STEMCELL Technologies Inc. Announces Release of Defined, Animal-Protein Free Maintenance Medium for hESCs and hiPSCs VANCOUVER -- STEMCELL Technologies Inc. (STEMCELL) is pleased to announce the release of TeSR™2, a defined, animal-protein free maintenance medium for human embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells. This medium takes a step towards addressing the needs of researchers working [...]

DNA Link Announced as Roche NimbleGen’s First Certified Service Provider for Targeted Enrichment and Sequencing Services MADISON, Wis. -- Roche NimbleGen, a Roche Company (SWX:RO) (SWX:ROG) (Pink Sheets: RHHBY), has announced the first Certified Service Provider (CSP), DNA Link, Inc., who will provide service in Korea for NimbleGen Titanium Optimized Sequence Capture coupled with services [...]

SAN DIEGO -- Illumina, Inc. (Nasdaq:ILMN) today announced that, together with Solexa its wholly owned subsidiary, it has filed its initial response to the lawsuit brought by Life Technologies and Applied Biosystems on September 21, 2009 in U.S. District Court in Wilmington, Delaware. In their answer, Illumina and Solexa have denied all of Life’s and [...]

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. -- Pall Corporation (NYSE: PLL - News), a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, today announced the establishment of an Asia-Pacific Headquarters in Singapore. The initiative was undertaken in partnership with the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). Pall Chairman and CEO, Eric Krasnoff met with EDB officials today at a ceremony [...]

Transforming Modeling & Simulation for Chemical and Materials Research - Market-Leading Solution Increases Scientific Relevance to Product Design, Dramatically Speeds Innovation Cycle BARCELONA, SPAIN -- Accelrys European User Group Meeting -- Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL), a leading provider of scientific business intelligence software and services, today announced the release of Materials Studio 5.0. This state-of-the-art [...]

WEST LAFAYETTE, IN -- Bioanalytical Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:BASI - News) announced today that David L. Omachinski has been elected to the Board of Directors of the company. Mr. Omachinski, 57, is currently an executive management consultant. From 1993 to 2005, he served in various executive management positions with Oshkosh B'Gosh, Inc., including President, Chief Operating [...]

Affymetrix Announces Major Genotyping Project With Kaiser Permanente and the University of California at San Francisco for NIH-Funded Epidemiology Study - 100,000-Sample Study to Be Performed Using New Axiom™ Genotyping Solution SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Affymetrix, Inc. (Nasdaq:AFFX) today announced that the Kaiser Permanente Research Program on Genes, Environment, and Health (RPGEH) and the University of California [...]

Dr. Leroy Hood-Led Venture Secures $30 Million Series A Financing From InterWest Partners, Wellcome Trust and dievini SEATTLE, WA -- Integrated Diagnostics launched officially today with more than $30 million in funding. A pre-eminent team of scientists and investors are behind the company, which was founded by renowned biotechnology innovator Dr. Leroy Hood. Integrated Diagnostics [...]

Rapidly Delivering an Automated Ion Channel Screening System CAMBRIDGE, England -- The Automation Partnership (TAP), a world leading supplier of innovative automation for life science applications today announced its Advanced Projects Group, has successfully collaborated with Cellectricon, the Swedish provider of innovative screening solutions for drug discovery, to produce fully automated high throughput patch clamp [...]

SwitchGear Genomics Launches Novel High-Throughput Screening Products for Profiling Biological Pathway Regulation - Collections of Experimentally-Validated Human Promoter Reporter Vectors Empower Researchers to Measure Transcriptional Regulation Across Genes in a Variety of Different Biological Pathways MENLO PARK, Calif.-- SwitchGear Genomics, Inc., a leading provider of products for studying regulatory elements in the human genome, today [...]