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Scientific Breakthrough in Carbon Nanotube Photonics
Ultraclean carbon nanotubes hold promise for advances in optical fiber communications, solar cells and LEDs - August 09, 2013 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Stevens Researcher Wins Army Research Office Grant to Ensure Secure Wireless Communication
Research provides resilient encryption in the absence of supporting infrastructure - August 08, 2013 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Research Antibody Survey: Creative Biomart Conducted a Survey Among Antibodies Users
In order to direct market and perfect products, Creative Biomart conducted the survey. And the survey results are listed as follows. - August 03, 2013 - Creative Biomart
AveXis Inc. Names Chief Scientific Officer
AveXis Inc. (avexisinc.com), a synthetic biology platform company focused on research and development of technology for disease treatment, today announced Dr. Allan A. Kaspar will serve as the company’s first Chief Scientific Officer (CSO). Dr. Kaspar has held research positions at multiple... - August 01, 2013 - AveXis Inc.
HEEDS Portal to MSC Adams Product Line Released
Red Cedar Technology announced today that it has released a new full-featured portal linking HEEDS to the MSC Adams product line, including Adams/View, Adams/Car, and Adams/Chassis. - July 31, 2013 - Red Cedar Technology
Pipette.com, Major Liquid Handling Distributor, Has Increased Their Bottletop Dispenser Stock
Pipette.com has increased their stock of bottletop dispensers, boosting their already extensive assortment of high quality liquid handling products. - July 31, 2013 - Pipette.com
Wescadia Group’s White Paper - Pursuing Growth: Optimizing Business Development Opportunities
Wescadia Group, a healthcare consultancy firm, announces the release of its white paper entitled “Pursuing Growth: Optimizing Business Development Opportunities.” - July 31, 2013 - Wescadia Group Pty Ltd
Biotech Company and Craft Beer Association Partner to Advance Craft Beer Education
San Antonio’s newest biotech company, Alamo Yeast Labs, and local craft beer association, the San Antonio Cerveceros, have partnered to create a unique craft beer experience called: Brewatory. Brewatory is a taproom, laboratory and educational center dedicated to educating craft beer enthusiasts about the science behind brewing. - July 30, 2013 - Brewatory
New Company Formed to Focus on New Technology for Disease Treatment
AveXis Inc. (avexisinc.com) announced its formation as a company focused on research and development of technology specifically for disease treatment. A synthetic biology platform company, AveXis has, at its core, a desire to establish unique industry alliances which will bring innovative... - July 27, 2013 - AveXis Inc.
Final Agenda Announced for CHI’s FAST: Functional Analysis & Screening Technologies Congress
Headlined by Karen Burg, DL Taylor, Steve Ludbrook and Aaron Morris, CHI's FAST Congress features three days of innovative presentations for more accurate biological response in drug discovery through novel screening technologies and strategies. - July 27, 2013 - Cambridge Healthtech Institute
New Research Validates Importance of Central Lab to Overall Investigator Satisfaction
More than 250 Clinical Investigators Indicate Central Lab Preference - July 26, 2013 - Life Science Strategy Group, LLC
Dr. Samantha Kleinberg Awarded NIH Grant for New Methods of Studying Large-Scale Data
Research promises to make healthcare monitoring more effective for clinicians - July 26, 2013 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Pipette.com Improves Pipette Accuracy by Offering High Quality Pipette
Pipette.com, major pipette distributor, announces the revamp of their pipette management system and offers a 10% discount on initial orders to new customers. - July 25, 2013 - Pipette.com
OsoBio Appoints Lindsey Pruitt to Manage East Coast Business Development Efforts
Working in her new capacity in OsoBio’s Philadelphia location, Pruitt will identify and foster new business opportunities throughout the Northeast. - July 22, 2013 - OSO BioPharmaceuticals Manufacturing, LLC
Bioo Scientific Hosts Food and Feed Safety Training for Cochran Fellows from Turkmenistan
Bioo Scientific recently participated as a training site in the Cochran Fellowship Program, providing training in ELISAs, lateral flow and enzymatic assays to a delegation from Turkmenistan. The Cochran Fellowship is a collaboration between the National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic... - July 20, 2013 - Bioo Scientific
Red Cedar Technology Announces Distribution Partnership with Xitadel Group
Red Cedar Technology announced today that it has chosen Xitadel CAE Technologies as a distribution partner in India. Xitadel will promote, sell, and support the HEEDS product line in conjunction with the other products that they represent, including LS-DYNA, ANSA, and CarSim. Xitadel is led by... - July 18, 2013 - Red Cedar Technology
Four Insightful Conferences to be Held at CHI's Fifth Annual Immunogenicity Summit 2013
Technologies and Strategies for Safe and Efficacious Products in the Clinic - July 15, 2013 - Cambridge Healthtech Institute
Dr. Alexei Miasnikov Presents Groundbreaking Mathematical Research at Prestigious International Congress of Mathematics 2014
Dr. Alexei Miasnikov, Director of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Stevens Institute of Technology, and his frequent collaborator Dr. Olga Kharlampovich of Hunter College have been chosen as speakers at the International Congress of Mathematics (ICM) 2014, the largest conference in the... - July 12, 2013 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Dr. Yazan Manna Honored with Distinguished Teaching Faculty Award
Award from Student Government Association recognizes his dedication to enhancing students’ classroom experiences - July 12, 2013 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Social & Scientific Systems Acquires a Portion of SRA’s Health Sciences Research Business
Acquisition expands company’s clinical research services and bioinformatics work. - July 10, 2013 - Social & Scientific Systems, Inc.
Major Pipette Distributor Pipette.com Has Expanded Its Stock of Electronic Pipettes: Biohit Picus and Eppendorf Xplorer Plus Now Available
Pipette.com, leader in the liquid handling products, is now stocking Biohit Picus and Eppendorf Xplorer Plus electronic pipettes. This new inventory of electronic pipettes will amplify the already extensive assortment of pipettes available to the science community through Pipette.com. - June 30, 2013 - Pipette.com
Organomation Releases a New Nitrogen Generator Accessory for Blow Down Evaporators
Organomation, a leading provider of sample concentrators, presents one of their most advanced accessories to date, a newly revamped Nitrogen Generator. Decreased costs and maintenance, make this accessory a must have for technician's operating any of Organomation's laboratory evaporation systems. - June 30, 2013 - Organomation
Creative Biomart Launched Novel Animal-free Recombinant Proteins for Stable Research
The novel animal-free protein production system is more efficient, fast, flexible and cheap compared to transgenic plants recombinant proteins production; the scaling-up compared with bio-reactors is simple and lineal. It doesn't have issues with inclusion bodies as E.coli. - June 28, 2013 - Creative Biomart
F2G Ltd and the University of Manchester Announce a New 6.1 Million Euro Project to Develop New Antifungal Agents to Treat Resistant Fungal Infections.
F2G Ltd, a privately-held antifungal drug discovery and development company and The University of Manchester, today announced the commencement of a 6.1 million euro EU-funded project to discover and develop novel antifungal drugs to treat serious, life-threatening fungal infections. The NOFUN... - June 28, 2013 - F2G Ltd
Bioo Scientific Launches Service Testing Food and Feed for Ractopamine Contamination
Bioo Scientific is pleased to now offer Ractopamine Testing Services to complement the food and feed safety line. The new tests provide cost-effective screening for ractopamine, a potent ß-agonist, in meat, animal tissue, milk, feed, urine, serum and plasma. Bioo Scientific’s... - June 27, 2013 - Bioo Scientific
OsoBio Names Kathleen Larese Director of Laboratories
OsoBio has named Kathleen Larese director of laboratories. As part of OsoBio’s quality control department, the microbiology and chemistry laboratories that Larese now directs are responsible for environmental monitoring, analytical method development, and testing all incoming raw materials,... - June 26, 2013 - OSO BioPharmaceuticals Manufacturing, LLC
TransEnterix Develops Patient-Side Robotic Surgical Platform
Company's single-site mobile robot is now undergoing pre-clinical testing. - June 26, 2013 - TransEnterix
New 20ml Vacuum Insulated Concentrator Tube
Organomation has added a new 20 ml vacuum insulated concentrator tube to their glassware product line (Cat# GP2244). The new concentrator tube combines 0.2-20ml end point volume with a reduced height of only 119mm. The 20 ml tube allows for a larger end point volume than the traditional 10 ml... - June 23, 2013 - Organomation
Leading Pipette Distributor Pipette.com Now Stocks Simport’s Dropette and Heathrow Scientific Disposable Plastic Transfer Pipettes
Pipette.com, major leader in the liquid handling industry, is now stocking transfer pipettes. This newly available stock of pipettes will increase the already wide selection of pipette inventory offered by Pipette.com. - June 21, 2013 - Pipette.com
Epitope Diagnostics Launches the First Commercially Available Immunoassay Kits Exclusively for the Quantitative Measurement of Antibody Drug Conjugate Level (ADC)
Epitope Diagnostics has proudly introduced immunoassay kits exclusively for the quantitative measurement of antibody drug conjugate level (ADC). These kits include the EDI™ Mertansine (DM1) ADC EIA Kit, EDI™ Monomethylauristatin F (MMAF) ADC EIA Kit, and the EDI™ Monomethylauristatin E (MMAE) ADC EIA Kit. This technology, together with groundbreaking applications such as Genentech's Kadcyla (Ado-Trastuzumab Emtansine), this promising approach may help to clinically monitor cancer treatment. - June 20, 2013 - Epitope Diagnostics, Inc.
MD Stem Cells Shows Retinal Eye Disease Responds to Stem Cells with Significant Vision Improvement
Blinding retinal eye disease called Retinitis Pigmentosa seen to make major gains in visual acuity following adult stem cell therapy in the United States. - June 20, 2013 - MD Stem Cells
New NEXTflex Rapid DNA-Seq Kit Offers Two-Hour NGS Library Construction from 1 ng of DNA
Bioo Scientific’s NEXTflex™ Rapid DNA-Seq Kit allows researchers to build sequencing-ready libraries for sequencing on Illumina’s sequencing platforms from as little as 1 ng of DNA in two hours or less. This kit is ideal for use with genomic DNA, as well as FFPE samples, ChIP DNA... - June 19, 2013 - Bioo Scientific
ALPCO to Distribute NAG Assays from PPR Diagnostics
New distribution agreement allows ALPCO to distribute NAG assays from PPR Diagnostics. - June 13, 2013 - ALPCO
NanCogenics Reports Research Findings on Tumor-Localization of Cancer Therapeutics
Research results on the use of magnetic nanovectors for the tumor-specific localization of cancer therapeutics is discussed. - June 08, 2013 - NanCogenics Inc
Organomation Announces the New Automatic 20 Position N-EVAP Nitrogen Evaporator
Organomation unveils the company’s new Automatic 20 Position Nitrogen Evaporator. This latest addition to the company’s widely successful N-EVAP product line allows for automatic operation to save laboratory technicians time while reducing human error. Sales Technician Anthony Sacino... - June 08, 2013 - Organomation
CovalX and Bruker Daltonics Announce Strategic Collaboration in High Mass MALDI Detection
Joint Support of CovalX High Mass Detection Systems for all Bruker autoflex and ultraflex series instruments worldwide will provide new and existing Bruker MALDI customers with access to CovalX applications for protein interaction and macromolecular analysis. - June 07, 2013 - CovalX
Dr. Malinovskaya Presented Ultracold Quantum Research at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
Dr. Svetlana Malinovskaya, Professor of Physics at Stevens Institute of Technology, presented her innovative work on ultracold dynamics and decoherence at the influential Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP). Hundreds of theoretical physicists and other scientists came from all over the... - June 06, 2013 - Stevens Institute of Technology
MoBiTec GmbH and Bachem Americas, Inc., Sign Distribution Agreement for the European Market
MoBiTec GmbH, a Germany based biotech company focused on products for life science research, has entered into a distribution agreement with Bachem Americas, Inc., USA. Together with Bachem Americas, MoBiTec will continue to expand its portfolio of premier brands and high-quality products through the addition of Bachem’s high-quality immunology products. - June 01, 2013 - MoBiTec GmbH
Mouse Osteopontin ELISA Now Available from ALPCO
ALPCO launches the second species-specific kit in a line of Osteopontin ELISAs. - May 31, 2013 - ALPCO
The EDI Human Intact FGF-21 ELISA Kit is the First Immunoassay Kit That Exclusively Measures Human Intact FGF-21
Epitope Diagnostics is pleased to introduce a brand new ELISA kit for the quantitative determination of β-Klotho & FGF Receptor Active Human Intact FGF-21 level in EDTA-plasma or serum. This assay measures human intact FGF-21, instead of FGF-21 fragments like similar commercially available kits on the market today. - May 31, 2013 - Epitope Diagnostics, Inc.
Creative Biomart Scientists Found That Shutdown Gene Arih2 May Treat Hepatitis
Arih2 was found within the sentinel dendritic cells of the immune system, which play a vital role in defending intruders. - May 31, 2013 - Creative Biomart
Colorado BioScience Association Commends Boettcher Foundation’s Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Program
Colorado BioScience Association congratulates Boettcher Foundation on the announcement of its 2013 class of Boettcher Investigators in the Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Program. Now in its fourth year, the program provides for the discovery of new knowledge that improves human health through the investment in and advancement of early-career scientists. - May 30, 2013 - Colorado BioScience Association
Social & Scientific Systems Uses HeartSignals to Submit HL7 QT Data Sets to 2013 FDA ECG Warehouse
Social & Scientific Systems, Inc. (SSS), a clinical research services provider focusing on both the government and commercial sectors, announced today that SSS' Cardiac Core Laboratory Services HeartSignalsTM system has been formally validated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to... - May 30, 2013 - Social & Scientific Systems, Inc.
Tucson Surgeon First in State to Offer SPIDER Gastric Sleeve for Weight Loss
Dr. Patrick Chiasson at Southern Arizona Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery also uses novel single-incision surgical platform for gallbladder removal. - May 30, 2013 - TransEnterix
Coral Products Launch Kitchen Caddy with SteriTouch®
Merseyside-based Coral Products plc has introduced an antimicrobial food recycling bin to its range of products supplied to local authorities, and is confident that this development will encourage the use of food caddies in the home. Incorporating SteriTouch® universal masterbatch into the... - May 30, 2013 - SteriTouch Ltd
Zenalux Announces Research Partnership Program for Development of New Optical Spectroscopy Applications
Zenascope™ effectively and non-destructively monitors key tissue biomarkers in real-time - May 28, 2013 - Zenalux Biomedical, Inc.
MiTeGen Announces Collaboration and License Agreements with EMBL
MiTeGen LLC, a provider of innovative consumables for X-ray diffraction, crystallography and protein crystallization to academic, pharmaceutical, industrial and government researchers around the world, announced that it has signed agreements with EMBLEM, the commercial subsidiary of the EMBL (the... - May 23, 2013 - MiTeGen, LLC
Lessons from the Fukushima Nuclear Plant Crisis
Dr. Julie Pullen of Stevens Institute of Technology is an expert in modeling chemical, biological, and radiological dispersion in coastal cities. The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society has published her analysis of the response to the Fukushima Nuclear Plant Crisis. - May 23, 2013 - Stevens Institute of Technology
ALPCO to Exhibit with BÜHLMANN Laboratories at DDW 2013 and Feature Fecal Calprotectin ELISA
The partnering companies will feature BÜHLMANN's Fecal Calprotectin ELISA that is pending FDA clearance for IVD use in the United States. - May 16, 2013 - ALPCO
Colorado Bioscience Association Applauds Signing of The Colorado Advanced Industries Acceleration Act (HB 1001) by Gov. John Hickenlooper
Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA) applauds the signing of The Colorado Advanced Industries Acceleration Act by Gov. John Hickenlooper. The legislation is designed to grow all the high-tech sectors in Colorado: Advanced Manufacturing, Aerospace, Bioscience, Electronics, Energy & Natural Resources, Engineering and Information Technology. - May 16, 2013 - Colorado BioScience Association