VistaGen and Capsant Sign Strategic Stem Cell Technology Commercialization Agreement

VistaGen and Capsant have signed a strategic commercialization agreement under which the companies will combine their leading-edge stem cell biology and 3D cell culture platforms, respectively, to advance their mutual business interests worldwide. The new collaboration will focus on late-stage development and commercialization of a new generation of human stem cell-based biological tools enabling Clinical [...]

NCGR Breaks the 20 Billion DNA Sequence Barrier with Illumina Genome Analyzer

The National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR) announced today that it has broken the 20 billion DNA sequence barrier for the first time with an Illumina Genome Analyzer. Using a single Illumina flowcell, NCGR scientists generated more than 20 billion bases (or letters) of high quality human DNA sequence – seven-times the length of a [...]

Kapa Biosystems’ Directed Evolution Polymerases Adopted for Next Generation PCR

Kapa Biosystems, a provider of next-generation engineered polymerases, announced the adoption of its KAPA2G™ Fast HotStart DNA Polymerase by industry and academic leaders in the fields of resequencing and SNP detection including Agencourt Bioscience, a Beckman Coulter Company, energy crop company Ceres, Inc., Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC). [...]

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 [...]

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