SEATTLE — The Cancer Immunotherapy Trials Network (CITN) and NanoString Technologies, Inc.(Nasdaq:NSTG), a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced a multi-year translational research collaboration to discover biomarkers that predict clinical outcomes for cancer immunotherapies, both as single agents and in combination. The collaboration will involve the systematic […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif., and BOSTON — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and Cartagenia today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement under which Agilent will acquire Cartagenia, a leading provider of software and services for clinical genetics and molecular pathology labs. Cartagenia, which has offices in Leuven, Belgium, and Boston, Massachusetts, provides software solutions […]

Alameda, Calif., –- Singulex, Inc., the developer and leading provider of Single Molecule Counting technology for clinical diagnostics and scientific discovery, today announced that it has entered into a public-private partnership with the Dutch Technology Foundation (STW) to form the Biomarker Development Center (Biomarker-DC) with the mission of accelerating the development and validation of clinical […]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — At the 25th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases(ECCMID), Bruker today announced the introduction of the MALDI Biotypersmart (MBTsmart), a new high-throughput option in the MALDI Biotyper product family of bench-top MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry systems for microbiology laboratories. The MBTsmart is IVD-CE labeled according to EU directive EC/98/79, and fully […]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — At the 25th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases(ECCMID), Bruker announced the introduction of the new IVD MALDI SepsityperTM kit and workflow with standard operating procedures for the rapid identification of microorganisms from positive blood culture bottles. The IVD kit is now labeled according to the European IVD directive EC/98/79, […]

AUSTIN, Texas — Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX) today announced that testing at the clinical trial sites for the ARIES® HSV 1&2 Assay is now complete. The next steps, including site to site reproducibility testing, followed by data analysis and assembly of the data package for submission to the FDA, are now underway. In addition, the […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that its subsidiary, Dako Denmark A/S, has received a close-out letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration with respect to the warning letter issued Aug. 21, 2013. The FDA informed Dako Denmark that it has completed its evaluation of Dako’s corrective actions and […]

Strand Life Sciences, a global genomic profiling company that uses next generation sequencing technology to empower cancer care, today announced it has opened its U.S. operations center in Aurora, Colorado. This opening is in support of the company’s recent launch of the StrandAdvantage pan-cancer genomic profiling service. Available now to physicians, StrandAdvantage was designed to […]

OMAHA, Neb. — Transgenomic, Inc. (NASDAQ:TBIO) today announced that its groundbreaking Multiplexed ICE COLD PCR™ (MX-ICP) technology is now available to pharmaceutical and biotechnology customers of the company’s Biomarker Identification business unit. MX-ICP is an ultra-high sensitivity DNA amplification technology that allows the detection of multiple mutations in multiple genes from any sample, either from […]