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dinCloud on a Roll with Latest Customer Win
King’s Hawaiian Selects dinCloud’s Hosted Virtual Desktop Solution to Increase IT Efficiency and Reduce Costs - January 31, 2013 - dinCloud
Vollara LLC Introduces Updated Air Purifier Design with 29% Increase in Airflow and Improved Effectiveness
Direct marketing company, Vollara LLC, introduces an improved FreshAir Box with 29% increase in airflow and greater effectiveness within the indoor environment. - January 31, 2013 - Vollara
Metrics Inc. Names Vice President of Pharmaceutical Development
Dr. Brad Gold will direct pharmaceutical development and new technologies. - January 30, 2013 - Metrics, Inc.
Paid Diabetes Clinical Trial Now Enrolling at Achieve Clinical Research in Birmingham, Alabama; Accepting M/F Age 18+ with Type 2 Diabetes
This trial is a 26-week, multi-center, multinational, open-label, 2-arm parallel, randomized, treat-to-target trial in insulin naive subjects with T2DM inadequately controlled on a maximum tolerated dose or maximum dose according to local label of GLP-1 receptor agonist and metformin. - January 29, 2013 - Achieve Clinical Research
MOgene Announces Partnership with Intuitive Genomics to Expand Bioinformatics Capabilities
MOgene LC, a full service genomics service provider based in Saint Louis, MO announces a partnership with Intuitive Genomics, Inc. to further expand its bioinformatics capabilities. This decision follows several years of successfully working with Intuitive Genomics to deliver some very promising... - January 28, 2013 - MOgene, LC
Colorado BioScience Association Focuses on 2013's Key State and Federal Legislative Initiatives at Fifth Annual "BioScience Day at the Capitol"
Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA) is hosting its fifth annual "BioScience Day at the Capitol" on January 30. The event will feature Mark Leahey, President and CEO, Medical Device Manufacturers Association (MDMA) presenting the "State of the Medical Device Industry" and efforts MDMA is leading in Washington to repeal the Medical Device Tax. - January 28, 2013 - Colorado BioScience Association
dinCloud Director of Channels to Speak at ITEXPO East
Panel Discussions Will Focus on Cloud Migration and Secure Workforce Mobilization. - January 27, 2013 - dinCloud
ProteinSignal - A New Brand of GenScript, Focused on Protein Research
ProteinSignal will serve as a pioneering developer and supplier of high performance protein research products covering the entire protein analysis workflow. Their offerings include cytokines and growth factors, protein purification resins, precast PAGE gels, protein standards, gel staining systems, anti-tag antibodies, western blot detection, ELISA kits and endotoxin detection and removal kits. - January 27, 2013 - GenScript USA Inc.
CHI Releases List of Delegates for Targeting Cancer Stem Cells Symposium in San Francisco, CA
To be held on February 11-12, 2013 at the Moscone North Convention Center, San Francisco, CA - Part of the Molecular Med TRI-CON 2013. - January 26, 2013 - Cambridge Healthtech Institute
Tampa Bay Surgeons Offer Virtually Scarless Weight-Loss Procedure
Sun Coast Bariatrics is using the SPIDER® Surgical System to perform single-incision sleeve gastrectomy. - January 26, 2013 - TransEnterix
IonSense Awarded Massachusetts Workforce Training Grant. Adds New Sales Management.
IonSense, Inc. announced that they are a recipient of one of the 87 Workforce Training Grants awarded by the state of Massachusetts. This grant will enable the company to provide training to a number of employees in the areas of software development and engineering. “We are growing our... - January 25, 2013 - IonSense, Inc.
Sales R Us Announces New Ultra Balm Distributor Program
Sales R Us has announced the launch of a new distributor program for its popular line of Ultra Balm skin care products. - January 25, 2013 - Sales R Us
Stevens Undergraduates Present Research on Reducing Back Pain
Lower back pain is the second most common cause of disability for adults in the United States. Faced with the rising number of individuals suffering from the condition, undergraduate students Emily Noonan and Hanna Sidoti at the Stevens Institute of Technology will be presenting their research on... - January 24, 2013 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Novel Health Strategies Announces Publication of Annual and Recurring Strategy Overview on Emerging Life Sciences Market Trends
Novel Health Strategies Study Shows Oncology, Diabetes and Auto-Immune Indications Driving Growth of the Biotech Sector; More Products Facing Market Access Challenges. - January 24, 2013 - Novel Health Strategies
Optic Nerve Vision Loss Reversed with New Stem Cell Treatment
MD Stem Cells helps nearly blind car accident victim regain her sight in Florida and see her mother’s face again- other neurologic benefits reported as well. - January 24, 2013 - MD Stem Cells
Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awards $150,000 to Dr. Lee Rubin at Harvard to Advance a New SMA Drug Discovery Program
Dr. Rubin's project at Harvard is the first of three drug discovery awards that will be given by Families of SMA in the next few months. - January 20, 2013 - Cure SMA
EEG Awareness Weeks – What EEG Can do for a Trial
The Siesta Group announces the "EEG Awareness Weeks" from Jan 7 to Mar 31, 2013. During this time The Siesta Group’s CEO Georg Dorffner and CSO Peter Anderer will hold free webinars on the topic "What EEG can do for a trial." A free feasibility analysis concerning efforts and costs of including EEG in an early or late phase trial to address CNS efficacy or safety of a drug will be offered to all participants. - January 19, 2013 - The Siesta Group Schlafanalyse GmbH
Vollara LLC Introduces New Air Purifier Designed for Smaller Indoor Areas
Direct marketing company, Vollara LLC, introduces a new, updated FreshAir Focus air purifier designed for smaller indoor areas. - January 18, 2013 - Vollara
Stevens Students Enter National Academy of Engineering Ethics Video Contest
Team of engineers proposes reassessment of nuclear energy as a sustainable power source as part of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Online Ethics Center (OEC) Energy Ethics Video Challenge. - January 16, 2013 - Stevens Institute of Technology
MD Stem Cells Improves Myopic Macular Degeneration with New Stem Cell Treatment
MD Stem Cells helps Australian patient travel half way around the world for stem cell treatment in Florida to achieve significant improvement in vision. - January 14, 2013 - MD Stem Cells
AnaSpec Offers a Wide Selection of SYBR® qPCR MasterMixes and Core Kits
AnaSpec, EGT Group offers a wide selection of SYBR® Green-based MasterMixes and Core Kits for almost any thermocycler available in the industry. - January 12, 2013 - AnaSpec, EGT Group
Bioo Scientific Launches AflaPure™ Immunoaffinity Columns for Aflatoxin Detection in Food
Bioo Scientific developed two new immunoaffinity columns, AflaPure™ Total and AflaPure™ M1, for the convenient detection of aflatoxin in a variety of food and dairy samples in less than 30 minutes. - January 12, 2013 - Bioo Scientific
Winn-Dixie Agrees to Place EnergyXcentric in All Stores
Winn-Dixie is carrying the 30 count bottles and 2 capsule, 2 day supply packets of Health International Products, Inc.'s energyXcentric patented 8 hour release technology capsules within a capsule. - January 11, 2013 - Health International Products, Inc.
Clinical CRO ICRC-Weyer to Enhance Pharmacovigilance Risk Management
The Berlin-based clinical contract research organization (CRO) ICRC-Weyer GmbH is adapting a process of integrating medical review procedures into Pharmacovigilance risk management, a method that will lead to better Pharmacovigilance practices. - January 10, 2013 - ICRC-Weyer GmbH
Human Growth Foundation to Host “Step Up and Walk” Event, Raising Awareness of Growth Hormone Deficiency
Human Growth Foundation, a national non-profit organization, will host its 1st Annual 4.8K Step Up and Walk fundraiser on Sunday, April 21, 2013 at Flushing Meadows – Corona Park in Queens, New York. - January 09, 2013 - Human Growth Foundation
Nutrition Pit is Now Offering GASP Bodybuilding Clothing in 2013
Nutrition Pit has just announced that they are now offering GASP bodybuilding clothing to kick-off 2013. - January 09, 2013 - Nutrition Pit
Fertility Preservation Network Adds Central South Carolina Facility
ReproTech, Ltd., a cryobank specializing in long-term storage of human reproductive tissue (sperm, eggs, embryos and ovarian and testicular tissue), reached an agreement with Advanced Fertility and Reproductive Endocrinology Institute, LLC today. - January 09, 2013 - ReproTech, LLC
Pfizer Licenses Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Quinazoline Therapy Program
Repligen Corporation announced today that it has entered into an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with Pfizer Inc. to advance Repligen’s spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) program, originally in-licensed from Families of SMA (FSMA). Families of SMA funded and directed the preclinical... - January 09, 2013 - Cure SMA
ASI Launches Go-Path – Computerized Immunohistochemistry Cancer Analysis Aid
GenASIs Go-Path – Industry’s Most Advanced Computer Aided Membrane and Nuclear Immunohistochemistry Imaging and Analysis Platform - January 09, 2013 - Applied Spectral Imaging
HealthCarePoint Completes the Integration of Transnational Collaborative Platform for Healthcare and Clinical Research
Connecting HealthCare and Clinical Research - January 08, 2013 - HealthCarePoint
The Colorado BioScience Association Launches Its Colorado BioScience Institute to Support Much Needed Educational & Workforce Programs for the State's Bioscience Industry
Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA) is officially launching the Colorado BioScience Institute (The Institute) today. The CBSA leadership team has set a kick-off goal of $100,000 for The Institute this year. The initial $20,000 raised, including a generous matching gift from PhRMA of up to $5,000, will support the Colorado launch of one of its flagship programs, the BioGENEius Challenge. - January 07, 2013 - Colorado BioScience Association
ImmunoReagents Signs French Distributorship Agreement with Ozyme
ImmunoReagents, a manufacturer of high quality polyclonal antibodies and reagents used by researchers, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, has announced the appointment of Ozyme as its new distributor in France. ImmunoReagents and Ozyme will partner to distribute top quality antibodies and... - January 04, 2013 - ImmunoReagents Inc.
Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Committed $2.5 Million to Funding SMA Research in 2012
Families of SMA is dedicated to creating a treatment and cure for Spinal Muscular Atrophy by funding and advancing a comprehensive research program, which includes: Basic Research to reveal the best ways of making SMA drugs; Drug Discovery to make practical new drugs, and; Clinical Trial resources... - January 01, 2013 - Cure SMA
Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awards $710,000 for Basic Research to Identify New and More Effective Approaches for SMA Therapies
Continued investment in basic research leads to greater understanding of the exact nature, causes, and consequences of SMA. This knowledge is key to ensuring that the most effective SMA treatments can be identified and developed as quickly as possible. - December 29, 2012 - Cure SMA
Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Grants New Research Funding of $140,000 to Dr. Didonato of Northwestern University
Families of SMA is dedicated to creating a treatment and cure for Spinal Muscular Atrophy by funding and advancing a comprehensive research program. This new research funding will support a project at Northwestern University to better understand when and where SMN protein is needed in less severe... - December 28, 2012 - Cure SMA
MoBiTec GmbH, Germany, is Offering TurboLigation™ Kit, Enabling Quick Ligation of DNA Molecules in Just 5 Minutes at a Bargain Price
Combining heterologous DNA molecules is a key process in most traditional molecular cloning experiments. This process, facilitated by the enzyme DNA ligase, usually takes about 16 hours. With the TurboLigation™ Kit the reaction time is greatly reduced down to just 5 minutes without compromising the efficiency. - December 22, 2012 - MoBiTec GmbH
Source-Omega Challenges All Algae Omega-3 Suppliers to Release Full Algae DHA Contaminant Profiles
Source-Omega today released for public review their full nutritional and contaminant profile for SOURCE OIL™, the newest DHA algae oil supply to market. (http://www.source-omega.com/files/uploads/0B7704C3-F707-4E56-8672-302645CD7EC9.pdf) SOURCE OIL is used in their PURE ONE®... - December 20, 2012 - Source-Omega
ImmunoReagents Signs Swiss Distributorship Agreement with LabForce Ag
ImmunoReagents, a manufacturer of high quality polyclonal antibodies and reagents used by researchers, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, has announced the appointment of LabForce as its new distributor in Switzerland. ImmunoReagents and LabForce will partner to distribute top quality... - December 20, 2012 - ImmunoReagents Inc.
CreAgri, Inc. Receives 2012 Best of Hayward Award
The Hayward Award Program is an annual awards program honoring the achievements and accomplishments of local businesses throughout the Hayward area. - December 20, 2012 - Creagri, Inc.
Applied Spectral Imaging Launches Version 7.2 of GenASIs – A New Era in Pathology and Cytogenetic Imaging
GenASIs 7.2 – The Market’s Most Comprehensive Computer Aided Cytogenetic and Pathology Imaging and Analysis Platform - December 20, 2012 - Applied Spectral Imaging
Wescadia Group’s BioDeal 360™: Analysis of Deal Activity in the Australian Life Science Sector
Wescadia Group, a healthcare consultancy firm, announces the release of its report “BioDeal 360™”. The report provides strategic analysis, commentary, insight, and opinion on selected deals in the Australian life science industry in 2012. - December 19, 2012 - Wescadia Group Pty Ltd
2012 - An Award-Winning Year for SFL
This year, SFL’s multifunctional expertise has been independently recognised through two important business awards. In July, Shayesteh Fürst-Ladani, Managing Director of the company, received the Open University Business School’s Alumni Award Outstanding Contribution to an... - December 19, 2012 - SFL Regulatory Affairs & Scientific Communication Ltd
General Biologicals Corporation Signs ALPCO as a Distributor in North America
ALPCO will distribute Infectious Disease assays from GBC in North America. - December 18, 2012 - ALPCO
Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awards New Research Funding of $75,000 to Dr. Yong-Chao Ma at Northwestern University
Families of SMA is dedicated to creating a treatment and cure for Spinal Muscular Atrophy by funding and advancing a comprehensive research program. This new research funding will support a project at the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago at Northwestern University to help discover new SMA drug targets using animal and cellular models of the disease. - December 16, 2012 - Cure SMA
IAOP Names Panel to Evaluate Global Outsourcing 100® and World’s Best Outsourcing Advisors
Initial List of Top Ranked Companies to be Released in February - December 16, 2012 - IAOP
ICRC-Weyer Clinical CRO Looks Back at a Successful Year 2012
ICRC-Weyer GmbH, a clinical contract research organization (CRO) based in Berlin, Germany, has released its review of the year 2012, stating it has been a successful and exciting 12 months for everybody involved in the business. The company looks forward to more constructive partnerships and growth for the year ahead. - December 16, 2012 - ICRC-Weyer GmbH
A Preview of AdvaCare’s Monthly Price Updates Newsletter
A Sneak Peak at 3 of Advacare's 7 Top Featured Products - December 16, 2012 - AdvaCare Pharmaceutical
The Cure Panel Talk Show Featuring Physicians in Conversation with Patients About New Treatments Creates National Interest
Cure Talk Blog initiates a unique and innovative internet radio talk show, the Cure Panel Talk Show focused on patient-expert interactions. Cure Panel has received an overwhelming response and have featured some of the top physicians of the nation. - December 16, 2012 - Applied Informatics
Stevens Wins NSF Grant for International, Multidisciplinary Partnership to Study the Amazon River
Dr. Michael Bruno leads cross-disciplinary effort to observe and model a globally critical coastal maritime system. - December 15, 2012 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Peoples Medical/Peoples Pharmacy Express Will Relocate to Larger Facility in Early 2013
Connecticut’s leader in Respiratory and Home Medical Equipment since 1996, purchased new building and is moving to the larger facility. - December 15, 2012 - Peoples Medical