SAN DIEGO, — Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM), a life sciences company providing innovative genetic analysis solutions, today announced that the New York Department of Health’s Wadsworth Center Clinical Laboratory Evaluation Program (CLEP) has issued a clinical laboratory permit to allow the Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine’s (Sequenom CMM) San Diego facility to provide its noninvasive […]

SAN DIEGO and IRVINE, Calif., — Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM), a life sciences company providing innovative diagnostic testing and genetic analysis solutions, and CombiMatrix Corporation (NASDAQ: CBMX), a molecular diagnostics laboratory performing DNA-based testing services for developmental disorders and cancer, today jointly announced that the Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine LLC (Sequenom CMM) and CombiMatrix […]

INDIANAPOLIS –– Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, an innovator in life science research, has acquired the flow cytometry business assets of ReaMetrix India Pvt. Ltd, a Bangalore-based life science technology company. The transaction provides Beckman Coulter Life Sciences with temperature-stable, single-dose, multi-color antibody cocktails targeting the HIV monitoring and clinical research markets. ReaMetrix products complement the […]

ALISO VIEJO, Calif.–Ambry Genetics, the worldwide leader in hereditary cancer testing, announced today that it has officially launched its next-generation sequencing (NGS) renal, pancreatic and paraganglioma-pheochromocytoma (PGL/PCC) hereditary cancer panels. Ambry Genetics was the first commercial laboratory to launch hereditary cancer panels using NGS in 2012 with their comprehensive BreastNext, OvaNext, ColoNext and CancerNext products. […]

Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics further expanded its industry-leading clinical laboratory automation portfolio¹ by unveiling VersaCell® X3 Solution² at the 2013 AACC and ASCLS Annual Meeting and Clinical Lab Expo in Houston, July 28 – August 1 (Booth #3449). The newest model of Siemens’s longstanding VersaCell System, the new VersaCell X3 Solution now offers even more ways […]

HOUSTON — Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics is showcasing its latest innovations that unite clinical and workflow excellence to help laboratories “Test smarter. Run faster.” at the 2013 AACC and ASCLS Annual Meeting and Clinical Lab Expo in Houston, July 28 – August 1 (Booth #3449). This year’s exhibit visually recreates the various clinical environments in which […]

SAN DIEGO, — Trovagene, Inc. (NASDAQ: TROV), a developer of cell-free molecular diagnostics, today announced that it has closed a registered direct offering of $15 million of common stock at a price of $7.00 per share. The shares were sold directly to an institutional investor by the Company. Trovagene intends to use the net proceeds […]

CINCINNATI — Meridian Life Science, Inc., (MLS) of Memphis, Tennessee, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Meridian Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIVO), is proud to announce that MLS manufactured an H1N1 influenza A challenge stock for Immune Targeting Systems, Ltd. Immune Targeting Systems contracted Meridian Life Science to manufacture the influenza A challenge stock resulting in a 12-month, highly […]

FREMONT, Calif.–Transplant physicians working with clinical laboratories must carefully monitor and manage dosages of immunosuppressant drugs—too low, and the patient may reject a transplanted organ; too high, and toxicity problems arise. To improve monitoring of one of the most commonly prescribed immunosuppressant drugs, tacrolimus, Thermo Fisher Scientific has unveiled the Thermo Scientific QMS Tacroliums Immunoassay, […]

Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), provider of innovative genetics research and biomarker solutions to advance molecular medicine, will launch its new CytoSure™ Consortium Cancer +SNP array (4x180k) at the Cancer Cytogenomics Microarray Consortium (CCMC) and Cytogenomics Array Group (CAGdb) combined meeting in Chicago on the 5th- 7th August, booth 4. The new CytoSure™ Consortium Cancer +SNP […]