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Colorado BioScience Association Appoints Four Industry Leaders to Board of Directors
Four industry executives were named to the Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA) Board of Directors at its 2012 Annual All-Member Meeting. New CBSA director appointments include James Chomas, Ph.D., Founder & CEO, Surefire Medical; Scott Deeter, President & CEO, Ventria Bioscience; Brent Fassett, Partner, Cooley LLP; and Kerry Ingalls, Vice President of Colorado Operations, Amgen. - April 05, 2012 - Colorado BioScience Association
BioPharm Systems to Host Webinar on How to Personalize the Siebel Clinical User Interface
Leading provider of clinical trial, data and drug safety solutions will discuss the various ways one can personalize their Siebel Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS) user interface. - April 05, 2012 - BioPharm Systems
U.S. Granted Patent 8,088,385 B2 Strengthens Advanced Cancer Therapeutics’ Anti-Cancer Product Portfolio
Advanced Cancer Therapeutics (ACT), a privately held company dedicated to bringing new anti-cancer therapies to market, today announced that it has been granted U.S. Patent 8,088,385 B2 titled “PFKFB3 inhibitor for the treatment of a Proliferative Cancer” by the United States Patent... - April 04, 2012 - Advanced Cancer Therapeutics
Dr. EH Yang's Research Team Awarded with NSF Grant on Pioneering Microfluidics Innovation
Digital microfluidics creates a lab-on-a-chip, enabling portable at-home medical tests. - April 04, 2012 - Stevens Institute of Technology
ImmunoReagents Announces Exclusive Japanese Distribution Channel with Funakoshi Ltd. Co.
ImmunoReagents, a manufacturer of high quality secondary antibodies used by researchers, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, has announced the appointment of Funakoshi as its new distributor for Japan. ImmunoReagents and Funakoshi will work closely together to bring top quality antibodies... - March 31, 2012 - ImmunoReagents Inc.
AnaSpec Highlights HiLyte Fluor™ Dyes Collection for Labeling Amine and Thiol-Modified Oligos
AnaSpec is pleased to highlight their wide collection of amine and thiol reactive 6-isomeric dyes of fluoresceins and rhodamines, and AnaSpec’s own proprietary HiLyte Fluor™ dyes for labeling amine and thiol modified oligonucleotides. Fluorescent dye-labeled oligos are widely used as... - March 29, 2012 - AnaSpec, EGT Group
NovaTeinBio Announces Discount on New Human PEG 20000 ELISA Kit
Boston-based biological reagents provider NovaTeinBio has recently announced that they’re offering a 10% discount on their new Human PEG 20000 ELISA kit. This discount is designed to help medical researchers across the company to consolidate the cost of their testing in order to refocus their... - March 28, 2012 - Novatein Biosciences
The Jon Block Group Initiates First Tennis Sponsorship with David Konstantinov
Expanding upon the firm’s tremendously successful sponsorship program in motorcycle road racing, The Jon Block Group is pleased to announce its first tennis sponsorship with an endorsement of 17 year old San Francisco native, David Konstantinov. As succinctly put by Kurt Burgess, the... - March 27, 2012 - Jon Block Group
BioPharm Systems Launches Accel-Account Manager for Creating and Managing Oracle Clinical, RDC and TMS User Accounts
Accel-Account Manager allows life sciences companies to easily and cost-effectively manage user accounts without technical knowledge. - March 25, 2012 - BioPharm Systems
Dr. Henry Du Elected SPIE Fellow
Professor Du's interdisciplinary fiber-optic sensing research advances applications in environmental monitoring, medical diagnosis and energy production - March 25, 2012 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Carotech to Showcase Natural Palm Mixed Carotene (Caromin) & Palm Tocotrienol Complex (Tocomin) at FIC 2012, Shanghai
Carotech will share latest scientific developments and application strategies of its Tocomin and Caromin series of ingredients - March 24, 2012 - Carotech Inc.
Office of Naval Research Continues Funding for Innovative Research in Unmanned Naval Vessels
ACCeSS collaborators push the boundaries of naval technology and education. - March 23, 2012 - Stevens Institute of Technology
AnaSpec Develops AMC Resins for SPPS
Peptide-7-amino-4-methylcoumarin conjugates (peptide-AMCs) are widely used as fluorogenic substrates to study proteases. The preparation of peptide-AMCs usually involves solution phase synthesis since AMC lacks an additional functional group for attachment to a solid support. Although solid-phase... - March 22, 2012 - AnaSpec, EGT Group
ALS Therapy Development Institute Announces Eighth Annual "The Cure Is Coming" 5k and Awareness Walk
Participants walk, ride or race to raise money and awareness to end ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) - March 21, 2012 - ALS Therapy Development Institute
Detroit R&D and ALPCO Diagnostics Sign Distribution Agreement
ALPCO Diagnostics and Detroit R&D agree to a distribution partnership in North America. - March 20, 2012 - ALPCO
Colorado BioScience Association Commends PhRMA and We Work For Health for Showcasing the Critical Importance of Clinical Trials to Chronic Disease Sufferers in the State
Members of Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA) today joined with colleagues from both the public and private sectors, including Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, at a State Capitol News Conference to applaud the release of PhRMA's new report: “Research in Your Backyard.” Colorado's biopharmaceutical industry assists sufferers of chronic disease and includes approximately 300 companies employing over 5,410 with average salaries of $93,000. - March 19, 2012 - Colorado BioScience Association
Fitzsimons Redevelopment Authority Names New President & CEO
Following an extensive national search, Fitzsimons Redevelopment Authority (FRA) has named Steve VanNurden as its new President & CEO. VanNurden, a seasoned leader in the life science/bioscience space, comes to FRA from Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. - March 16, 2012 - Fitzsimons Redevelopment Authority
The NEXTflex™ ChIP-Seq Kit Now Includes a Completely Gel-Free NGS Library Prep Protocol
Bioo Scientific incorporated an alternative gel-free, bead-based protocol into the NEXTflex™ ChIP-Seq Kit which reduces the required sample prep time and allows for complete automation of library prep. - March 16, 2012 - Bioo Scientific
Zouch Dynamics Will Distribute Red Cedar Technology Software in the UK
Zouch Dynamics will work with CAE Value AB to sell HEEDS in Europe. - March 16, 2012 - Red Cedar Technology
MoBiTec GmbH, Germany, Closes Distribution Agreement for Transcreener® HTS System Platform with BellBrooks Labs, USA
BellBrook Labs, USA, is dedicated to providing the pharmaceutical industry with enabling screening tools to accelerate the discovery of more effective therapies. Their proprietary Transcreener® HTS Platform was developed to move more new targets into HTS more rapidly, and to streamline selectivity profiling within a target family. The partnership with MoBiTec, Germany, will enable BBL to offer their excellent products for High-Throughput Screening to scientists in Germany. - March 14, 2012 - MoBiTec GmbH
Research Article by Stevens Professor Stamnes Achieves Most Citations in the History of the Journal of Applied Optics
Dr. Knut Stamnes' seminal paper has informed research in climate change and the "Greenhouse" effect. His work is the most cited in the 50-year history of the influential journal Applied Optics, according to their recently released anniversary list. - March 08, 2012 - Stevens Institute of Technology
RRI Group/Akesis Has Been Part of 60 Dermatology Development Programs
Let RRI Group/Akesis put its Clinical Experience to work for you. RRI Group/Akesis' passion is helping Companies...Grow. - March 08, 2012 - RRI Group/Akesis
Bioo Scientific’s Newest ELISA Facilitates the Screening of Meat Samples for Colistin Contamination
Bioo Scientific recently launched the MaxSignal® Colistin ELISA Test Kit for reliable, rapid and cost effective screening of colistin contamination in poultry, beef and pork samples. - March 07, 2012 - Bioo Scientific
IonSense Introduces the DART®-OS Source. Expands Its OpenSpot Mass Spectrometry™ Product Line
OpenSpot® Sample Cards Facilitate Simpler Analysis, Eliminating Most Consumables and Solvents, Reducing Lab Waste. Exhibited at Pittcon 2012. Booth #2609. - March 06, 2012 - IonSense, Inc.
Dr. David Cappelleri Receives NSF CAREER Award for Ground-Breaking Work in Microrobotics
Microrobots can help detect cancer cells and drive advancement toward microsurgical applications. - March 02, 2012 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Red Cedar Technology and TotalCAE Form Strategic Partnership
HEEDS MDO software and TotalCAE IT solutions integrate for a complete innovation platform. - March 02, 2012 - Red Cedar Technology
TransEnterix to Unveil New SPIDER Surgical System Instruments at SAGES
Platform delivers smallest incision in single-site market while replicating triangulation of multi-port systems - March 02, 2012 - TransEnterix
MoBiTec GmbH, Germany, to Exhibit at Annual Conference of the Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM) 2012 in Tuebingen, Germany
Presentation of new High End Imaging Tools and Accessories for Cell Culture and Light and Fluorescence Microscopy, Systems for Safe Collection and Transportation of Parasite Material, and a Comprehensive Compilation Booklet on Cell Viability and Cytotoxicity Assays at German Conference of the Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM) 2012. - March 02, 2012 - MoBiTec GmbH
NovaTeinBio Add Protein Expression and Purification to Their Service Catalogue
Leading biological reagents specialist NovaTeinBio has recently announced that they will now be offering their exceptional expertise within the field of molecular detection and protein expression and purification to enhance and accelerate their clients’ scientific research and development... - February 29, 2012 - Novatein Biosciences
MoBiTec GmbH, Germany, Offers a New Photoconvertible and Photoactivatible Fluorescent Protein Suitable for High-Resolution Microscopy: mIrisFP
MoBiTec GmbH, Germany, supplier of fluorescent probes, screening kits and imaging ware for cutting-edge fluorescence applications and microscopy, introduces mIrisFP, a photoconvertible and photoactivatible fluorescent protein suitable for High-Resolution microscopy: mIrisFP - February 29, 2012 - MoBiTec GmbH
Mitegen Announces Continued Expansion of Product Lines and Offerings for Crystallographers
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, recently announced numerous expansions to both their patented product portfolio and to their line of distributed products. - February 25, 2012 - MiTeGen, LLC
MoBiTec GmbH, Germany, Launches Sale of High End Imaging Tools and Accessories for Cell Culture and Light and Fluorescence Microscopy
MoBiTec GmbH, Germany, supplier of fluorescent probes and research chemicals, introduces a collection of high end imaging tools for cell based imaging, assays and arrays. The product line includes Imaging Dishes and adequate Stage Frames, Imaging Plates, Imaging Chambers, Slide Tray Plates and Affinity Adhesion Slides. For the design of the products excellent materials, high quality processing and assembly technologies and innovative construction principles were chosen. - February 24, 2012 - MoBiTec GmbH
Mitegen Announces Distribution Agreement with Mexico Diffractia S. de R.L.de C.V.
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 a distribution agreement with Mexico Diffractia S. de R.L.de C.V. of... - February 24, 2012 - MiTeGen, LLC
Nanion Introduces the Orbit 16 – a Pioneering Device for Parallel Lipid Bilayer Recordings
Nanion announces the introduction of a completely new product line for efficient analysis of bilayer-reconstituted ion channels and nanopores. The first of these, the Orbit 16, allows for automated formation of, and recordings from 16 bilayers in parallel, combining efficient data generation and ultra-high data quality. The Orbit 16 takes the pain out of bilayer recordings and facilitates efficient data generation through 16 parallel recordings. - February 24, 2012 - Nanion Technologies GmbH
AnaSpec Offers Symmetric & Asymmetric Dimethylated Arginine in Histone Peptides Collection
AnaSpec, EGT Group offers one of the world’s largest selections of Histone GO® (catalog) peptides. The peptides include sequences containing modified amino acids such as methylated (Me1, Me2 and Me3) Lysine; phosphorylated Threonine (pThr) or Serine (pSer); deiminated Arginine (Cit). - February 23, 2012 - AnaSpec, EGT Group
OsoBio Appoints Marian Meyer Director of Labs
Meyer manages the company’s chemistry and microbiology labs, which are responsible for such quality-control services as materials testing and release, environmental monitoring and analytical methods compliance. - February 23, 2012 - OSO BioPharmaceuticals Manufacturing, LLC
New Propulsion Method for Low-Cost Microsatellites
Stevens doctoral candidate Kyle Godin has received the Abe M. Zarem Award for research on a low-cost thruster that promises to allow universities and independent researchers to launch craft, potentially democratizing space exploration. - February 19, 2012 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Red Cedar Technology and MSC Software Form Strategic Partnership
HEEDS MDO software integrates easily with MSC Adams, Nastran, Marc - February 18, 2012 - Red Cedar Technology
AnaSpec Offers Special Pricing for MOG (1-125) Recombinant Proteins
AnaSpec, EGT the first provider of commercial MOG recombinant proteins is pleased to offer a 50% discount off on MOG (1-125) recombinant proteins through the month of February, 2012 to US and Canadian customers. Please mention code “rMOG50%” when ordering to get the discount. AnaSpec's... - February 16, 2012 - AnaSpec, EGT Group
Biomedica Immunoassays Appoints ALPCO Diagnostics as Its Exclusive Distributor in Canada
ALPCO Diagnostics was recently appointed as Biomedica Immunoassays' exclusive distributor in Canada. - February 15, 2012 - ALPCO
Milton Boyer Named President of OSO BioPharmaceuticals Manufacturing
Boyer has been responsible for guiding business strategies and creating new growth opportunities at OsoBio since 2008 - February 15, 2012 - OSO BioPharmaceuticals Manufacturing, LLC
AnaSpec Introduces SensoLyte® Factor Xa Activity Assays – Industry’s First Fluorimetric Kits
AnaSpec, EGT Group is pleased to announce the release of the industry first fluorimetric Factor Xa activity assays - The SensoLyte® 520 Factor Xa Assay Kit and the SensoLyte® Rh110 Factor Xa Assay Kit. The SensoLyte® 520 Factor Xa Assay Kit employs a FRET (5-FAM/QXL™ 520)... - February 15, 2012 - AnaSpec, EGT Group
BioPharm Systems to Host Webinar on Preparing Clinical Trial Data for Reporting and Analysis
Leading provider of Oracle’s clinical trial, data, drug safety, and pharmacovigilance systems will discuss and demonstrate a better way to prepare clinical trial data for reporting and analysis. - February 15, 2012 - BioPharm Systems
BioPharm Systems to Host Webinar on Using Oracle Health Sciences Empirica Topics to Document Your Signal Management Process
Leading provider of Oracle's clinical trial, data, and drug safety software will discuss why and how Empirica Topics should be implemented and used to strengthen an organization’s pharmacovigilance systems and processes. - February 15, 2012 - BioPharm Systems
Bioo Scientific’s New ELISAs Increase Speed and Sensitivity of Aflatoxin M1 Analysis in Milk
Bioo Scientific launched two new MaxSignal® Aflatoxin M1 ELISA Kits; one with increased speed and other with increased sensitivity. - February 13, 2012 - Bioo Scientific
Stevens Professor Ting Yu Receives AFOSR Grant to Study Entanglement in Quantum Systems
Stevens Professor Ting Yu has received an AFOSR grant to study entanglement in quantum systems, potentially bringing quantum technology closer to reality. - February 10, 2012 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Dr. Thomas Wakeman Appointed Chair of Marine Group at Transportation Research Board
Dr. Thomas Wakeman of Stevens Institute of Technology has been appointed chair of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), a division of the National Research Council, which serves as an independent adviser to the President, the Congress and federal agencies on scientific and technical questions of national importance. - February 10, 2012 - Stevens Institute of Technology
Stevens Professor Darinka Dentcheva Appointed to SIAM Review Editorial Board
Dr. Dentcheva, an expert on stochastic optimization for efficient energy production as well as risk-averse models for economic systems and medical treatment, has been appointed to the editorial board of the SIAM Review, the most influential journal in the field of applied mathematics. - February 09, 2012 - Stevens Institute of Technology
SFL’s Managing Director to Speak at Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association Event
SFL is pleased to announce that Shayesteh Fürst-Ladani, Managing Director of the company, will be speaking at the upcoming Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association European meeting entitled “The Role of Regulatory Affairs in Successful Development and Launch of Healthcare Products” to be held in Basel, Switzerland. - February 09, 2012 - SFL Regulatory Affairs & Scientific Communication Ltd
MaxSignal® Malachite Green/LMG ELISA is Included in the USDA’s Chemistry Laboratory Guidebook
The USDA added the MaxSignal® Malachite Green ELISA to the Chemistry Laboratory Guidebook as the recommended method for screening fish for Malachite Green contamination. - February 06, 2012 - Bioo Scientific