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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pixcelldata Named as a Hitachi Data Systems Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) for Healthcare and Life Sciences

Pixcelldata and Hitachi Data Systems to bring to market Picture Archiving and Communication (PACS) solutions for the digital pathology domain. - December 14, 2012 - Pixcelldata Ltd

Brooks Bell Interactive Adopts Unique Corporate Wellness Program with Vital Plan

Vital Plan Launches Corporate Wellness Program - Rapidly-growing wellness company expands their programs from physician offices to a corporate setting - December 13, 2012 - Vital Plan

MoBiTec GmbH, Germany, Introduces New Multiplex Secretion Gene Expression System for Bacillus subtilis

Bacillus subtilis has become an increasingly popular host for recombinant protein expression. With its ability to secrete protein directly into culture media, and designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as an organism that is Generally Regarded As Safe (GRAS), the majority of industrially-produced enzymes are expressed in Bacillus species such as B. subtilis. To address this, MoBiTec introduces the new Bacillus subtilis Multiplex Secretion Expression System. - December 13, 2012 - MoBiTec GmbH

BioLife Cell Bank Reaches Important Milestone

Human tissue bank, BioLife, now has more than 1,000 individual samples of adipose (fat) and/or stem cells stored at their facility in Dallas, Texas. - December 13, 2012 - BioLife Cell Bank

ALPCO Diagnostics Recognized in Support of American Red Cross’ Hurricane Sandy Relief Efforts

ALPCO presented with plaque of recognition for their contribution to the American Red Cross' Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund. - December 12, 2012 - ALPCO

ALPCO Diagnostics and BioCat GmbH Sign Exclusive Distribution Agreement at MEDICA 2012

Beginning January 1, 2013, BioCat GmbH will be ALPCO's exclusive distributor in Germany. - December 10, 2012 - ALPCO

ReproTech Launches Fertility Preservation App for Android

ReproTech, Ltd., a cryobank specializing in long-term storage of human reproductive tissue (sperm, eggs, embryos and ovarian and testicular tissue), has released its free Fertility Preservation App for Android. - December 09, 2012 - ReproTech, LLC

Indonesian Health Minister Visits BIMC Hospital Nusa Dua

Indonesian Health Minister Nafsiah Mboi visited BIMC Nusa Dua, Bali, December 4th 2012. Accompanied by her staff, she was welcomed to the hospital by the management team which took her for a tour. BIMC Hospital Group which has been in the industry for the last 14 years has recently opened a... - December 09, 2012 - BIMC Hospital

Auto-Disable Syringes: Moving Towards Safer Vaccinations

It is undeniable that needles and syringes continue to be vital tools in numerous areas of healthcare and if used incorrectly, it can lead to often deadly diseases and infections. This happens most commonly with repeated needle use on multiple patients. A study carried by the World and Health... - December 09, 2012 - AdvaCare Pharmaceutical

Bringing Effective Optimization to Designers and Design Engineers

Design Simulation Technologies, Inc. (DST) announced today that they have chosen to embed the revolutionary SHERPA optimization engine, from Red Cedar Technology, into their SimWise 4D simulation software. SimWise 4D integrates motion simulation and structural simulation allowing design engineers... - December 08, 2012 - Red Cedar Technology

ALPCO Diagnostics and Euro Diagnostica Announce Distribution Agreement

ALPCO to distribute Euro Diagnostica products in North America. - December 07, 2012 - ALPCO

iTech Announces Support for Public Health Clinics

iTech, a SaaS based Healthcare billing and Practice Management Software vendor announces expEDIum Medical Billing Solution (eMB) v2.1 that supports public health clinics including Sliding Fee Schedule programs and Atypical IDs. - December 07, 2012 - expEDIum

Colorado BioScience Association Awards the Industry’s Best of 2012

The Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA) honored the outstanding bioscience companies and individuals in the state during its Annual Awards Dinner at the Hyatt Convention Center, Denver. The celebration showcases the significant achievements from the bioscience industry throughout the past year. - December 07, 2012 - Colorado BioScience Association

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