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TGen deploys Isilon IQ to power multiple genome sequencing devices to discover new treatments for diseases

Isilon® Systems today announced that The Translational Genomics Research Institute has deployed Isilon scale-out NAS as the primary storage solution powering its next-generation biomedical research. By using Isilon IQ to power multiple genome sequencing devices, TGen has unified its mission-critical operations onto a single, high-performance, highly scalable shared pool of storage, increasing workflow productivity and reducing costs to accelerate the discovery of new treatments for life-threatening diseases.

10 Mar 2010

Corporate Translations switches to Across Language Server for translation management software

Corporate Translations, Inc., a leading translation service provider specializing in the life science industry, has recently switched from Trados to the Across Language Server for its translation management software. The company indicates that the Across technology better meets its core values of speed, accuracy, flexibility and innovation; Corporate Translations will move all of its suitable translation projects to the Across Language Server over the course of 2010.

10 Mar 2010

Lonza acquires access to PCA technology patent portfolio

Odyssey Thera, Inc., announced today the signing of an agreement with Lonza to make Odyssey Thera's proprietary Protein-fragment Complementation Assay (PCA) technology, as part of compound profiling services, available to life science and drug discovery researchers.

10 Mar 2010

Pharmaceutical Institute announces the release of Therapeutic Area Essentials

Pharmaceutical Institute, a leading provider of specialized training solutions for the pharmaceutical and biotech industry and a subsidiary of Campbell Alliance, today announced the release of Therapeutic Area Essentials™, a comprehensive suite of more than 155 therapeutic area e-courses covering diagnosis, cause, and treatment for over 40 disease states.

9 Mar 2010

Ingenuity Systems announces Molecule Scientific as exclusive distributor of IPA in Taiwan

Ingenuity Systems, the leading provider of information solutions for life science researchers, today announced Molecule Scientific Co., Ltd. as the exclusive distributor of IPA® in Taiwan.

9 Mar 2010

Corning Lab for Cure program

Corning Incorporated today announced the Corning Lab for the Cure™ program, a first-of-its-kind corporate sponsorship agreement with Susan G. Komen for the Cure®.

9 Mar 2010

Sigma Life Science extends portfolio of knockout rat models with the release of ADME/Tox applications

Sigma® Life Science, an innovative brand of Sigma-Aldrich®, today extended its portfolio of knockout rat models with the announcement of a new suite of models designed to facilitate more predictive absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and toxicity (ADME/Tox) studies.

8 Mar 2010

AB SCIEX collaborates with Mass Spectrometry Centre to improve drug discovery and development

AB SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, today announced that it is collaborating with the University of Geneva’s Mass Spectrometry Centre to create new workflows and analytical strategies intended to significantly improve drug discovery and development.

4 Mar 2010

AB SCIEX launches mass-spectrometry-based software application to advance lipid biomarker research

AB SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, today announced the launch of the first mass-spectrometry-based software application specifically designed to advance the study of lipidomics.

3 Mar 2010

Affymetrix introduces GeneAtlas System for processing arrays and characterizing changes in gene expression

Affymetrix, Inc. today announced the launch of the GeneAtlas™ System, a complete, personal solution for processing Affymetrix arrays and characterizing changes in gene expression in a variety of research applications.

2 Mar 2010

Cleveland HeartLab completes $3.0M fundraising round

Cleveland HeartLab LLC (CHL) today announced that it has completed a $3.0-million fundraising round. The company’s new shareholders include local business leaders, and Glengary LLC, Second Generation Ltd. and Zapis Capital Group LLC.

2 Mar 2010

Sigma-Aldrich unveils new Sigma Life Science brand and website platform

Sigma-Aldrich® today unveiled its new Sigma® Life Science brand and website platform, designed to elevate the Company's current focus on biology and provide a single destination where researchers can access deep biological knowledge and market-leading products and technologies.

2 Mar 2010

Agilent Technologies, NCFST enter into collaboration to develop new scientific methods for food testing

Agilent Technologies Inc. and the National Center for Food Safety and Technology today announced that they have entered into a collaboration to develop new scientific methods for food testing, with the goal of solving a wide range of persistent problems facing global food supply chains.

2 Mar 2010

Agilent Technologies announces new lab informatics suite at Pittcon 2010

Agilent’s major new lab informatics suite, the OpenLAB portfolio, is designed to enable customers to easily capture, analyze and share scientific data throughout the lab and across the enterprise. OpenLAB is scalable, open architecture based on industry open standards.

2 Mar 2010

arGEN-X SIMPLE Antibody platform delivers multiple, diverse, ultra-potent functional antibodies

SIMPLE Antibody(TM) Platform Delivers Unprecedented Choice of Ultra-Potent Functional Antibody Leads Against Challenging Soluble and Cell Surface Targets. - ARGX-109, a Fully Human mAb Targeting Autoimmune, Inflammation and Oncology Indications, Enters Preclinical Development in Less Than 12 Months From Start of Discovery.

1 Mar 2010

Merck KGaA acquires all outstanding shares of Millipore for $7.2 billion

Merck, the global pharmaceutical and chemical company, announced it is to acquire all outstanding shares of Millipore, the US life sciences company, for US$ 107 per share in cash, or a total transaction value, including net debt, of approximately EUR 5.3 billion (US$ 7.2 billion), creating a world-class partner for the life science sector.

1 Mar 2010

Merck to acquire Millipore for US$ 107 per share in cash

Merck KGaA, a global pharmaceutical and chemical company, and Millipore Corporation, a leading Life Science company based in Billerica, Massachusetts, USA, today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Merck KGaA will acquire all outstanding shares of common stock of Millipore, for US$ 107 per share in cash, or a total transaction value, including net debt, of approximately EUR 5.3 billion (US$ 7.2 billion).

28 Feb 2010

Virginia Life Science Investments completes recapitalization and management restructuring of Cupron

Virginia Life Science Investments, LLC and other investors have completed a recapitalization and management restructuring of Cupron, Inc., a Delaware corporation established in 2001, with principal offices in Modi’in, Israel. The transaction provides significant new capital to support the continued growth and development of Cupron Inc.; as well as the formation and initial capitalization of an independent new entity, Cupron Medical Inc., a Delaware corporation with principal offices in Richmond, VA.

25 Feb 2010

Zcube joins Mission Bay Capital Fund with $1M investment

Mission Bay Capital, LLC, has added a new limited partner to its first venture fund, bolstering the fund's ability to invest in promising bioscience companies emerging from the University of California.

25 Feb 2010

Special Issue of Business Horizons addresses issues central to healthcare and life sciences

A recent Special Issue of Business Horizons (www.elsevier.com/locate/bushor), the journal of the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, and published by Elsevier, addresses issues central to healthcare and life sciences. Healthcare reform, for example, has been at the center of U.S. political debate in recent years with renewed attempts to gain bipartisan support from Congress for passage of a national system of health insurance coverage.

25 Feb 2010

Life science News and Research

TGen deploys Isilon IQ to power multiple genome sequencing devices to discover new treatments for diseases

Corporate Translations switches to Across Language Server for translation management software

Lonza acquires access to PCA technology patent portfolio

Pharmaceutical Institute announces the release of Therapeutic Area Essentials

Ingenuity Systems announces Molecule Scientific as exclusive distributor of IPA in Taiwan

Corning Lab for Cure program

Sigma Life Science extends portfolio of knockout rat models with the release of ADME/Tox applications

AB SCIEX collaborates with Mass Spectrometry Centre to improve drug discovery and development

AB SCIEX launches mass-spectrometry-based software application to advance lipid biomarker research

Affymetrix introduces GeneAtlas System for processing arrays and characterizing changes in gene expression

Cleveland HeartLab completes $3.0M fundraising round

Sigma-Aldrich unveils new Sigma Life Science brand and website platform

Agilent Technologies, NCFST enter into collaboration to develop new scientific methods for food testing

Agilent Technologies announces new lab informatics suite at Pittcon 2010

arGEN-X SIMPLE Antibody platform delivers multiple, diverse, ultra-potent functional antibodies

Merck KGaA acquires all outstanding shares of Millipore for $7.2 billion

Merck to acquire Millipore for US$ 107 per share in cash

Virginia Life Science Investments completes recapitalization and management restructuring of Cupron

Zcube joins Mission Bay Capital Fund with $1M investment

Special Issue of Business Horizons addresses issues central to healthcare and life sciences

Achieving and maintaining ISO/IEC 27001 and BS 10012 certifications

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

Examining how pain could play a direct protective role in the gut

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