Millipore Corporation (NYSE:MIL) and Applikon Biotechnology B.V. today announced an agreement to co-develop and distribute disposable bioreactor systems for biopharmaceutical applications. The agreement will build upon the leading positions of Millipore in the disposables market and Applikon in the bioreactor systems market which will facilitate their joint entry into the disposable bioreactor segment of the [...]

American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) and Navigenics, Inc. today announced a medical education program designed to improve physicians' understanding of genetic risk factors for disease, the current evidence about the use of genomic tools and technologies to determine risk, and promising practices for utilizing those tools to aid in disease prevention. Through an unrestricted [...]

Roche NimbleGen in cooperation with the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas has launched an improved version of their Sequence Capture 385K Arrays, the groundbreaking technology for enriching targeted genomic regions for high-throughput sequencing. The new and improved microarrays allow researchers to perform their own capture experiment and perform [...]

Antibody Modeler and Antibody Structure Database. Protein Sidechain Database for homology modeling, rotamer exploration and mutation. SAReport for web-based scaffold detection and SAR analysis. Molecule Fragment Generator and 800,000 compound 3D Scaffold Database. 3D Ligand Generator (BREED) with receptor scoring. Ray Tracer interface and Movie Maker for publication quality graphics. “We are very excited about [...]

Tovatech announces German-engineered Elmasonic S Ultrasonic Cleaners with the versatility needed in the laboratory: to clean parts, degas solvent, and prepare samples, easily and reproducibly. South Orange, NJ (PRWEB) November 4, 2008 -- Tovatech LLC announces the Elma Ultrasonic Cleaning Equipment for cleaning the wide variety of materials (glass, rubber, plastic, metal, etc.) found in [...]

Fourth 'Moderate Complexity' Categorization Highlights GeneXpert(R) System Ease-of-Use SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 4 -- Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD - News) today announced the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) categorized Cepheid's Xpert(TM) MRSA/SA Blood Culture (BC) test as "Moderate Complexity" under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA). The new test is designed for on-demand detection of Methicillin-resistant [...]

ToxinSensor TM Chromogenic LAL Endotoxin Kit and Gel Clot Endotoxin Kit are launched. PRLog (Press Release) – Nov 03, 2008 – PISCATAWAY, N.J., – International contract research outsourcing company GenScript Corporation has added more endotoxin assay kits to its line of quantitative and qualitative detection products. These endotoxin kits include GenScript’s ToxinSensor™ Chromogenic LAL Endotoxin [...]

The MathWorks today announced its lead sponsorship of the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) 2008 student competition, held annually by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). This year the competition brought together 84 undergraduate teams representing more than 1,000 students from 21 countries across Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the U.S. to design and assemble [...]

Three top institutes will use the world's most powerful cryo-TEM to investigate the molecular machinery of biological systems JEJU ISLAND, South Korea, Nov 03, 2008 -- FEI Company (Nasdaq: FEIC), a leading provider of high-resolution imaging and analysis systems, announced today that three of the top life sciences research centers in Asia--National University of Singapore, [...]

Piscataway, NJ, November 3, 2008 - GE Healthcare has launched four new custom-designed BioProcess affinity chromatography media for industrial-scale purifications of various biopharmaceuticals, including antibodies, antibody fragments and Adeno Associated Virus (AAV). The new media have been developed as part of GE Healthcare’s Custom-Design Media program and enable the rapid one-step purification of biopharmaceuticals with [...]