New Facility Helps Scientists Advance Translational Medical Research   WHAT: PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, today announced the opening of the Translational Medical Engineering Demonstration Laboratory at a ceremony on September 19.  Co-founded with the State Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, this facility will serve as a center for research and […]

STEMCELL Technologies Signs Exclusive License with Propagenix to Commercialize EpiX™, an Innovation Empowering Epithelial Cell Biology and Cell Therapy VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – STEMCELL Technologies has signed an exclusive license with Propagenix of Rockville, MD to commercialize its patented EpiX™ technology, a novel and revolutionary cell culture medium that enables unprecedented expansion of tissue-resident epithelial stem cells without any […]

Madison, Wisconsin — Cellular Dynamics International (CDI), a FUJIFILM company , the leading developer and manufacturer of differentiated cells derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), and Nanion Technologies GmbH (Nanion), a leading provider of instrumentation for ion channel drug discovery and screening, announced today that they have entered into a joint marketing agreement. The mutual partnership […]

Männedorf, Switzerland, September 19, 2017 – Tecan’s innovative Spark® multimode reader can now provide walkaway processing of up to 50 assay plates per run with the addition of the new Spark-Stack™ integrated microplate stacker. This versatile and field-upgradeable module is designed to reliably automate plate loading, unloading and re-stacking for non-lidded SLAS-format microplates from six to […]

Strategic Sponsorship Will Provide Innovative Technology and Nurture Promising Biotechnology Startup SANTA CLARA, Calif., and CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) has announced a platinum sponsorship agreement with LabCentral, a biotech innovation hub based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. LabCentral is an independent, shared laboratory space designed as a launchpad for high-potential life sciences and biotech startups. […]

Announcing the Single-Cell Printer for documented isolation of cells in clonal cell line development Sunnyvale, Calif. – Molecular Devices, LLC, a leader in protein and cell biology technologies, today announced a partnership with Cytena GmbH to launch the CloneSelect™ Single-Cell Printer™ in North America. This novel system utilizes sophisticated microfluidics-based technology and real-time image analysis […]

Cologne (DE) / Basel (CH) – Lonza has today introduced the CytoSMART™ 2 System, an updated version of Lonza’s popular CytoSMART™ System for live cell imaging. The CytoSMART™ 2 Device features an advanced optical system and more powerful camera unit, which enables researchers to capture higher-resolution images of their cell cultures. Images taken can be digitally […]

Dendritic cells are a key contributor to developing cancer vaccines   SANTA ANA, California: Irvine Scientific, a world leader in cell culture media development and manufacture, today announced the introduction of PRIME-XV® Dendritic Cell Maturation CDM, a chemically-defined, animal component-free medium for the differentiation of monocytes into immature dendritic cells, and subsequent maturation in dendritic cells. Current […]

A new microscope that can capture 3D images of live organisms in real time: this is the QIs-scope, an innovation from a spinoff of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), 4D Nature. The microscope can be used in biomedical research or to improve clinical diagnosis procedures. This new-generation microscope can make three-dimensional images of small […]

Munich, Germany – Fuse-It-siRNA is an innovative new transfection reagent that enables rapid and efficient gene silencing with the highest biocompatibility, even in sensitive and difficult-to-transfect cells, such as primary keratinocytes. ibidi’s novel method for endosome-independent siRNA transfection fully retains cellular functionality and viability. Using Fuse-It-siRNA, the researcher can focus directly on the knockdown phenotype without […]