CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS –— IntelligentMDx (privately held) announced today that it has entered into a multi-year development and license agreement with QIAGEN (NASDAQ: QGEN, Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) to design, develop and manufacture several undisclosed CE-marked and FDA cleared diagnostic tests for use on QIAGEN’s flagship QIAsymphony RGQ automated platform. Financial terms have not been disclosed. […]

SAN DIEGO — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Verinata Health, Inc., a leading provider of non-invasive tests for the early identification of fetal chromosomal abnormalities, for consideration of $350 million plus up to $100 million in milestone payments through 2015. Upon completion of the acquisition, Illumina […]

Menlo Park, CA – Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) announced today that Risa Stack, PhD., a long time partner at KPCB, has been named General Manager of GE’s Emerging Health Innovations, reporting to Sue Siegel, CEO of healthymagination. Stack has served for two years on the advisory board for healthymagination – GE’s $6 billion […]

TORONTO, – Effective January 10, 2013 Carl Zeiss Canada is pleased to announce a new exclusive agreement with Inter Medico to distribute its clinical microscopy product line across Canada. This new partnership will significantly extend Zeiss’s reach into the hospital markets and clinical accounts which focus on patient health care and diagnosis. “Although our growth […]

SAN DIEGO, — Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM), a life sciences company providing innovative diagnostic testing and genetic analysis solutions, today announced preliminary highlights of the Company’s 2012 performance and accomplishments. Initial 2012 Performance Results (unaudited) Total revenue of approximately $89 million, growth of approximately 59 percent year-over-year for 2012 Diagnostic services revenues of approximately $46 […]

SAN DIEGO, — Trovagene, Inc. (NASDAQ: TROV), a developer of transrenal molecular diagnostics, announced it has granted Duke University and Duke University Health Systems a non-exclusive license to incorporate nucleophosmin protein (NPM1) into research and clinical testing services for acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). Trovagene holds an exclusive worldwide license to U.S. patent 8,222,370 and the […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif., — Cepheid (NASDAQ: CPHD) today announced that it has received clearance from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to market Xpert® CT/NG. Running on Cepheid’s GeneXpert® Systems, Xpert CT/NG is a qualitative in vitro molecular diagnostic test for the detection and differentiation of Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG). For the […]

Franklin Lakes, NJ – BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Safety Syringes, Inc., a privately held California-based company that specializes in the development of anti-needlestick devices for prefilled syringes. The financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition broadens BD’s […]

Dako, an Agilent Technologies company, has signed an agreement to acquire the intellectual property rights behind connectivity software from California-based software development company System Dynamics, Inc. (SDI). The SDI development team joins Dako and brings new software development competencies to one of the world’s leaders in cancer diagnostics. “The acquisition of the intellectual property rights […]