September 2012

In This Issue…

3 September 2012: AssayMetrics and Cambridge Research Biochemicals collaborate in the field of Fluorescence Lifetime technology

6 July 2012: Cambridge Research Biochemicals signs deal with LI-COR Biosciences

11 May 2012: RCUK Shared Service Centre Ltd extends contract with Cambridge Research Biochemicals

27 March 2012: Cambridge Research Biochemicals signs exclusive Japanese distribution deal with BioBridge

Sep

AssayMetrics and Cambridge Research Biochemicals collaborate in the field of Fluorescence Lifetime Technology

AssayMetrics Ltd, a Discovery Tools company, is pleased to announce collaboration with Cambridge Research Biochemicals (CRB) the UK's most established peptide and antibody company.

Fluorescence Lifetime is a new and ground-breaking assay technology used in the biochemical screening of new drugs in High Throughput Screening and compound characterisation roles in the pharmaceutical industry.

The collaboration involves Cambridge Research Biochemicals making key peptide substrates labelled with AssayMetrics' Fluorescence Lifetime dyes. The peptides are used to screen novel drugs in equipment such as AssayMetrics' Fluospec® FL reader and are employed in assays involving kinases, proteases, protein:protein interactions and other target enzyme systems.

AssayMetric's Fluospec® plate reader

Jul

Cambridge Research Biochemicals Signs Deal with LI-COR Biosciences for Infrared Dye Labelled

Cleveland, UK: Leading research peptide manufacturer, Cambridge Research Biochemicals (CRB), announced today that it has signed a non-exclusive license with LI-COR Biosciences (LI-COR) to develop, manufacture and sell IRDye® and IRDye® QC-1 near-infrared dye-labelled peptides for research use only.

CRB is a world leader in providing dye labelled products to researchers. The partnership with LI-COR will enable the company to provide dye labelled peptides, which are unique in the field of fluorescence imaging applications.

LI-COR has been developing high-quality near-infrared technology for the life science research community for more than twenty years. LI-COR products support many applications, including quantitative Western blot detection, In-Cell Western™ assays, EMSAs, FLISA, protein assays, florescence microscopy, tissue sections and in-vivo imaging.

In vivo imaging

May

RCUK Shared Services Centre Ltd extends contract with Cambridge Research Biochemicals

Cambridge Research Biochemicals (CRB), announced today that it has extended its contract with RCUK Shared Services Centre Ltd (RCUK SSC Ltd) to supply custom synthesised peptides and custom generated polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies for a further 12 months.

CRB Commercial Director, Emily Humphrys commented,"We are delighted with the extension of this contract which demonstrates our strong performance over the last two years in providing high quality research peptide and antibody tools. As a company we are recognised for constantly reaching the high technical and service standards required by the Research Councils. This agreement is an acknowledgement of the value of our focus on quality and innovation in the production of speciality research peptides and antibodies brings to our clients."

Mar

Cambridge Research Biochemicals Signs Exclusive Japanese Distribution Deal with BioBridge

Leading research peptide manufacturer, Cambridge Research Biochemicals (CRB) announced today that it will be expanding its business into Asia through the signing of an exclusive deal with BioBridge. BioBridge will be responsible for the sales and marketing of CRB's custom services in Japan.

This agreement is one of a series that has seen CRB continuing to grow through the wider economic difficulties of the last two years by increasing market share in existing territories and penetrating new overseas markets within Europe, North America and now Asia. The company is hoping to continue its expansion programme into other Asian markets through similar types of exclusive partnerships.

BioBridge partnership to help expansion in Asian market

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