Ipswich, MA – NEBsolutions, a dedicated team of customized reagent and service specialists at New England Biolabs® (NEB), is pleased to offer a suite of reagents and capabilities for molecular diagnostics (MDx) product development, at this year’s Annual Meeting of the American Association of Clinical Chemistry (AACC). NEB, a leader in the development and production […]

SAN DIEGO, — Trovagene, Inc. (NASDAQ: TROV), a developer of cell-free molecular diagnostics, announced the issuance of US patent 8,486,626, “Methods of detecting cell-free miRNA in urine and blood.” The patent pertains to the detection and quantitation of microRNA (miRNA) using a wide variety of technologies and platforms. MicroRNAs are known to play critical roles […]

Shenzhen, China –BGI Health, a subsidiary sequencing application unit of BGI, and ELIPS, a Turkish company committed to providing biochemical products, equipments and services in biology and medical section, today jointly announced that they have entered an collaborative agreement on non-invasive fetal trisomy (NIFTY) test with the aim to significantly improve the local people’s reproductive […]

GERMANTOWN, Maryland, and HILDEN, Germany, — QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced a partnership with Exosome Diagnostics Inc. to develop and commercialize high-performance sample preparation kits for the processing of nucleic acids from exosomes. Combining the Exosome Diagnostics platform technology approach with select QIAGEN consumables and automation platforms has the potential […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif., – Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD) and the American Lung Association (www.Lung.org) today announced a partnership to promote tuberculosis-related awareness in the U.S. and the need for improved TB (tuberculosis) diagnostics. Details of the planned program will be announced at the American Association of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Lab Expo show in Houston, Texas. The […]

KARLSRUHE, Germany –– Bruker today announces a standardized nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy platform for its clinical and diagnostics partners that enables cost-effective, high-performance NMR clinical screening and IVD-by-NMR discovery, development and validation of novel NMR assays. The new AVANCE-IVDr system, presently for research use only, is a complete, proven and standardized platform for NMR […]

SAN DIEGO, — Trovagene, Inc. (NASDAQ: TROV) announces that results emerging from ongoing clinical studies have confirmed the broad applicability of Trovagene technology across a variety of cancer types, and the successful development of a molecular diagnostic test capable of detecting and quantifying oncogene mutations from a simple urine specimen. The ability to regularly detect […]

Cambridgeshire, UK ,– Lumora, a provider of state-of-the-art molecular diagnostic products for the clinical and industrial market, and Promega, a leader in providing innovative solutions and technical support to the life sciences industry, have signed a supply agreement for the use of Promega’s Ultra-Glo™ luciferase in Lumora’s BART (Bioluminescent Assay in Real-Time) molecular diagnostics technology. […]

SAN DIEGO & NEW YORK — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced that HistoGenetics, the leader in high-resolution sequence-based human leukocyte antigen (HLA) testing services, has selected the MiSeq sequencing system for use in its CLIA laboratory. HistoGenetics will deploy multiple MiSeqs to supplement its existing Sanger sequencing workflow to sequence HLA genes with high accuracy […]

Gaithersburg, Maryland and SEOUL, Korea,- Seegene Inc., (096530.KQ), a leading developer of multiplex molecular diagnostic technologies and tests, today announced a novel real-time array technology designed specifically to accelerate the development of Point of Care Testing (POCT). The novel real-time array technology successfully eliminates burdensome, time-consuming steps that normally follow PCR amplification and that are […]