Santa Clara, CA -– Affymetrix (Nasdaq: AFFX) and Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. today announced the signing of a multi-year supply agreement covering Affymetrix arrays and instruments to be utilized as part of Ariosa’s Harmony™ Non-Invasive Prenatal Test (NIPT). The partnership enables Ariosa to pursue the development of a Harmony test kit that will allow other laboratories […]
CARLSBAD, Calif. — Thermo Fisher Scientific today announced the successful CE-IVD registration of its new Ion PGM Dx System for sale in European countries. The Ion PGM Dx System was developed using the proven Ion Torrent next generation sequencing (NGS) technology, currently used to produce hundreds of thousands of tests in clinical research laboratories each […]
AUSTIN, Texas — Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX) today announced that Patrick J. Balthrop, Sr. has retired as President and CEO. The board of directors has named Nachum “Homi” Shamir as President and CEO. Mr. Balthrop has resigned as a director but will continue to serve the company and its shareholders as a consultant to the […]
SAN DIEGO — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced the selection of three startup companies for the inaugural Illumina Accelerator funding cycle. The companies are Encoded Genomics, Inc., EpiBiome, Inc., and Xcell Biosciences Inc. The Illumina Accelerator is the world’s first business accelerator focused solely on creating an innovation ecosystem for the genomics industry. It is […]
ST. LOUIS — Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (NASDAQ: SIAL) is pleased to announce that the Cerilliant® brand within its Applied Diagnostics and Testing business segment now offers the first stable-labeled internal standards of the kratom alkaloids mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine. These new solution Certified Reference Materials (CRMs) offer testing laboratories deuterium-labeled internal standards suitable for quantitation of mitragynine […]
Natick, MA. — AmericanBio, a premier provider of custom reagent manufacturing services, unveils their clinical laboratory solution “CLIA Grade” products. CLIA labs shared their needs and concerns with AmericanBio, which included inconsistent analytical results, poor functional performance results and ongoing regulatory pressures. Further, manufacturers of LDT’s, Molecular Diagnostic and Clinical Diagnostics needed a reliable contract […]
Ann Arbor, MI –– Rubicon Genomics, Inc., today announced that it has signed agreements with new distributors in Europe, North Africa and Asia to further expand the availability of its DNA library preparation products for arrays and Illumina® next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms, including ThruPLEX® DNA-seq, PicoPLEXTM DNA-seq, and PicoPLEX WGA Kits. Separately, Rubicon announced that […]
Genomics England, the company leading the UK’s 100,000 Genomes Project, has released details of those companies that distinguished themselves in its annotation assessment exercise. Genomics England is committed to kick-starting the development of a UK genomics industry and this assessment exercise is part of that aim, as well as to evaluate and select potential service […]
Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), the molecular genetics company, has won the Best Medtech Dealmaker award for the second year in a row at the Oxford Bioscience Network (OBN) awards held on Thursday 2 October. The award recognises OGT’s acquisition of Cambridge-based Cytocell Limited (Cytocell), a leading provider of DNA technology for the detection of gene […]
Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today it made a technology acquisition from AbVitro Inc, a company focused on therapeutic target discovery. Roche obtained exclusive rights to a primer extension based target enrichment technology and associated patent applications filed by AbVitro. Under the terms of the agreement, AbVitro and Roche scientists will collaborate on […]
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