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iBridge Network announces tangible proof points for innovation, entrepreneurship

The recent launch of the 'Start-Up America Partnership', a coordinated public/private effort to celebrate, inspire and accelerate innovation and entrepreneurship and support the White House's Start-Up America initiative, validates the importance of stimulating economic growth, creating quality jobs, and building the new industries of the 21st Century.

5 Feb 2011

Isotechnika closes licensing deal with ILJIN Life Science to advance development of voclosporin

Isotechnika Pharma Inc. is pleased to announce that it has finalized the Development, Distribution and License Agreement with ILJIN Life Science Co., Ltd., previously announced on November 16, 2010. Isotechnika will now receive the license fee of US$4.5 million plus proceeds of US$2.375 million from ILJIN's purchase of its first tranche of Common Shares from treasury.

3 Feb 2011

DNAnexus announces new cloud-based tools for analyzing large-scale genomic variation datasets

DNAnexus, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based solutions for analyzing, visualizing, and managing next-generation sequencing data, today announced the availability of a comprehensive set of new informatics tools that enable life science researchers to efficiently analyze and manage large-scale genomic variation datasets in a cloud-based workflow.

3 Feb 2011

SAGE Labs, Cofactor Genomics partner to sequence genomes for six widely used rat strains

Sigma Life Science, the innovative biological products and services business of Sigma-Aldrich®, today announced that its SAGE Labs initiative has partnered with Cofactor Genomics in an effort to sequence genomes for six of the most widely used strains of rat.

3 Feb 2011

HighRes Biosolutions to build High-Throughput Laboratory Network for LANL-UCLA

A compact, self-contained, automated system for surveillance and screening of potential pandemic strains of influenza and other deadly infectious diseases is a step closer to reality, thanks to an agreement between Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of California Los Angeles School of Public Health, and HighRes Biosolutions of Boston, Massachussets.

1 Feb 2011

Microvisk secures £6 million to launch world's first diagnostic SmartStrip

Microvisk Technologies, the developer of a handheld system to monitor the blood clotting status of patients taking the drug Warfarin, has raised £6 million through a rights issue to existing investors in an oversubscribed round. This is the third successful funding round for Microvisk, which has secured £10.5m in the past 12 months - the largest amount raised by a UK life science company**.

26 Jan 2011

Glioblastoma's molecular flexibility helps resist nearly all treatment efforts

Glioblastoma, the most common and lethal form of brain cancer and the disease that killed Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, resists nearly all treatment efforts, even when attacked simultaneously on several fronts. One explanation can be found in the tumor cells' unexpected flexibility, discovered researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

25 Jan 2011

Strong opposition to 'prescription-only' measures for OTC medicines with pseudoephedrine

More than 300 million Americans get the common cold, and up to 70 million get the flu annually. But for the 60 million people who also have asthma and allergies, a cold or flu can pose even greater risks. Together, these respiratory diseases take a devastating toll on public health, costing billions of dollars in direct medical expenses, reducing quality of life, lowering workplace and school performance, and can even be life-threatening to high-risk populations, such as asthma patients.

25 Jan 2011

Fixed Phage to develop products based on Strathclyde's technology for tackling infections

A new company has been launched to commercialise an award-winning technology, developed at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, for tackling bacterial infection and contamination, including superbugs such as MRSA.

25 Jan 2011

NeoStem completes merger with Progenitor Cell Therapy

NeoStem, Inc. and Progenitor Cell Therapy LLC announced today the closing of their previously announced merger transaction.

21 Jan 2011

Meridian Bioscience first quarter net sales decrease 12% to $37.3 million

Net sales for the first quarter of fiscal 2011 were $37,263,000 as compared to $42,457,000 for the same period of the prior fiscal year, a decrease of 12%. Net earnings for the first quarter of fiscal 2011 were $6,025,000, or $0.15 per diluted share, both decreases of 32% from the first quarter of fiscal 2010. Diluted common shares outstanding for the first quarter of fiscal 2011 and 2010 were 41,294,000 and 41,185,000, respectively.

20 Jan 2011

Ingenuity and Erasmus enter next-generation sequencing disease research collaboration

Ingenuity® Systems, a leading provider of information solutions for life science researchers, and Erasmus Medical Center, jointly announced a scientific collaboration using next-generation sequencing (NGS) for disease research.

18 Jan 2011

pH Advantage adds Pyranase to facial skin care line

pH Advantage LLC recently added a new breakthrough product to its highly effective facial skin care line. Pyranase is clinically proven to reverse the signs of aging, reduce fine lines and wrinkles and improve the overall texture and appearance of the skin. Pyranase brings the proven effectiveness of a class of plant growth factor (cytokinin) in an enhanced and proprietary molecular formula.

14 Jan 2011

Pan-European comparative genomics project to develop software suite for gene regulation analysis

Today, CLC bio announced to be heading a pan-European comparative genomics project, COGANGS (Comparative Genomics and Next Generation Sequencing), to develop a software suite, where up to one thousand genomes, can be used as knowledge input in gene regulation analysis.

13 Jan 2011

HP awarded $30 million contract to create Texas Medicaid health information exchange

HP today announced a 52-month services agreement with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to create a statewide Medicaid health information exchange.

12 Jan 2011

BioScale announces results of two pharmacodynamic biomarkers using assay AMMP technology

BioScale, an innovative life science company that develops, manufactures and promotes novel analytical tools enabling advancements in protein research, announced that results from the analysis of two pharmacodynamic biomarkers using the Acoustic Membrane MicroParticles assay technology on the ViBE Protein Analysis Workstation were published in the peer-reviewed Elsevier Journal of Analytical Biochemistry.

11 Jan 2011

QIAGEN to acquire minority stake in Alacris Theranostics

QIAGEN has signed an agreement for the acquisition of a strategic stake in Alacris Theranostics GmbH, a German start-up company using novel technologies to develop individualized cancer treatment strategies based upon a patient's genomic profile, and for the acquisition of an exclusive option to access all biomarkers emerging from this discovery program.

From QIAGEN Manchester Limited 11 Jan 2011

Cell Biosciences introduces FluorChem M MultiFluor for detectig multicolor fluorescent Western blots

Cell Biosciences, a provider of innovative protein analysis tools to life science researchers, today announced the launch of the latest addition to their premier line of next-generation imaging products, the FluorChem M MultiFluor system.

5 Jan 2011

DBV Technologies secures $25.5 million in Series C financing round

DBV Technologies, an emerging biotechnology company, announced today that it has secured $25.5 million (€19,4 million) in a Series C financing round. The round was co-led by new investors InnoBio Fund (managed by CDC Entreprises within FSI France Investment program) and Lundbeckfond Ventures.

5 Jan 2011

Thomson Reuters and ChemAxon enter strategic partnership

The IP Solutions business of Thomson Reuters®, the leader in intellectual property research and analysis solutions, and ChemAxon, the leader in cheminformatics software for the life sciences industry, today announced a strategic partnership whereby Thomson Reuters is providing its chemical IP Data Feeds – Markush Structures and patent data to users of ChemAxon's JChem chemical software platform.

5 Jan 2011

Life science News and Research

iBridge Network announces tangible proof points for innovation, entrepreneurship

Isotechnika closes licensing deal with ILJIN Life Science to advance development of voclosporin

DNAnexus announces new cloud-based tools for analyzing large-scale genomic variation datasets

SAGE Labs, Cofactor Genomics partner to sequence genomes for six widely used rat strains

HighRes Biosolutions to build High-Throughput Laboratory Network for LANL-UCLA

Microvisk secures £6 million to launch world's first diagnostic SmartStrip

Glioblastoma's molecular flexibility helps resist nearly all treatment efforts

Strong opposition to 'prescription-only' measures for OTC medicines with pseudoephedrine

Fixed Phage to develop products based on Strathclyde's technology for tackling infections

NeoStem completes merger with Progenitor Cell Therapy

Meridian Bioscience first quarter net sales decrease 12% to $37.3 million

Ingenuity and Erasmus enter next-generation sequencing disease research collaboration

pH Advantage adds Pyranase to facial skin care line

Pan-European comparative genomics project to develop software suite for gene regulation analysis

HP awarded $30 million contract to create Texas Medicaid health information exchange

BioScale announces results of two pharmacodynamic biomarkers using assay AMMP technology

QIAGEN to acquire minority stake in Alacris Theranostics

Cell Biosciences introduces FluorChem M MultiFluor for detectig multicolor fluorescent Western blots

DBV Technologies secures $25.5 million in Series C financing round

Thomson Reuters and ChemAxon enter strategic partnership

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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