TUCSON, AZ--CDEX Inc. (OTC.BB:CEXI - News) (www.cdexinc.com) announces that its Board of Directors has appointed Donald W. Strickland as its new CEO. Mr. Strickland, a Director of the Company, has served in senior management positions for over 30 years and has successfully developed businesses for both large public companies and technology startups. He has held [...]

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.--At the 51st ENC, Bruker launches its new Ascend™ series of compact, high field NMR magnets to make high-field NMR even more powerful, and at the same time more convenient and accessible for numerous NMR laboratories. This new magnet line combines the key advantages of Bruker’s well-established UltraShield™ Plus magnets, with further innovations [...]

Expands into Stem Cell and Neuroscience Research Markets Gaithersburg, MD -- Molecular Transfer Inc. (MTI), a leading developer and producer of transfection and transformation reagents, is expanding into stem cell and neuroscience research markets through the acquisition of GlobalStem. The all-cash acquisition will allow MTI to strategically bring together both companies’ technologies and expertise to [...]

Delivers on Promise of Turn­Key Single­Use Solutions for Bioprocess Management Middleton, Wisconsin based Scilog, a global supplier and innovator of bioprocess management solutions for critical downstream applications and Xcellerex, a global supplier of single­use turnkey solutions for biomanufacturing and bioprocessing, have announced the successful integration of SciLog products into the Xcellerex FlexFactory® Biomanufacturing Platform. The [...]

RICHMOND, Calif. -- Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:SGMO) , a leader in the research and development of novel zinc finger DNA-binding proteins (ZFPs) for therapeutic gene regulation and modification, announced the appointment of William R. Ringo to the position of chairman of the Company's board of directors effective April 16, 2010. "Bill has had a distinguished [...]

Unique Molecular Inversion Probe (MIP) Technology Enables Scientists to Obtain Both High-Quality Copy Number and Allele Data from Recent and Archived Formalin-Fixed, Paraffin-Embedded (FFPE) Samples with Low Sample Input SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX) today announced the launch of the Affymetrix® MIP Copy Number Service, designed for cancer researchers using challenging FFPE samples. With the [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- METTLER TOLEDO, a leading global supplier of precision instruments and services, releases the latest version of its unique laboratory software – LabX 2010. LabX software is recognized for its unique approach to aiding the performance of laboratory weighing applications, and managing the associated data generated. The all new LabX 2010 release supports [...]

ST. LOUIS -- Sigma® Life Science, the innovative biological products and services brand of Sigma-Aldrich® (NASDAQ: SIAL) , today announced an extension to its award-winning CompoZr® product offering with the global release of the CompoZr Targeted Integration Kit, AAVS1 (www.sigma.com/aavs1). This kit provides a powerful method for the controlled transgene integration and expression of any [...]

OXFORD, England and SAN DIEGO -- Enigma Diagnostics Limited, the decentralised and point-of-care molecular diagnostics company, announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted U.S. Patent No. 7,659,096 with claims that cover the use of amplification consumables in several current real-time and end point PCR instruments. The consumables incorporate a thermally conducting [...]

Sequence-Centric Module to NextBio Research Platform Launched at Bio-IT World CUPERTINO, Calif.--NextBio today announced the latest evolution of its innovative life science research platform, adding new capabilities for the integration and mining of high-throughput array and next-generation sequencing data. The new NextBio Sequence-Centric module enables researchers to effectively explore and utilize massive amounts of public [...]