CHICAGO – Water Street Healthcare Partners, a strategic private equity firm focused exclusively on health care, announced today that Scott Garrett has joined the firm as an operating partner. Mr. Garrett, 61, the former chairman, president and chief executive officer of Beckman Coulter, Inc., brings to Water Street more than 35 years of experience leading […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD) today announced that it has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its Xpert® C. difficile/Epi test. Cepheid’s first Xpert C. difficile test has been available in the United States since July 2009. The test’s unique combination of high sensitivity and rapid turnaround time […]

CORALVILLE, IA – Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), the world leader in oligonucleotide synthesis, has extended its proven expertise in oligo research, development and production to clinical and commercial OEM customers. Its Clinical and Commercial Manufacturing (CCM) facility is dedicated to the GMP production of oligos for diagnostic use. With the need for fully compliant oligos […]

IRVINE, Calif. – CombiMatrix Corporation (Nasdaq:CBMX) announced today that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Clarient, Inc., a GE Healthcare Company, that allows Clarient the right to commercialize the CombiMatrix DNAarray™ product portfolio. The DNAarray tests are based on aCGH technology, which provides physicians a comprehensive genomic profile of solid cancer tumors and […]

MONTREAL – At the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (CACMID), the companies i2A Canada and Bruker Ltd. announced together that they have met the relevant Health Products and Food Branch (HPFB) of Health Canada regulations for the Bruker IVD MALDI Biotyper, and that this product is now […]

IRVINE, Calif. – CombiMatrix Corporation (Nasdaq:CBMX), a molecular diagnostics laboratory offering genetic array testing, a comprehensive profiling of chromosomes and genes used to classify and assist in the treatment of cancer and developmental disorders, announced today that it has closed its private placement, in which it sold $6.7 million of newly issued shares of its […]

ROCKVILLE, Maryland and SEOUL, Korea – Seegene today launched its strategic push into personalized medicine by announcing a partnership with Samsung Medical Center to co-develop molecular diagnostics (MDx) for cancer. In this partnership Seegene will bring its molecular diagnostic technology leadership and Samsung Medical Center brings its clinical expertise and disease pathology to the development […]

Penzberg, Germany – Roche Joins in Spanish Research Cooperation for Personalized Treatment of Hepatitis B and C Roche Diagnostics (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) is cooperating with the Spanish Vall d’Hebron Institute of Research (VHIR), the Networking Biomedical Research Centre in Liver and Digestive Diseases (CIBEREHD), and the software producer Advanced Biological Laboratories Therapy Edge […]

HOPKINTON, Mass. – Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: CALP), a leading provider of tools and services for drug discovery and life-sciences research, today announced that its Caliper Discovery Alliances and Services (CDAS) unit has formed a research collaboration with Denver-based Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI), one of the nation’s largest health systems. The health care system’s […]

IPSWICH, Mass. and SAN DIEGO – New England Biolabs, Inc. (NEB) and Sequenom, Inc. (SQNM: 6.63 +0.14 +2.16%) jointly announce that they have signed a licensing and co-marketing agreement to commercialize research tools for epigenetics. This agreement is the result of a research collaboration between the two companies that has culminated in the development of […]