SAN CARLOS, Calif.–Natera today announced that it has completed a $54.6 million financing round to support the expansion and continued global rollout of Natera’s non-invasive prenatal test, Panorama™. The financing round included two new lead investors, OrbiMed Advisors and Harmony Partners, as well as other undisclosed new investors. All existing investors participated, including Claremont Creek […]

DELRAY BEACH, Fla.– PositiveID Corporation (“PositiveID” or “Company”) (OTCBB:PSIDD), a developer of biological detection and diagnostics solutions, today announced it has launched the development of the Firefly Dx detection system (“Firefly”), a portable, hand-held, point-of-need molecular diagnostic system, which is being designed to provide test results from sample input through reporting of results in less […]

Menlo Park, CA – Personalis today announced the appointment of Michael Fitzpatrick as Vice President Worldwide Sales. Mr. Fitzpatrick brings substantial experience in sales and sales operations in the life science industry, specifically related to DNA sequencing. In this newly created position, Mr. Fitzpatrick will be instrumental in helping drive the next phase of the […]

Venlo, the Netherlands — QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced proposals for changes in the membership of the Supervisory Board that will be put forward for approval by shareholders at the next Annual General Meeting scheduled for June 26, 2013. The proposals for the composition of the Supervisory Board, who are […]

BERLIN — At the 23rd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Bruker shows new capabilities of the MALDI Biotyper™ platform. The MALDI Biotyper (MBT) is the market-leading system for microbial identification based on MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. It is widely used in clinical microbiology, industrial microbiology, animal health and food safety and has […]

Sparks, MD – BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), announced today an international distributor agreement with Bruker Daltonics Inc. to sell and provide front-line technical support for the co-labeled BD™ Bruker MALDI Biotyper™ System. Microbial identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing is the end-point of the majority of work a microbiology lab […]

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.– Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced that Verinata Health, an Illumina company, has published the first peer-reviewed study of non-invasive prenatal test (NIPT) performance in a clinical laboratory setting. Data collected from the first nine months of commercial availability confirmed that Verinata’s verifi® prenatal test was in line with its published clinical […]

SANTA FE SPRINGS, Calif.– Applied BioCode today announced the launch of the new BioCode 2000 system for its 128-plex Magnetic Bead Technology (BMB). The system is already available as an open platform for customized assay development and development of LDT’s (Laboratory Developed Tests) using Applied BioCode’s proprietary BMB’s. The system will be commercially launched at […]

Indigo Biosystems (Indigo), a provider of scientific software for analytical laboratories, is pleased to announce that Andor Labs LLC (Andor), a Durham, NC-based independent clinical toxicology laboratory, has chosen to implement the ASCENT chromatographic quantitation and expert peak-picking software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution in its laboratory, beginning with a 47-analyte panel of opiates, opioids, amphetamines and illicit […]

Singapore, – The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and Veredus Laboratories, a leading supplier of innovative molecular diagnostic tools, announced the launch of VereTropTM , the first biochip in the molecular diagnostics market that can identify 13 different major tropical diseases from a single blood sample. With its high level of automation, this […]