Sigma-Aldrich Introduces MISSION(R) esiRNA for Low Cost, High Specificity Pooled RNAi Screening
April 28, 2009
ST. LOUIS, April 28 -- Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL - News) today announced the global release of MISSION® esiRNA, a pool of gene-specific siRNA that provides a novel and powerful approach to RNAi screening in mammalian cells. Unlike traditional synthetic RNAi, esiRNA (https://www.sigma.com/esirna) incorporates a pool of hundreds of siRNAs against a single gene target. This [...]
Rapid Mouse-Monoclonal Isotyping Kits…
April 28, 2009
AMSBIO (www.amsbio.com) has announced the Iso-Gold™ Rapid Mouse Monoclonal isotyping kits. Iso-Gold is a rapid-format isotyping kit that reduces the labour of the traditional ELISA protocol from a day-and-a-half procedure to a 5-minute assay. Determining the class and subclass of a monoclonal antibody is valuable in selecting the best immunoglobulin purification method. The Iso-Gold kit [...]
April 28, 2009
LILLE, France--At the 15th Annual Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) Conference today, PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, and Cerep SA, a leading provider of drug candidate screening and profiling technologies, announced the expansion of their kinase assay offering. Close to 200 new kinase assays [...]
Dr. Harvey E. Bale, Jr. Joins InfraTrac Board of Advisors to Combat Drug Counterfeiting
April 28, 2009
SILVER SPRING, Md.--InfraTrac, a product protection company with innovative anti-counterfeiting technology, announced the appointment of Dr. Harvey E. Bale, Jr., recently retired from the position of Director-General of the Geneva-based International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA), to its Board of Advisors. Dr. Bale is widely recognized as a leader in the fight against [...]
AnaSpec Launches New Headquarters in Fremont, California
April 28, 2009
FREMONT, Calif.--Today AnaSpec announced the launch of its new headquarters in Fremont, California. Rapidly expanding over the past 16 years, AnaSpec has graduated to a state-of-the-art facility designed from the ground up for the very highest levels of lab and R&D production. The 44,010 square foot facility offers all top of the line lab/R&D equipment [...]
April 28, 2009
1290 Infinity LC Offers Best-in-Class Specifications in All HPLC, UHPLC and LC/MS Categories WALDBRONN, Germany--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today introduced the Agilent 1290 Infinity Liquid Chromatography System, designed to deliver significantly greater power, speed and sensitivity for enhanced performance in the high-end Ultra High Performance Liquid Chromatography (UHPLC) market. “The debate about UHPLC is over,” [...]
QIAGEN Provides Solutions for Swine Flu Surveillance
April 28, 2009
Viral sequence analysis suggests that two of the company’s screening tests identify currently spreading H1N1 subtype VENLO, The Netherlands--QIAGEN (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that two of its tests can be used to screen for the swine flu virus which increasingly affects humans in countries around the globe. Data analysis of the [...]
April 28, 2009
FREMONT, Calif., April 28 -- WaferGen Biosystems, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: WGBS - News), a leading developer of state-of-the-art genetic analysis systems, today announced the signing of a research collaboration with Duke University Medical Center scientists for WaferGen's SmartChip(TM) Real-Time PCR System. Under terms of the collaboration, the laboratory of Drs. John A. Olson, Jr., [...]
Perlegen Builds Commercial Group to Support Upcoming MammaPLUS™ Launch
April 28, 2009
Industry Veterans Will Introduce Breast Cancer Risk Stratifier to Help Physicians Determine Monitoring and Treatment Plans for Women with Intermediate Levels of Risk MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Perlegen Sciences, which develops genetic tests that correlate genetic variation to predisposition to disease and drug response, announced today that it has added key positions to its commercial team in [...]
Microsoft Introduces Groundbreaking Technology for Life Sciences
April 28, 2009
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center among early adopters of Microsoft Amalga Life Sciences. BOSTON, April 28 -- At the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, Microsoft Corp. introduced Amalga Life Sciences, a new software system designed to transform healthcare and life science research data into the critical knowledge needed for the discovery of new personalized treatments. [...]

