RADNOR, PA, – VWR International, LLC, a leading global laboratory supply and distribution company, announced today that it has acquired Labonord SAS and Switch BVBA, expanding the company’s cytology and histology portfolio in Europe. Based in Lille, France, Labonord is an independent supplier of consumables and chemicals and also represents a number of leading suppliers […]

SEATTLE, Wash. – NanoString Technologies, Inc., a privately held provider of life science tools for translational research and developer of molecular diagnostic products, today announced the completion of a $15.3 million Series E Preferred Stock issuance. New investors in the transaction included Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital and AllianceBernstein Alternative Investment Management Group. All previous venture […]

HATFIELD, Pa. & WYNNEWOOD, Pa — Genisphere and the nonprofit Lankenau Institute for Medical Research (LIMR), which are already making progress together on identifying Inflammatory Bowel Disease biomarkers, have partnered to develop nanotherapeutics targeting cancers and eye diseases. “LIMR is fortunate to partner with Genisphere for the development of its cancer nanotherapies,” said George Prendergast, […]

Shenzen, China, and Hilden, Germany, –QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that China’s State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) has approved QIAGEN’s careHPV Test and instrument platform. The careHPV Test is the first molecular diagnostic to screen for high risk human papillomavirus (HPV) designed for low-resource clinical settings, such as areas […]

inForm® Image Analysis Software is a patented automated image analysis package for accurately quantifying biomarker expression in tumors and surrounding tissues. The software program is available in two packages: inForm Tissue Finder™ and inForm Cell Analysis™. The inForm Tissue Finder software operates with the Vectra™ intelligent multispectral slide analysis systems and is a powerful research […]

Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), provider of innovative clinical genetics and diagnostic solutions to advance molecular medicine, announced today that it has opened a new office in Tarrytown, New York to support and grow its CytoSure™ cytogenetics arrays and Genefficiency™ next generation sequencing business in the US. The new office will enable OGT to provide hands-on […]

Toronto, Ontario, – SQI Diagnostics Inc. (TSX-V: SQD), a life sciences company that develops and commercializes proprietary technologies and products for advanced microarray diagnostics, today announced that it has established a Special Committee to review possible strategic transactions, determine appropriate responses, as well as other options available to optimize benefits to the Corporation and its […]

Flagship qPCR instrument offers reliability, accuracy, ease of use and flexibility for IVD and lab-developed diagnostic tests Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:LIFE) today announced the launch of its Applied Biosystems QuantStudio™ Dx Real-Time PCR Instrument designed to meet the specific needs of clinical diagnostic laboratories. The instrument is CE-IVD marked for use in Europe and represents […]

REYKJAVIK, Iceland – deCODE Genetics and Illumina, global leaders in analyzing and understanding the human genome, together with scientists from the National Hospital of Iceland and collaborators from Holland, Germany and the United States, reported today in the New England Journal of Medicine the identification of just the second gene variant found to confer high […]

Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Tokyo; President and CEO: Kazuyuki Tanaka; Capital: 15.5 billion yen; hereinafter referred to as “Hitachi Chemical”), in the field of life sciences, developed a novel mRNA quantitative assay called “Hem(A)+ System”(*1). This is a simple, high-throughput, reproducible method, that offers a wide range of applications in clinical biomarker discovery […]