VENLO, The Netherlands -– QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) announced today that all current members of the Supervisory Board will stand for re-election for the standard one-year term at the next Annual General Meeting on June 23, 2015. In addition, Dr. Werner Brandt, the Chairman of the Supervisory Board, has decided to […]

Aliso Viejo, CA –– Ambry Genetics (“Ambry”) announces the acquisition of Progeny Software, LLC, in an agreement for which the terms remain confidential. This acquisition marries the premier clinical genetics laboratory with the gold standard pedigree software company, effectively redefining Ambry as a complete genetics services company on the forefront of personalized medicine. Ambry sought […]

Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), the molecular genetics company, today announced that it has signed a license agreement with the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute for access to data from the Deciphering Developmental Disorders (DDD) study. The DDD study has successfully identified new areas of the genome as responsible for developmental disorders1, 2. OGT plans to use […]

BEIJING & SAN DIEGO — Berry Genomics Co., Ltd. announced today that Hangzhou Berry Genomics, a subsidiary of Berry Genomics Co., Ltd., has received premarket clearance from the Chinese Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) for the NextSeq CN500, a high throughput sequencing instrument developed with Illumina (NASDAQ:ILMN) to meet Chinese clinical needs. Hangzhou Berry Genomics […]

New York, NY — Server General and Sapio Sciences announced a partnership agreement that will enable medical research labs that use the Exemplar LIMS laboratory management solution to encrypt their data using the newly launched Server-General Data Encryption service. Under the terms of the partnership, customers will be able to buy the data encryption subscription […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. –– Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced that The Thermo Scientific Prelude LX-4 MD HPLC has been listed as an FDA Class I medical device for general clinical use. The device features four parallel channels which can deliver up to four different separations to a single mass spectrometer to enhance sample throughput. The […]

Palo Alto, CA — — Ayasdi, the leader in Machine Intelligence software, announced more than 400 percent bookings growth for fiscal year ended Jan 30th, 2015, and a new $55M round of Series C funding, led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), and joined by existing investors, Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), Khosla Ventures, FLOODGATE, […]

CARLSBAD, Calif.– Thermo Fisher Scientific today announced the release of the CE-IVD Oncomine Solid Tumour Fusion Transcript kit, a key solution designed to aid clinical decision-making and enable highly accurate and reliable multiplexed sequencing of formalin-fixed, paraffin embedded (FFPE) tumor samples. Marked for in vitro diagnostic use in the European Union, the Oncomine Solid Tumour […]

CLEVELAND — GenomOncology LLC announced today that Children’s National Health System has launched a clinical sequencing program that is utilizing GenomOncology’s GO Clinical Workbench™. The workflow of the GO Clinical Workbench has been extended to address the needs of the constitutional pediatrics market. Seeing the need to internalize testing, Dr. Sean Hofherr, Director of Molecular […]

SEATTLE — NanoString Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:NSTG), a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced that its Prosigna® Breast Cancer Assay is now acknowledged within the treatment guidelines of the German Association of Gynecological Oncology (AGO). In addition, under a recent decision by the German Joint Federal Committee (G-BA), […]