Celestial Biologicals collaborates with GE Healthcare to set up India’s first fully integrated chromatography-based plasma fractionation facility

-Major boost to patients with blood/immune disorders or severe blood loss -India could save foreign exchange equivalent of US$ 15 million through local manufacturing of plasma products -Investment of US$ 20 million to US$ 24 million to be spread over next two years -GE Healthcare to provide its leading purification technologies, processes and support Ahmedabad/Bangalore, [...]

QIAGEN and Applied Biosystems Settle All Disputes Over Real-Time PCR Thermal Cycler Patents

Rotor-Gene(tm) Q Now Fully 'Licensed Real-Time Thermal Cycler' for All Molecular Research and Diagnostic Applications -- Corbett, QIAGEN (NasdaqGS:QGEN - News) (Frankfurt:QIA.F - News), ltf Labortechnik GmbH & Co. KG, and Applied Biosystems, LLC, part of Life Technologies Corporation (NasdaqGS:LIFE - News) today announced a settlement of their disputes concerning infringement by Corbett's Rotor-Gene(tm) Real-Time [...]

GeneBio and Utrecht University Announce Collaborative Partnership Around Phenyx

Geneva, Switzerland and Utrecht, The Netherlands – January 22, 2009 - Geneva Bioinformatics (GeneBio) SA and Utrecht University’s Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Group today announced that the University’s Heck Laboratory will utilize GeneBio’s Phenyx software platform in order to get optimised scorings for its Lys-N protein digestion workflow in combination with Electron Transfer Dissociation [...]

New England Peptide Adds Srivastava to Growing Team; 20-Year Drug Discovery Expert Named New VP for Research Production

New England Peptide has named Dr. Ved Srivastava as its new vice president for research production, where he will oversee NEP's entire production pipeline. Srivastava recently served an associate director at Amylin Pharmaceuticals. He joins other new expert peptide talent on NEP staff and advisory board. Gardner, MA (PRWEB) January 22, 2009 -- New England [...]

Gene Express Inc. Enters Into India Distribution Agreement With Biogenuix Medsystems Pvt. Ltd.

WILMINGTON, NC--Jan 22, 2009 -- Gene Express Inc. announced today that it has entered into a Distribution Agreement with Biogenuix Medsystems Pvt. Ltd. for the distribution of Gene Express Inc's Standardized RT-PCR reagents (StaRT-PCR™) and research molecular diagnostic tools. The non-exclusive agreement provides Biogenuix with the rights to distribute in India. Jonathan Rowe PhD, Chief [...]

Enzo Biochem Tells Annual Meeting Growth in Life Sciences is Driving Revenue Gains in Fiscal 2009

Enzo Biochem, Inc. (NYSE:ENZ) said today that it anticipates increased revenues in fiscal 2009 which ends in July, stemming largely from the Company’s expanded activities and interests in the life sciences field. Speaking at Enzo’s annual meeting, President Barry Weiner called fiscal 2008 a year of “unprecedented transformation” as Enzo has moved vigorously into life [...]

Pamela Forbes Lieberman Elected to Board of Directors of VWR International, LLC

WEST CHESTER, Pa.--VWR International, LLC, a leading global laboratory supply company, announced the election of Pamela Forbes Lieberman to VWR’s Board of Directors. Forbes Lieberman will serve on the Board’s Audit Committee. She will also serve on the Board and Audit Committee of VWR's parent company, VWR Funding, Inc. “I am very excited about joining [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Develops Hydride Generation AA Solution for Accurate Analysis of Mercury in Fish

CAMBRIDGE, UK. (January 22, 2009) - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the publication of a new application note demonstrating the capability of the Thermo Scientific iCE 3000 Series AA spectrometers and Thermo Scientific VP100 vapor generation accessory to accurately detect trace levels of mercury in fish. Mercury is [...]

Avantium Launches the Crystalline, a New Parallel System for Crystallization Research

AMSTERDAM, January 22 -- Avantium Technologies announces the launch of a new system to study crystallization processes for the pharmaceutical industry. The system will be marketed under the name Crystalline. The Crystalline has been designed to address the need in the pharma industry to learn as much as possible about a drug candidate early in [...]

Tepnel Life Sciences PLC: Statement re share price movement

Manchester, U.K, 22 January 2009 The Board of Tepnel Life Sciences PLC (AIM: TED), the international Molecular Diagnostics and Research Products & Services group, notes the recent share price movement and confirms that the Company has received an approach which may or may not lead to an offer being made for the Company. The Board [...]

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