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51. Evotec Acquires Cell Culture Service GmbH 1/3/2013

    Evotec AG recently announced the acquisition of all shares in Cell Culture Service GmbH (CCS), a Hamburg-based company which supports the cell culture needs of a world-wide customer base of biotech and Pharmaceutical companies.

52. Diabetes Research Reveals Important Link To Overcoming 'Lazy Insulin Granules' 7/26/2012

    Scientists at Toronto Western Research Institute have made an important discovery on the role of a SNARE protein known as VAMP8 in the release  of insulin from the pancreatic islet beta cells. 

53. Announcing High Quality Borosilicate Glass Centrifuge Tubes 11/21/2011
    Chemists are finding the optimal centrifuge tubes they need at Kimble Chase, the largest manufacturer of laboratory glassware products in the world.
54. GE Healthcare Launches Ni Sepharose Excel Chromatography Media For Direct Purification Of Histidine-Tagged Proteins Secreted From Eukaryotic Expression Systems 8/21/2012

    GE Healthcare’s Ni Sepharose excel is an immobilized metal ion affinity chromatography (IMAC) medium (resin) for the direct capture and purification of secreted histidine-tagged recombinant proteins from eukaryotic cell culture supernatants. 

55. Study Identifies Human Melanoma Stem Cells 8/23/2012

    Cancer stem cells are defined by three abilities: differentiation, self-renewal and their ability to seed a tumor. These stem cells resist chemotherapy and many researchers posit their role in relapse.

56. Advanced BioScience Laboratories Awards Avid Bioservices HIV Vaccine Development And Manufacturing Contract 9/27/2012

    Avid Bioservices, a subsidiary of Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc., today announced that it has been chosen by Advanced BioScience Laboratories, Inc. (ABL) to provide development and large-scale manufacturing services to support cGMP production of an HIV envelope protein, as a component of a preventive vaccine against HIV infection.

57. Caliper's 'Lab On A Chip' Technology To Screen Neurocrine Assays 1/21/1999
    Caliper Technologies Corp. and Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. are combining their drug discovery efforts to develop treatments for central nervous system and immune system diseases...
58. Scientists Show Protein-Making Machinery Can Switch Gears With A Small Structural Change 11/15/2012

    For the past several years, Min Guo, an assistant professor at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), has focused on the intricate actions of an ancient family of catalytic enzymes that play a key role in translation, the process of producing proteins.

59. Innate Pharma Presents New Data For Proprietary Programs Targeting TLR3 And KIR3DL2 4/15/2013

    Innate Pharma SA (EURONEXT PARIS: IPH), the innate immunity company developing first-in-class drugs for cancer and inflammatory diseases, announces today that new preclinical data for two proprietary programs were presented at the Molecular Pattern Recognition Receptors meeting and the American Association for Cancer Research ("AACR") annual meeting.

60. Endress+Hauser Introduces OUSBT66 Cell Density Sensor 4/1/2013

    Endress+Hauser introduces the OUSBT66 sensor for cell density measurement. Using near-Infrared (NIR) light absorbance technology, the OUSBT66 is a non-intrusive, hygienic sensor that is ideal for real time, in-situ cell production optimization in life science processes, fermentation biomass measurement and algae growth monitoring for biofuel production.