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Geoff Notkin, Host of TV's "STEM Journals," Celebrates Series' Two Telly Awards
Science celebrity Geoff Notkin will hit the road this week to film new episodes of "STEM Journals" with an added bounce in his step: the educational TV series, which Notkin hosts, was recently awarded two 2014 Tellys, honoring the very best in film and video production. Notkin has... - July 21, 2014 - Aerolite Meteorites, LLC
Bioo Scientific Launches 16S V1 – V3 rRNA Library Prep Kits for Bacterial Metagenomics Studies
Bioo Scientific’s NEXTflex™ 16S V1 – V3 Amplicon-Seq Kit simplifies bacterial metagenomics studies for sequencing on the Illumina® MiSeq platform. This kit allows users to go from sample to sequence in two hours, making it the fastest library prep kit available. Up to 384... - July 19, 2014 - Bioo Scientific
MoBiTec GmbH Teams Up with Protobios to Offer Epitope Mapping Service Using Mimotope Variation Analysis (MVA) Technology
MoBiTec, Germany, partners with the Estonian biotechnology company Protobios to offer Mimotope Variation Analysis (MVA)-based antibody epitope mapping service to scientists worldwide. - July 19, 2014 - MoBiTec GmbH
Genetic Blueprint of Bread Wheat Genome Unveiled
The International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC) published today in the international journal, Science a draft sequence of the bread wheat genome. The chromosome-based draft provides new insight into the structure, organization, and evolution of the large, complex genome of the world’s most widely grown cereal crop. - July 18, 2014 - IWGSC
Case Study: Stem Cells vs Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery in a Patient with Multi-Vessel Disease 6 Year Follow Up
Stem cells outperform heart bypass surgery. A heart patient treated with his own stem cells instead of undergoing coronary bypass surgery is exceeding all expectations 6 years after his adult stem cell treatment. - July 17, 2014 - Regenocyte Worldwide
Charles Stiefel is Inaugural Donor to Yale Cancer Center Discovery Fund
High-risk, high-reward fund aims to accelerate cancer research. - July 10, 2014 - Charles Stiefel Philanthropy
Optical Zonu Micro-OTDR Technology Recognized by Lightwave Awards
Optical Supervisory Channel OTDR SFP Transceiver Receives High Scores in Lightwave Innovation Awards. - July 10, 2014 - Optical Zonu Corp.
Mirus Reagent Agent® Now on MoBiTec Website - Find the Appropriate Transfection Reagent for Your Cell Line and Experiment
MoBiTec GmbH, Germany, together with the transfection experts of Mirus Bio, USA, brings you the Reagent Agent® - a tool designed to determine the best solution for delivery of any nucleic acids into any cell type, including hard-to-transfect cell lines and primary cells. - July 05, 2014 - MoBiTec GmbH
Bioo Scientific Launches NEXTflex Cell Free DNA-Seq Kit Optimized for ctDNA and cfDNA Library Prep
The NEXTflex™ Cell Free DNA-Seq Kit for Illumina Library Preparation is optimized for library construction from low input amounts of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) or cell free fetal DNA (cffDNA). This is the first kit optimized specifically for library construction from DNA isolated from cell... - July 04, 2014 - Bioo Scientific
European Urban Public Transport Energy Efficiency Competition Launched in Berlin
Climate-KIC, the EU’s main climate innovation initiative, and Berlin’s public transport company BVG have teamed up for the Open Innovation Slam 2014 competition. - July 03, 2014 - Climate-KIC
Professor Gilbert Gordon Has Recently Been Recognized by America’s Registry of Outstanding Professionals
Professor Gilbert Gordon of Oxford, Ohio has recently been recognized as Professional of the Year 2014 for his accomplishments and achievements in the field of Water Research. - June 27, 2014 - America's Registry of Outstanding Professionals
Wildcat Discovery Technologies Offers New High Throughput In-Cell Gas Sensing Capabilities
Wildcat can now measure in-situ cell gas evolution using its high throughput technology, enabling its customers to rapidly investigate thousands of new electrolytes in search of formulations that reduce lithium-ion cell gassing and improve cycle life. - June 25, 2014 - Wildcat Discovery Technologies
Customers of Market Research Suppliers Identify the Best Firms in 2014
MarketResearchCareers releases the 2014 Annual Survey of Market Research Professionals ranking more than 100 market research suppliers. - June 24, 2014 - MarketResearchCareers
Bioo Scientific Releases Sciclone and Biomek Protocols to Eliminate NGS Library Prep Bottlenecks
Today Bioo Scientific announced the release of high throughput automated methods for next generation sequencing library preparation on the Beckman Biomek® FX and Biomek® FXP Laboratory Automation Workstations, and the Perkin Elmer Sciclone liquid handling workstations. These protocols were... - June 20, 2014 - Bioo Scientific
MoBiTec GmbH, Germany, and Invent Biotechnologies Inc., USA, Sign Distribution Agreement for the European Market
MoBiTec GmbH, Germany, focused on selling products for life science research, has entered into a distribution agreement with Invent Biotechnologies, Inc., USA. Together with Invent Biotechnologies, MoBiTec expands its portfolio of premier brands. - June 19, 2014 - MoBiTec GmbH
VIRUN® & Pacific Deep Ocean Biotech Combine Natural Mineral Complexes with OmegaH2O® EPA and DHA for Foods, Beverages & Supplements
Virun, and Pacific Deep Ocean Biotech (PDOB), work together to provide mineral complexes that are derived from the ocean with Omega-3 EPA and DHA that deliver clean label claim and eco-friendly sustainable solutions. The combination allows a source for mineral complexes in VIRUN’s patent and patents-pending technologies that naturally yield low metal content to avoid reactivity with omega-3 EPA and DHA, all-the-while delivering a consistent level of Calcium, Sodium, Potassium and Magnesium. - June 18, 2014 - VIRUN
"Meteorite Men" Star Geoff Notkin Unveiling Exhibit Additions at Challenger Space Center on Saturday, June 28
New items include authentic space suits, lunar meteorite from Heinlein Prize Trust. - June 17, 2014 - Aerolite Meteorites, LLC
NC COIN, Shanahan Law Group, NC Biotechnology Center Announce Start Up and Early Stage Legal Series
Informative Five-Week seminar Series to Cover Topics from Business Formation, to Fund Raising and Exits, to IP Issues to International Business Transactions - June 14, 2014 - COIN
Bioo Scientific’s Test Strips Increase the Ease and Sensitivity of Aflatoxin M1 Analysis in Milk
Bioo Scientific’s AuroFlow™ Aflatoxin M1 Strip Test Kit is a rapid, simple, cost-effective lateral flow assay, designed to detect Aflatoxin M1 residues in raw commingled cow’s milk in only 10 minutes. This strip test detects levels of aflatoxin M1 at levels as low as 0.5 ppb. The... - June 13, 2014 - Bioo Scientific
Organomation Upgrades Sample Holder in Popular Lab Evaporator
Lab evaporators produced by Organomation continue to be among the most durable and flexible instruments in the sample preparation segment. - June 13, 2014 - Organomation
Market Prospects - Worldwide Molecular Diagnostics Market: Grand View Research
Grand View Research has announced the addition of "Global Molecular Diagnostics Market Analysis And Segment Forecasts To 2020" Market Research report to their Database. - June 13, 2014 - Grand View Research
Photetica® Will do to the Medical Industry What Elon Musk and Tesla (TSLA) Did to the Automotive Industry
Photetica is now in the clinical trial phase with its game changing medical technology designed to prevent and reverse chemotherapy side effects during chemotherapy treatment at a Rochester, Minnesota based Oncology research and treatment center. - June 12, 2014 - Photetica
MoBiTec Launches SpeedBlot (His) – A Strikingly Fast and Easy-To-Use Western Blot Stain for His-Tagged Proteins
Instant detection of poly-histidine tagged proteins on nitrocellulose membrane with SpeedBlot (His) is easy and does not require relevant hands-on time. Even 0.1 pmol detection limits can be achieved with this highly sensitive detection reagent. While common Western Blot protocols require 6 to 21 hours, staining with SpeedBlot (His) is completed after just about 90 minutes. - June 12, 2014 - MoBiTec GmbH
Summer is Here - Everyone Wants to Save Fuel! ECO Fuel Maximizer.com
With the cost of fuel rising, Transportation companies, Truck owners, RV lovers and Boat owners like everyone else are looking to save on fuel. - June 11, 2014 - ECO Fuel Systems, LLC
Gonzalo Goicochea Gains Early Admission to Strathmore’s Who’s Who 2015 Round Table
Gonzalo Goicochea, of Coral Gables, Florida, has been selected by Strathmore’s Who’s Who as an early admission to the 2015 Round Table. This distinction has been bestowed in honor of his exceptional and impressive contributions to the field of Biometrics. - June 11, 2014 - Strathmore Who's Who
EU Climate Innovation Initiative Climate-KIC Kicks-Off First Activities in Sweden at Chalmers University of Technology
Climate-KIC, the EU’s main climate innovation initiative, is set to kick-off its activities in Sweden this week with a conference at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. Climate-KIC’s expansion into Sweden comes as it is scaling up its presence across Europe this year. The organisation has recently unveiled a series of new climate change related innovation programmes worth over €100 million. - June 10, 2014 - Climate-KIC
IonSense Introduces the DART®-EDU Program to Provide Educational Institutions with an Economical Path to Ownership of Its State-of-the-Art Mass Spectrometry Technology
Educational Leasing Program will enable chemistry departments to lower operating costs while providing students access to Direct Analysis in Real Time Mass Spectrometry. To be exhibited at the 62nd ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics in Baltimore, MD, June 15-19, 2014, Booth 120. - June 10, 2014 - IonSense, Inc.
Historian Manuel Rosa Claims Haitian Shipwreck is Not Columbus’s Santa Maria
New claims that the shipwreck found off the Northern coast of Haiti is Columbus’s famous Santa Maria flagship are allegedly not accurate according to the documentation. - June 08, 2014 - Association Cristovao Colon
New Developments in Europe’s Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy to be Highlighted on World Environment Day in Brussels
Climate-KIC, the EU’s main climate innovation initiative, will highlight new developments in Europe’s on-going transition to a low-carbon economy on World Environment Day, 5 June, in Brussels this week. A Climate-KIC delegation will discuss innovative technologies and new opportunities for European collaboration to confront the climate change challenge in a series of roundtable discussions and workshops. - June 04, 2014 - Climate-KIC
EmpowHer STEMDAY Bringing Science and Technology to Low-Income Students in Los Angeles; Funding for Stem Programs Grows
Sixty students of the EmpowHer Institute participated in a UCLA hosted event designed to expose middle-school girls to career opportunities in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) on Tuesday, May 28, 2014. - June 04, 2014 - EmpowHer Institute
Climate-KIC Launches Europe’s Largest Cleantech Idea Competition
Climate-KIC, the EU’s main climate innovation initiative, has kicked-off Europe’s largest business idea competition, CleanLaunchpad. Aspiring entrepreneurs across ten European countries will compete for three places in the world’s largest climate-specific start-up accelerator,... - June 03, 2014 - Climate-KIC
India Electrophysiology Market Outlook to 2020
Marketreportsonindia.com presents a report on “India Electrophysiology Market Outlook to 2020,” the epidemiology-based forecasting model arrives at the final numbers. - May 31, 2014 - Market Reports on India
Current Species Loss 1000 Times Higher Than Normal, Say SavingSpecies Scientists
A new scientific study shows extinction rates are much higher than normal, but technology and innovation provide hope for conservation. - May 30, 2014 - SavingSpecies, Inc
Industry's First Fluorimetric Assay for Glutaminyl Cyclase
AnaSpec Launches Industry’s First Fluorimetric, 96-well format Assay for Measurement of Glutaminyl Cyclase (QC) Activity - the SensoLyte® Green Glutaminyl Cyclase Activity Assay Kit. - May 29, 2014 - AnaSpec, EGT Group
Viewpoints Industry TV to Highlight the Latest Big Archeological Find
Viewpoints Industry TV announces the discovery of the largest dinosaur ever discovered. - May 25, 2014 - Viewpoints Industry TV
Lucideon Has Extended Its Extensive Analysis Techniques Offerings and Invested in an Agilent 7900 Quadrapole ICP-MS
Lucideon, the international provider of materials development, testing and assurance, and formerly known as Ceram, is pleased to announce it has invested in the latest Agilent 7900 Quadrapole Inductively Coupled Plasma – Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS). The new ICP-MS identifies elements by their... - May 23, 2014 - Lucideon
Climate-KIC Commences Israel Tour for Cleantech Entrepreneurs
12 of Europe’s most promising cleantech start-ups to explore business opportunities in one of world’s biggest hotbeds for climate innovation. - May 22, 2014 - Climate-KIC
Viewpoints Industry TV to Offer a Segment on Scientists Who Are Turning Light Into Matter
Viewpoints Industry TV will present the work of UK scientists who are dissolving the barrier between light and matter. - May 21, 2014 - Viewpoints Industry TV
Over €100 Million for Climate Change Innovation Programmes Announced in Europe
Climate-KIC to unveil multimillion investment for long-term programmes at European Business Summit. - May 14, 2014 - Climate-KIC
Scientific Publishing Finally Joins the Internet Age
F1000Research publishes an attempted replication of a controversial finding highlighting the importance of publishing science in a completely open and transparent way. - May 10, 2014 - Faculty of 1000
MoBiTec GmbH to Attend the International Conference on Stem Cell and Tissue Formation in Dresden, Germany, from July 8-11, 2014
For the 5th time, Stem Cell researchers will convene for the International Conference on Stem Cell and Tissue Formation in Dresden, Germany. At MoBiTec's booth high quality products as well as cutting-edge technologies will be presented. - May 09, 2014 - MoBiTec GmbH
MoBiTec GmbH, Germany, Issues New Fluorescent Probes Brochure, Ready for Free Download as PDF
A brochure featuring Fluorescent Probes for Protein and Nucleic Acid Labeling provided by MoBiTec as Free PDF Download. - May 08, 2014 - MoBiTec GmbH
American Lawyer Media Engages Scope for Mining High Quality Market Data
Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of business process outsourcing services and a Quatrro Global Services company, has announced an ongoing engagement with American Lawyer Media (ALM). As a part of this engagement, Scope will support ALM’s platform RivalEdge, an online service for finding, filtering and delivering relevant news and information directly into the hands of legal professionals. - May 07, 2014 - SPi Global
Meteorite Expert Geoff Notkin Speaking at Two Major Space Conferences in May
California is home to two of the biggest and best space-themed conferences in the country, and world-renowned meteorite expert Geoff Notkin has been asked to speak at both of them this May. An author, adventurer, and award-winning television show host, Notkin is best known as star of the... - April 30, 2014 - Aerolite Meteorites, LLC
Elsevier Publishes a Textbook About New Mathematics Discovered in a Near-Death Experience from The Mereon Legacy
This new geometric structure matches the dynamics of living and life-like systems and has applications in general systems theory, universal systems modelling, human clinical molecular genetics modelling, medical informatics, astrobiology, education and other areas of study. - April 30, 2014 - The Mereon Legacy CIC
Jeffrey D. Littrell Recognized by Strathmore's Who's Who Worldwide Publication
Jeffrey D. Littrell of Chatfield, Minnesota has been included in the Strathmore’s Who’s Who Worldwide Edition for his outstanding contributions and achievements in the field of agriculture. About Jeffrey D. Littrell Mr. Littrell has over 30 years’ experience in the agriculture... - April 25, 2014 - Strathmore Worldwide
LDC Forms Early Drug Discovery Alliance with Daiichi Sankyo
Utilizing shared compound libraries for novel LDC targets. - April 19, 2014 - Lead Discovery Center GmbH
Major Efforts to Mitigate Climate Change Well Under Way in Europe
Responding to the UN report on climate change mitigation, European innovators working across a range of climate innovation disciplines are stressing that major efforts are well under way in Europe. - April 15, 2014 - Climate-KIC
Celestron Unveils Cutting-Edge Telescope and Astroimaging Technology at 2014 Northeast Astronomy Forum and Telescope Show
Experience the night sky in a new way with WiFi-enabled telescopes and sophisticated astroimaging technology from Celestron, the world’s #1 telescope maker. - April 12, 2014 - Celestron
Celestron® Launches New Responsive Company Website
New consumer-oriented, mobile-friendly site will inform users about astronomy, sport optics, and microscopes and drive them to dealers. - April 10, 2014 - Celestron