InforSense Accelerates and Automates Diagnostic Biomarker Discovery London, UK and Cambridge, MA, April, 27th, 2009 – InforSense Ltd., the leading provider of next generation business and scientific intelligence solutions, today announced that Celera Corporation, a healthcare business delivering personalized disease management through a combination of products and services incorporating proprietary discoveries, is using InforSense to [...]

AUSTIN, Texas--Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX), the worldwide leader in multiplexed solutions, announced today that it has performed computer-based sequence analysis of the U.S. swine flu patient isolates and compared them to the primer sequences of the Company’s xTAG RVP assay. In the interest of providing information to its customers and to public health labs, Luminex [...]

WALTHAM, Mass.--Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Biolab, the leading provider of analytical instruments, life science consumables and laboratory equipment for scientific, environmental and healthcare markets in Australia and New Zealand, for AUD $175 million (approximately USD $120 million). [...]

LILLE, France--At the 15th Annual Society for Biomolecular Sciences Conference today, PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and their environment, announced a cellular imaging and analysis software relationship with Accelrys, Inc., a leading provider of scientific business intelligence software and services. The collaboration is aimed at providing researchers [...]

CUPERTINO, Calif.--NextBio, provider of an innovative platform that enables life science researchers to search, discover, and share knowledge locked within public and proprietary data, today announced a licensing agreement with Merck & Co., Inc. NextBio offers the life sciences enterprise secure data access, knowledge discovery and collaboration tools, and enterprise integration capabilities for seamless correlation [...]

Enhancements Increase Flexibility and High-Content Screening Throughput SUNNYVALE, CA, April 27 - MDS Analytical Technologies, a leader in innovative solutions for drug discovery and life sciences research, today announced at the Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) Conference and Exhibition 2009 in Lille, France, the availability of the MetaXpressPowerCore(TM) and MetaXpress® 3.0 image acquisition and analysis [...]

SBS 15th Annual Conference & Exhibition Booth 285 GAITHERSBURG, Md.--MaxCyte, Inc., the pioneer in scalable, high performance cell loading systems, will feature the MaxCyte® STX™ Scalable Transfection System at booth 285 at the Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) 15th Annual Conference & Exhibition in Lille, France, April 26-30. The MaxCyte STX is a valuable tool [...]

GOTHENBURG, Sweden, April 27 -- Cellectricon, a leading provider of automated screening solutions for drug discovery, today announced its collaboration with BioFocus DPI, a contract research organization with leading expertise in ion channel screening. BioFocus DPI will utilize Cellectricon's Dynaflow(R)HT, a fully automated patch clamp (APC) system, to further increase its electrophysiology-based screening capacity, particularly [...]

Introducing Deep Genomic Analysis SAN FRANCISCO, April 27 -- Real Time Genomics will demonstrate solutions for deep genomic analysis at Bio-IT World Conference 2009 in Boston, April 27-29. Two applications, one for comparative genomics and another for gene expression, show genome-scale computation in real time using a compute cluster on Windows HPC Server 2008. The [...]

Bagnols-sur-Cèze and Lille, France – April 27, 2009 – Cisbio Bioassays (www.htrf.com), member of IBA group and global developer of HTRF® (Homogeneous Time-Resolved Fluorescence) technology and services used in assay development and drug screening, today announced the launch of Tag-lite™, its new cellular platform for cell surface receptor study and screening, at the Society for [...]