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 [...]

Shareholders approve sale of the Richmond, Virginia assets as required under the GL Biochem Asset Purchase Agreement RICHMOND, Va.--Commonwealth Biotechnologies, Inc. (“CBI”) (NASDAQ Capital Market: CBTE) has recently announced a definitive share purchase agreement to acquire Shanghai-based GL Biochem and associated businesses (the “GL Group”), the largest global supplier of research-grade peptide products and peptide [...]

Agreement Brings Integrated Fluidic Circuit Technology to Turkish Scientists Specializing in Digital and Real-Time PCR, Genotyping, Single-Cell Gene Expression, Cancer Detection and Absolute Quantification SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. & ADANA, Turkey- - Fluidigm Corporation, the inventor of integrated fluidic circuits (IFCs), has appointed Nano Gen Teknolojileri Ltd. as its exclusive distributor for the BioMark™ and [...]

Sales Leader to Bring Years of Experience to Key Role within Commercial Operations CARLSBAD, Calif.--Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE), a provider of innovative life science solutions, today announced that it has named Jay Therrien to the position of Vice President, Global Sales for Next Generation Sequencing. In this role, Therrien will be responsible for all [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Coherent, Inc. (Nasdaq: COHR - News) today announced that it has acquired the North American operations of StockerYale, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: STKR - News) in an asset purchase for $15 million dollars in cash. The Company acquired all the assets and certain operating liabilities of the laser module product line [...]

Boehringer Ingelheim relies on up to data reporting solutions in the area of Bioanalytics - The pharmaceuticals company Boehringer Ingelheim will use iStudyReporter from up to data professional services to depict their Bioanalytics reporting processes in the future BIBERACH, Germany -- Boehringer Ingelheim is a group of companies dedicated to researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing [...]

GAO Releases New Report on Food Import Challenges WASHINGTON -- Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) today convened the 2nd Annual Global Food Safety Policy Forum with the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) in Washington, DC, bringing together policymakers and private experts from around the globe to discuss solutions that improve food supply in [...]

SOUTH EASTON, Mass. -- Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq:PBIO - News) ("PBI") and Protein Forest, Inc. ("Protein Forest"), (together "the companies"), today announced that they have entered into a strategic co-marketing/selling and research & development agreement. The companies intend to co-market their respective product lines, including in industry publications, at scientific meetings, on each company's website, [...]