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 […]

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 […]

Lexington, MA, – T2 Biosystems, a company developing direct detection products enabling superior diagnostics, today announced the publication of research supporting the Company’s flagship diagnostic test, T2Candida® , in Science Translational Medicine. The research highlights T2Candida as a breakthrough approach to rapid and sensitive identification of species-specific Candida, a sepsis-causing fungus, directly from whole blood […]

Franklin Lakes, NJ – BD Rx Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of leading global medical technology company BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE:BDX), announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the second drug to be offered in the recently launched BD Simplist™ line of ready-to-administer prefilled generic injectables. The second BD […]

Biomedical informatics company Aridhia today announced that it is a lead commercial partner alongside Life Technologies Corporation, a global biotechnology tools company, in the Stratified Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre (SMS-IC). The SMS-IC is a unique collaboration bringing together expertise from within Scottish industry, academia and the NHS to drive forward a new age of stratified […]

GLASGOW, Scotland, — Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announces that it is a lead commercial partner along with Aridhia, a bio-medical informatics company, in the Stratified Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre (SMS-IC). The Ion Proton ™ sequencing platform will be the primary tool to drive discovery and genetic analysis as SMS-IC aspires to be a […]

Seoul, South Korea, and Cambridge, Mass., –Seegene and Selventa today announced that they have entered into a strategic collaboration to develop novel molecular diagnostics in underserved diagnostic markets including autoimmune, cancer and infectious diseases. The synergistic combination of Selventa’s Systems Diagnostics (SysDx™) multi-omic analytics platform and Seegene’s TOCE™ and DPO™ multiplex PCR technology will result […]

CARLSBAD, Calif., — Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) announced today that it is partnering with Ridom GmbH (Munster, Germany) to make SeqSphere+ whole genome bacterial typing software available for Ion Torrent users. This software enables any lab to perform fast, affordable, and automated high-resolution bacterial typing on the Ion Personal Genome Machine® (PGM™) sequencer. Up […]

VICTORIA, British Columbia — Bruker and the University of Victoria-Genome British Columbia Proteomics Centre (UVic GBC Proteomics Centre) have announced a collaborative effort for the development and validation of high-throughput assays for determining hemoglobin variants and diabetes risk, using Bruker´s MALDI Biotyper platform for clinical mass spectrometry, and based on intellectual property developed at the […]

ANTA FE SPRINGS, Calif.– Applied BioCode today announced it has appointed Michael Aye, Ph.D. as its Vice President of Molecular Products. Dr. Aye will build and lead the assay development program for Applied BioCode and act as scientific liaison between Applied BioCode and the scientific community in the field of multiplexed molecular diagnostics. “We are […]