OCEANSIDE, Calif.--International Stem Cell Corporation (OTCBB:ISCO), www.intlstemcell.com, today added two world-leading immunogeneticists to its scientific advisory board. They and ISCO scientists will study the immune-matching properties of ISCO’s human parthenogenetic stem cell (hpSC) technology and the potential for each hpSC-derived therapeutic cell to be an immune-match for millions of people. “While stem cell technologies generally [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that BGI (formerly known as Beijing Genomics Institute) has selected Agilent to streamline and enhance the throughput of BGI’s next generation sequencing workflow. BGI is the largest genome-sequencing facility in Asia and one of the largest genome research centers in the world. “BGI is one of [...]

Dionex announces a new method for determination of sulfate and sulfamate in a pharmaceutical preparation using Ion Chromatography. Application Note 238: Determination of Sulfate and Sulfamate in Topiramate Using a Reagent-Free Ion Chromatography System, released in September, describes a method that uses a Reagent-Free™ ion chromatography (IC) system with the IonPac® AS11 column and suppressed [...]

SHANGHAI--AB SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, today announced the formal opening of its Asia Pacific Application Support Center in Shanghai. With state-of-the-art, award-winning facilities, the new Application Support Center serves as a regional center of excellence for comprehensive service, support and application development to enable the science community in China and [...]

A strategic alliance announced today between TGen Drug Development (TD2) and Horizon Discovery Limited will significantly advance personalized medicine. The partnership will create a beginning-to-end solution for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to more rationally design and tailor their drugs to specific patient populations based on the unique genetic variations that define a given disease. TD2 [...]

BOULDER, Colo. -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. announced today that it has expanded its Opticks open-source software offerings to include new extensions that perform hyperspectral, multispectral and image spectroscopy analysis. Ball Aerospace launched Opticks in 2007 as its first open source software project designed to enable detailed analysis of remote sensing data and complement [...]

Positioning Capabilities for Greater Consistency and Ease-of-use RUNCORN, Cheshire -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the launch of its updated ClearVue coverslipper with increased ease-of-use and enhanced tissue positioning to improve consistency in cytogenetics, immunohistochemistry and cytology laboratories. The latest instrument ensures that coverslips are positioned correctly in [...]

Unanimous certification a major industry milestone; wireless control benefits plant operations and lowers costs, company says AUSTIN, Texas--Emerson Process Management, a global business of Emerson (NYSE:EMR - News), applauds the International Electrotechnical Commission’s (IEC) unanimous vote to certify WirelessHART technology as the first global standard for wireless communications for industrial process measurement and control. The [...]

SAS Supports Integrated Analytics, Fuels Success SEATTLE--SAS, the leader in business analytics, expands analytics options for customers with the announcement of additional interfaces to the R open-source statistical computing language for both SAS/IML® and JMP®. These new enhancements exemplify the flexibility that SAS provides customers to build a dynamic and extensible analytics framework. With SAS, [...]

SOLON, Ohio--Swagelok Company today announced it has acquired the shares of RHPS B.V. as part of its strategy to broaden the company’s offering of products and services for fluid system technology customers around the world. “We think the two cultures are a natural fit and have similar values including the passion to truly understand the [...]