FREMONT, Calif. — WaferGen Bio-systems (NASDAQ:WGBS) announced today that the Company has signed a supply agreement with Reprogenetics, the largest U.S. genetics laboratory specializing in Preimplantation Genetic Screening (PGS) and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD), for use of WaferGen’s Apollo 324TM Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) sample preparation system. The Apollo 324TM will enable automation of NGS […]

IsoSciences, LLC, King of Prussia, PA., is pleased to announce the development and release of Vitamin B12-[13C7]. This novel product marks the first time that an isotopically labeled version of Vitamin B12 is commercially available. The product (Catalog # S14112) is available as an exact concentration solution. As more bioanalytical tests move from immunoassay to […]

AUSTIN, Texas and MINNEAPOLIS — Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX) andBio-Techne Corp (NASDAQ: TECH) today announced the signing of a new distribution and supply agreement through 2020. This agreement extends the relationship between the two companies for immunoassay development and commercialization of Bio-Techne biological content using the Luminex testing platform. Furthermore the agreement allows Bio-Techne to […]

AUSTIN, Texas — Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX) today announced that it has received CE-IVD marking for its NxTAG® Respiratory Pathogen Panel. The Panel detects 21 clinically-relevant viral and bacterial respiratory pathogens, including the atypical bacteria Chlamydophila pneumoniae, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, and Legionella pneumophila. The NxTAG Respiratory Pathogen Panel is the only respiratory assay that easily enables […]

Oxford, UK: Genomics plc (“Genomics”), a leading analysis company developing algorithms and software solutions to uncover the relationships between genetic variation and human disease, today announced that it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Oxford University and the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in a research project focused on the translation of whole […]

CAMBRIDGE, MA — Genospace, a precision medicine software company that has developed a comprehensive suite of tools enabling the broad use of genomic and other biomedical data in research and clinical care, today announced that Sequence Bioinformatics, Inc. and the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador have selected Genospace Population Analytics™ to support a groundbreaking precision […]

BOULDER, Colo. — ArcherDX, Inc., announced an addition to its target enrichment panel offering—the Archer™ Comprehensive Thyroid and Lung (CTL) Assay. This assay combines two complementary targeted NGS panels to detect gene fusions, point mutations, RNA abundance and copy number variations (CNVs) from FFPE and FNA lung and thyroid cancer samples. “The CTL Assay is […]

(BOSTON) — The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University today announced the launch of its latest startup company, Ultivue Inc. Ultivue will introduce imaging reagents providing super-resolution capabilities on standard single-molecule microscopes similar to those of expensive specialized instruments. The announcement follows a worldwide licensing agreement between Harvard’s Office of Technology Development […]

MILFORD, Mass. — SeraCare Life Sciences, a leading partner to global in vitro diagnostics manufacturers, announced today that the company’s precision medicine business unit has launched its second product in a growing line of reference materials for next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based tumor profiling assays. The SeraseqTM Solid Tumor Mutation Mix-I (AF1-10) contains the same mixture of […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Ultivue, an early stage life sciences tools company, today announced the completion of $5.15 million in Series A financing from a group of investors including ARCH Venture Partners, Hansjoerg Wyss, and several private investors. Ultivue is based on DNA-PAINT and DNA-Exchange technologies developed at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at […]