August 11, 2008
Embarks on Joint Public Awareness Campaign, Provides Financial Support to Mia Hamm Foundation CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--ViaCord, a wholly-owned subsidiary of PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI - News), today announced a new partnership with global sports superstar Mia Hamm and the Mia Hamm Foundation to jointly raise awareness of the value and benefits of umbilical cord blood banking, [...]
Gene Express Announces Licensing Agreement With NeoGenomics Laboratories
August 11, 2008
Companies Establish Key Partnership for Validation and Commercialization Purposes WILMINGTON, NC, Aug 11, 2008 -- Gene Express, Inc. today announced that it has signed three definitive agreements with NeoGenomics Laboratories to license the SEM Center and StaRT-PCR(TM) (Standardized Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction) Technology. NeoGenomics will support Gene Express in its FDA validation of its [...]
Carna Biosciences Signs Reagent Supply Agreement with Caliper Life Sciences
August 8, 2008
KOBE, Japan, Aug. 8 -- Carna Biosciences, Inc. ("Carna") is pleased to announce the signing of a collaborative agreement with Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. USA ("Caliper") on August 6 (US Eastern Daylight Time). Carna will supply a set of discrete protein kinases aiding the expansion of Caliper's kinase profiling and assay development services, and ProfilerPro [...]
U.S. FDA Licenses ADMET Predictor(TM) from Simulations Plus
August 8, 2008
LANCASTER, Calif.--Simulations Plus, Inc. (NASDAQ: SLP - News), a leading provider of software for pharmaceutical discovery and development, today announced that it has received a purchase order from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to license the Company’s ADMET Predictor™ software. Ron Creeley, vice president of marketing and sales for Simulations Plus, said: “We’re [...]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Acquires AquaSensors, LLC
August 8, 2008
August 8, 2008 AquaSensors, LLC, a start-up company founded in 2003 by former Great Lakes Instruments employees involved in the design and manufacture of innovative measurement systems for water quality and process control applications, has been acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific. Effective immediately, AquaSensors will be integrated into Thermo Fisher’s Water Analysis Instruments business (WAI) [...]
MSP Corporation Products in Use at Beijing Olympics
August 8, 2008
SHOREVIEW, MN, Aug 08, 2008 -- MSP is proud to announce that its wide-range particle spectrometers, the only ones of their kind in the world, are delivering precise, accurate data about air pollution in and around Beijing in conjunction with the Summer Olympics. In advance of the Olympics, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Shandong [...]
August 8, 2008
BRANFORD, Conn.--Researchers led by the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany have published the complete Neanderthal mitochondrial genome sequence. The mitochondrial genome was generated using the 454 Sequencing technology to 35-fold redundancy, facilitating a detailed comparison against known human mitochondrial genomes and an analysis of recent human evolution. The study, entitled “A complete [...]
Corning Enters Second Year of Lab Grant Program for Cell Culture Research
August 8, 2008
Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW), a global supplier of scientific laboratory and drug discovery products for more than 90 years, today announced that its grant program for researchers opening new laboratory facilities will award six grants to researchers throughout 2008. The program was originated in 2007 as part of Corning’s celebration of the industry’s 100th anniversary [...]
PerkinElmer Expertise and Solutions Integral to Food Safety Monitoring for the Beijing Games
August 7, 2008
Methods, Applications Expertise and Instrumentation Deployed in Mobile Laboratory WALTHAM, Mass.--PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE:PKI - News), a global leader in Health Sciences and Photonics, today announced that its analytical solutions are being used by the Beijing Municipal Center for Food Safety Monitoring (BFSM) in a mobile laboratory supporting the Beijing Games. PerkinElmer instrumentation, software and expertise [...]
New PureYield™ Plasmid Miniprep System Helps Streamline Workflows
August 7, 2008
MADISON, Wis.--Promega Corporation announces a new plasmid isolation system that simplifies and speeds the preparation of plasmid DNA. The Promega PureYield™ Plasmid Miniprep System allows researchers to purify plasmid DNA in less than 10 minutes from 600µl to 3 ml of culture with fewer steps. The smooth work flow is further enhanced with the lysis/neutralization [...]
