CULVER CITY, Calif. – Sofie Biosciences, a developer of agents and devices for the molecular imaging of disease, announced today the closing of an additional $2 million from new and existing investors. Funds will be used for the development of new PET imaging agents and for enhancements to their PET imaging systems and chemistry units. […]

Sanford, (ME) – Maine Manufacturing has been granted a $150,000 small business research, phase one award by the National Science Foundation. Scientists at Maine Manufacturing, a life science manufacturing company, in Sanford, ME was granted the money for research into a better diagnostic technology for clinical disorders such as heart disease and other inflammatory conditions. […]

Companies mark 10-year collaboration anniversary of developing innovative products for organ transplant AUSTIN, Texas – Luminex Corporation (Nasdaq: LMNX) and One Lambda, Inc., the leading producer of transplant diagnostic products, have agreed to a long-term renewal of their 10-year strategic partnership aimed at developing platforms and technologies for human leukocyte antigen (HLA) typing and antibody […]

AUSTIN, TX – Asuragen, Inc. announced today that it has entered into an exclusive agreement with Novartis to develop worldwide Armored RNA Quant® (ARQ) BCR-ABL1 RNA International Scale (IS) Calibrators and laboratory software reporting tools, intended to aid laboratories with standardization of BCR-ABL1 RT-qPCR testing to the International Scale. As part of this agreement, Asuragen […]

Manchester, United Kingdom – At the prestigious annual British Thoracic Society meeting in London on December 1st, Dr Caroline Baxter reported the highly sensitive performance of Myconostica‘s real-time PCR assay MycAssayTM Aspergillus in cystic fibrosis (CF) sputum1 which is 260% more sensitive than the currently used culture. PCR combined with Aspergillus IgG testing on blood […]

Company Intends to Commercialize In Vitro Diagnostic Products on its nCounter Platform SEATTLE, Wash. – NanoString Technologies, Inc., a privately held life sciences company marketing a complete solution for detecting and counting large sets of target molecules in biological samples, today announced it has secured an exclusive worldwide license from Bioclassifier, LLC to develop in […]

TRENTON, ME – Bar Harbor BioTechnology announced today plans to launch a new division focused on molecular diagnostics and personalized medicine. This new division will create genetic diagnostic tests that determine an individual’s risk of developing a disease. In 2009 the company made a breakthrough using its technology that allowed it to generate a statistical […]

PARIS – At the 30th Reunion Interdisciplinaire de Chimothérapie Anti-Infectieuse (RICAI), Bruker announces that the Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP) has selected Bruker’s IVD MALDI Biotyper as their exclusive MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry-based microbial identification tool. APHP is the association of all 44 public hospitals in Paris, and is the largest public health network in […]

Beerse, Belgium – Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V., (Janssen) today announced a research agreement to collaborate with GE Healthcare to develop non-invasive or minimally invasive diagnostic biosignatures to detect Alzheimer’s disease prior to the onset of clinical symptoms. Pre-symptomatic biosignatures will allow earlier diagnosis of the disease and may enable significantly earlier intervention in Alzheimer’s disease. This […]

PRINCETON, N.J. – GE Healthcare announced today a research agreement to collaborate with Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, L.L.C. (Janssen) to identify a biosignature related to Alzheimer’s disease. This research effort will combine expertise in data integration, informatics, genomics and imaging. Its goal will be to find a biosignature that may enable the detection of Alzheimer’s disease […]