corporation (Nasdaq: GERN) today announced that GE Healthcare has launched the first human cellular assay product for use in drug discovery and toxicity screening, developed under a license and alliance agreement between the two companies. This first commercially available product is [...]

Micromeritics Instrument Corporation, an industry leader in materials characterization, is pleased to announce the formation of its new Japan subsidiary headquartered in the Chiba prefecture. Micromeritics Japan G.K. was formed in March and has commenced commercial operations from its Chiba office located in Tokatsu Techno Plaza as of September 1. This subsidiary’s primary goal is [...]

Berlin, Germany - ifp - Institute for Product Quality, a leading provider of biotechnology-based products and services for a broad range of life science, biotechnology, diagnostic and food safety applications and Romer Labs® , today announced the signing of a cooperation agreement for ifp’s Food Allergen rapid testing products. Under the terms of the agreement, [...]

Berlin - At the international Trade Fair BIOTECHNICA 2010 in Hannover, MicroDiscovery will introduce the latest release of its innovative GeneSpotter software. For version 4.0, the innovative program has been completely renewed and will positively surprise long-time customers as well as potential users. It optimizes microarray analysis by its multitude of features, remaining amazingly easy [...]