ST. JOSEPH, Mich., April 14 -- GeneGo, Inc., the leading systems biology tools company, announced today that Professor Marcelo Bento Soares of Children's Memorial Research Center has joined the MetaMiner Stem Cell Partnership Program. The goal of the program is to develop a series of blueprint pathway maps for adult, embryonic, fetal, fibroblasts, hematopoietic, mesenchymal, [...]

WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn., April 14 -- The U.S. Department of Defense Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense (JPEO-CBD) has awarded Hamilton Sundstrand an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract to provide up to 156 Chemical Biological Mass Spectrometer II (CBMS II) devices. Hamilton Sundstrand is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX). Hamilton [...]

Award-Winning LMQS Query and Retrieval System Simplifies Searching of Scientific Databases SAN DIEGO, CA--Apr 14, 2009 -- Accelrys, Inc. (NasdaqGM:ACCL - News), a leading provider of scientific business intelligence software and services, today announced the release of the first components of the Cheminformatics Collection for Pipeline Pilot. The new award-winning components simplify searching of scientific [...]

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 the receipt of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). The grant will provide approximately $1,000,000 over two years to support [...]

AMES, IA--Apr 14, 2009 -- BioForce Nanosciences Holdings, Inc. (OTC BB:BFNH.OB - News), a producer of products and solutions for academic and commercial users based upon its ultra-micro to nano scale fluid deposition platform, filed paperwork today with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to terminate the Company's registration under the Securities Exchange Act of [...]

AACR Annual Meeting CHICAGO--Precision Biomarker Resources, a contract research organization based in Evanston, Illinois, is the first Service Provider to offer microRNA Profiling using the new GeneChip® miRNA Arrays recently released by Affymetrix, Inc. Precision Biomarker provides RNA and microRNA (miRNA) profiling and data analysis services for pharmaceutical, biotechnology and academic researchers who use microarray [...]

TUCSON, Ariz.--HTG, Inc., provider of the quantitative Nuclease Protection Assay (qNPA™) today announced the launch of the quantitative nuclease protection assay (qNPA™) 384/9 gene expression assay. This new format enables the measurement of nine genes in a 384 well ArrayPlate and provides a higher plex, high throughput screening and profiling method for accelerating drug discovery [...]

X-Rite’s ColorMunki to record and digitize CMG’s Spring Conference Color Directions Forecast to allow immediate implementation of new color palettes by all members of production supply chains GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.--X-Rite, Incorporated (NASDAQ: XRIT - News), the world leader in color management, measurement and communication technologies, today announced that the Color Marketing Group (CMG), the leading [...]

As everyone knows, we currently live in a difficult economic climate. Academic institutions and industrial research, quality control, process control, and production laboratories are all finding it difficult to justify and acquire new or replacement laboratory instrumentation. To ease the cost burden and make it easier for laboratories to purchase necessary materials characterization instrumentation, Micromeritics [...]

New T-Cell Expansion Medium Provides Cost-efficient, T-Cell Doubling in a Serum-free Environment CARLSBAD, Calif.--Invitrogen, a division of Life Technologies (NASDAQ:LIFE), today announced the launch of GIBCO® OpTmizer™ T-cell Expansion SFM, a next-generation solution for culturing and expanding human T-cells that does not require the addition of serum to achieve optimal, cost-efficient results. OpTmizer SFM will [...]