Announces Direct Support, Training and Sales Resources Through new Chinese and Australian Centers - Presents Translational Research and Healthcare Strategy at eResearch Australasia Guildford, UK, and Burlington, MA -- IDBS, the leading worldwide provider of research data management and analytics solutions to R&D organizations, today announced that it has expanded its Asia Pacific presence with [...]

Acquisition enhances company’s strategic offerings in high growth PCR market CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:LIFE), a provider of innovative life science solutions, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire BioTrove, Inc. for an undisclosed amount. BioTrove’s primary technology is the OpenArray® platform, a high throughput gene expression and genotyping [...]

South San Francisco, Calif. -- Fluxion Biosciences introduces a new microplate for its BioFlux live cell imaging workstations, extending their shear flow limits to simulate a variety of pathological vascular conditions. With the new High Shear Plate, the BioFlux systems can be an effective tool in thrombosis and platelet studies, cardiovascular and immunological drug screening [...]

Chemical Database Engine Speeds Searching of Large Virtual Combinatorial Libraries Symyx Technologies, Inc. has released the Symyx Direct 6.3 chemistry data cartridge, which now includes new capabilities in the handling of non-specific Markush chemical structures. Symyx Direct enables researchers to register, search and retrieve molecular structures and reactions stored in Oracle® relational databases. Used by [...]

Continuous Roll Microplate Heat Sealer The TriSeal Pro from Porvair Sciences Ltd. is a new budget-priced continuous roll microplate heat sealer optimised for medium to high throughput plate sealing applications. Designed to produce an accurate and tight seal on any SBS proposed standard microplate from a thin PCR plate to Deep Well plates - TriSeal [...]

OCEANSIDE, Calif. -- International Stem Cell Corporation (OTCBB:ISCO), www.internationalstemcell.com announced today that it had made important strategic changes in its management team to leverage its growing opportunities in the therapeutic and research product markets. The Company’s current Board Member and Executive Vice-President, Dr. Andrey Semechkin, will become CEO on November 15, 2009, and Brian Lundstrom, [...]

University of Cambridge and Life Technologies Collaborate on Landmark High Throughput Sequencing Hub in United Kingdom - Advanced Genomic Analysis Technology to Support Genomics and Biomedical Genetics Research CARLSBAD, Calif. -- The University of Cambridge and Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:LIFE), announced today the formation of a collaboration to advance translational research studies in key disease [...]

Homogeneous Fluorescence-based Assay for Detecting Intracellular Calcium Mobilisation Amsbio's Screen Quest™ Calcium Assay kit provides a homogeneous fluorescence-based assay for detecting intracellular calcium mobilisation across a broad spectrum of biological targets. Calcium signaling is a key event in many physiological processes, but has also been linked to pathways that are important in cancer, much as [...]

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, introduced the new Thermo Scientific Evolution 60S spectrophotometer, a powerful UV-Visible instrument designed with the flexibility to perform QA/QC, life science and general research methods. The Evolution 60S features a 1.0 nm spectral bandwidth, bringing a new level of clarity to [...]

Matthews, North Carolina 0- CEM Corporation, a leading global provider of microwave laboratory instrumentation, is pleased to announce the introduction of the new Liberty1™ Single Channel Microwave Peptide Synthesizer. Liberty1 has all of the features of CEM’s award-winning Liberty Microwave Peptide Synthesizer, but is ideal for researchers who do not require a high-throughput system. This [...]