SUNNYVALE, California –– Labcyte Inc., the acoustic dispensing company, has been awarded $1 million to create an innovative process to detect cancer-related proteins in samples, with initial work in breast cancer detection. The unsurpassed precision and accuracy of Labcyte acoustic liquid handling enables biomarker detection by measuring multiple proteins with a MALDI mass spectrometer. Recent […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it will collaborate with the University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research in Brisbane, Australia, to increase understanding of the genomic differences between young and older patients with oral cancer and between progressive and non-progressive oral potentially malignant lesions. Oral cancer is part of […]

SEATTLE – NanoString Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSTG), a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced the appointment of David W. Ghesquiere as Senior Vice President, Corporate & Business Development, effective immediately. In this role, Mr. Ghesquiere will work with NanoString’s Chief Executive Officer, Brad Gray, to shape the […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Arrayit Corporation (ARYC) announced today that the company has signed a Professional Services Master Agreement (PSMA) with Diagnostic Oncology Research Organization (DOCRO, Inc.). Arrayit and DOCRO will use the PSMA as a blueprint for the submission and approval of the company’s OvaDx® Pre-Symptomatic Ovarian Cancer Monitoring and Screening Test, as well as […]

Today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration allowed marketing of four diagnostic devices that can be used for high throughput gene sequencing, often referred to as “next generation sequencing” (NGS). These instruments, reagents, and test systems allow labs to sequence a patient’s DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). The new technology also gives physicians the ability to take […]

SAN DIEGO – Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced that it received premarket clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the MiSeqDx system, the first high-throughput DNA sequencing analyzer to receive FDA clearance. Illumina also received FDA premarket clearance for the MiSeqDx Cystic Fibrosis 139-Variant Assay, MiSeqDx Cystic Fibrosis Clinical Sequencing Assay, and […]

Hilden, Germany, and Germantown, Maryland – QIAGEN (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt, Prime Standard: QIA) today announced an agreement with Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) to develop and commercialize a molecular companion diagnostic paired with a novel Lilly oncology compound. This is the third co-development project by QIAGEN and Lilly to create companion diagnostics, which are […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced an enhanced version of SureDesign software enabling clinical researchers to design customized CGH (comparative genomic hybridization), ChIP-on-chip (chromatin immunoprecipitation), and DNA methylation microarrays for molecular cytogenomics and other applications. The new version of SureDesign replaces these microarray applications for the eArray platform and provides […]

OMAHA, Neb. — Transgenomic, Inc. (OTCBB: TBIO), a global biotechnology company advancing personalized medicine in cardiology, oncology, and inherited diseases through diagnostic tests as well as clinical and research services, today announced that Stephen R. Miller has been named Senior Vice President and General Manager, Patient Testing. Mr. Miller brings over 22 years of experience […]

NEW YORK, NY, — Enzo Biochem Inc. (NYSE:ENZ) today announced publication of a study in a leading scientific journal, Modern Pathology, a Nature Publishing Group publication, that shows a strong association of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a pulmonary disease with 100% mortality within five years, with the presence of the herpesvirus saimiri virus, a virus […]