Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:LIFE), a provider of innovative life science solutions, today announced through its Applied Biosystems unit, that the Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has acquired eight additional SOLiD™ Systems for a variety of genomics studies. The SOLiD System is the company’s next-generation genomic analysis platform for DNA [...]

HYDERABAD, India & GAITHERSBURG, Md.--Ocimum Biosolutions, a leading integrated genomics company, today announced that Anuradha Acharya, CEO, has been awarded the Astia Life Science Innovators Award and the Biospectrum Entrepreneur of the Year award. In its 4th year, the Astia Awards honor exceptional women innovators and recognize the investors and mentors who championed their success. [...]

BioTrove, Inc. today announced its collaboration with Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) researchers in the evaluation of BioTrove’s OpenArray® technology as a system to detect and monitor respiratory infectious disease pathogens in children. The study combines BioTrove’s OpenArray nanofluidic polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology platform with CHEO’s clinical and molecular biology expertise for rapid, [...]

New Commercial, Operations and Financial Leadership MADISON, Wis., December 16, 2008 – Cellular Dynamics International (CDI) announced today the appointment of three new executives to lead the company in its rapid growth and goal of industrializing stem cell technologies: Chris Kendrick-Parker, Chief Commercial Officer; Emile Nuwaysir, Chief Operating Officer; and David S. Snyder, Chief Financial [...]

Universal Detection Technology (www.udetection.com) (OTCBB: UNDT) (FRANKFURT: PO8), a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies to protect people from bioterrorism and other infectious health threats and provider of counter-terrorism consulting and training services, reported today that it has received a purchase order for its anthrax detection equipment from the city of Calgary, Canada Police Service. The [...]

GE Global Research, the technology development arm for the General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), today announced it has been awarded $4.2 million from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to develop an integrated imaging system that combines state-of-the-art video surveillance technology with breakthrough radiation detection capabilities. This new system would provide law enforcement and security [...]

MILFORD, Mass., Dec. 16 -- With the analytical industry experiencing its most severe acetonitrile shortage in history, pharmaceutical, food, environmental and chemical industries are all searching for solutions to maintain their mission critical laboratory productivity. Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT - News), working with its key customers, today estimated that replacing traditional high performance LC (HPLC) [...]

PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced the release of 11 new AlphaScreen® SureFire® assay kits for the rapid detection of full-length kinase activation in cell lysates. The new kits launched at the 48th annual meeting of The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) [...]

California’s Stem Cell Agency Invests in Cell Culture Integrated Fluidic Circuit System SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--California’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state stem cell agency, has awarded Fluidigm Corporation and Stemgent, Inc. a grant to develop a cell culture chip (C2C) and support system that will help researchers accelerate stem cell research in California. [...]

MADISON, Wis., December 16, 2008 – Cellular Dynamics International (CDI) announced today the appointment of three new executives to lead the company in its rapid growth and goal of industrializing stem cell technologies: Chris Kendrick-Parker, Chief Commercial Officer; Emile Nuwaysir, Chief Operating Officer; and David S. Snyder, Chief Financial Officer. Kendrick-Parker brings more than 20 [...]