China Breaks Ground on Largest Comprehensive Stem Cell Storage and Processing Facility

TAIZHOU, Jiangsu, China, April 22 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Jiangsu government's China Medical City (CMC) and Shenzhen Beike Biotechnology Co. Ltd. ( http://www.beikebiotech.com ) broke ground on the 20,000 square-meter Stem Cell Regenerative Medicine Industrial Project of National Bio-Industry Ba...

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Kraton Polymers for Developing a New Generation of Polymer Grades Suitable for High-Speed Processing in Nonwoven Manufacture

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on its recent analysis of the elastic nonwovens market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Kraton Polymers LLC with the 2009 North American Frost & Sullivan Technology Leadership of the Year Award for its on-going measures to lead innovation i...

AMPAC Fine Chemicals Announces the Inauguration of the New cGMP Continuous Processing Development Facility

LAS VEGAS, March 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Pacific Corporation (Nasdaq: APFC ) is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary, AMPAC Fine Chemicals LLC (AFC), located near Sacramento California, recently inaugurated a new kilogram scale cGMP Batch/Continuous Processing Develo...

BioLife Solutions HypoThermosol(R) Adopted by MicroIslet for Processing Pancreatic Islet Cells to Treat Diabetes

Preservation with BioLife's Proprietary, Next Generation, Biopreservation Media Resulted in Increased Yield and Quality of Insulin-Producing Islet Cells BOTHELL, Wash., Oct. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BioLife Solutions Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BLFS), a leadi...

Beike Biotech Opens Comprehensive Stem Cell Storage and Processing Facility in China

TAIZHOU, Jiangsu Province, China, June 19 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Shenzhen Beike Biotechnology Co., Ltd. ( http://www.beikebiotech.com ), a worldwide leader in providing safe and effective stem cell applications for medical treatment, has commenced outfitting its 21,500 square foot comprehens...

Blue dye could hold the key to super processing power

A technique for controlling the magnetic properties of a commonly used blue dye could revolutionise computer processing power, according to research published recently in Advanced Materials. Scientists have demonstrated that they can control the properties in a dye known as Metal Phthalocyanine...

Inventigo and GridGain Systems Team Up on Delivering Cloud-Enabled High Performance XML Processing

Inventigo and GridGain System partnered up in delivering industry first dedicated solution for high performance XML processing on highly distributed cloud computing infrastructure. The integration between GridGain's Open Cloud Platform and Inventigo's FastXML product provides ready to use solutio...

LI-COR Blot Washer Automates Western Blot Processing

LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- LI-COR Biosciences now offers the LI-COR Blot Washer for automating the tedious process of blot washing and secondary antibody addition for Western blots. Providing consistent, reproducible incubation and wash cycles for one or multiple blots, the LI-COR ...

PEAT International Commissions Plasma-Based Waste Treatment Facility Designed Specifically for Onsite Waste Processing

- Marks the first deployment of the system intended for hospitals and industrial facilities - NORTHBROOK, Ill., and ANKLESHWAR, India, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- PEAT International, Inc., ("PEAT") a global leader in plasma-based waste remediation solutions, announced toda...

Fiserv Credit Processing Selects System To Keep Transactions Quick

Brookfield, Wis.-- Fiserv Credit Processing Services selected BMC Software 's MAINVIEW systems management solutions to help ensure response time of its credit card and credit application processing needs. Fiserv Credit Processing Services provides outsourced credit receivables management servic...

Fiserv plans single entry point for loan processing online

Brookfield, Wis. The information management firm Fiserv announced on Tuesday its plans to create a single point of contact for the delivery of services to Fiserv partners. Currently in development, the Electronic Partner Connection is expected for the first quarter of 2005. By creating a sin...

Metavante completes purchase of check processing firm

Milwaukee Metavante Corp. said it has bought all outstanding stock of Texas-based VectorSGI , which makes software that handles bank transactions and check image processing. Metavante, a subsidiary of Marshall & Isley Corp, said in October that it would buy VectorSGIs stock for $100 mill...

School districts contract with Lawson for new data processing software

Madison , Wis. - Four Madison-area K-12 school districts have signed a contract with St. Paul-based Lawson Software for a suite of applications that will allow the districts to replace legacy data processing systems. The four districts-- Madison Metropolitan School District, Verona Area School...

CATI signs agreement for food processing technology

Racine, Wis. - Between being one of the top milk producers in the United States and hosting a legion of sports fans that call themselves cheeseheads, Wisconsin is clearly proud of its achievements in the dairy industry. And now, thanks to a new agreement signed between two Racine organizations, t...

New Tools for Making and Processing Protein Microarrays.

By Linda E. Cammish, Ph.D., NextGen Sciences, Ltd. and Mark N. Bobrow, Ph.D., PerkinElmer Life Sciences, Inc. Introduction The use of DNA microarrays in scientific research and drug discovery has become very widespread. However, since it is proteins and n...

RNAlater Around the World: The Art of Processing Difficult Samples

Draw on the strength of RNA later to protect cellular RNA within specimens during sample collection or shipping. Whether you are in the lab or out in the field, this aqueous, non-toxic T...

Kensey Nash Announces Agreement to Acquire Rights to OsseoFit Product

...edicine, spine, and endovascular. Many of the products are based on the Company's significant expertise in the design, development, manufacturing and processing of absorbable biomaterials, which has led to partnerships to commercialize technologies. The Company is known as a pioneer in the field of arterial p...

ThermoGenesis Announces Expanded Collaboration With Celling Technologies

...L ), a leading supplier of innovative products for processing and storing adult stem cells, today announced an e... the launch of its Res-Q System, an automated cell processing medical device for the concentration of bone marro... accelerate the market adoption of our bone marrow processing technologies and should increase product sales," s...

Microfluidics International Corporation to Report Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results on August 11, 2009

...etary high performance Microfluidizer(R) materials processing and formulation equipment to the biotechnology, ph... Corporation applies its 20 years of high pressure processing experience to produce the most uniform and smalles... The Company is a leader in advanced materials processing equipment for laboratory, pilot scale and manufact...

ThermoGenesis Provides Update on Fiscal 2009 Results

...L ), a leading supplier of innovative products for processing and storing adult stem cells, said today that it e...y announced that its Res-Q System, a point of care processing device for bone marrow aspirate to concentrate ste...e the market adoption of the Company's bone marrow processing technologies and increase Company sales. ...

Knighted Adds Industry Pioneer and Entrepreneur to Senior Management Team

...imited potential," said Mr. Wilensky. "Over the past 15 years, Knighted has built arguably the most dynamic software for managing supply chains while processing billions of inventory transactions each year for Fortune 1,000 companies. Knighted founder & CEO Daniel Napoli's visionary approach to how users ...

Genomic Health Announces Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results and Business Progress

...ortantly, the Onco type DX colon cancer Recurrence Score(R) provided additional independent clinical value beyond standard measures. Completed processing samples for our renal cancer gene identification study with the Cleveland Clinic and Pfizer. Patents Were granted...

New Director of Lab Sales for Polymathic Analytical Labs

...roblem solving and analysis. Laboratory operations are housed in 30,000 sq ft state-of-the-art analytical labs with pilot and production extrusion and processing equipment, clean rooms and controlled environment facilities. For more information, visit http://www.polymathiclabs.com . Press Contac...

Rapid heating prepares energy-saving zeolite for greater role in industrial separations

...mproved by subjecting the zeolite to rapid thermal processing (RTP). By heating the membranes from room temperat...heir full industrial potential. These include high processing costs; scalability, or the ability to make zeolite...ak up and are removed during heating. This heat processing must be carried out after the formation of zeolite...

Dendreon to Hold Conference Call on Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 11:30 AM ET

... discovery, development and commercialization of novel therapeutics. The Company applies its expertise in antigen identification, engineering and cell processing to produce active cellular immunotherapy product candidates designed to stimulate an immune response. Dendreon is also developing an orally-available...

Osteotech Resumes Shipments of Bulgarian Tissue

...testing demonstrate the safety and effectiveness of Osteotech's proprietary processing technologies," stated Sam Owusu-Akyaw, Osteotech's President and Chief Exec...maintenance and traceability with the OCBG procurement program. Osteotech's processing facilities, which process the OCBG donor tissue into implantable tissue pro...

iCardiac Processes Volume of Data Equivalent to One Thousand Traditional Thorough QT Studies

...Vice President. "Our clients are gaining significant benefits from our advanced ECG methods, rapid turnaround times and highly scalable core lab processing capacity to meet their drug development needs." In October 2005, the FDA introduced a new guidance for industry (ICH E14) requiring the evalu...

Breaking barriers with nanoscale lasers

...ns, but the most exciting possibilities are for communications on a central processing unit (CPU) of a computer chip," Ning says. As computers get faster, the communication between different parts in a computer creates a processing bottleneck, he explains. Since a signal can be transmitted between compu...

NPL and University of Surrey sign £10m deal

...chnology, each with the potential to create transformational benefits for the UK economy and society. The areas are: Communications and Signal processing - Including advances in mobile communications and internet connectivity. Next Generation Materials and Characterisation - With applications in auto...

Growing Awareness and Increased Investments Lead to Growth of Biotechnology Applications in the Food & Beverage and Dietary Supplements Sector, Reveals Frost & Sullivan

... Dietary Supplements Sector The Indian food processing industry has seen some spectacular product develop...considering the positive growth of the Indian food processing industry in terms of new investments, new product ...age & Food Processing, BioSpectrum, Times Food processing Journal, Food & Beverage News, Express Pharma,...

Oprah, Luke Skywalker and Maradona -- new study investigates how our brains respond to them

...ster, led the study which concluded that, although processing of visual and auditory information occur along com...pletely separate pathways, the visual and auditory processing routes converge to end up firing the same single n...n names too. Professor Quian Quiroga said: "The processing of visual and auditory information follows complet...

NYU physicists find way to explore microscopic systems through holographic video

... can do both simultaneously." Because the analysis is computationally intensive, the researchers employ the number-crunching power of the graphical processing unit (GPU) used in high-end computer video cards. Originally intended to provide high-resolution video performance for computer games, these cards pos...

Magellan Diagnostic Businesses to Feature Automated Systems and Diagnostic Tests at Clinical Lab Expo

...feature demonstrations of the DS2(R) two-plate and DSX(R) four-plate ELISA processing systems . Designed for efficiency and reliability with the 'expert' inside,...tibility systems, and reagents for microbiology labs; automated ELISA assay processing systems; esoteric assays; and services. Scientists use our life-science too...

NeoStem, Inc. Appoints Leading Chinese Medical Official to Its Advisory Board

... NEW YORK, July 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NeoStem, Inc. (NYSE Amex: NBS ), which is pioneering the pre-disease collection, processing and long-term storage of adult stem cells for future medical need, announced today it has entered into an advisory consulting agreement with Dr. Cai ...

Blackrock Microsystems Obtains Expanded 510(k) to Market NeuroPort System

... Blackrock's NeuroPort Biopotential Neural Signal processing System enables acute monitoring, signal detection and analysis to facilitat...ficantly expands the potential medical applications of our NeuroPort Signal processing platform, which supports our continued drive to develop products to support...

NeoStem Featured on CBS2 News; Success of Licensed Stem Cell Treatments Shown for Arthritis and Orthopedic Problems; Procedure to be Used by NeoStem Affiliate in China

... NEW YORK, July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NeoStem, Inc. (NYSE Amex: NBS ), which is pioneering the pre-disease collection, processing and long-term storage of adult stem cells for future medical need, was featured on CBS2 News, New York City's local CBS station, on Monday evening Jul...

Stem Cell Cord Blood 'Banking' Is Huge Global Business for Hospitals, Says CEO of Bio-Matrix Scientific Group Inc.

...with a 15,000 sq. ft. facility that houses two secure cryogenic stem cell banks, three research laboratories, aseptic cellular/tissue class 10,000/100 processing lab, hematology, microbiology and flow cytometry laboratories. Disclaimer This news release may contain forward-looking statements. Forwar...

Harvest Technologies Announces Completion of Patient Enrollment in its 60 Patient Clinical Trial in India Using Autologous Adult Stem Cells to Treat Patients With Non-Reconstructable Critical Limb Ischemia

...herapy has been studied as an innovative treatment option for CLI, however; previously published studies did not use a rapid, point of care method for processing the cells therefore making widespread adoption of the therapy problematic. The Harvest trial utilized the BMAC system, which can process the cells in ...

Novel handheld device detects anthrax with outstanding accuracy and reliability

...tested, allowing it to be re-analyzed later for forensic applications. In contrast, existing detection approaches require longer and more complex processing to distinguish anthrax from other substances (between 30 minutes and three days), their accuracy is inferior to the Ceeker and the sample is typically...

Cellular Dynamics International Reprograms Blood Cells into Stem Cells

...epresenting individual biology, disease models, retrospective analysis and ethnic diversity. This is the first step in paving the way for large-scale processing and industrialization of iPS cells." To generate the induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, CDI scientists isolated T-cells, a type of white blood...