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BILLERICA, Mass., April 25, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Seahorse Bioscience, the leader in cellular bioenergetic measurements, announced the launch of its newest stress test kit at the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2012. The XF Glycolysis Stress Test Kit is the first Standard for measuring glycolytic capacity in cells.

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NEW YORK – The Society for Biological Engineering (SBE) of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) has announced the inaugural winners of the D. I. C. Wang Award for Excellence in Biochemical Engineering. The inaugural recipients of the award, established in appreciation of Professor Daniel I.C. Wang of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), are Noubar Afeyan of Flagship Ventures and James Swartz of Stanford University.

BOSTON, MA—A team of scientists, engineers and physicians from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), Harvard Medical School (HMS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), BIND Biosciences, Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), Wayne State University Karmanos Cancer Institute, and Weill Cornell Medical College have found promising effects of a first-in-class targeted cancer drug called BIND-014 in treating solid tumors.